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Home My WebLink About105-06 • I 105-06 RESOLUTION NO. RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS ADDING TERRITORY TO THE EXISTING UNDERGROUND DISTRICT NO. lA WHEREAS, on August 3, 2005 the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills adopted Resolution No. 78-05, which established Underground District No. 1A for Purissima Road from Samuel Lane to Minorca Court and Viscaino Road from Purissima Road to Roble Ladera Road and established Underground District No. 1B for Altamont Road from Tripoli Court to Almaden Court; and WHEREAS, City staff have determined that it is necessary to add territory to the existing Undergrounding District No. 1A; and WHEREAS, October 12, 2006 at Council Chamber was fixed as the time and place for hearing protests to the proposed addition to include Viscaino Place as apart of existing Underground District No. 1A; and WHEREAS, notice of such hearing has been given to all affected property owners in the area to be added to the District as shown on the last equalized assessment roll and to all utilities concerned in the manner and within 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; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills hereby finds and determines that the territory proposed to be added to existing Underground District No. 1A contains streets that are used extensively by the general public, and that the public necessity, health, safety, or welfare requires the removal and underground installation of wires and facilities for supplying electric, communication, or similar or associated services within the designated addition. NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY FOUND, DETERMINED AND ORDERED, as follows: 1. That adding territory to Underground District No. 1A, within which the undergrounding of electric communication, or similar or associated services is to be performed, is in the general public interest for each and all of the following reasons: (a) The undergounding of electric, communication, or similar or associated facilities to be accomplished in the territory added to Underground District No. 1A, will avoid and eliminate an unusually heavy concentration of overhead electric, communication, or similar or associated distribution facilities in the added territory; and LAH Reso Adding Territory to Underground Dist IA.DOC (b) The streets, roads and right of way in the added territory are extensively used by the general public and carry a heavy volume of pedestrian and vehicular traffic; and (c) The streets, roads, and rights of way in the added territory pass through a public recreation area. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills hereby orders the addition of territory to Underground District No. 1A, hereinafter "added territory," as indicated on the certain map entitled: REVISED UNDERGROUNDING UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1A The map delineating the revised boundaries of said District are attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein as if set forth in full. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council hereby orders the removal of poles, overhead wires, and associated overhead structures within the added territory and the underground installation of wires and facilities for supplying electric, communication, or similar or associated services within the added territory and acts set forth in Los Altos Hills Municipal Code section 7-4.04 shall hereinafter be unlawful. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following exceptions in the added territory are hereby authorized: 1. Any municipal facilities or equipment installed under the supervision and to the satisfaction of the City Engineer. 2. Overhead wires (exclusive of supporting structures) crossing any portion of a District within which overhead wires have been prohibited, or connecting to buildings on the perimeter of a District, when such wires originate in an area from which poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures are not prohibited. 3. Antennae, associated equipment and supporting structures, used by a utility for furnishing communication service. 4. Equipment appurtenant to underground facilities, such as surface mounted transformers, pedestal mounted terminal boxes and meter cabinets, and concealed ducts. 5. Temporary poles, overhead wires and associated overhead structures used or to be used in conjunction with construction projects. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk is hereby instructed to notify all affected utilities and all persons owning real property within the added territory of the adoption of this resolution within ten days after the date of such adoption. The City Clerk shall further notify said property owners of the necessity that, if they or any person occupying such property lying within the added territory, desire to continue to receive electric, communication or other similar or associated service, they or such occupant shall, by the date fixed in this resolution, or at the time fixed in any extension of said date or dates, provide the City of its contractor a right LAH Reso Adding Territory to Underground Dist 1A.DOC • of entry and access to their property to make necessary facility changes on their premises so as to receive such service from the lines of the supplying utility or utilities at a new location, subject to applicable rules, regulations and tariffs of the respective utility or utilities on file with the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California. Failure to provide the City or its contractor Right of Entry and access to their property to make the necessary changes shall obligate the property owner, rather than the City to pay for such changes. Notification to the property owners shall be made by mailing a copy of this resolution, together with a copy of said Title 7, Chapter 4 of the Los Altos Hills Municipal Code to all affected property owners as such are shown on the last equalized assessment roll, and to the affected utilities. 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