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EEBOLUTION NO. 59-228 OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, CALI- FORNIA EXPRESSING-----0P---~SITION TO ELIMINATION OF AREA~ WITHIN CITIES FROM THE ~INTERBTATE HIGHWAY ww~.W~EAS, an I~$erstate Highway System of importance to all of the peoples and states of the Nation has been determined to be in the Federal interest, to permit the free interchange of vehicu- lar traffic and the flow of military vehicles in time of national need, and is now proposed to be constructed in part with Federal funds; and W}l~, there is presently an attempt to treat said program as a rumal aid program only, and to prohibit the expenditure of Federal funds within City limits; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT.RESOLVED: By the City Council of the City of Santa Aha that they hereby express their unalterable and unqualified opposition to the elimination of territory within cities from any Federal ~ystem Interstate Highways for the following reasons: 1. The source of a very large percent of all Federal tax dollars to be used in such a system would be derived from City areas. 2. The greatest need for unconstricted and "flow-through" highways exists in metrmpolitan areas where overloaded and inade- quate streets in many cases bring a halt to or seriously delay through-traffic. 3. The bulk of traffic will originate in City ameas, terminate in City areas, and flow through City areas. 4- Unless the Federal-aid Interstate Highway System is con- tinued through cities the system will be incomplete, bottlenecked, and serve but a small fraction of the purposes for which it was con- ceived, for the reason that many cities will be unable or unwilling to continue such highways through such cities at their own total ex- pense, or will be in disagreement with the expressed purpose or need for such a system, resulting in a partial defeat of the pumpose of such a system. 5. It would be inequitable to prohibit the use of Federal funds raised largely in cities within the exterior boundaries of those same cities.