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C. 2

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Brian M. Balbas, Public Works Director/Chief Engineer
Date:	July 10, 2018

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Subject:

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE an Assignment of Easement to the City of San Ramon within a portion of old Dougherty Road, San Ramon (Dougherty Valley) area.

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 07/10/2018

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:	Carmen Piña-Delgado, 925. 957-2461
cc:	Craig Standafer Telma Moreira

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: July 10, 2018
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Chair of the Board of Supervisors to execute, on behalf of the County, an assignment of easement, to assign the City of San Ramon (City) an easement to maintain, operate, replace, remove, and renew trails for use by the public in, upon, over, and across a section of old Dougherty Road per the Dougherty Valley Specific Plan and the Gale Ranch Conditions of Approval pursuant to Streets and Highways Code section 960. Project No.: WL72RP-RA1251.


DETERMINE that the easement includes property rights that were acquired for County highway purposes and are no longer necessary for those purposes.

RECOMMENDATION(S): (CONT'D)

DIRECT the Real Estate Division of the Public Works Department to deliver a certified copy of this Board Order, and the Assignment of Easement to the City for acceptance and recording in the office of the County Clerk-Recorder.

FISCAL IMPACT:

No fiscal impact.

BACKGROUND:

Old Dougherty Road was a County highway and the property rights that are the subject of this action (the “easement”) were acquired by the County for highway purposes, and the easement is no longer required for those purposes. The easement was reserved by the County when, by separate action on this same date, the Board of Supervisors approved vacating the relevant segment of Old Dougherty Road.

Per the Dougherty Valley Specific Plan and the Gale Ranch Conditions of Approval, the easement is required by the City of San Ramon for a multi-purpose trail. The City has requested that the County assign the easement to the City to enable the City to proceed with the Dougherty Valley Specific Plan and the Gale Ranch Conditions of Approval, which includes the trail. The easement is more particularly described in Exhibit A and depicted in Exhibit B, attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

For these reasons, Public Works Department staff recommends that the Board of Supervisors approve the assignment of the easement to the City.

California Environmental Quality Act environmental review has been completed for this activity. On January 5, 2005, the County’s Planning Commission adopted the Addendum to the 1996 Subsequent EIR and Final Development Plan DP04-3070, which covers this activity.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

The County will continue to be responsible for maintenance and repairs to the above-described easement that the County reserved when it vacated old Dougherty Road.