FROM:
Engineering
SUBJECT:
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Adopt a Resolution Summarily Vacating Portions of Lytle Creek Road within the Ventana Specific Plan
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RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Adopt Resolution No. 2024-121, summarily vacating a portion of Lytle Creek Road within the City, south of Duncan Canyon Road, pursuant to Streets and Highways Code section 8830, Et. Seq.
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COUNCIL GOALS:
• To promote economic development by being business friendly at all levels and striving to constantly improve the city's competitiveness.
• To invest in the City’s infrastructure (streets, sewers, parks, etc.) by providing for the development of new infrastructure.
DISCUSSION:
The City owns fee title to a portion of a street within the City named Lytle Creek Road, located south of Duncan Canyon Road as further described and depicted in Exhibit A and Exhibit B of the attached Resolution (“Property”).
This reach of Lytle Creek Road was acquired from the County of San Bernardino through an Annexation. Lytle Creek Road has not been used for ten (10) years and has had street barricades put up to prevent use.
Section 8331 of the California Streets and Highways Code authorizes the City Council to summarily vacate (utilizing an expedited process) a street or highway if the street or highway has been impassible for vehicular travel for a period of five (5) consecutive years and if no public money has been expended for maintenance on the street or highway during such period. These conditions are met for the Property, therefore the Property is eligible for summary vacation by adoption of the attached Resolution.
After the Resolution is adopted, the public right-of-way comprising the street on the Property will no longer constitute a public right-of-way. The City Clerk will record the Resolution and the vacation will then be officially complete. Certain notices to utility entities will be issued if and as required by law.
Staff has determined that the proposed vacation is exempt under Section 15305 (Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations) of the State CEQA Guidelines because it will not result in any change in land use or density. Further, none of the exceptions under Section 15300.2 of the CEQA Guidelines are applicable to the proposed vacation.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no fiscal impact associated with the approval of this item.
MOTION:
Approve staff recommendation.