The San Francisco call., 1906-03-25
ROUTE Of ROAD
To Be CHANGED
Supervisors to Grant Ocean
Shore Franchise Under
Proposed Modified Plans
PROTESTS RECOGNIZED
Tracks Will Run on POtrerO
Avenue Instead Of York
and Hampshire Streets

At tonight's regular secret caucus of the
Board OF Supervisors the question Of
granting a franchise to the Ocean Shore
Railway Company for branch electric
road to connect with its main line at Yer
mont and Army streets and terminating
at Twelfth and Market streets will be
taken up, and the official action TO be
taken by the board will be agreed upon.
From present indications the board is pre-
pared TO grant the franchise under certain
modified conditions. which will be recog-
milton of the protests filed by interested
parties against granting the franchise.
Principal among the modified copditions
will be a change in the route of the road
so as to eliminate therefrom. both York
and Hampshire streets, some of the prop
erty owners on which object to a railroad
running on the streets, which it is claimed
are too narrow for the purpose. Under
the modified plans ii is intended 10 run
the road along Potrero avenue instead of
on the two streets named. AS Potrero
avenue is a thoroughfare 100 feet in width
the objections in that regard will fall
away.
Instead Of the road running as originally
intended along Twenty-fifth street TO the
westerly line of Potrero avenue, thence
westerly along private property to and
along Hampshire street 10 Mariposa,
thence TO York street, on which it was
also proposed TO run branch or return
track from Mariposa TO Twenty-fifth
street, ii is designed to run the tracks
along and from Twenty-fifth street to and
along Potrero avenue to Mariposa street,
From Mariposa street the road will run to
Florida street. at the northern end of
which il will cross the track of the South
ern Pacific Company by an overhead
crossing, with clear headroom of at least
twenty-four feet, thence running across
block 45 in the Mission district to point
on Harrison street directly opposite
Twelfth, thence along Twelfth TO Market
street
The question as TO whether the franchise
shall run for a period of fifty years or
twenty-five years will in all likelihood be
decided in favor of the longer term, in
view of the fact that the city will receive
after the first five years 3 per cent of the
gross receipts for the next succeeding fif-
teen years,.4 per cent for the next fifteen
years and per cent for the remainder of
the term.
1t will be further provided, and the fran
chise will be granted on the express conf
dition, that at the end of the term for
which it is granted the road track and
bed Of the railway and all of its station
airy fixtures upon the public streets shall
become the property of the city. -seNoa =
Regulations as to the overhead coristruc
ton are also TO be enforced. including one
that for that portion of the system on
Twelfth street the overhead wires shall
be supported by ornamental poles to be
placed in the center of the street An
other condition imposed is that all feed
wires shall be placed underground along
the route of the road.
The ordinance will not come up for final
action until April 2. which is ninety legal
days subsequent to its introduction and
passage for printing on December 26, 1906.