30A - APPROVE ACCES FOR N KING ST

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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 TITLE: APPROVE QUITCLAIM OF ACCESS EASEMENT AT 1102 NORTH KING STREET, APN 405-214-04 (GENERAL FUND) /s/ Kristine CITY MANAGER CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: APPROVED ❑ As Recommended ❑ As Amended ❑ Ordinance on 1� Reading ❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading ❑ Implementing Resolution ❑ Set Public Hearing For CONTINUED TO FILE NUMBER RECOMMENDED ACTION Authorize the City Manager to execute a quitclaim deed relinquishing the City's interest in an access easement at 1102 North King Street to Ana Mesa Investment Group, LLC, a California Limited Liability Company. DISCUSSION On September 18, 2018, the City Council approved Tentative Tract Map 2018-03 and Variance No. 2018-08 at 1102 North King Street to allow subdivision of a single parcel into five single-family residential lots. According to a title report submitted by the project developer, the City owns a 10- foot wide access easement within the property. To accommodate the project, the property owner, Ana Mesa Investment Group, LLC, wishes to remove the easement in order for the property title to be clear and a new development to move forward. The applicant is requesting the City quitclaim the easement, which effectively relinquishes the City's rights over the private property to allow for the housing development to proceed (Exhibit 1). The 10-foot wide easement, about 300 feet in length, was created in 1957 prior to the existence of Fairview Street to allow a landlocked parcel access to King Street through the property at 1102 North King Street (Exhibit 2). With the creation of Fairview Street (Exhibit 3) in the early 1960s, the easement was no longer necessary for its original purpose and quitclaimed to the City. The easement received by the City did not include public use rights. Consistent with previous practice, the City can relinquish its rights to this easement through a quitclaim deed. In reviewing historical aerial photographs and recorded street improvement drawings, it is apparent that the original pathway providing access to the formerly landlocked parcels was not used after Fairview Street was completed in the 1960s. The Fairview Street project installed a fence,later replaced by a block wall, along the eastern right-of-way, precluding use of the former path. Aerial photographs beginning in 1970 show the path increasingly being overtaken by vegetation indicating a lack of use. Therefore, the City has no present, nor prospective use for the subject easement. The City received an opinion of value of $2,900 for the easement to be quitclaimed. 30A-1