RESOLUTION NO. 22- _______
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA,
CALIFORNIA, SUMMARILY VACATING A PORTION OF EASEMENTS DEDICATED
TO THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA FOR SLOPE AND STREET PURPOSES LOCATED AT THE WESTSIDE OF SIERRA HIGHWAY, APPROXIMATELY 600 FEET SOUTH OF
NEWHALL AVENUE (SIERRA WEST ASSISTED LIVING), CREATED BY INSTRUMENT NO. 3655 TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ON MAY 28, 1969, AND
ACQUIRED BY THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA THROUGH STATE HIGHWAY RELINQUISHMENT NO. 1244 DATED JUNE 21, 2013
WHEREAS, the slope easement and street easement being summarily vacated fully meet the requirements of Section 8331 of the Streets and Highways Code, which states “The legislative body of a local agency may summarily vacate a street or highway if both of the following conditions exist: (a) For a period of five consecutive years, the street or highway has been impassable for vehicular travel. (b) No public money was expended for maintenance on the street or highway during such period”; and
WHEREAS, under Chapter 4, Summary Vacation of Part 3 of Division 9 of the California Streets and Highways Code, no public hearing is required and no public hearing was held.
NOW, THEREFORE, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 8331of Part 3 of Division 9 of the California Streets and Highways Code, the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita, California, does hereby resolve as follows:
SECTION 1. That it is hereby found and determined that a portion of an easement for slope purposes, along Sierra Highway, as described in Exhibit “A” a legal description, and as shown on Exhibit “B” Map, and a portion of an easement for street purposes, as described in Exhibit “C” legal description, and as shown on Exhibit “D” exhibit map, attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference, which real property located in the City of Santa Clarita, County of Los Angeles, State of California, fully meets the requirements of Section 8331 of the Streets and Highways Code, which states “The legislative body of a local agency may summarily vacate a street or highway if both of the following conditions exist: (a) For a period of five consecutive years, the street or highway has been impassable for vehicular travel. (b) No public money was expended for maintenance on the street or highway during such period.” and such easements are therefore vacated.
SECTION 2. That within the street easement to be vacated, there are public utility facilities that would be affected by the vacation, therefore, easements are hereby reserved and excepted from the vacation for public utility purposes as described below:
The City of Santa Clarita, a Municipal Corporation does hereby RESERVE a non- exclusive easement for Pacific Bell Telephone Company, doing business as AT&T California, to from time to time construct, maintain, operate, replace, remove, and renew such aerial and
underground communication facilities (including ingress and egress therefrom) consisting of poles, anchors, guys, cables, wires, crossarms, conduits, manholes, handholes, markers, pedestals, terminal equipment cabinets, electrical conductors and necessary fixtures and appurtenances upon, over, and across the real property described in Exhibit “C” and shown in Exhibit “D,” both which are attached hereto and incorporated hereinabove.
In addition, the City of Santa Clarita, a Municipal Corporation does hereby RESERVE non-exclusive easement for Southern California Gas Company to excavate for, lay, construct, reconstruct, relocate, reconfigure, use, inspect, maintain, operate, repair, replace, patrol, change the size of, add to, or remove from time to time, as Southern California Gas Company deems necessary, one or more pipelines and conduits, together with devices for metering, measuring, regulating, cathodic protection, communications, and other appurtenances in, upon, over, and across the real property described in Exhibit “C” and shown in Exhibit “D,” both which are attached hereto and incorporated hereinabove.
SECTION 3. That the City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita is instructed to record the certified original resolution in the office of the Registrar-Recorder of the County of Los Angeles, at which time the easements summarily vacated will no longer be public service easements.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 22
nd day of November 2022.
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MAYOR
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
DATE:__________________________
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA )
I, Mary Cusick, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 22-__ was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita, California at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 22nd day of November 2022, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
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CITY CLERK