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Recommendation to find that excavations are immediately required for the general health, safety, and welfare of the City and cannot be delayed; that alternatives to excavating, such as alternative routing, or construction methods, such as boring or excavation of the parkway, are not possible; approve a discretionary permit to excavate areas on Willow Street and Cherry Avenue, which have been reconstructed within the previous 60 months, in accordance with Section 14.08.060 of the Long Beach Municipal Code. (Districts 5,7)
DISCUSSION
Arco Terminal Services Corporation (Arco) has filed for an excavation permit to perform a Close Interval Potential Survey (CIPS) for two of their pipelines in Willow Street between Terminal Island Freeway and Santa Fe Avenue and for three of their pipelines in Cherry Avenue between Spring Street and 32nd Street (see the attached vicinity maps). A CIPS is a procedure that Arco uses to monitor corrosion in a pipeline by drilling a 1/2"-inch hole through the street pavement every 1 0 feet over the buried pipeline, and then inserting a probe to read and record the pipeline's electrical potential. Afterwards, the holes are patched with a filler.
Long Beach Municipal Code Section 14.08.060, Public Works permit-issuance, requires that a permit for an excavation in a City street that has undergone reconstruction within the previous 60 months and is not for an emergency repair or for a new utility service connection, be deemed discretionary and subject to the approval of the City Council. Willow Street between Terminal Island Freeway and Santa Fe Avenue was reconstructed in May 2005 and is under an excavation moratorium until May 2010. Cherry Avenue between Spring Street and 32nd Street was reconstructed in June 2006 and is under an excavation moratorium until June 2011.
Section 14.08.060 further states that the City Council may authorize a discretionary permit if:
> The applicant can demonstrate that the permit for excavation ...
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