Resolution 106RESOLUTION NO. 106
A RESOLUTION IN COOPERATION WITH THE WASHINGTON
STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION URGING THAT COMMISSION
TO RETAIN U. S. HIGHWAY 99 AS A STATE HIGHWAY
WHEREAS, the Washington State Highway Commission
has indicated that that portion of U.S. Highway 99 which
lies within the City limits of the City of Edmonds, Wash-
ington will be turned over to the City of Edmonds by the
Washington State Highway Commission, and
WHEREAS, the City of Edmonds in cooperation with
the County of Snohomish, the City of Lynnwood, the City of
Mountlake Terrace and other municipal and planning organiza-
tions throughout South Snohomish County, has studied the
traffic flow in the City of Edmonds and its surrounding
environs and has planned for the future growth and facili-
tation of that traffic, and
WHEREAS, U.S. Highway 99 from Seattle to Everett
carries more traffic than almost all other highways in the
State of Washington, including state highways and interstate
freeways, and,
WHEREAS, U.S. Highway 99 is primarily an intercity
highway involving transportation between several different
cities, and
WHEREAS, U.S. Highway �9 in construction, maintenance
and flow of traffic exceeds any presently existing or forseeable
street or arterial in the City of Edmonds, and
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WHEREAS, the City of Edmonds in response to the
request of the Washington State Highway Commission has passed
Resolution No. 105 resolving to cooperate by providing local
planning information for use in the continuing transportation
planning process for the cehtral Puget Sound region and has
been thereby invited to play a more active role in the con-
tinuing transportation planning process of the central Puget
Sound region,
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON that the State Highway
Commission be, and the same hereby is, requested not to turn
U.S. Highway 99 over to the City of Edmonds, but to retain it
as a State Highway, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution
be transmitted to the Washington State Highway Commission and
the Office of the Governor of the State of Washington.
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MAYOR
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CITY CLERK
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: MAY 4 1965
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK:—AY a - 19�d - 199
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