The city limits for El Cerrito originally proposed to the Board of Supervisors 5-21-1917

 

BEGINNING at the northeast corner of Lot number sixty-eight (68) of the San Pablo Rancho in Contra Costa County, California, as laid down and delineated upon that certain map entitled, “Map of the San Pablo Rancho, accompanying and forming a part of the final report of the referees in Partition” and filed in the office of the Recorder of Contra Costa County, California;

thence southerly along the eastern boundary line of said Lot number sixty-eight (68) to the southerly boundary line of said Lot number 68;

thence along said last line and a direct extension thereof westerly to a line drawn parallel to and westerly one hundred and fifty (150) feet measured at right angles from the westerly line of San Pablo Avenue;

thence along that last laid line parallel to San Pablo Avenue southerly to an intersection with a direct extension northerly of the westerly line of Lot number Sixty-one (61), San Pablo Rancho above mentioned;

thence along last said extension and along the westerly boundary line of Lot number sixty-one (61), San Pablo Rancho, and along a direct extension southerly of the said westerly line of Lot Sixty-one (61), San Pablo Rancho southerly to an intersection with a line drawn parallel to and one hundred and twenty-five (125) feet southerly from the southerly line of Cypress Street measured at right angles thereto;

thence along said line parallel to and one hundred and twenty-five (125) feet southerly from Cypress Street easterly to an intersection with a line drawn parallel to and one hundred and fifty (150) feet measured at right angles westerly from the westerly line of San Pablo Avenue;

thence along last said line parallel to San Pablo Avenue southerly to an intersection with a line drawn parallel to and one hundred (100) feet measured at right angles northerly from the northerly line of Bay View Avenue;

thence along said line parallel to Bay View Avenue easterly to the westerly line of San Pablo Avenue;

thence along last said line southerly to the northerly line of Lot thirteen (13) of the San Pablo Rancho;

thence along said northerly boundary line of Lot thirteen (13), San Pablo Rancho, westerly to the easterly boundary line of the right-of-way of the Southern Pacific Railway;

thence along said easterly boundary line of the southern Pacific Railway right-of-way, in a general southerly direction to the line dividing Alameda and Contra Costa Counties;

thence along last said line easterly and along the line dividing Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, to the southeast Corner of the San Pablo Rancho;

thence along the eastern boundary line of the San Pablo Rancho northwesterly to the northern boundary of Lot number sixty-five (65) of the San Pablo Rancho;

thence westerly along the northern boundary of Lot sixty-five (65) of the San Pablo Rancho to the point of beginning.

That the territory included within the foregoing boundaries comprises that part of the San Pablo Rancho bounded on the north by the northern line of Lot 65 of the San Pablo Rancho; on the west by the Richmond City limits; on the south by the dividing line between Alameda and Contra Costa Counties; and on the east by the dividing line between the Rancho El Sobrante and the San Pablo Rancho, and all situate in the County of Contra Costa, State of California.

 

Editor’s Note: These boundaries exactly match the boundaries of the Stege Sanitary District at that time.