For: City Council Meeting [December 12, 2017]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Michael Story, City Administrator
FROM: Robb R. Steel, Assistant CA/Development Services Director
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Request City Council to Adopt Resolution No. 7257 Approving a Ground Lease with LHR Renaissance Marketplace South, LLC for the installation of three freeway-oriented signs on City property situated north of Renaissance Parkway, just east of Linden Avenue.
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BACKGROUND:
LHR Renaissance Marketplace South, LLC (LHR) proposes to open the Renaissance Marketplace retail center in 2018. The project includes freeway-oriented signs along the 210 Freeway between Linden Avenue and Ayala Drive. LHR proposes to locate the three freeway signs on City property ("City Property") situated south of the 210 Freeway, north of Renaissance Parkway, and east of Linden Avenue, and west of the Renaissance Marketplace North.
The City obtained the City Property from Caltrans as part of the 210 Freeway development (relinquishment per Memorandum of Understanding dated May 6, 2008 between the California Department of Transportation and the City and Relinquishment of Highway Right of Way recorded on July 9, 2008 with the County of San Bernardino Recorder Office as Recorder No. 2008-0309692). Attached hereto is a site map (Exhibit A) showing the sign locations and the sign designs (Exhibit B).
The City Property consists of an approximately 8-foot wide landscape strip on the north side of Renaissance Parkway running a distance of approximately 694 lineal feet from Linden Avenue to the westerly edge of the Renaissance Marketplace North Shopping Center. The strip slopes up to the Caltrans right-of-way for most of the distance. LHR will construct the freeway signs within these slopes and within the required landscape easement for Renaissance Parkway.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION:
A Ground Lease (Exhibit C) facilitates the construction of the freeway signs proposed on the City Property. The G...
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