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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />MAY 6, 2014 <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />TITLE: APPROVED <br />STREETCAR ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW El El Recommended <br />PLAN AND COST PARTICIPATION BY El Amended <br />Or <br />❑ Ordinance on 1" Reading <br />THE CITY FOR STREETCAR ❑ Ordinance on 2ntl Reading <br />OPERATIONS <br />El Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For <br />:1;�� i� <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Staff recommends that the City Council: <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />Approve the Environmental Review and Public Outreach Plan. <br />2. Adopt a Resolution of Financial Support for Streetcar Operations in the amount of 10 percent <br />annually when operations begin in 2019 or thereafter. <br />3. Concur with the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) that they become the lead <br />agency to advance the streetcar project to design, construction, and operations upon approval <br />of the environmental phase. <br />4. Designate the City Manager as the Project Director and City authority to interact and provide <br />direction to OCTA and to all related consultants. <br />DISCUSSION <br />Approval of the Environmental Review Plan and Public Outreach Plan as shown in Exhibit 1 would <br />provide staff with clear direction on how to best complete the project's environmental planning <br />phase, which is necessary to establish project readiness. The City has encouraged full <br />participation by the community, and the plan emphasizes an open and transparent public review <br />process to obtain local input and ensure City and community readiness for the streetcar. <br />Adoption of the attached Resolution shown as Exhibit 2 would help propel the project to the <br />design and delivery phase by providing Santa Ana's financial commitment for streetcar operations. <br />That commitment is important for the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) to formalize <br />the project financial plan so that it can be advanced to design and construction. <br />Concurrence with the OCTA on becoming the lead agency for advancing the project will provide <br />the best option for successful delivery, since the OCTA is best suited and has the expertise to <br />serve as the project lead in the design, construction, federal grantee sponsor, lead contact, owner, <br />and operator of regional transportation projects including the streetcar. A letter to the OCTA <br />expressing such concurrence is shown in Exhibit 3. <br />55E -1 <br />