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Recommendation to increase appropriations in the Capital Projects Fund (CP) in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine (PR) by
$2,416,000; and authorize City Manager to execute all documents related to the acquisition of a 2.99-acre section of the former Pacific Electric Right-of-Way extending from Orange Avenue to Walnut Avenue for the Pacific Electric Right-of-Way Bike Trail Project. (District 6)
DISCUSSION
I The City is currently in negotiations with Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR), the owner of the Subject Property. UPRR has agreed to sell the 2.99-acre site to the City for $1,790,861. On December 19, 2000, the City Council authorized the City Manager to apply to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for funding of various projects in response to the MTA’s call for projects (Exhibit “A). The application requested consideration of the acquisition and development of three parcels of the former Pacific Electric Right-of-way: the first parcel from Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue to Lemon Avenue, the second parcel from Lemon Avenue to Orange Avenue, and the third parcel from Orange Avenue to Walnut Avenue, for a total of 6.19 acres. The acquisition and development of these parcels was requested in order to enhance regional bikeways as part of the Pacific Electric Right-of-way
Bike Trail Project. Subsequently, the City was awarded $2,416,000 for this project and the grant agreement has been executed. On December 19, 2000, the City Council also requested the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine to actively pursue competitive grant funds in order to purchase undeveloped portions of the former Pacific Electric Right-of-way to facilitate the
Recommended Goals and Strategic Actions of the Long Beach 2010 Strategic Plan (Exhibit“B”). The 2010 Strategic Plan establishes a priority of increasing the inventory of open
space and focusing attention on preserving and acquiring open space for those neighborhoods where rapid growth and increased dens...
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