RES-9560 Underground Utility District No. 15RESOLUTION NO. 9560
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ORANGE ESTABLISHING THE AREA OF
THE CITY GENERALLY LOCATED ON WEST
CHAPMAN AVENUE FROM BITTERBUSH STREET
TO MAIN STREET AS UNDERGROUND UTILITY
DISTRICT NO, 15.
WHEREAS, on December 11, 2001, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 9553
setting January 22, 2002, or as soon thereafter as practicable, as the date of the public hearing
to ascertain whether the public necessity, health, safety and welfare requires the removal of
poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures within that area of the City
generally located on West Chapman Avenue from Bitterbush Street to Main Street and to
consider the underground installation of the aforementioned appurtenances for supplying
electric, communication or similar associated services to the residents of the City of Orange;
and
WHEREAS, in accordance with Resolution No. 9553 and Orange Municipal Code
Chapter 12.44, the City Clerk gave notice of the time and place of such public hearing to all
affected property owners as shown on the last equalized assessment roll and also to all
concerned utilities by mail to determine whether to form an underground utility district; and
WHEREAS, the City Engineer prepared and submitted to the City Council that
certain document entitled, "Engineer's Report, Underground Utility District No. 15," dated
December, 2001; and
WHEREAS, the City has coordinated this project with Southern California Edison to
utilize any and all available funding through the Southern California Edison Company Rule
20A program for the conversion of the overhead facilities to underground utility services in
the public right of way and for the conversion of the new facility hookups on private
property; and
WHEREAS, the City has determined that the use of the available funding will not
necessitate the overhead facility conversion to be paid tor by the affected property owners;
and
WHEREAS, based on all of the information presented in the Engineers Report, staff
report, and considering all other written and oral testimony at the public hearing, the City
Council finds and determines that the public necessity, health, safety, and welfare require the
removal of all poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures and the installation
underground of the aforementioned appurtenances in proposed Underground Utility District
No. 15.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Orange as follows:
1. That pursuant to Section 12.44.050 of the Orange Municipal Code, the area
particularly described in Exhibit "A" and shown on the map in Exhibit "B", said exhibits
being hereby attached hereto and made a part hereof, are hereby declared to be added and
annexed into the Underground Utility District No. 15 of the City of Orange which the City
Cowlcil hereby declares to be established.
2. That the City Council does hereby order the removal ofpo1es, overhead wires
and associated overhead structures and the underground installation of wires and facilities
for carrying electric, communication or similar or associated service to be completed within
said area on or before September 30, 2004.
3. That the City Clerk is hereby instructed to notify all affected public utilities
and persons owning real property within the herein described area of the establishment of
Underground Utility District No. 15 by the adoption of this Resolution within ten (10) days
after the date of its adoption. The City Clerk shall further notify said property owners of the
necessity that, if they or any person occupying such property desire to continue to receive
electric, communication or similar or associated service, they or their occupants shall by
September 30, 2004, coordinate with the utility agencies for the conversion of their existing
electrical, communication, or similar or associated overhead services to be converted to an
underground service feed to intercept at a point on private property for continuation of
service as needed, subject to all applicable rules and regulation of the respective utility or
utililiies on file with the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California. Such
notiliication shall be made by mailing a copy of this resolution together with a copy of
Chapter 12.44 of the Orange Municipal Code to all affected property owners as such are
shown on the last equalized assessment roll and to the affected utilities.
ADOPTED this 22nd day of January, 2002.
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Mark A. Murphy, May the City of Orange
Reso No. 9560 2 GAS
ATTEST:
r1u(UA'At7~u~ -<d~-;f CassandraJ.
Cathc , CIty Clerk of the CIty of Orange 1 hereby
certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council
of the City of Orange at a regular meeting thereof held on the 22"d day of January, 2002,
by the following vote:AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
Slater, Alvarez, Murphy, Coontz, Cavecche NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
None ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
None ABSTAJN: COUNCILMEMBERS:
None CdA .(#/~/(r4,,(}~~
L--Cassandra J.
Cathcart, City Clerk of the City of Orange Resa No.
9560 3 GAS
EXHIBIT A
UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 15
LEGAll. DESCRIPTION
A strip ofland 100 feet in width. lying 50 feet on each side of the following described
centerline of Chapman Avenue:
Beginning at the Southwest oomec of Tract No. l2n as shown on a map recorded in
BoQk 39 Page 12 oftdisceIIaneous Maps, records of Orange COlDlty, California, said
point being the intetscc1ion of the centerline of Chapman Avenue and the prolongation of
the westerly righloOf-way line ofBiuerllush Street having a street width of 50 feet,
thence South ~:9o 38' 30" East 3262.74 feet along the centerline of said Chapman Avenue
more or less fo the intersectionoc'a line 60 feet west and para1lel to the centerline of
Main Street as shown on Parcel Map No. 88-412 recorded in Book 249 Pages
13-15 of Miscellaneous Maps, records of
Orange County, California The nodherly and southerly sides of said strip of land shall be extended
or shortened to intersect with the said prolongation of said westerly right-of-
way line of Bitterllush Street and said line 60 feet west and parallel to the
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