HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Resolution 18-009 Approving Acquistion of easement and fee interests in real property for the Quito Road Bridges projectRESOLUTION NO. 18-009
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SARATOGA
APPROVING PAYMENT FOR AND ACCEPTANCE OF PROPERTY
INTERESTS NEEDED FOR THE QUITO ROAD BRIDGES REPLACEMENT
PROJECT
I. The City of Saratoga City is working with the Town of Los Gatos and the Santa Clara
Valley Water District in seeking to replace two bridges on Quito Road with wider span
structures that will allow a 100 -year design flow (Project) with funding through the
Federal Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation (HBRR) Program.
II. On August 20, 2014 the City Council adopted Resolution No. 14-057, in which it
approved the Project and determined it was exempt from the California Environmental
Quality Act following a duly noticed public hearing.
III. Since approval of the Project, the City has completed design and identified specific real
property that is necessary to acquire for the Project. The required property interests
include a temporary construction easement and a fee interest on each of two parcels
owned by private owners. The City has obtained appraisals of the fair market value of
those property interests and extended offers of just compensation to the fee owners of
those properties.
IV. The City also requires a portion of a third parcel that the County of Santa Clara intended
to offer to the public at a tax auction in 2017 due to more than five years of non-payment
of taxes by a now -dissolved corporate owner. The City objected to that auction on the
grounds of public necessity pursuant to Revenue and Taxation Code Section 3695.4, and
is currently negotiating acquisition from the County.
VII. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council hereby:
1. Approves acquisition of the property interests necessary for the Project, which are
described above and in more detail in the staff report accompanying this
resolution; and
2. Directs the City Manager acquire those property interests, consistent with the
approved budget for the Project; and
3. Authorizes the City Manager to accept the conveyance of those property interests,
consistent with Government Code section 27281; and
4. Finds that the acquisitions authorized in this Resolution are exempt from the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for the reasons set forth in
Resolution 14-057 and the notice of exemption from CEQA that was filed with
the County of Santa Clara on August 25, 2014.
The above and foregoing resolution was passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Saratoga
City Council held on the 21" day of March 2018 by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Mary -Lynne Bernald, Vice Mayor E. Manny Cappello, Council
Members Howard A. Miller, Emily Lo, Rishi Kumar
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
Mary y eemald, Mayor
ATTE
A
DATE:
Nora Pimentel, MMC, City Clerk
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