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RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, PROVIDING FOR THE SUMMARY VACATION (CASE NO. PC2026-00909) OF AN APPROXIMATELY 2,500-SQUARE-FOOT EXCESS RIGHT-OFWAY OF THE ELIZABETH STREET ALLEY, LOCATED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF
ELIZABETH STREET, BETWEEN MAGNOLIA AVENUE AND ELIZABETH STREET, RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA.
WHEREAS, the City of Riverside received a proposal by Doug Webber of the City of Riverside Public Works Department to summarily vacate an approximately 2,500 square foot portion of excess right-of-way of the Elizabeth Street Alley, located on the south side of Elizabeth Street, between Magnolia Avenue and Elizabeth Street, in the City of Riverside, California, as described and depicted in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference (“the Property”); and
WHEREAS, the Property is excess right-of-way and is not required for street or highway purposes; and
WHEREAS, the access to the adjoining properties and public service easements will not be affected by the vacation of the Property; and
WHEREAS, Section 8334 of the Streets and Highways Code provides that the legislative body of a local agency may summarily vacate the Property that is excess right-of-way and not required for street or highway purposes; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to proceed under the provisions of Section 8330, et seq., of the Street and Highways Code to summarily vacate the Property.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Riverside, California, as follows:
Section 1: The vacation of the Property is undertaken pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 8330) of Part 3 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California.
Section 2: The City Council finds and determines as follows:
(a) The Property is excess right-of-way and is not required for street or highway purposes.
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28 (b) The vacation of the Property will not cut off all access to adjoining properties and will not affect any public service easement.
Section 3: An Environmental Impact Report was not prepared in connection with this action.
Section 4: The City Council hereby orders the Summary Vacation of consisting of an approximately 2,500 square foot portion of excess right-of-way of the Elizabeth Street Alley, located on the south side of Elizabeth Street, between Magnolia Avenue and Elizabeth Street, as more particularly described and depicted in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference, subject to the recommendations contained in the Council Report, and further, reserving and excepting in place easements and rights-of-way, if the same exist, from the vacation herein above ordered; and the right to construct, maintain, operate, inspect, replace, remove, renew, repair and enlarge lines of pipe, conduits, cables, wires, poles, vaults, manholes, markers, equipment, fixtures and other convenient and appurtenant structures, for the distribution and/or transmission of electrical energy, underground facilities including water pipelines, gas lines, storm drains, sanitary sewers, telephone, telegraph, cable television and other communication facilities, as they currently exist.
Section 5: The City Clerk of the City of Riverside shall assign a deed number hereto and cause a certified copy of this resolution to be recorded in the Office of the County Recorder of Riverside County, California, of the right-of-way described and depicted in Exhibit “A” shall be and is hereby terminated as of the date of said recordation and shall no longer constitute a public right-of-way from and after said date of recordation.
ADOPTED by the City Council and this ____ day of ____________________, 2026. ___________________________________
PATRICIA LOCK DAWSON
Mayor of the City of Riverside
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DONESIA GAUSE
City Clerk of the City of Riverside
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28 I, Donesia Gause, City Clerk of the City of Riverside, California, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly and regularly adopted at a meeting of the City Council on the _____ day of ______________________, 2026, by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes:
Noes:
Abstain:
Absent:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Riverside, California, this ____ day of ____________________________, 2026. _________________________
DONESIA GAUSE
City Clerk of the City of Riverside
315142 ALB 09/01/26
Elizabeth vacation Legal Update
Douglas B. Webber, L.S. 9477 Date
L.S. 9477 dbw
* STATE OF CALIFORNIA LICENSED
4/7/2026 Prep. DBWML
conformance with the requirements of the Land Surveyors Act.
This description was prepared by me or under my direction in
SURVEYOR
Area = 2,500 sq. ft
8 and the end of this strip or parcel description.
Thence Southwesterly 100.00 feet, along a line parallel with the Northwesterly line of said Lot Northerly corner of Lot 7 of said "Magnolia Center Tract No. 2"; Elizabeth Street, as shown on a map of said "Magnolia Center Tract No. 2" from the most point being also described as being Southeasterly 175.07 feet along the Southwesterly line of Southeasterly along said Northeasterly line from the most Northerly corner of said Lot 8, said Book 23, Pages 11 and 12, of Maps, records of Riverside County, that is 60.07 feet Beginning at a point in the Northeasterly line of Lot 8 of Magnolia Center Tract No. 2, on file in side of the following described centerline:
Said 25-foot-wide strip or parcel of land being further described as lying 12.50 feet on each a 25-foot-wide parcel of land more particularly described as follows:
seq. and said Grant Deed accepted by resolution No. 4678, on November 9, 1949, describing California, described in Grant Deed Recorded November 10, 1949, In Book 1122, Page 481, et That certain real property located in the City of Riverside, County of Riverside, State of Location: Alley, South of Elizabeth Street, East of Magnolia Avenue Project: Elizabeth "Alley Vacation"
Legal Description
EXHIBIT "A"
SCALE: 1' = 50' DRAWN BY: dbw DATE: 4/7/2026 SUBJECT: Alley Vacation - Elizabeth Street ATTACHED DOCUMENT. IT IS NOT A PART OF THE WRITTEN DESCRIPTION THEREIN. SHEET 1 OF 1
THIS PLAT IS SOLELY AN AID IN LOCATING THE PARCEL(S) DESCRIBED IN THE · CITY OF RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA .
Alley
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3756 Resolution No. 4678 Elizabeth Street
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Book 1122, Page 481 et.seq.
Area=2,500 sq.ft. Grant Deed Rec. 11/10/49
8 Alley Vacation
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7 3764
3766
6132 12.5
Alley -
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6122 12.5' 100.00' 3774
25 3780
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Magnolia Avenue 6114 3784
7 P.O.B.
60.07 / 6106
6100
175.07'
Elizabeth Street