HomeMy WebLinkAbout65-77 - Coastal Freeway - Opposing "Newport Beach Corridor"REsoumm No. 65-77
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA,
CALIFORNIA, OPPOSING THE PROPOSED NEW COASTAL FREEWAY ROUTE
KNOWN AS THE NEWPORT BEACH INLAND CORRIDOR.
WHEREAS, the City of Newport Beach has requested the California Highway
Commission to direct the Division of Highways to make a study of the "Newport
Beach Inland Corridor" as a more favorable route than the adopted route; and
WHEREAS, the California Highway Commission did, at its meeting of
June 29, 1965, adopt a motion that the State Highway Engineer report within
a reasonable time to the Commission as to whether, in his opinion, this
new proposal (Newport Beach Inland Corridor) is feasible; and
WHEREAS, the Division of Highways engineers have displayed to the City
of Costa Mesa their work to date on the Newport Beach Inland Corridor route;
and
WHEREAS, the City of Costa Mesa has examined the work of the study
made by the Division of Highways engineers; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa now desires to
set forth its opposition to the proposed Newport Beach Inland Corridor route.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council cC the City of Costa Mesa, California,
does resolve as follows:
1. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa finds that the proposed
Newport Beach Inland Corridor route will be detrimental to and cause great
and irreparable damage to the City of Costa Mesa for the following reasons:
a) the study of the proposed Newport Beach Inland Corridor route
made by the Division of Highways engineers has violated the fifth "Whereas"
clause of Resolution No. 61-68, adopted by the City Council of the City of
Newport Beach on June 17, 1965. Said clause reads as follows:
"An alternate freeway corridor has evolved which would change the
freeway route to a location entirely within the City of Newport Beach and
unincorporated territory;"
The study made by the Division of Highways engineers shows that the
proposed route takes substantial acreage within the City of Costa Mesa and
in addition, has a great impact on the central, down -town business district
of the City of Costa Mesa.
b) A proposed interchange between the Coastal Freeway and the Newport
Freeway will cause serious damage to the central, down -town business district
of the City of Costa Mesa by requiring substantially more area to carry
traffic, with a Newport Beach destination, through the City of Costa Mesa.
The adopted Coast Freeway route carries the traffic with a Newport Beach
destination, through Costa Mesa, entirely within the confines of the Newport
Freeway, proper.
c) The proposed location of the interchange between the Coastal.
Freeway and the Newport Freeway will cause considerable design problems
for the City of Costa Mesa and the State of California in properly and ade-
quately handling both freeway and local traffic between 15th Street and 19th
Street in the City of Costa Mesa.
Good and acceptable design standards are violated by congesting
numerous interchanges and ramps within a very limited area.
d) The proposed Newport Beach Inland Corridor route will destroy
considerably more homes than the adopted Coastal Freeway route, including a
substantial number of homes within the City of Costa Mesa.
e) The proposed Newport Beach Inland Corridor route will cut off
two of four existing north -south streets, which provide circulation of
traffic between East Coast Mesa and Newport Beach (Orange Avenue and Tustin
Avenue).
f) The proposed route will result in 15th Street (now a two-way,
residential street) becoming a one-way, frontage road for approximately
one-half mile in length.
g) The complex nature of the off -ramps leading to the central,
down -town business area of Costa Mesa will cause confusion to drivers and
result in the central, down -town business and commercial area of the City
of Costa Mesa to become depressed.
2. The Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa is hereby authorized to make
known in detail to the California Highway Commission and to the Division
of Highways the detrimental and injurious affects, which said proposed
Newport Beach Inland Corridor route will have on the City of Costa Mesa.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 30th day of August, 196 .
MaWr of the City of Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
CityCle of the City of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, C. K. PRIEST, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Costa Mesa, California, do hereby certify that at a special
meeting of the City Council, City of Costa Mesa, California, held on the
30th day of August, 1965, the foregoing Resolution No. 65-77 was considered
and that said Resolution was then passed and adopted as a whole by the
following roll call vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Wilson, Jordan, Pinkley, Barak
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: Thompson
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 31st
day of August, 1965.
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the
City Council of the City of Costa Mesa