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VACATION OF A PORTION OF A PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT AT 1940 WALLACE AVENUE
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DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT/ENGINEERING DIVISION
PRESENTED BY: RAJA SETHURAMAN, PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR
CONTACT INFORMATION: SEUNG YANG, P.E., CITY ENGINEER, (714) 754-5633
RECOMMENDATION:
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Staff recommends the City Council:
1. Adopt Resolution 2023-xx to vacate a portion of a City public utility easement at 1940 Wallace Avenue.
2. Authorize the execution of the Quitclaim Deed by the Mayor and the City Clerk.
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION:
The proposed action is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because it is not a "project" under Section 15378(b)(5) of CEQA Guidelines. The action involves an organizational or administrative activity of government that will not result in the direct or indirect physical change in the environment. Even if considered a project, it would be categorically exempt under Class 1, section 15301 (Existing Facilities), Class 3, section 15307 (New Construction or Conversion of Small Structures) and/or Class 32, section 15332 (Infill Development).
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BACKGROUND:
At the request of the property owner at 1940 Wallace Avenue, Public Works staff has reviewed the vacating of a portion of a City public utility easement.
The aforementioned easement was dedicated as twenty (20) foot wide for public utility purposes, as reserved in the document recorded on December 11, 1984, as Instrument No. 84-513164, of Official Records.
The applicant is requesting the vacating of fourteen (14) feet of the existing twenty (20) foot wide City public utility easement, located at the rear of the subject property near Sterling Avenue, in order to construct a new detached accessory dwelling unit (ADU). Six (6) feet of this existing easement will remain for public utility purposes (Attachment 3).
On June 12, 2023, a report was presented to the Planning Commission outlining the proposed vacation as required by Governm...
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