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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-00 . T i S RESOLUTION NO. 2-00 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AN AGREEMENT FOR CONSERVATION EASEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS AND GREEN EARTH ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION, INC. A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION WHEREAS,the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills has read and considered that certain Conservation Easement Agreement ("Agreement") between the Town and Green Earth Engineering and Construction, Inc. a California Corporation. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the Town does RESOLVE as follows: 1. Public interest and convenience require the Town of Los Altos Hills to enter into the Agreement described above. 2. The Town of Los Altos Hills hereby approves the Agreement and the Mayor is hereby authorized on behalf of the Town to execute the Agreement between the Town of Los Altos Hills and Green Earth Engineering and Construction, Inc. a California Corporation. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of January , 2000. By: / Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk • Ask • DOCUMENT: 151253. Titles: 1 / Pages: 9 Fees. . . .. No Fees This Document is Recorded IIII 1111111 IN Taxes. . . For the Benefit of the #oe15125356 Copies. . Town of Los Altos Hills AMT PAI D And is Exempt from Fee Per Government Code BRENDA DAV I S RDE # 011/015 Sections 6103 and 27383 SANTA CLARA COUNTY RECORDER 1/19/2000 Recorded at the request of 10 23 AM When Recorded, Mail to: C i ty Town of Los Altos Hills 26379 Fremont Road Los Altos Hills, CA 94022 Attention: City Clerk • AGREEMENT FOR CONSERVATION EASEMENT This Agreement, made and entered into this 6th day of January 2000 by and between Green Earth Engineering and •Construction, Inc. a California Corporation ("Owner") and the Town of Los Altos Hills, a municipal corporation, ("Town"). RECITALS A. Owner is the owner of certain real property in the Town of Los Altos Hills commonly known as 27168 Moody Court, and more particularly described in Exhibit A, attached hereto. B. Town has adopted a General Plan and, pursuant thereto, may accept grants of conservation and open space easements on privately owned lands lying within the Town. C. Town finds this conservation easement to be consistent with the Town's General Plan and in the best interest of the Town. D. Owner and Town desire to limit the use of a portion of the property described • above by dedication of a conservation easement in order to reduce potential adverse impacts on such land including grading, vegetation removal, and erosion, recognizing that such land is essentially unimproved and if retained in its natural state has substantial scenic value to the public and that the preservation of such land as open space constitutes an important physical, social, aesthetic and economic asset to the Town and the Owner. 1 N:\DATA\Clients\ULAN\Projects\GreenEarth\ConservEase.AGM i • • NOW, THEREFORE, the parties, in consideration of the mutual covenants and conditions set forth herein and the substantial public benefits to be derived therefrom, do hereby agree as follows: 1. Grant of Conservation Easement. Owner, as grantor, hereby grants a conservation easement to the Town of Los Altos Hills, a municipal corporation, County of Santa Clara, State of California, over the real property described and shown as Exhibit B, attached hereto (the "Property"), to have and to hold said conservation easement for the term and for the purposes and subject to the conditions, covenants and exceptions described herein. 2. Statutory Authorization.This Agreement and grant of conservation easement are made and entered into pursuant to Civil Code Sections 815 through 816 and Chapter 6.6 commencing with section (51070)of Part 1, Division 1,Title 5 of the Government Code. This Agreement is subject to all of the provisions of said sections and chapter including any amendments thereto which may hereafter be enacted. 3. Restriction on Use of Property. During the term of this Agreement and the conservation easement granted herein, the Property shall not be used for any purpose other than a conservation easement and those uses related to or compatible therewith. Owners, for the direct benefit of the Property described herein, hereby declares that the Property shall be subject to restrictive covenants running with the land which shall be binding upon all subsequent grantees. Said restrictive covenants shall be: a. against the right of Owner to construct any improvements on or within the Property except for public and private utilities easements, paths dedicated to the Town, and an approved septic system, provided these reserved exceptions shall be consistent with the purposes of law and shall not permit any action which will be incompatible with maintaining the preserving the natural or scenic character of the land; and b. against the extraction of natural resources or other activities which may destroy the unique physical and scenic characteristic of the land; and c. against the grading of land otherthan attendant to permitted uses;and d. against the cutting of vegetation, except as may be required for fire prevention, thinning, elimination of diseased growth, and similar measures; and e. against any plantings other than non-invasive, native species; and f. against the erection of structures, including fences. The City Council of the Town may authorize exceptions to the foregoing restrictive covenants, provided such exceptions are consistent with the purposes of law'and not incompatible with maintaining and preserving the natural character of the land. 2 l' N ADATA\Clients\L\LAH\Projects\Green Earth\ConsenrEase.AGM - (rJ • • 4. Restrictions on Public Use. The public shall not have a right of entry upon the Property. The right of entry and surface use is limited solely to the Town, but only for the purpose of inspection of landscaping, trees or natural growth upon the Property. 5. Term of Agreement. This conservation easement and Agreement shall be effective on the date of recordation of this Agreement and shall remain in effect in perpetuity, unless abandoned pursuant to Government Code Sections 51093 and 51094, or any successor legislation. 6. Successors in Interest. This Agreement and the conservation easement shall run with the Property and shall be binding upon an inure to the benefit of the heirs, successors and assigns of the parties hereto. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this agreement. GREEN EARTH ENGINEERING Date: i t/S , 1999 B `_��,, r ' Its: ✓ /L e Si Cv TO NOF OS ALTOS HILLS ATTEST: -_- ..----— City Clerk 3 N:\DATA\Clients\L\LAH\Projects\GreenEarth\ConservEase.AGM • 0 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) ss: COUNTY OF A4"-€/ ) On S ,j�X441999, before me, the undersigned Notary Public, personally appearedsYLVIA L Ul1NG; personally known to me (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence)to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same in their authorized capacity, and that by his signature on the instrument the person,or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument. WITNESS my hand and official seal. awMr►nfsMoeu►cau¢ '�• k�= cormtlMloni llo®eAe r Nota yP t:aiotna� �� �uonwocoutMr Signature 1,cz.14!___ Mrcon.Rlr » oot STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ss: COUNTY OF gotelA ) Ong 10e24P ' 1999, before me, the undersigned Notary Public, personally appeared gyp,-i- 'i( personally known to me (or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence)to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same in their authorized capacity, and that by his signature on the instrument the person,or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument. WITNESS my hand and official seal. Signature '' .?, , ,� „,: • Not�Y�Pub�c 11 i .c., _ ��:�,::,:z7� County '; r . , , , , __._ _ , ,_ „,s,.._...,V.,.__a— 4 N:\DATA\Clients\L\LAH\Projects\GreenEarth\ConservEase.AGM OCT 27_ '99 03:55PM LOS ALTOS HILLS P.:5 s • 1110 EXHIBIT "A" Description: The land referred to herein Is situated in the.State of California, County of SANTA CLARA, CITY OF TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS, and is described as follows: BEING A PORTION OF THE BLANCO. RANCHO, AS DESCRIBED IN AND CONVEYED BY DEED FROM ANTONIO BAU BLANCO, ANDWIFE, TO REDWOOD CITY REALTY • COMPANY, A CORPORATION DATED MARCH 29, 1911 AND RECORDED IN VOLUME 370 OF DEEDS, PAGE 50, IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF.SAID COUNTY.OF SANTA CLARA, TO.WHICH DEED AND SAID RECORD THEREOF REFERENCE IS HEREBY , MADE AND THE SAME MADE A PART HEREOF, AND MORE PARTICULARLY BOUNDED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON.THE MOST EASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID RANCHO, WHICH POINT IS DISTANT FROM A STAKE MARKED J.B. 2 % SET AT THE MOST SOUTHEASTERLY CORNER OF SAID RANCHO, THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND DISTANCES: NORTH 47° WEST 76.66 FEET TO A STAKE MARKED B.1.; NORTH 38°40' • WEST 246.84 FEET TO A STAKE MARKED B.2; SOUTH 73° WEST 166.32 FEET TO A STAKE MARKED B.3.; NORTH 54°. 35' WEST 174.9 FEET TO'A STAKE MARKED 8.4; NORTH 48° WEST 71.94 FEET TO A STAKE MARKED 5.5; NORTH 39° WEST 71 .28 FEET TO A STAKE MARKED B.6; NORTH 410 .45.' WEST 40.26 FEET TO A STAKE MARKED 8.7; NORTH 46° WEST .174.24. FEET TO A STAKE MARKED B.8; NORTH 32° WEST 264 FEET TO A STAKE MARKED B.9; NORTH 48° .WEST.374.22 FEET.TO.A STAKE MARKED B..10; NORTH 72°. 40' WEST 169.30 FEET TO A STAKE MARKED 6.11; .— NORTH 6° 18' EAST 358.38 FEET AND BEING THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING AND CONTINUING ALONG THE EASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID RANCHO NORTH 6° 18' EAST 269.58 FEET; THENCE LEAVING SAID EASTERLY BOUNDARY LINE OF SAID RANCHO AND CROSSING. A CERTAIN 40 FOOT PRIVATE ROAD LEADING TO MOODY ROAD SOUTH 77° 25' WEST 91 .6 FEET _TOA POINT IN THE CENTER LINE OF A CERTAIN 20 FOOT WIDE PRIVATE ROAD LEADING TO HEREINBEFORE. RECITED 20 FOOT WIDE PRIVATE ROAD; THENCE ALONG THE CENTER OF SAID LAST MENTIONED 20 FOOT PRIVATE ROAD THE FOLLOWING COURSES AND DISTANCES, TO-WIT;•NORTH 75° 30' WEST 76.6 FEET; NORTH 39°: 41' WEST 51.8 FEET; NORTH 38° .21' WEST 54.5 FEET; NORTH 65° 12' . WEST 95.3 FEET; NORTH 32° 54' WEST 60.6 FEET; NORTH 5° 46' WEST 42.9 FEET; THENCE LEAVING SAID 20 FOOT PRIVATE ROAD SOUTH 26° 20; WEST 287 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 70° 00' WEST 155.0 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 82° 30' EAST 493.01. FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. TOGETHER WITH:. THE UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN WATER LOT, ETC., AS GRANTED.BY RUDOLPH BRANDT, ET UX, TO ALLAN F. JENKINS, BY,DEED DATED APRIL 10, 1932 AND RECORDED APRIL • 20; 1932 IN BOOK 611 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS, AT PAGE 104, AS FOLLOWS: • Page 3 of 9 i `Order No. 99160415. • OCT 27 '99 03:56PM LOS ALTOS,°HILLS P.6 ' ', • • , EXHIBIT "A" AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE "WATER LOT" ON SAID RANCH • AND THE.PUMPING PLANT, TANKS,, PIPES AND DISTRIBUTING SYSTEM, AND THE WATER DEVELOPED THEREFROM AND THEREBY, EQUAL TO THE PERCENTAGE WHICH THE SUM OF $525.00 BEARS TO THE TOTAL SELLING PRICE OF SAID RANCH FIXED BY GRANTOR AT $100,000.00 SUCH INTEREST AND EVERY INTEREST CONVEYED OR HELD'BY GRANTOR IN SAID WATER LOT AND PLANT TO BE OPERATED, MANAGED • AND CONTROLLED FROM MARCH 1, 1924 UNDER'RULES AND REGULATIONS, NOT' FOR PROFIT, MADE AND FIXED EXCLUSIVELY BY THE OWNERS OF RECORD OF ' PORTIONS OF SAID RANCH, WHO SHALL HAVE VOTING POWER BASED. UPON LIKE, • PERCENTAGE PROVIDED THAT WATER FOR DOMESTIC USE SHALL HAVE.PRIORITY; OVER: ITS USE.FOR OTHER PURPOSES AND:.THE GRANTEE BEING SUBJECT TO LIKE; PERCENTAGE OF UPKEEP AND OPERATING OF. 'PLANT. ' i ' ' I . , • ASSESSOR'S PARCEL NO.: 182-29-036 . i . i ! .. j • i I • • i • • • j . • j • • • i r . j . ,r • i • Page 4 of 9 Order No, .99160415 • • •. EXHIBIT "B" CONSERVATION EASEMENT LANDS OF GREEN EARTH ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION INC. 27168 MOODY COURT, TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS Being a portion of the Blanco Rancho, as described in a deed from Antonio Bau Blanco , dated March 29 , 1911 , recorded in Volume 370 of Deeds , Page 50 , Santa Clara County Records , and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point on the most Easterly Boundary line of said Rancho , which point is distant from a stake marked J.B. 2 1/2 set • at the most Southeasterly corner of said Rancho, the following courses and distances : North 47 Degrees West, a distance of 76 . 66 feet to a stake marked B1 ; thence North 38 Degrees 40 Minutes West, a distance of 246. 84 feet to a stake marked B2 ; thence South 73 Degrees West a distance of 166. 32 feet to a stake marked B3 ; thence North 54 Degrees 35 Degrees West, a distance of 174 . 9 feet to a stake marked B4 ; thence North 48 Degrees West, a distance of 71 . 94 feet to a stake marked B5 ; thence North 39 Degrees West a distance of 71 . 28 feet to a stake marked B6 ; thence North 41 Degrees 45 Minutes West a distance of 40 . 26 feet to a stake marked B7 ; thence North 46 Degrees West, a distance of 174 . 24 feet to a stake marked B8 ; thence North 32 Degrees West a distance of 264 feet to a stake marked B9 ; thence North 48 Degrees West a distance of 374 . 22 feet to a stake marked B10 ; thence North 72 Degrees 40 Minutes West a distance of 169. 30, feet to a stake marked B11 ; thence North 6 Degrees 18 Minutes East a distance 358 . 38 feet ; thence North 82 Degrees 30 Minutes West a distance of 493 . 01 feet to the true point of beginning of this description; thence South thence North 12 Degrees 52 Minutes24 Seconds East a . distance of 165 . 94 feet; thence North 26 Degrees 20 Minutes 00 Seconds East a distance of 191 . 00 feet ; thence South 16 Degrees 45 Minutes 26 Seconds East a distance of 76. 12 feet; thence South 25 Degrees 51 Minutes 40 Seconds East a distance of 22 . 35 feet ; thence South 46 Degrees 20 Minutes 27 Seconds East a distance of 39. 29 feet; thence South 51 Degrees 24 Minutes 13 Seconds East a distance of 59 . 07 feet; thence South 12 Degrees 23 Minutes 32 Seconds West a distance of 204 . 98 feet; thence North 82 Degrees 30 Minutes 00 Seconds West a distance of 185 . 58 feet to the true point of beginning. 8 e,,( SAei GF S S, °.mac * No.4953 J, Expires 12-31-01 \� • • EXHIB I T B , A PLOT TO ACCOMPANY A DESCRIPTION LANDS Of CREENEARTy ENS/NEER/NG d CONsTi9UCT/ON, /NC. coLAND SCALE Ill \�<4,5_ � B46,/,:t �, �. cif I: 47,f,:;11-1-,°,:'4,0C:313-01 PCO. 1<, \z, , --,;'',,),N, j,i Uf /e C i CONSERVATION EASEMENTI .0 W aW !� O ti 0 Q,QB. L1¢ TION: aO N 82'30, Z 00,' W-�_1577"--..-.......------........493. 011 ��� LINE DATA: Line Bearing Distance 21 N 54'49'36" W , 64.54' Number 22 N 71' 12'22" W 216.30' 23 N 06' 18'00" E 30.73' / N 12'52'24" E 165.94' 24 N 71 ' 12'22" W 227.27' 2 N 05'46'00" W 42.90' 25 N 54' 49'35" W 57.03' 3 N 32'54'00" 11 60.60' 26 N 62' 10'47" W 56. 40' 4 N 65' 12'00" W 95.30' 27 N 39'05'09" W 107.03' 5 N 38'21 '00" W 54.50' 28 N 26'20'00" E 32.99' 5 N 39' 41 '00" 1/ 51.80' 29 N 08'20' 14" W 37.93' 7 N 75'30'00" W 75.60' 8 N 77'25'00" E 91.50' 9 N 26'20'00" E 191.00' 10 N 16' 45'26" W 76. 12' 11 N 25'51 '40" W 22.35' 12 N 46'20'27" V 39.29' 13 N 51'24' 13" W 59.07' 14 N 82'30'00" W 185.58' . 15 N 82'30'00" W 10.29'1/'0 ' 077011 W 41. 17 W 91.37' WESTFALL ENGINEERS, INC. 17 N 11 17 N VICTORIAN VILLAGE 18 N 08' 16'58" W 87.95' 14583 BIG BASIN WAY 19 N 39'05'09" W 114.63' SARATOGA, CA 95078 20 N 62' 10'47" W 52.20' 98108