HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 9296Resolution No. 9296
Resolution ofthe Council ofthe City of Palo Authorizing an Exception to
Chapter 10.48 [Trucks and Truck Routes] of the Palo Alto Municipal
Code For the Limited Purpose of Allowing a Transfer of Soil from the
Stanford University Medical Center Construction Project to the Palo Alto
Golf Course and Adjacent Areas
The Council of the City of Palo Alto RESOLVES as follows:
SECTION 1. Findings.
A. There is a unique opportunity to transfer soil from the Stanford University
Medical Center project to the San Francisquito Creek JPA regional flood control
project and/or the Palo Alto Golf Course reconfiguration and playing fields
project.
B. John ArriHaga, a local developer, has offered to transport soil from the SUMC
project to the Palo Alto Golf Course for the flood control project and later use at
the golf course and possible future playing fields at no cost to the City or the
SFCJPA.
C. This local transfer will significantly reduce greenhouse gases, especially if trucks
are permitted to travel on Oregon Expressway, which is the shortest vehicle
route between the SUMC project site and the flood control project site.
D. The Council desires to make a limited exception to Palo Alto Municipal Code
Section 10.48.090.
SECTION 2. Limited Exception to Palo Alto Municipal Code Chapter 10.48 for Flood
Control Project.
The City Council hereby approves the following exception to the provisions of
Chapter 10.48 (Trucks and Truck Routes): Trucks depositing soil from construction at the
Stanford University campus at the Palo Alto Golf Course and immediately adjacent areas for use
in the construction of the San Francisquito Creek levee project or for use in the Golf Course re-
configuration project or the Palo Alto Playing Fields and landscape buffer projects may
accomplish such deliveries by traveling on Oregon Expressway. Any such trips shall take place
between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. This exception shall sunset on June 30, 2014.
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SECTION 3. An EI.R for the San Francisquito Creek Flood Reduction, Ecosystem
Restoration, and Recreation Project, San Francisco Bay to Highway 101 project was certified by
the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority on October 25, 2012.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: November 13,2012
AYES: BURT, ESPINOSA, HOLMAN, PRICE, SCHARFF, SCHMID, SHEPHERD
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS: KLEIN, YEH
APPROVED:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Senior Asst. City Attorney
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