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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Special

Presiding: Mayor Gayle McLaughlin · Called to order: 7:04 p.m. · 2 items · 0 votes · 4 public comments

What happened

  • Approved directing staff to negotiate ownership transfer of Richmond Parkway from CalTrans to the city.

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Attendance

Marquez(Present)
Bates(Present)
Sandhu(Present)
Viramontes(Present)
Butt(Absent)
Lopez(Absent)
Thurmond(Absent)
Gayle McLaughlin(Present)
Tony Thurmond(Absent)
Nat Bates(Present)
Tom Butt(Absent)
Ludmyrna Lopez(Absent)
Maria Viramontes(Present)
John Marquez(Present)
Harpreet Sandhu(Present)
2 substantive items

Infrastructure(2 items)

Direct staff to negotiate Richmond Parkway ownership transfer from CalTrans

Police & Community Safety

In Plain English

The city wants to take over ownership of Richmond Parkway from the state transportation agency CalTrans. Staff will begin talks to determine what requirements the city must meet for this transfer. The city also plans to reserve space in its development rules for future parkway improvements.

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Votes

To adopt Resolution No. 33-08

Moved by: Councilmember ViramontesSeconded by: Councilmember Bates
Passed

To direct staff and regional staff to start conversations with CalTrans, and begin the process of researching how the City of Richmond will generate money and report back to the City Council on whether we have a project or not and also asked that the City Council consider preserving the alignment for the express way in the General Plan

Moved by: Councilmember ViramontesSeconded by: Councilmember Sandhu
Passed

Richmond Parkway Engineering Report and CalTrans Transfer

Infrastructure

Official Agenda Text

Rich Davidson, City Engineer, gave a presentation of the completed Richmond Parkway Engineering report which provides the estimated cost of varying levels of improvement that may be requested by Caltrans prior to their acceptance of the Parkway into State of California ownership and maintenance. It was further recommended that the City Council direct staff to initiate discussions with CalTrans to determine what will be required for the eventual transfer of ownership and to preserve in the City's General Plan ultimate right of way for Parkway modifications.

Votes

To adopt Resolution No. 33-08

Moved by: Councilmember ViramontesSeconded by: Councilmember Bates
Passed

To direct staff and regional staff to start conversations with CalTrans, and begin the process of researching how the City of Richmond will generate money and report back to the City Council on whether we have a project or not and also asked that the City Council consider preserving the alignment for the express way in the General Plan

Moved by: Councilmember ViramontesSeconded by: Councilmember Sandhu
Passed