REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
December 3, 2015
FROM: SCOTT L. MOZIER, PE, Director
Public Works Department
THROUGH: ANDREW J. BENELLI, PE, City Engineer/Assistant Director
Public Works Department, Traffic and Engineering Services Division
CRAIG L. HANSEN, Supervising Real Estate Agent
Public Works Department, Real Estate Services Section
BY: CATHY RODRIGUEZ, Senior Real Estate Agent
Public Works Department, Real Estate Services Section
SUBJECT
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Approve the acquisition of 33,065 square feet of easement on property owned by Frank S. Caglia Family Limited Partnership; a California limited partnership in the amount of $71,700 (APN 330-021-10 & 30) for the construction of new sanitary sewer lines within East Avenue, Orange Avenue, Cedar Avenue, Malaga Avenue and Central Avenue. (Council District 3)
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RECOMMENDATION
1. Approve the acquisition of 33,065 square feet of easement on property owned by Frank S. Caglia Family Limited Partnership; a California limited partnership in the amount of $71,700 (APN 330-021-10 & 30) for the construction of new sanitary sewer lines within East Avenue, Orange Avenue, Cedar Avenue, Malaga Avenue, and Central Avenue.
2. Authorize the Public Works Director, or designee, to sign all documents necessary to complete the transaction.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A partial acquisition is required from the subject parcel for the construction of new sanitary sewer lines within East Avenue, Orange Avenue, Cedar Avenue, Malaga Avenue and Central Avenue. The value of the acquisition was established by Real Property Analysts, Lawrence D. Hopper, MAI. A total of 33,065 square feet of easement is required for this project which is valued at $71,700. Staff engaged the property owner on September 28, 2015 and presented the First Written Offer. The owner accepted the offer at the appraised value of $71,700.
BACKGROUND
The Department of Public Utilities (DPU), Wastewater Management Division is pursuing the construction of new sanitary sewer lines and fiber optic conduits as follows:
• within Cedar Avenue from Malaga Avenue north to Muscat Avenue
• within Orange Avenue from Malaga Avenue north to Fortune Avenue
• within East Avenue from Central Avenue north approximately 3,200 feet
• within Malaga Avenue between Orange Avenue and Cedar Avenue
• and within Central Avenue from Cedar Avenue east to BNSF Railroad
The project provides City sewer service to the areas tributary to said sewer lines. Project elements include the construction of new sewer lines within the existing rights of way of Cedar, Orange, East, Malaga, Orange and Central Avenues. The project will require acquisition of new street easements in East, Orange, and Cedar Avenues, where no street easements previously existed.
ENVIRONMENTAL FINDINGS
An initial study and Mitigated Negative Declaration were prepared and adopted on October 22, 2015, for this project. The project entails construction of new sanitary sewer lines along East, Orange, Cedar, Malaga and Central Avenues. This approval is to implement that project.
An analysis has been performed pursuant CEQA Guidelines § 15162 to determine whether subsequent environmental review is required for EA C-13-015. Based upon this analysis the following findings are made to support the determination that no subsequent environmental review is required:
1. No substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the previous Mitigated Negative Declaration due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. In this case, there are no changes to the project.
2. No substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which will require major revisions of the previous negative declaration due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. In this case, no substantial changes have occurred.
3. There is no new information, which was not known and could not have been known at the time of the previous Mitigated Negative Declaration that the project will have significant effect not discussed in the Mitigated Negative Declaration.
Based upon these findings, it has been determined that no further environmental documentation is required for this project.
LOCAL PREFERENCE
This item does not involve local preference.
FISCAL IMPACT
The project will have no impact on the General Fund. Sewer enterprise funds in the amount of $4,963,400 for design, right-of-way acquisition and construction of the project were appropriated by the Council through the adoption of the annual City budget.
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