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The city limits for El Cerrito submitted to the voters in the 8-16-1917 election

BEGINNING at the northwest corner of Lot number 65 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 western boundary of said Lot number 65 to the southerly boundary of Lot number 68 of the Rancho San Pablo;

thence westerly along the last mentioned line and a direct extension thereof to a line drawn parallel to, and westerly 150 feet, measured at right angles, from the westerly line of San Pablo Avenue;

thence along last said line parallel to San Pablo Avenue southerly to an intersection with a direct extension northerly of the westerly line of Lot number 61, San Pablo Rancho;

thence along last said extension and along the westerly boundary line of Lot number 61, San Pablo Rancho, and along continuation thereof southerly to an intersection with a line drawn parallel to and one hundred and twenty-five 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 feet from Cypress Street easterly to an intersection with a line drawn parallel to and one hundred and fifty 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 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 easterly line of San Pablo Avenue;

thence along said easterly line of San Pablo Avenue in a generally southeasterly direction to the dividing line between Contra Costa and Alameda Counties;

thence easterly along said dividing line between Contra Costa and Alameda Counties to the dividing line between Lots 3 and 4 of Block 4 of the Bouquet Key Route Business Blocks as said Lots are shown and delineated on that certain map entitled “Map of Bouquet Key Route Business Blocks, Contra Costa County, Cal.” filed in the office of the Recorder of Contra Costa County, February 3, 1914;

thence northerly through the center of Blocks 4, 3, 2, and 1 of said tract, and the continuation thereof to the northerly line of Fairmount Avenue;

thence easterly along the said northerly line of Fairmount Avenue to the most westerly corner of the lands of the Sunset View Cemetery Association, as described in that certain deed recorded in Volume 146 of Deeds, Page 26, records of Contra Costa County;

thence along the westerly line of the lands of the said Sunset View Cemetery Association to the westerly line of Lot One of the San Pablo Rancho;

thence northerly along said line to the northwest corner of Lot one;

thence northeasterly along the northerly line of Said Lot number One to the dividing line between the San Pablo Rancho and the Rancho El Sobrante;

thence northwesterly along said dividing line to the northerly boundary of Lot number sixty-five of the San Pablo Rancho;

thence westerly along the northern boundary of said Lot number Sixty-five to the northwesterly corner thereof, and the point of Beginning.

 

   
PO Box 304, El Cerrito, CA 94530