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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Statement 1981/07/21 Item 14COUNCIL AGENDA STATEMENT Item 14 Meeting Date 7/21/81 ITEM TITLE: Resolution /OS74 Approving Agreement for Water District and Authorizing Mayor to Execute an Easerrent for Access Purposes from Otay Water SUBMITTED BY: City Attorney and City Engineer BACKGROUND: Sale of Properties to Otay Quitclaim Deeds and Accepting District (4/5ths Vote: Yes No X ) The Otay Water District desires to construct a customer service/collection center for its customers easterly of the inter- section of Telegraph Canyon Road and Paseo del Rey. The District presently owns a lot adequate in size to accommodate the structure. However, to properly handle the proposed operations, it would be desirable to acquire the periphery properties on the southerly boundary of the site. Those properties include a portion of an existing drainage right of way owned in fee by the City and a triangular piece of property at the intersection of Telegraph Canyon and Paseo del Rey presently being acquired by the City of Chula Vista through condemnation. The Water District in a letter dated June 4, 1981 has requested that the City sell a strip of land approximately 17 feet wide adjacent to the Telegraph Canyon channel easterly of Paseo del Rey. They have offered to pay $2.56 per square foot which was the amount they paid to the Alliance Church for their existing site. Ina more recent conference, they have also expressed a desire to purchase the triangular piece of property for the same amount that the City may be required to pay in the condemnation action presently pending. RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council approve the agre~nent with Otay Water District for the sale of the properties constituting a strip of land approximately 15' to 16' wide adjacent to the Telegraph Canyon channel easterly of Paseo del Rey and the triangular remnant of the property to be acquired by condennation at the inter- section of Telegraph Canyon and Paseo del Rey for the amount which the City will be required to pay to satisfy said judgment. BOARD/COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION: N/A DISCUSSION: The proposed facility fora customer service collection center for the Otay Water District to be located at the intersection of Telegraph Canyon Road and Paseo del Rey will be significantly Form A-113 (Rev. 11/79) Agenda Item No. 14 Meeting Date: 7/21/81 Page Two enhanced by squaring off the property at the intersection and allaying the use of the full area for parking and access purposes. This can be accomplished through the sale of properties presently owned by the City or in the process of acquisition by the City to the District. The City Engineer has recommended that said properties be conveyed to the Water District fora reasonable compensation so long as the City is assured of retaining access rights not only to the drainage channel itself, but to certain City owned properties located further east of Paseo del Rey adjacent to the properties owned by the Alliance Church. The Otay Water District has agreed to pay to the City the sum of $2.56 per square foot for the strip of land comprised of approximately 3, 000 square feet, which is a strip varying from 15 feet to 16 feet in width (instead of the approximately 17 feet requested) by 194 feet in length. They have also proposed that the City convey to them the remnant of the triangular piece of property at the intersection which would not be used for drainage channel purposes for Paseo del Rey for the amount the City may be required to pay as a result of the condemnation trial or settlement. The City Attorney has requested Bob Rice, the attorney for the Gersten Company, who is handling the condemnation action which the Gersten Company has full financial responsibility for, to negotiate for the acquisition of the remnant triangular property which the City would assume the cost of in the course of settlement discussions of the pending condemnation action. It is also understood that the District will deed to the City an access easement over the existing road as shown on the attached sketch, which will insure vehicular access to the property owned by the City easterly of the Alliance Church, which property was excess purchased by the City for the Telegraph Canyon Road/Channel project. It would be desirable that if the City sold that property to someone other than the Alliance Church that such access be assured. The steps necessary to achieve mutually desirable goals of both the City and the Otay Water District are as follows: l~-/G'S 70 ..- . Agenda Item No. 14 Meeting Date: 7/21/81 Page Three 1. Adoption of the resolution approving the attached agreement which sets forth the terms and conditions of the various land transfers. 2. Grant of a quitclaim deed to the strip of land along the drainage channel for the sum of $2.56 per square foot or approximately $7, 500. 3. At some future date, the grant of a quitclaim deed to the Water District for the triangula piece of property at the intersection of Telegraph Canyon Road and Paseo del Rey for the amount paid by the City as a result of the condemnation lawsuit or settlement. 4. The acceptance of an easement over the existing road permitting access to the property presently owned by the City easterly of the Alliance Church. FISCAL IMPACT: N/A f f__ ,pf i' G~r~d 7 ' .~,,~ 4: