HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES 2021-53RESOLUTION NO. 2021-53
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DIAMOND
BAR DETERMINING THAT UNDERGROUDING IN THE SPECIFIED
AREA IS IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC INTEREST AND ESTABLISHING
THE BREA CANYON ROAD UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT
BETWEEN COOL SPRINGS DRIVE AND COLD SPRING LANE.
WHEREAS, Diamond Bar Municipal Code, Title 13, UTILITIES; Division 1, Section
13.04.030, as duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Diamond Bar, provides
procedures and regulations for underground utility districts; and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 2021-46, a public hearing was called for November
162 2021, at 6:30 p.m. in the Windmill Community Room at City Hall, 21810 Copley Drive,
Diamond Bar, California, to ascertain whether the public necessity, safety, health, or
welfare requires removal of poles, overhead wires, and associates overhead structures
and the underground installation of wires and facilities for supplying electric,
communication, or similar or associated service on Brea Canyon Road in the area
specified; and
WHEREAS, notice of such hearing was given to all affected property owners as
shown on the last equalized assessment roll and utilities concerned in the manner and
for the time required by law; and
WHEREAS, notice of such hearing was published in the manner and for the time
required by law; and
WHEREAS, such hearing has been duly and regularly held, and all persons
interested have been given an opportunity to be heard.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Diamond Bar as follows:
Section 1. Undergrounding, in the specified area, is in the general public
interest for its health, safety, and welfare as:
(a) Such undergrounding will avoid or eliminate an unusually heavy
concentration of overhead electric and communication facilities; and
(b) The street or road or right of way is extensively used by the general
public and carries a heavy volume of pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
Section 2. The City Council hereby finds and determines that the
undergrounding identified above in this Resolution is categorically exempt from the
requirement of the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended, and
guidelines promulgated thereunder, pursuant to Section 15302, Class 2 of Division 6 of
Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.
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Section 3. The following specified area, and as shown in Exhibit "A", shall constitute
and be known as the Brea Canyon Road Underground Utility District:
That portion of the Brea Canyon Road, in the City of Diamond Bar, County
of Los Angeles, State of California, bounded northwesterly by the centerline
of said Brea Canyon Road as shown on Tract Map No. 25991 recorded in
Book 702 pages 16 through 21 of maps in the office of the County Recorder
of said County, bounded southwesterly by a line perpendicular to said
centerline and passing through the BC at the southeasterly corner of Cool
Springs Drive and Brea Canyon Road as shown on said Tract, bounded
southeasterly by the southeasterly right-of-way of Brea Canyon Road as it
now exists and bounded northeasterly by a line perpendicular to the
centerline of said Brea Canyon Road and passing through the EC at the
northeasterly corner of Cold Springs Lane and Brea Canyon Road as shown
on Tract No. 25985 recorded in Book 678 pages 63 through 65 of maps in
the office of the County Recorder of said County.
Section 4. The following exceptions are incorporated in the Brea Canyon
Road Underground Utility District:
(a) Poles and pedestals for fire alarm boxes, street lights, traffic
signals, and the like installed and maintained by or for the City.
(b) Air vents, meters, cabinets containing electronic devices, and
cabinets for connection points determined by the Public
Works Director/City Engineer to be necessary for service
continuity and not feasible for underground location, subject
to approval by the Director as to location and
unobtrusiveness.
(c) Antennae and supporting structures used for communication
service %J reception for Cl community antenna system subject
to approval of the City Council as to location and
unobtrusiveness.
(d) Temporary overhead facilities necessary for emergency
services for less than ten (10) days which period may be
extended by the Public Works Director/City Engineer for a
period not exceeding ninety (90) days and which may be
extended by the City Council for an unlimited period.
(e) Temporary overhead wires and supporting poles approved by
the Public Works Director/City Engineer and erected to
facilitate construction of a building or other structures for a
period of not more than one hundred eighty (180) days.
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Section 5. The utility company, at its expense, shall install underground service
connection facilities on the customer's property for not more than one hundred (100) feet
in length.
Section 6. All poles, overhead wires, and associate overhead structures shall
be removed and underground installations made in said underground utility district within
the timing schedule agreed upon by the Public Works Director/City Engineer.
Section 7. Pursuant to the provisions of the California Environmental Quality
Act (CEQA), the City Council has determined that this project is categorically exempt
pursuant to Section 15302(d) of the State CEQA Guidelines.
Section 8. The Public Works Director/City Engineer, within ten (10) days after
the adoption of this resolution, shall mail a copy hereof and a copy of Los Angeles County
Code Division 2, Chapter 16.32, as duly adopted by the City Council of the City of
Diamond Bar, to the affected property owners as same are shown on the last equalized
assessment roll and to the affected utilities.
Section 9. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 16th day of November, 2021.
THE CITY OF DIAMON BAR
/ � G
Nancy A. Lyo s, qy
[Signatures continued on the following page]
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ATTEST:
I, Kristina Santana, City Clerk of the City of Diamond Bar, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Resolution was passed, approved and adopted at the regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Diamond Bar held on the 16t" day of November 2021, by the
following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Chou, Liu, Tye, MPT/Low, M/Lyons
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAINED: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
Kristina Santana, City Clerk
Resolution No. 2021-53
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