For City Council Meeting [January 14, 2020]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Rod Foster, City Manager
FROM: Savat Khamphou, Public Works Director/City Engineer
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Request City Council to Introduce First Reading of Ordinance No. 1632 entitled, "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RIALTO , CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 17.20.070 OF THE RIALTO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATED TO THE AUTHORITY TO RELEASE SUBDIVISION IMPROVEMENT SECURITIES," reading by title only and waiving further reading thereof.
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BACKGROUND
Under multiple Precise Plan of Design ("PPD") Projects for new development and redevelopment, there is need for new improvements or reconstruction of existing improvements in the public right of way. Improvements in the public right-of-way are conditioned as part of the entitlement process to ensure development impacts are mitigated, including but not limited to traffic, aesthetics, drainage, lighting, and landscaping. Projects include and range from small scale residential subdivisions to large scale housing tracts, commercial business parks, multi-tenant retail centers, and large scale industrial sites.
Per section 17 of the Rialto Municipal Code and the Subdivision Map Act & Index 2019, the City requires improvement securities whenever a subdivision is filed for development. However, certain guidelines are set in place to protect the City as well as the applicant. Once all public improvements are completed to the Public Works Director/City Engineer's satisfaction and in accordance with the standard plans and specifications, securities for such public improvements are released; however, the municipal code references the director of community services as the City staff executive to release such securities (?17.20.070). To keep the authority vested with the Public Works Director/City Engineer consistently through the process per the Subdivision Map Act, there is a need to modify the Municipal Code to provide such autho...
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