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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />NOVEMBER 20, 2006 <br />TITLE: <br />PUBLIC HEARING: ABANDONMENT NO. <br />06-02: TO VACATE PORTIONS OF <br />COLLEGE AVENUE, 15TH STREET AND <br />MARTHA LANE <br />APPROVED <br />^ As Recommended <br />^ As Amended <br />^ Ordinance on 151 Reading <br />^ Ordinance on 2"d Reading <br />^ Implementing Resolution <br />^ Set Public Hearing For <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />' / CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Adopt a resolution vacating portions of College Avenue, 15th Street and <br />Martha Lane. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The Rancho Santiago Community College District (District) is planning an <br />expansion of the Santa Ana College campus in accordance with their <br />master plan. As part of the expansion, the applicant is requesting that <br />College Avenue between Washington Avenue and 17th Street and portions of <br />15th Street and Martha Lane be vacated (Exhibits 1 and 2). The vacated <br />streets will be incorporated into the expanded campus. Cul-de-sacs will <br />be built at the east ends of the remaining portions of Martha Lane and <br />15th Street . <br />Beginning in August 2002, the District staff met periodically with the <br />Artesia Pilar Neighborhood Association (APNA) to discuss the long term <br />growth of the college. These periodic meetings included discussions of <br />proposed vacation of the subject streets. <br />In May 2005, district staff attended an APNA meeting to present the <br />revised master plan. Also, at that meeting, district staff informed the <br />association that the draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was near <br />completion and that the association and all residents within 1000 feet <br />of the expansion project would soon receive notification of the official <br />comment period. On June 1, 2005, the notification letter was mailed to <br />over 900 residents informing them that the Draft EIR was available for <br />review and that the 45 day comment period would run from June 22, 2005 <br />until August 5, 2005. The notification also indicated that a public <br />hearing on the Draft EIR would occur on September 12, 2005. District <br />75A-1 <br />