Agenda Section Other Business
Agenda Item #
Report # 97-
Staff Report
Council Meeting Date:
November 10, 1997
REPORT PREPARED BY
: Bob Nisbet, Public Works Director
DEPARTMENT:
Public WorksSignature
REVIEWED BY CITY MANAGER
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ITEM FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION:
Parking on Ninth Street between Holly Avenue and Franklin Creek
I. Background:
Staff has met with representatives of Carpinteria Beautiful and the Arbor Mobilehome Park on two occasions to discuss parking and landscaping on Ninth Street adjacent to the Park. The Park currently does not provide enough parking on-site to accommodate all of their tenant’s vehicles and they utilize the Ninth Street right-of-way for overflow parking. The northerly side of Ninth Street adjacent to the park is currently signed "no-parking" and representatives of the Park have requested that they be allowed to park there. Carpinteria Beautiful is interested in landscaping portions of the northerly side of the Ninth Street right-of-way and have indicated their willingness to do so if the city were to provide formal "pull-in" parking on that side in a manner that allowed for intermingled planters. Attached is a sketch which proposes the establishment of 12 parking spaces and allows for five 24’ wide planters between the parking spaces.
II. Critical Issues:
III. Impact / Implications:
A. Policy:
None.
B. Financial:
If the Council directs staff to proceed with this proposal, staff has estimated the cost for the parking improvements at $5,500. This estimate assumes that the parking stalls will be graded with road base and delineated from the planters using railroad ties. The estimate does not include the installation of irrigation or landscaping (it is assumed that Carpinteria Beautiful would bear this expense). The Arbor Mobilehome Park has indicated that they are willing to commit $1,100 toward the parking improvements, leaving the City responsible for $4,400. This expenditure is not currently budgeted. Attached is a resolution which appropriates money from the General Fund if Council elects to proceed with this project.
It is not recommended that other funds such as Measure D or Gas Tax be used for this project for the following two reasons: 1) All road maintenance and right-of-way funds are currently budgeted for improvements to Carpinteria Avenue. None of these funds currently have excess reserves. 2) It would be an extremely broad interpretation of the guidelines for expending Measure D funds and Gas Tax funds to assume that they could be used for this type of project.
C. Economic:
None.
D. Legal:
None.
IV. Action /Options:
V. Attachments:
VI. Principal parties expected at meeting:
None.
Recommendation:
Staff recommends Option #1.
Regarding the third issue listed above, staff feels that a case could be made that this section of Ninth Street is not useful as a street right-of-way and vacation of the right-of-way could be found to be consistent with the General Plan. Furthermore, by relinquishing the right-of-way to the Arbor Mobilehome Park, space would become available for the park to provide sufficient on-site parking and a common landscape area for its residents. In this approach, the establishment of parking and landscaping to improve the "look" of this area would be incumbent on the Park, not the City.
If the City elected to proceed with this option, specific deed restrictions and conditions could be placed on the transfer such that no additional mobilehomes were allowed on the parcel and that the Park would be required to provide the needed landscaping and parking. In addition, the Park would be allowed to build a fence between the end of Ninth Street and the Franklin Creek right-of-way which would still allow enough room for a path between the creek and the westerly property boundary which could eventually connect Holly Avenue and Carpinteria Avenue. As a future public improvement project, the City could pave the path and add pedestrian lights, and may even consider creating a cul-de-sac at what would become the new westerly end of Ninth Street.
Option 1:
Whether or not this Option is a priority must be decided based on the cost and the desirability of exploring Option #2 further.
Option 2:
There is no existing policy regarding the abandonment of City right-of-ways. The procedure for such abandonment is set forth in the State Streets and Highways Code.
RESOLUTION NO. 4416
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF CARPINTERIA AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
TO APPROPRIATE $4,400 FROM THE GENERAL FUND RESERVE
FOR THE INSTALLATION OF PARKING ON NINTH STREET
WHEREAS, the City Council has approved a proposal to install parking spaces on the northerly side of Ninth Street between Holly Avenue and Franklin Creek; and
WHEREAS, the project is estimated to cost $5,500; and
WHEREAS, the Arbor Mobilehome Park has agreed to commit $1,100 toward the project; and
WHEREAS, the project was not conceived nor budgeted when the Fiscal Year 1997-98 budgeted was prepared and adopted; and
WHEREAS, the General Fund has an estimated ending year balance which is greater than the indicated appropriation;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Carpinteria authorizes the City Manager to appropriate $4,400 from the General Fund reserve for the purpose of creating parking spaces on Ninth Street between Holly Avenue and Franklin Creek.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 10th day of November, 1997, by the following called votes:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBER:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBER:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBER:
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Mayor, City of Carpinteria
ATTEST:
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City Clerk, City of Carpinteria
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I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Carpinteria held the 10th day of November, 1997.
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City Clerk, City of Carpinteria
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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City Attorney