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ORDINANCE NO. .4720
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
APPROVING AND ADOPTING A PLAN FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO
FOOTHILLS PARK
The Council of the City of Palo Alto does ORDAIN as
SECTION 1. Findings and Declarations. The City Council
finds and declares as follows:
(a) Article VIII of the Charter of the City of Palo Alto
and Section 22.08.005 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code require that,
before any substantial building, construction, reconstruction or
development is commenced or approved, upon or with respect to any
, land held by the City for park purposes, the Council shall first
cause to be prepared and by ordinance approve and adopt a plan
therefor.
(b) The City Council did by Ordinance No. 2252 adopted
September 13, 1965, place Foothills Park on the list of lands used
or intended to be used for Park Purposes.
(c) The Palo Alto Utilities Department is required to
maintain an access road ["Arastradero Utili ties Access Road" ]
through both Foothills Park and Arastradero Preserve for the
purposes of constructing and maintaining utilities lines,
reservoirs and pump. stations.
(d) The Arastradero Utilities Access Road eroded during
the 1998 EI Nino storm season, creating drainage problems and road
base instability and despite emergency road repairs, portions of
the road within the Arastradero Preserve and Foothills Park still
need repair.
(e) The Council approved the Arastradero Preserve Trail
Master Plan ("Plan ll ) on May 14, 2001 which incorporated the Capital
Improvement Program Proj ect 0118, "All Weather Arastradero Road
Paving" for repair to portions of the Arastradero Utilities Access
Road that lie within the Arastradero Preserve and Foothills Park.
Environmental reviews of "Soil Sement" were included in the Plan
and considered for the stabilization of the Arastradero Utilities
Access Road trail tread (road surface) .
(f) The Palo Alto Utilities Department has determined that
"Soil Sement" should be used as the stabilizing road base, an
environmentally safe polymer emulsion that produces highly
effective control of dust and surface erosion.
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(g) The site and design review of the Arstradero Plan has
been conducted and the Plan has been recommended for approval by
the City boards and commissions having jurisdiction over such
matters, because it conforms to the provisions of Chapter 18.82 of
the Palo Alto Municipal Code and the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan.
(h) . The Council desires to approve repair of that
portion of the Arastradero Utilities Access Road that lies within
Foothills Park, which is approximately 1/10 of a mile in length, as
more specifically described on the map attached hereto as Exhibit
"A" .
SECTION 2. The City Council hereby approves repair of the
Arastradero Utilities Access Road that lies within Foothills Park
and hereby adopts the Map attached hereto as Exhibit nAil as part of
the official plan for the construction of improvements at Foothills
Park.
SECTION 3. The City Council hereby finds that this project
will have no significant adverse effect on the environment.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall become effective upon the
commencement of the thirty-first day after the day of its adoption.
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PASSED:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS:
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September 24, 2001
BEECHAM, BURCH, EAKINS, KLEINBERG, LYTLE, MOSSAR,
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