Subject: CALLE
DE CISCO OVER UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
COUNCIL DISTRICT: 2
SNI AREA: N/A
Adoption of a resolution authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute an agreement with Union Pacific Railroad to provide the City with the encroachment permits and easements necessary to construct Calle de Cisco over the Union Pacific Railroad track in an amount not to exceed $75,000. CEQA: Resolution No. 69957.
BACKGROUND
On October 24, 2000, the City Council approved the rezoning for the properties of Coyote Valley Research Park (CVRP) for the development of 6,600,000 square feet of campus industrial uses on 688 acres of land that CVRP owns within the 1,444-acre North Coyote Valley Campus Industrial Area. As a condition of its development, CVRP is required to fund and construct Calle de Cisco, an east-west arterial in the middle of the CVRP development from Santa Teresa Boulevard to Monterey Road with overcrossings over Fisher Creek Boulevard, the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) track and Monterey Road. A connecting ramp to Monterey Road will also be constructed.
The City/UPRR Agreement will provide the City with the encroachment permits, and temporary and permanent easements necessary to construct Calle de Cisco over the railroad track west of Monterey Road. The City will pay UPRR an amount not to exceed $75,000, for the easements and permits and for all costs associated with the Agreement, including those costs incurred by UPRR to remove warning devices and crossing surface at the existing private crossing and provide inspection, flagging and preliminary engineering. CVRP will reimburse the City for all costs associated with the Agreement.
Numerous neighborhood and community meetings were held by CVRP’s consultant, the Morley Hunter Group informing the public about CVRP’s development.
Regarding the Calle de Cisco overcrossing, staff has been coordinating with the City Attorney’s Office, Valley Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department, and consultants hired by CVRP.
The City is serving as an intermediary between CVRP and UPRR for this project. Since CVRP will reimburse the full $75,000 UPRR expenses, there will be no cost to the City. No appropriation action is necessary.
Resolution No. 69957.
RAJEEV BATRA
Acting Director, Public Works Department