Resolution 1480 - Protest of Planned Service Station - GNRRE
RESOLUTION No. 1486,
A RESOLUTION OF PROTEST AGAINST THE ERECTION OF A
SERVICE STATION FOR THE SALE OF GAS AND OILS AT
RETAIL ON GREAT NORTHERN RIGHT-OF-WAY.
BE IT RE50LVED BY T113 CITY GOMM OF TIE GITY OF KALISPEU�
MONTANA:
WHEREAS, it has been called to the attention of the City
Council of the City of Kalispell by numerous business men of the
City that the Great horthern Railway Company has granted a permit
for the erection of a service station for the sale of gas and oils
at retail on the South side of its right-of-way facing Railroad
3treet between Main Street and First Avenue Iffest in the City of
Kalispell; and
WHEREAS, the City of Kalispell in co-operation with the Great
Northern Railway Company have in the past years expended large
sums of money in the improving and beautifying the grounds of the
RailvEy Company along Railroad Street by planting shrubs, trees,
making lawns, constructing walks, paving streets and drives,
maintaining all of said improvements and otherwise improving the
abutting property and contemplate continuing of such work and
further beautifying and improving of such grounds; and
WHEREAS, it appears to the City Council that the erection of
a service station such as planned would detract from the appear-
ance of what has already been done and what is planned to do in
the future, and will commercialize the same and establish a pre-
cedent that will discourage the further improvement of said grounds
as planned; and
WHEREAS, the carrying on of such retail business on Great
lNorthern property is a discrimination against like business in the
City of Kalispell and unfair to those who are already engaged in
such business, all of whom are patrons of the oreat Northern Rail-
way Company, and is a fire hazard; and
�`VTIERTAS, the Great Borthem Railway Company has always co-
operated with the City of Kalispell in all matters pertaining to
the general welfare of the City and the business interests therein
and has not in the past acted in any manner other than fair and
impartial to the various interests of the City;
BE IT THEREFORE FTTRTt-1ER RESOLVED, that the City Council of
t1be City of Kalispell in special session assembled for the purpose
of acting upon this Resolution, do hereby respectfully and urgently
protest to the Great i�orthern Railway Company against the allowing
of' such service station to be erected and that steps be taken at
once by it to cause the suspension of all work thereon, and that
said Company by such action establish a precedent that no retail
business of any kind be permitted to be carried on upon its proper-
ty in the City of Kalispell, and that certified copies of this
Resolution be delivered and forwarded to the proper officials of
the Great i�orthern Railway Company by the Mayor and City Clerk.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Kalispell and ap-
proved by the Mayor of said City this 10th day of May, 1935.
(Signed)_j. P. Bruckha4ser
Mayor
Attest: F. J. Robischon
City rrer-=
I, F. J. Robischon, City Clerk of the City of Kalispell do hereby
certify that the foregoing resolution is a full, true and correct
copy of the original thereon on file in my office as duly adopted
by the City Council and approved by the tlayor as of the date thereof.
IN WITNE33 �VHEREOF, I have hereunto a!'fixed t" seal of the Gity
of Kalispell, this 10th day of May, 1935.1