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Home My WebLink About2002-03-12 - RESOLUTIONS - METROLINK PROPERTY ACQUISITION (2)RESOLUTION NO. 02-34 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA FINDING AND DETERMINING THAT THE PUBLIC INTEREST, CONVENIENCE, AND NECESSITY REQUIRE THE ACQUISITION OF CERTAIN PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL 150 PARKING SPACES AT THE JAN HEIDT METROLINK STATION IN NEWHALL THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Clarita (hereafter "City") hereby finds, determines, and declares as follows: a. The public interest, convenience, and necessity require the acquisition by said City of certain interests ("Interests") in and to certain real property located within the City, County of Los Angeles, State of California, for public use relative to public parking facilities, and all uses appurtenant thereto to be located within and adjacent to the Jan Heidt Metrolink Station in Newhall ("Project"); and 7 b. The interests in real property to be acquired are fee ownership for public parking facility purposes and all uses appurtenant thereto, in, over, under, along, and across the real property described on Exhibit "A," attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference ("Property"); and c. The project is planned or located in a manner that will be most compatible with the greatest public good and least private injury; and d. The Initial Study and Proposed Negative Declaration for State approval of the Project was certified on February 26, 2001. The Categorical Exclusion (CE) for federal approval of the Project was certified by the Federal Transit Administration on June 4, 2001; and e. The taking of the interests as above described is necessary for the stated project, and such taking is authorized by Section 19, Article I of the California Constitution, Section 37350 et seq., and Section 40401 et seq. of the California Government Code, Section 1230.010 et seq. of the California Code of Civil Procedure, and other applicable law; and f. The offer to purchase required by California Government Code Section 7267.2 has been made to the owner of the property. SECTION 2. The City Council of the City of Santa Clarita hereby declares that it is its intention to acquire said Property in its name in accordance with the provision of the laws of the State of California with reference to condemnation procedures. SECTION 3. That if any of the area of the fee ownership of the Property has been appropriated to some public use, the public uses to which they are to be applied by the City, as described above, are more necessary and paramount public uses, pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure Section 1240.610. SECTION 4. Said fee ownership-of the Property, the acquisition of which is required by said public interests, convenience, and: necessity for the purposes set forth in Section 1 hereof] is located within the City�of SantaClarita,, County of Los-Angeles„State of California, and is more particularly described on Exhibit "A” as noted herein above. A map showing the general location of the Property is attached hereto as Exhibit "B." SECTION 5. The City Attorney and the firm of Burke, Williams & Sorensen, as Special Counsel, under the direction of the City Attorney, are authorized and directed to prepare, institute, and prosecute in the name of the City such proceedings in the proper court having jurisdiction thereof as may be necessary for the acquisition of said interest, including orders for immediate possession, if applicable. SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify the adoption of this resolution. SECTION 7. This resolution shall be effective immediately upon its adoption. PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 12' day of March, 2002. MAYOR 6� ATTEST: _y-" CITY CLERK STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss. CITY OF SANTA CLARITA ) I, Sharon L. Dawson, CMC, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita at a regular meeting thereof, held on the 12th day of March, 2002, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Smyth, Weste, Darcy, Kellar, Ferry NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None JKT:lkl mmcil\f2002\aoquisition_031202.doc _ EXHIBIT "An LEGAL DESCRIPTION (APN 2831.011.039, 2831.011.040, 2833-014-013) . The land referred to in this appraisal is situated in the State of California, County of Los Angeles and is legally described as follows: Parcel That portion of block 26 of the town of Newhall, in the City of Santa Clsrita, County of Los Angeles, State of California, as per map recorded in book 53 pages 21 and 22 of miscellaneous records, in the office of the County Recorder of said County, together with those portions of Pine Street, the alley through said block 26 and Arch Street. all now vacated, described as a whole as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the southwesterly line of said Pine Sheet with the southwesterly prolongation of the 'southeasterly line of lot 16 of said block 26; thence northeasterly along said prolongation, said southeasterly line and its northeasterly prolongation to the southeasterly line of lot 17 and its northeasterly prolongation to the center line of said Arch Street; thence northwesterly along said center line to the northeasterly prolongation of the northwesterly line of the southeasterly half of lot 19 in said block 26: thence southwesterly along said last mentioned prolongation, said northwesterly line and its southwesterly prolongation, to and along the northwesterly line of the southeasterly half of lot 14 in said block 26, and its southwesterly prolongation, to the southwesterly line said to be Pine Street, thence southeasterly, thereon to the point of beginning. Parcel Block 17, and that part of block 26 of the Town of Newhall, in the City of Santa Clarita, in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, as per map recorded in book 53 pages 21 and 22 of miscellaneous records in the office of the County Recorder of said County, together with that part of Eighth Street lying northeasterly of Pine Street; part of alley through said block 26; part of Arch Street and part of Pine Street, all now vacated, described as a whole as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the southwesterly line of said Pine Street, with the southwesterly prolongation of the southeasterly line of the northwesterly half of lot 14 in said block 26; thence northeasterly along said prolongation, said southeasterly line and its northeasterly prolongation to and along the southeasterly line of the northwesterly half of lot 19 in said block 26, and its northeasterly prolongation, to the center line of said Arch Street, thence northwesterly along said center line to the northeasterly line of said northeasterly line to the northerly terminus of that certain course, shown on said map as having a magnetic beating of North 42° 34' east and a leng liof 11 feet; thence southwesterly along said "Certain Course" to said southwesterly line of Pine Street; thence southeasterly along said southwesterly line to the point of beginning. Parcel 3 That portion of Lot 40 of St John's Subdivision, being a portion of the Rancho San Francisco, in the County of Los Angeles, State of California, as per map recorded in book 196, page 304 of miscellaneous records, in the office of the County Recorder of said County, described as follows: Beginning it the northerly terminus of that certain course shown as having a magnetic bearing of North 42° 34' east and a length of 11 feet, at the northwesterly end of Pine Street, on the map of Town of Newhall, recorded in book 53 pages 21 and 22 of miscellaneous records of said county; thence northeasterly along the northeasterly prolongation of said certain course (being also the southeasterly line of Lot 194 of tract No. 1078 as per map recorded in book 18 page 69 of maps in the Recorder's office) a distance of 89.00 fear, thence southeasterly in a direct line to a point in the northerly line of block 17 of said Town of Newhall, distance easterly thereon 510.00 feet from the point of beginning; thence westerly along said northerly line to the point of beginning. 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