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RESOLUTION NO, 76-,23 '
. A RESOLUTION OF THE. CITY OF' LYNWOOD, CALIFORNIA, URGING
THE UNITED STATES SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
• JOINT CONFEREES DELIBERATING ON THE FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY
` AGT OF 1975 TO GRANT RELIEF FROM INTERSTATE FUNDING
LIMITATIONS IMPOSED• UNDER TITLE 23, SECTION 103(e)(2) BY
ALLOWING- COST .ESTIMATES TO BE UPDATED TO REFLECT CURRENT
- COSTS AND. PROVIDE, THAfi INTERSTATE .ROUTES ADDED TO THE
.SYSTEM FOR WITHDRAWN INTERSTATE ROUTES BE DESIGNED TO
FULFULL CURRENT TRANSPORTATION NEEDS.
WHEREAS, the Embarcadero Freeway in San Francisco was
deleted from the National System of Interstate and. Defense Highways in
1965; and
WHEREAS, Section 1D3(e)(2) was added to Title 23 in 196$,
enabling interstate routes to be added to the interstate highway system
~, as substitutes for routes withdrawn from that system, but required that
the aggregate cost of such additional projects be limited to the aggregate .
" of the withdrawn routes based on 1965 cost estimates; and
WHEREAS, the Century Freeway was added to the interstate
system in 1963 under the provisions of Title 23, Section 103,(e)(2); and
WHEREAS, .the Federal-aid Highway Act of 1973 subsequently
allowed the estimates to be revised to .reflect 1972 costs and thereby
raised the funding ceiling on the Century Freeway to approximately
$450 million; and. . .
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WHEREAS, the Century Freeway should be designed as an 8-lane
divided highway with provisions for rapid transit in the median to meet
today's transportation needs at an estimated cost of nearly $650 million; and
. - ~ °~- - - WHEREAS;:•the Century~F-reeway .s~~a-critcal segment~of~the
.interstate system with a projected traffic volume of 165, 000 cars per day
upon opening; and ~ »
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WHEREAS, California currently only gets back approximately
62°fo of its contributions to the Highway Trust Fund; and
WHEREAS TIE Senate Committee on Public Works and House
Committee on Public Works and Transportation are sitting in joint
_ conference to work out a compromise Federal Highway Act of .1975;
.. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City of Lynwood,
California, urges Congress to include provisions in the 1975 Federal
Highway-Act to amend. Title 23, Section 103{e){2), to allow the estimates
Ito be updated to reflect .current cost and provide that projects added to
the interstate system for withdrawn routes under Title 23, ,Section 103(e)(2),
to allow the estimates to be updated to reflect current cost and provide
i ~ that projects added to the interstate system for withdrawn routes under
Title 23, Section 103{e)(2); be designed to fulfill current transportation
needs.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS '16th day of March, 1976.
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. ATTEST: _ .
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JOSE NINE 'L. SHEPHERD.
City Clerk
.City of Lynwood
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of
Lynwood, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing
resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of said
city at a _ regular meeting thereof held
in the City Hall of said City on the 16th day of
March 19 76
and passed by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN Byork, Green, Higgins, Morris,. Rowe.
NOES: COUNCILMEN None.
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN None.
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CvTY CL` RK, CITY OF LYNWOOD r
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA ~)'
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rOUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned,. City Clerk of the City of
Lynwood, do hereby certify that_the above and foregoing
resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of said
city at a regular meeting thereof held
in the City Hall of said city on.the 16th day of
March ~ 1976, and passed by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCTLMENByork, Green, Higgins, Morris, Rowe.
NOES: COUNCILMEN None..
ABSENT': COUNCILMEN None.
(SEAL) s/ Josephine L. Shepherd
4 CITY CLERK, CTTY OF LYNWOOD
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of
Lynwood, and clerk of the City Council of said .city, do
hereby certify that the above. and foregoing is a full,
true and correct copy of Resolution. No. -76"23, on
file n~my office and thaa said Resolution was adopted
on the date and by the vote therein stated.
Dated this 24th~day of March. ~ lg 76
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