For City Council Meeting [September 24, 2019]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Rod Foster, City Administrator
FROM: Sean Grayson, Acting Public Works Director
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Request City Council Approve a Maintenance Agreement by and between the City of Rialto and Synergistic Properties (dba Rialto Animal Hospital) for the Maintenance of Landscaping on Ayala Drive.
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BACKGROUND:
The City approved PPD 2018-0100 allowing Synergistic Properties ("Rialto Animal Hospital") to construct an expansion to the Rialto Animal Hospital complex on Ayala Drive, south of Leiske Drive. The conditions of approval and the Renaissance Specific Plan require Rialto Animal Hospital to construct parkway landscaping along Ayala Drive within an 8 foot strip between the curb adjacent sidewalk and the property line. The Rialto Animal Hospital will also landscape a 10-foot landscape easement area adjacent to the parkway, for a minimum landscaped setback from the sidewalk of 18 feet (with private landscaped area, the total width is 33'). The Rialto Animal Hospital requested permission to construct and maintain all landscape from the sidewalk onto the property, thereby ensuring seamless construction and maintenance, and avoidance of multiple irrigation meters. The site/landscape plan is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION:
The Maintenance Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit B conveys the responsibility for maintaining the public landscape on Ayala Drive to the Rialto Animal Hospital (and its successors in interest). The Maintenance Agreement establishes standards for landscape maintenance and provides enforcement remedies for the City in the event of a failure to maintain the landscaping. The City has recently entered into a similar agreement with Aldi/WSS.
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