City Council
MEETING DATE: 9/11/2018
TITLE:
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Resolution of Intention to Vacate certain streets, alleys, public highway and utility easements: Vacation No. 2018-02
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FROM:
John Corella, City Engineer
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council adopt a Resolution declaring its intention to vacate all or portions of Street Lots "II" (Grove Street), and Lot "KK" ("A" Street) and alley Lot "J", as shown on the map of Cathedral City, filed in Book 13, at Pages 24 through 26, inclusive, of Maps, Records of Riverside County; an alley within Lot 164 of said cathedral City as shown on map in Book 11, at Page 11 of Records of Survey, Riverside County records, and any public street, public utility and public service easement uses on portions of Lots 151 and 165 of said Cathedral City, together with various utility and public service easements reserved from previous vacation proceedings on portions of said Lots "II" and "KK" and on a portion of the alley in Lot 164, all located within the East half of Section 33, Township 4 South, Range 5 East, San Bernardino Meridian, and Southerly of East Palm Canyon Drive, between Van Fleet Avenue and West Buddy Rogers Avenue.
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BACKGROUND:
The former Redevelopment Agency of the City of Cathedral City acquired a number of properties in the area located southerly of East Palm Canyon Drive, west of Van Fleet Avenue, near the former Community Center and library. These parcels were acquired and cleared in order to remove blight and to consolidate land for future multiple unit housing and mixed-use development. The biggest obstacle to redevelopment of this key area had been the small size of the parcels, multiple ownership of individual parcels, fragmentation of the developable land mass caused by street and alley configurations and the need for infrastructure improvements.
In 2012, when the State eliminated all redevelopment agencies, the City as the Successor Agency to the former Redevelopm...
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