City Council
MEETING DATE: 10/14/2015
TITLE:
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Resolution of Intention to Vacate Certain Streets, Alleys, Public Highways and Utility Easements - Vacation No. 2015-02
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FROM:
Tami E. Scott, Administrative Services Director
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the City Council adopt the Resolution declaring its intention to vacate portions of Lot "V" ("B" Street) and Lot "W"("A" Street), all of Lot "X" (alley lot), as shown on the map of Cathedral City, filed in Book 13, at Pages 24 through 26, inclusive, of Maps, Records of Riverside County, California, together with the vacation of public highway and/or public utility uses on portions of Lots 132 and 133 as shown on said map of Cathedral City, all located within the Southeast quarter of Section 33, Township 4 South, Range 5 East, San Bernardino Meridian, at the Southeast quadrant of East Palm Canyon Drive and Van Fleet Avenue.
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BACKGROUND:
The former Redevelopment Agency of the City of Cathedral City (RDA) acquired a number of properties south of East Palm Canyon Drive, and east of Van Fleet Avenue. These parcels were acquired and cleared in order to remove blight and to consolidate land for future mixed use development.
In 2006, the majority of these lots were consolidated into a single parcel by the RDA by the recordation of Parcel Map No. 32932, for a proposed hotel development. That project did not move forward.
In January, 2008, this parcel was conveyed to the City Urban Revitalization Corporation (CURC), and since that time CURC has acquired additional parcels to increase the development potential of a resort hotel complex. In March of 2015, CURC entered into a sale and development agreement with the Saxony Group for the construction of a hotel on the property consisting of the original hotel foot print and the additional parcels. Saxony has subsequently submitted a Planning Department application for the hotel under Design Review case...
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