City of Long Beach - File #: 10-1282

• File #: 10-1282
• Version: 1
• Name: PW-ORD Toledo Undergrounding D3
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 11/8/2010
• In control: City Council
• On agenda: 12/14/2010
• Final action: 12/14/2010
• Title: Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing and determine that it is in the general public interest to mandate the undergrounding of utilities, as specified in City of Long Beach Assessment District No. 08-01; and declare ordinance creating an underground utility district along The Toledo between Second Street and the Geneva Walkway read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading. (District 3)
• Sponsors: Public Works

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/14/2010	2	City Council	approve recommendation and adopt	Pass
12/7/2010	1	City Council	declare ordinance read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading	Pass

TITLE
Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the hearing and determine that it is in the general public interest to mandate the undergrounding of utilities, as specified in City of Long Beach Assessment District No. 08-01; and declare ordinance creating an underground utility district along The Toledo between Second Street and the Geneva Walkway read the first time and laid over to the next regular meeting of the City Council for final reading.
(District 3)

DISCUSSION
In response to a request from the majority of property owners, on December 16, 2008, City Council adopted RES-08-0159, creating an assessment district for the undergrounding of utilities along a portion of The Toledo as shown on the attached Exhibit A. On June 2, 2010, the City entered into a contract for the first phase of the work, involving the installation of underground conduits within the public right-of-way. That work is now complete. The second phase of this project involves the installation of underground service connections to the individual properties outside of the public right-of-way. This work must be carried out by the individual property owners at their own expense. It is in the general public interest to require the installation of such underground service connections, because failure to do so shall result in the continued need to maintain unsightly and deteriorating overhead wires, support poles, and associated above-ground structures.

In order to ensure that all of the property owners do this work in a timely fashion, it is recommended that an underground utility district be created, pursuant to Municipal Code Section 15.48. These regulations provide a process for ordering the installation of service connections on private property, compliance deadlines, and penalties for failing to carry out the work by these deadlines. A report specifying the recommended date by which property owners must complete all facility changes on their prem...