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Recommendation to adopt resolution ordering the summary vacation of the subterranean rights-of-way along Lime Avenue and Broadway Court; authorize City Manager, or designee, to accept an easement deed for alley widening adjacent to the development site, at 635 East Ocean Boulevard; and authorize the execution of a quitclaim deed upon successfully relocating or removing the existing utility lines within the vacated right-of-way. (District 2)
DISCUSSION
On November 15, 2007, the Planning Commission approved Shoreline Gateway's Master Plan to construct a 17-story, 224-unit residential building and a 35-story, 221-unit residential building, with 6,367 square feet of retail space and a 494-space parking garage, on the north side of Ocean Boulevard, west of Alamitos Avenue. This project was a joint business enterprise of the Redevelopment Agency and Shoreline Gateway, LLC. In preparation for construction, the following reconfiguration of public rights-of-way, shown on the attached Exhibit A, was completed:
• The full width of the southerly 168 feet of Lime Avenue, north of Ocean Boulevard was vacated.
• The southerly 39 feet of Medio Street right-of-way was vacated.
• Portions of the subterranean rights-of-way along Ocean Boulevard were vacated.
• Portions of the street and sidewalk rights-of-way on the west side of Alamitos Avenue were dedicated.
In February of 2012, the Redevelopment Agency was dissolved pursuant to State Legislation AB 1X26, and the project was placed on hold. In March of 2013, the State of California, Department of Finance, approved the Amended and Restated Owner Participation Agreement between the City of Long Beach Successor Agency and the Shoreline Gateway, LLC, allowing the project to proceed.
1. Summary Vacation of the subterranean right-of-way along Lime Avenue and Broadway Court.
To accommodate requirements for the subterranean parking garage, the developer has requested to vacate the eastern 3.5 feet of subterranean righ...
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