Resolution 13754E
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CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 13 7 54
ESTABLISHING A NEW UNDERGROUND DISTRICT, NUMBER 29,
ON LINCOLN AVENUE FROM OAK STREET TO PARK STREET
WHEREAS, the City of Alameda plans to construct a new main library at the
southeast corner of Oak Street and Lincoln Avenue and desires to place the utilities underground
on Lincoln Avenue between Oak Street and Park Street; and
• WHEREAS, the City desires to establish Underground District number 29 for this
purpose; and
WHEREAS, Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) Chapter 19 -4 provides that
companies with overhead utilities must place their facilities underground by using funds from
their various rate structures, and whereas the proposed District includes facilities owned or
operated by Alameda Power & Telecom (AP &T), SBC, Comcast and the City of Alameda; and
WHEREAS, Alameda Municipal Code (AMC) Chapter 19 -4 provides that
property owners within the District shall provide all necessary facility changes on their premises
so as to be able to receive such service from the underground lines of the supplying utilities; and
WHEREAS, affected property owners were notified by mail that they were within
a proposed District and that a public hearing was scheduled for August 3, 2004; and
WHEREAS, with the exception of single - family residences, all property owners
are required to pay the full cost of preparing their premises for underground utility service; and
WHEREAS, the affected property owners will have the option of negotiating a
price for the conversion work with the City's contractor, hiring a contractor to perform the work,
or obtaining permits and doing the work themselves; and
WHEREAS, the City Council held a public hearing on August 3, 2004, and
determined that the public necessity, health, safety or welfare requires the conversion to
underground utilities in the District; and
WHEREAS, the work for the District shall begin in late 2004 or early 2005 and
will be completed by the fall of 2005.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Alameda that it is hereby ordered that a new underground district, Number 29, be established on
Lincoln Avenue from Oak Street to Park Street.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly
adopted and passed by the Council of the City of Alameda in a regular meeting of the City Council
on the 3rd day of August, 2004, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Daysog, Gilmore, Kerr, Matarrese,
and Mayor Johnson - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said City this
4th day of August, 2004.
Lara Weisiger, City Cler
City of Alameda