HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Resolution 7660 (Underground Utility District)RESOLUTION NO. 7660
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN
RAFAEL ESTABLISHING UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT
IN THE VICINITY OF THIRD STREET, LINCOLN AVENUE,
SAN RAFAEL CREEK, AND LINDARO STREET.
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of San Rafael
as follows:
WHEREAS, a public hearing was called for Monday,
December 7, 1987, at the hour of 8:00 P.M. in the Council Chambers
in the City Hall, San Rafael, California, to ascertain whether the
public necessity, health, safety or welfare requires the removal of
poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures, and the under-
ground installation of wires and facilities for supplying electric,
communication, or similar or associated service, within that certain
area of the City described as follows:
All those properties contained within the
boundary of the proposed underground utility
district as shown on the map attached hereto,
marked "Exhibit All, entitled "Proposed
Underground Utility District Vicinity of
Third Street, Lincoln Avenue, San Rafael
Creek and Lindaro Street" and dated October
1987; and
WHEREAS, notice of such hearing has been given to all
affected property owners as shown on the last equalized assessment
roll and utilities concerned in the manner and for the time required
by law; and
WHEREAS, such hearing has been duly and regularly held,
and all persons interested have been given an opportunity to be heard.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the
City of San Rafael, that, pursuant to Ordinance No. 905 of the City
of San Rafael, the above-described area is hereby declared an Underground
Utility District, and is designated as "Underground Utility District
in the vicinity of Third Street, Lincoln Avenue, San Rafael Creek and
Lindaro Street". Attached hereto, marked "Exhibit A", and hereby incor-
porated as a part of this resolution, is a map delineating the boundaries
of said District;
RESOLVED, FURTHER, that the Council does hereby fix
November 1, 1988 as the date on which affected property owners must
be ready to receive underground service, and does hereby order the
removal of all poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures
and the underground installation of wires and facilities for supplying
electric, communication, or similar or associated service within said
Underground Utility District on or before May 1, 1989;
RESOLVED, FURTHER, that the utility which undertakes
underground installation of its facilities shall use the underground
conversion allocation computed pursuant to decisions of the Public
Utilities Commission of the State of California for the purpose of
providing to each premises in said Underground Utility District requiring
it a maximum of one hundred feet of individual electric service trenching
and conductor, as well as backfill, paving and conduit, if required.
Each other serving utility will provide service trenching and conductor
in accordance with its tariffs on file with the California public utili-
ties Commission or as required by its Franchise Agreement with the
City of San Rafael. Each property owner in said Underground Utility
District shall be responsible for the installation and maintenance
of the conduit and termination box located on, under or within any
structure on the premises served.
RESOLVED, FURTHER, that the City Clerk is hereby instructed
to notify all affected utilities and all persons owning real property
within said Underground Utility District of the adoption of this reso-
lution within ten (10) days after the date of such adoption. Said
City Clerk shall further notify said property owners of the necessity
that, if they or any person occupying such property desire to continue
to receive electric, communication or other similar or associated
service, they or such occupant shall, by the date fixed in this
resolution, provide all necessary facility changes on their premises
so as to receive such service from the lines of the supplying utility
or utilities at a new location, subject to applicable rules, regulations
and tariffs of the respective utility or utilities on file with the
Public Utilities Commission of the State of California. Such
notification shall be made by mailing a copy of this Resolution together
with a copy of said Ordinance No. 905, to affected property owners
such as are shown on the last equalized assessment roll and to the
affected utilities;
RESOLVED, FURTHER, that the Council hereby finds as fol-
lows:
The Underground Utility District herein created is in
the general public interest for the following reasons that are preceded
by an "X":
(X) a. "The undergrounding to be accomplished will avoid
or eliminate an unusually heavy concentration of
overhead distribution facilities";
(X) b. "The streets, roads or rights of way in the District
are extensively used by the general public and
carry a heavy volume of pedestrian or vehicular
traffic";
(X) c. "The said streets, roads or rights of way adjoin
or pass through;
(X) 1. "a civic area"
( ) 2. "a public recreation area"
( ) 3. "an area of unusual scenic interest to the general public"
I, JEANNE M. LEONCINI, Clerk of the City of San Rafael,
California, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly and
regularly introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the Council
of said City held on the 7th day of December, 1987, by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBER: Boro, Breiner, Frugoli, Thayer & Mayor Mulryan
NOES: COUNCILMEMBER: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBER: None
JEANNE M. LEONCINI, City Clerk
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