The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-13
PREPARES BILL
FOR FRANCHISE
Street Committee to Re-
port on Bay Shore
Application.
Supervisors to Act on Petit
tion Of Southern Pacific
Company.

The Street Committee of the Board of
Supervisors held a special meeting yes
terday for the purpose Of drafting the or
dinance providing for a proposed grant Of
franchise for right of way to the South
ern Pacific Company for bay shore line.
A copy of the ordinance was sent to the
officials of the company to give them an
opportunity to study its provisions before
the matter comes up before the Board OF
Supervisors at to-morrows meeting, when
the report of the committee will also be
submitted.
The committee eliminates from the or
dinance the requirements that the South
ern Pacific Company shall build viaduct
across Fifth street and shall abandon
strip sixty feet wide through the Market
place lots to .be reserved for a public
street. In exchange the company agrees
to give strip of land twenty feet wide
for a distance of about mile for the
widening of Fourth and Kentucky streets
southerly from Channel street, and this
condition is made part Of the ordinance.
The matter Of franchise for the Mission
tracks and along Islais Creek is not in
corporated in the ordinance at all.
For the Market place lots the company
is to pay q rental of 5000 per month for
five years, and thereafter an amount
equal to per cent per annum on a valua-
ton to be fixed by arbitration, but the
rental after the first five years shall not
be less than $3.50 per month. The rights
granted to the Southern Pacific Company
are granted on the further condition Of
the contribution by the company of at
least $55, 600 for the construction of a
bridge across Channel street from Third
street to Kentucky.
GRANT FOR FIFTY YEARS.
The ordinance provides for a grant of
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that the main line of the road shall enter
the city from Sunnydale avenue, formerly
Tobin street Viaducts and bridges are to
be constructed over specified crossings,
and additional bridges viaducts are to
be constructed upon the order Of the
Board of Supervisors over any track, laid
or to be laid, on Fourth street south of
Channel or across Sixteenth street at or
near Seventh street.
The Board of Works transmitted to the
committee the report Of City Engineer
Grunsky regarding the franchise for the
bay shore route where 1t is crossed by the
Western Pacific. for which the matter of
the application for a franchise is now be-
fore the Supervisors. Grunsky makes GER
tain notifications regarding the grades to
be followed by the bridges at certain
crossings. so they may be used by both
roads should the applications be granted.
The notifications noted as to the route to
be followed by the road are as follows:
Crossing Tulare street by bridge be-
tween the east line of Mississippi street
and the east line of Texas street, with an
elevation of the top of rail of at least
20.767 feet above city base and with a
clear head room of at least fourteen feet.
Crossing Army street by bridge be-
tween the west line of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and the west line OF Mississippi street
with an elevation of the top of rail of at
least 1912 feet above city base and with
clear head room of at least 1873 feet.