Resolution - 2005-75RESOLUTION NO. 2005-75
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST
COVINA, CALIFORNIA, SUMMARILY VACATING PORTIONS OF
VALINDA AVENUE WITHIN THE CITY OF WEST COVINA AND AS
MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN THIS RESOLUTION
•THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. These proceedings are pursuant to the Public Streets, Highway and Service
Easement Vacation Law, commencing with Section 8300 of the Streets and Highways Code of
the State of California. The City Council hereby finds and determines that the following
described easement for street or highway purposes should be summarily vacated for the reason
that it is excess right-of-way and is not required for street or highway purposes. Reserving and
excepting also from said vacation the permanent easement and right at any time, or from time to
time, to construct, maintain, operate, replace, remove, renew, and enlarge lines of pipe, conduits,
cables, wires, poles, and other convenient structures, equipment and fixtures for the operation of
gas pipe lines, telegraphic and telephone lines, water lines, and electrical lines, including access
and the right keep the property free from inflammable materials, and wood growth, and otherwise
protect the same from all hazards in, upon and over the street or part thereof proposed to be
vacated.
SECTION 2. Pursuant to Section 8330 through 8334.5 of the Streets and Highways
Code, the legislative body hereby summarily vacates the easement described in Exhibit "A"
attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference as though fully set forth.
SECTION 3. The City Council finds that this easement vacation is minor in nature and,
therefore, not subject to the provisions of Government Code Section 65402, and further
determines, without report from the Planning Commission, that this easement vacation is
consistent with the General Plan.
SECTION 4. Pursuant to Streets and Highways Code Section 2381, the City Council
finds that the proposed easement to be vacated is not useful as a non -motorized transportation
facility.
SECTION 5. The City Council finds that the proposed vacation is categorically
exempted from the California Environmental Quality Act inasmuch as it is a minor alteration of
streets, easements and similar facilities and will not involve the removal of scenic resources
including a stand of trees, rock outcropping, or a historic building, in accordance with 14
California Administrative Code 15301.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk is ordered to record in the Office of the Los Angeles County
Recorder a certified copy of the Resolution of Vacation, attested by the Clerk under the seal of
the City, and to give notice of the recordation required by law. From and after the date the
Resolution is recorded, the street and highway easement shall no longer constitute a public
easement.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 151h day of November 2005
. Mayor Shelley Sanderson
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City Clerk
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Resolution No. 2005-75
November 15, 2005
I, LAURIE CARRICO, CITY CLERK of the City of West Covina, California, do hereby certify
that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of West Covina,
California, at a regular meeting thereof held on the 15`h day of November 2005, by the following
vote of the City Council:
AYES: Hernandez, Miller, Wong, Sanderson
NOES: None
ABSENT: Herfert
ABSTAIN: None /) /1)
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Ci Attorney Ain Id Alvarez-Glasman
City Clerk Lamie'Carrico
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EXHIBIT "A"
THAT PORTION OF LOT 194 OF E.J. BALDWIN'S FIFTH SUBDIVISION, IN THE
CITY OF WEST COVINA, COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, AS
SHOWN ON MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 12, PAGES 134 AND 135, OF MAPS ON
FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY RECORDER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY
DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE WESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT N0039'50"E
431.31 FEET FROM THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAID LOT, SAID POINT
BEING THE BEGINNING OF A TANGENT CURVE CONCAVE EASTERLY HAVING A
RADIUS OF 100.00_FEET; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID CURVE
THROUGH A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 25050'31" AN ARC DISTANCE OF 45.10' FEET
TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING ALONG SAID
CURVE THROUGH A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 1038'19" AN ARC DISTANCE OF 2.86
FEET; THENCE TANGENT TO SAID CURVE N28008'40"E 50.00 FEET TO THE
BEGINNING OF A TANGENT CURVE CONCAVE SOUTHWESTERLY HAVING A
RADIUS OF 50.00 FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY AND WESTERLY ALONG SAID
CURVE THROUGH A CENTRAL ANGLE OF 93053'56" AN ARC DISTANCE OF 81.94
FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO A LINE PARALLEL WITH AND DISTANT 10.00 FEET
EASTERLY FROM THE WESTERLY LINE OF SAID LOT; THENCE S003915011W
ALONG SAID PARALLEL LINE 115.81 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE TRUE
POINT OF BEGINNING.
ZIMMERMAN CONSULTING ENgiNEERS I
CIVIL ENGINEERS LAND SURVEYORS SINCE 1676
937 West Christopher Street, Ste. B
Post Office Box 446
West Covina, CA 91793-0446
(626) 814-2394
ZCE Job No: 574-05012
November 28, 2005
EXHIBIT "B"
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ZIMMERMAN CONSU[TING ENGINEERS
CIVIL ENGINEERS • LAND SURVEYORS • SINCE 1976
837 West Christopher Street, Ste. B
Post office Box 446
West Covina, CA 91793-0446
(626) 814-2394
ZCE Job No: 574-05012
November 28, 2005
R=50'
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L = 81.94'
N 0039'50" E 431.31'
I SOUTHWEST CORNER
LOT 194, E.J. BALDWIN'S
-FIFTH SUBDIVISION
(M.B. 12, FIGS. 134 & 135)