HomeMy WebLinkAbout97-38 - Underground Utilities District 14RESOLUTION NO. 97 -38
• A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NEWPORT BEACH ESTABLISHING UNDERGROUND
UTILITIES DISTRICT 14 (ALONG NEWPORT BOULEVARD
AND THE ALLEY WESTERLY OF NEWPORT BOULEVARD
FROM 32ND STREET TO NORTHERLY OF THE ARCHES
BRIDGE) AND ORDERING THE REMOVAL OF POLES,
OVERHEAD WIRES, AND ASSOCIATED OVERHEAD
SERVICES WITHIN THAT AREA OF THE CITY LOCATED
WITHIN SAID DISTRICT
WHEREAS, Chapter 15.32, entitled "Underground Utilities ", of the Newport
Beach Municipal Code, authorizes the City Council to call public hearings to ascertain
whether the public health, safety or welfare requires the removal of poles, overhead wires
and associated overhead structures within designated areas of the City, and underground
installation of wires and facilities for supplying electric, communication, or similar services;
and
• WHEREAS, on the April 14, 1997, the City Council took action to set a public
hearing for the 12th of May 1997, at 7:00 P.M. for the purpose of determining whether an
underground utilities district should be established within that certain territory referred to as
Underground Utilities District No. 14 (along Newport Boulevard and the alley westerly of
Newport Boulevard from 32nd Street to northerly of the Arches Bridge) which is hereinafter
described; and
WHEREAS, notices have been sent to all owners of property within said
underground utilities district, in the manner prescribed by said Chapter 15.32 of the
Newport Beach Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, after consideration of all protests to the formation of said
Underground Utilities District No. 14, the City Council has determined that public health,
• safety and welfare require the formation of said District:
Res 97 -38
• NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council hereby FINDS, DETERMINES AND
ORDERS:
1. The public necessity, health, safety and welfare require the removal of
poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures used to supply electric and
telephone service and their installation underground within the following described areas of
the City of Newport Beach:
That parcels of land located in the City of Newport Beach, County of Orange,
State of California, described as a whole as follows:
Newport Boulevard right -of -way from northerly of the Arches Bridge southerly
to Short Street and the alley right -of -way located westerly of Newport
Boulevard from Short Street southerly to 32nd Street.
For reference, the boundary line of the land described above is shown on
City of Newport Beach Drawing No. M- 5328 -L, on file in the office of the
Public Works Department.
• The City Council further finds that:
2. (A) Newport Boulevard along which the work is to be performed is
extensively used by the general public and carries a heavy volume of pedestrian and
vehicular traffic; and
(B) Newport Boulevard leads to a public recreation area and passes
through an area of unusual scenic interest to the general public.
3. The above - described area is hereby declared to be an underground
utilities district, to be known as Underground Utilities District No. 14, and the affected utility
companies and property owners are ordered to cause the required removal and
underground installation work to be done.
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4. The date by which the required removal and underground installation work
• is to be accomplished and by which the affected property owners must be ready to receive
underground service is September 1, 1997.
5. The City Clerk is directed to notify all affected utility companies and all
persons owning property within said District of the adoption of this resolution within ten (10)
days after its affective date, in accordance with Section 15.32.080 of the Newport Beach
Municipal Code.
ADOPTED this 12th day of May 1997.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE
• CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, LAVONNE M. HARKLESS, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 97 -38, was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by the
City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 12th
day of May, 1997, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: O'Neil, Thomson, Edwards, Hedges, Glover, Noyes, and Mayor Debay
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 13th day of May, 1997.
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City Clerk of the City of
Newport Beach, California