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Final Passage of Ordinance Approving a Grant of Non-Exclusive Easement and Authorizing the City Manager to Execute Documents Necessary to Implement the Terms of Grant of Non-Exclusive Easement to Alameda Boys & Girls Club and Alameda Unified School District for Access and Maintenance. [Requires four affirmative votes] (Transportation 91402)
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CITY OF ALAMEDA ORDINANCE NO. ______
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APPROVING A GRANT OF NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE DOCUMENTS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE TERMS OF GRANT OF NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT TO ALAMEDA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AND ALAMEDA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR ACCESS AND MAINTENANCE
WHEREAS, since 1991, the City of Alameda has planned for a four mile east-west bicycling and walking corridor, referred to as the Cross Alameda Trail (CAT) in the former Alameda Beltline property, which is owned by the City; and
WHEREAS, the CAT project provides significant community, safety and environmental benefits, including reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by providing safe, convenient and comfortable walking and bicycling facilities, where almost none exist, serving children, students and commuters; and by planting additional trees; and
WHEREAS, the City has developed, with extensive public input, designs for the CAT segment between Main Street and Webster Street, along Ralph Appezzato Memorial Parkway (RAMP); and
WHEREAS, the City has successfully acquired multiple grants for this extensive project and invested City discretionary funding toward the project; and
WHEREAS, in 2014, during the design phase for the CAT project along RAMP, the City had its property surveyed to confirm the property boundary lines and found four encroachments along the corridor, including one by the Alameda Unified School District (AUSD); and
WHEREAS, AUSD owns land at 1900 Third Street, Alameda, California, and leases a portion of this land to the A...
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