CC Resolution No. 748RESOLUTION R9Q .'�RTJXG A REIIEAR.IHO BEFORE THE
I RSTATH COMM= COMMISSION ON THE APP uI-
CATION. FOR ABODONl4M BY THE SOYTTMMN r
COW AR OF A PONPION OF ITS V ,f SONA LT. IC BRANCTI
W1 A8, on the 13th day of March, 1963, the Interstate
Commerce C ommiasio n, in Finance Docket No. 22009, dealed the
applicatioa of the SwAthern Facif is Company to abandon a
portion of Its Vasona Branch Line of railroad in Santa Clara
County; and
WMM'UM said d eclalo n denying the right to abandon said
lime will seriously disrupt the Expressway Program of the County
or switR Clara in that the Foothill Expre was planned to
be constructed over the right of way of railxvad line sought
to be abandoned; and
WHERNAS, if said decision is allowed to stand, the increased
coste of the Foothill Expressway will be no g—eat and incur-
mountable that this portion of the Kxpreseway Program will
likely have to be abandoned; and
WHBEtSAS, it is necessary and essential to the future develop -
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ment of the County of Santa Clara that the Foothill Expressway
be constructed as originally planned; and
WMIREAS, this City Is a member of the Trafficways Committee,
and has endorsed and supported the Expressway Program that has
been approved by the voters of Santa Clara County; and
W1it3R);AS, this City would like to go on record before the
Interstate Commerce Commission of requesting that a rehearing
be granted and that upon rehearing the application of the
Southern Pacific joapany be approved as originally requested.
NOW, TRMWORR, IT 3:3 KMM ABSOLVED, that a certified
copy of this Resolution be filed with Mr. Harold D. McCoy,
Secretary of the Interstate Commerce C(mtinsion, Washington 2%
D ,,C., in order that it be a renter o)^ record that this City
Counoil requests a rehooring in the app lication of the Southern
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Pacific C:ompttn;r for its abandonmint of a ioortion of ita Vanona
Linea Branch, and further that this s City Council hereby request$
'tthAt the I Dome it% -v Comission reverse its decision to
allow the abandorawnt as requested.
FASSRD
AND AWPTED by the
City Council
of
the
City of
Cupertino,
this _LC* day of
April 1963,
by
the
following vote:
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