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REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br />AUGUST 1, 2011 <br />TITLE: <br />ABANDONMENT NO. 10 -01: INTENT TO <br />VACATE PORTIONS OF SANTA ANA <br />BOULEVARD BETWEEN MINTER AND <br />POINSETTIA STREETS <br />CITY MANAGER <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br />APPROVED <br />❑ As Recommended <br />❑ As Amended <br />❑ Ordinance on 1 s` Reading <br />❑ Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />❑ Implementing Resolution <br />❑ Set Public Hearing For_ <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />1. Adopt a resolution declaring the City's intent to vacate portions of Santa Ana Boulevard <br />between Minter and Poinsettia Streets. <br />2. Set a public hearing for September 6, 2011 . <br />PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION <br />Recommend that City Council adopt a resolution approving Abandonment No. 2010 -01. <br />Approved by a vote of 5:0 (Turner absent, Gartner abstained) at the meeting of July 11, 2011. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The Related Companies of California (Related) is working with the City's Community Development <br />Agency to develop courtyard housing as part of the Station District project. As part of the <br />development, Related is requesting that portions of Santa Ana Boulevard at two locations be <br />vacated. Those portions of right -of -way are unimproved strips of land situated behind the southerly <br />sidewalk of Santa Ana Boulevard. Area 1 is between Minter Street and Lacy Street, and Area 2 is <br />between Garfield Street and Poinsettia Street (Exhibit 1). Both locations are rectangular- shaped <br />with Area 1 measuring 12 feet in width by 210 feet in length, and Area 2 measuring 12 feet in width <br />by 50 in length. <br />The right -of -way width for Santa Ana Boulevard between Poinsettia Street and Mortimer Street <br />fluctuates between 80 feet and 92 feet. The variance is mostly due to 12- foot -wide dedications and <br />reservations made along the south side of the street. The purpose of the accumulation of right -of- <br />way was to provide for future widening of the street. However, the street has not experienced the <br />anticipated additional traffic and is not expected to experience the traffic volumes to justify the <br />widening. With the vacation, the street right -of -way width will measure 80 and will align with <br />adjacent segments of the street. The street curbs will remain in place. Additionally, this segment of <br />Santa Ana Boulevard is being studied as a potential route for the fixed guideway transit system. <br />The right -of -way being vacated is not needed for the transit system. <br />12B -1 <br />