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Recommendation to authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute all necessary documents to enter into a Right-of-Entry and Maintenance Agreement with Signal Hill Petroleum, Inc., a California private energy company, for the installation and maintenance of landscape improvements at Willow Springs Park. (District 7)
DISCUSSION
Signal Hill Petroleum, Inc. (SHP), is a privately-owned, California-based energy company specializing in the responsible and sustainable exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas in urban areas. Additionally, it also operates as a real estate developer and has purchased 2851 Orange Avenue, the former Amerigas property adjacent to Willow Springs Park (Park) (Attachment 1), where it plans to construct three large industrial buildings and associated parking. As a part of this development, SHP will need to build retaining walls that will impact the Park.
SHP has approached the Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine (PRM) proposing to grade the adjacent Park area and then install landscape (the Project) that improves this area to offer additional developed park area and to screen the retaining walls to deter graffiti and vandalism. PRM staff reviewed SHP’s proposal and discussed acceptable terms. PRM and SHP have come to an agreement to allow SHP to construct the Project on park property.
The Project is proposed to consist of native, drought-tolerant plants and trees, water-efficient irrigation, mulch, decomposed granite and dirt trails, and park signage in approximately 98,000 square feet in the northeast corner of the Park (Attachment 2). PRM has agreed to allow SHP to use mulch from the City’s free mulch program, and is recommending SHP evaluate whether to use a dirt stockpile from another part of the Park to supplement fill needed for this Project.
The Parks and Recreation Commission approved this recreational use within the Park on June 21, 2018, and recommended the City Council authorize the City Man...
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