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3 WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Seal Beach,
4 California, has been informed that the Office of the Division
5 Engineer of the United States Army Corps of Engineers had had UQder
6 its consideration a proposal as to the advisab1~ty of improvement
7 for navigation of Alamitos Bay, California; and,
8 WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Seal Beach has
9 been informed that it is proposed that the Ocean Avenue Bridge
10 extending over the San Gabriel River and connection the City of
11 Long Beach with the City of Seal Beach be removed; and,
12 WHEREAS, said Ocean Avenue Bridge has for many years
13 ,provided for the extention of Ocean Avenue in the Ci ~y of Seal
14 Beach to connect with Ocean Avenue in the City of Long Beach; and
15 WHEREAS, said Ocean Avenue Bridge lies entirely within the
16 city boundaries of the City of Seal Beach; and,
17 WHEREAS, the advisability of the removal ot said bridge
18 has been discussed and considered on many occasions by the citi~ens
19 of the City of Seal Beach, as well as other civic organizations; ,
20 WHEREAS, the City Council has heretofore received many
21 communications from the citizens of the City of Seal Beach pro-
22 testing the removal of the aforesaid Ocean Avenue Bridge; and,
23 WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Seal Beach has
24 on many occasions protested to various officials, both state and
25 federal, the removal of said Ocean Avenue Bridge; and,
26 WHEREAS, if said Ocean Avenue Bridge were remove.d, the
27 citizens of the City of Seal Beach and the general public would
28 have no adequate highway connecting the City of Seal Beach and the
29 Ci ty of Long Beach; and,
30 WHEREAS, said Ocean Avenue is a main thoroughfare connect-
31 ing said cities, and heavy traffic uses said Ocean Avenue Bridge
32 both for ingress and egress to the City of Seal Beach; and,
DANA R. WILLIAMS
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WHEREAS, for many years last past the City ot Seal Beach
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2 has maintained a stand-by water line connected with the City of
3 Long Beach, and which water line is attached to the Ocean Avenue
4 Bridge, and the removal of the bridge would deprive the City of
5 Seal Beach of said stand-by water protection; and,
WHEREAS, the removal 01' said Ocean Avenue Bridge would
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7 cause great financial loss to the merchants of the City of Seal
8 Beach; and,
9 WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Seal Beach does
10 hereby protest the removal of said Ocean Avenue Bridge,unless a
11 new and larger b~idge by construqted in the place of the present,
12 existing bridge or other structure be constructed at said location
13 which will provide ~or, the ingress and egress of traffic from Ocean
14 Avenue in Seal Beach connecting with Ocean Avenue in Long Beach.
15 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
16 City of Seal Beach that the City of Seal Beach does hereby officia ly
17 protest the removal of the Ocean Avenue Bridge hereinbefore desigl'll1 ed
18 wless some satisfactory means of ingress and egress from Ocean
19 Avenue in Seal Beach connecting with Ocean Avenue in Long Beach
20 be constructed so that the traffic now using the present Ocean
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DANA R, WU..LIAM8
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Avenue Bridge will have the benefit of the use of Ocean Avenue
connecting these two cities.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED. that a copy of this Resolution be
certified by the City Clerk of the City of Seal Beach and forwarde
to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, 119 D Street,
N.E., Washington 2" District of Columbia.
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ADOPTED, AND APPROVED this :5':'th day of '.Ju.,.arr.,
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1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
2 CITY OF SEAL BEACH
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3 I hereby certifY that the above and foregoing Resolution
4 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the City Council of
5 the City of Seal Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the
6 5'th day of January, 195'3, by the following vote, to wit:
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TEL.PHONE 815.IUil8
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