Subject: KING ROAD UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT
COUNCIL
DISTRICT: 7
Conduct the Public Hearing and at its
conclusion approve an ordinance establishing an Underground Utility District at
King Road, from Story Road to Marsh Street.
CEQA: Exempt.
In June 1989, the City Council adopted an
ordinance establishing the In-Lieu Utility Undergrounding Fee Program (Rule
20B). The City recognized a need to
implement an equitable and expedient process of requiring undergrounding of
existing utilities associated with new construction by private developers. Under Rule 20B, the Public Agency requesting
the undergrounding provides the majority of the funding for the project.
The City of San José Redevelopment Agency
(RDA) has requested the
Public Works Department’s
participation in a Rule 20B undergrounding utility project in conjunction with
their King/Story Road Street and Sidewalk Improvement Project. Under Rule 20B, when an underground utility
district is created,
the requesting agency
provides substructure, conduits, and utility boxes and the participating
utilities (PG&E, Pacific Bell, AT&T Cable Services) provide credit theat their own cost all
required transformers, meters, wires and cables.
The proposed Underground Utility District
is not included in the current 2000/2001 – 2005/2006 In‑Lieu Fee
Underground Utility Program Workplan because no In-Lieu Fee funds will be
expended on this project. RDA will fund
this undergrounding project on King Road, from Story Road to Marsh Street.
The RDA’s King/Story Road Street and
Sidewalk Improvement Project includes roadway widening, realignment changes,
sidewalk and storm drain improvements, and streetlighting revisions along King
Road from Lido Way to Marsh Street.
Additionally, the RDA’s project will include traffic signal modification
at King and Story Road, a mid-block pedestrian crossing on King Road north of
Story Road, and landscape improvements along the project boundary.
On May 15, 2001, the City Council adopted
Resolution No. 70345, setting a Public Hearing on June 12, 2001 at 1:30 p.m.
The provisions and the procedures to
establish Underground Utility Districts are defined by the San José Municipal
Code. It is necessary that the City
Council conduct a public hearing and adopts an ordinance establishing the area
as an Underground Utility District. The
proposed District meets the following Municipal Code criteria for
establishment:
·
Such
removal and replacement underground will eliminate, and such prohibition will
avoid, an unusually heavy concentration of poles and overhead wires within said
area;
·
The public
streets or rights‑of‑way within said area are extensively used by
the general public and carry a heavy volume of pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
Establishment
of the proposed District, as shown on Attachment A, will require the conversion
of approximately 840 linear feet of aerial facilities to underground facilities
along King Road from Story Road to Marsh Street. Three properties adjacent to the proposed district are currently
provided overhead service from the facilities to be removed. One of three properties, a small business,
can have its service point relocated outside the District at no cost to the
property owner. The remaining two
properties, also small businesses, will be required, by the ordinance
establishing the District, to complete the electrical conversion work necessary
to receive service from the new underground system. The electrical conversion
work for these two properties will be funded and coordinated by RDA.
The
undergrounding of existing utilities and removal of utility poles will allow
for successful roadway widening and improvements along King Road from Lido Way
to Marsh Street. This project provides
for undergrounding and removal of poles that otherwise would have been
relocated to accommodate roadway improvements.
This
undergrounding project will utilize approximately $250,000 of the RDA’s
funds. Also, the additional cost for
electrical service conversion, depending on service requirements, could vary
from $2,000 to $10,000 per service entrance.
A schedule for
establishment and implementation of the proposed Underground Utility District
is presented in Attachment B.
On
May 16, 2001, notices of the public hearing were mailed to all owners of
property adjacent to the proposed District.
To date, no written or verbal protests regarding the proposed District
have been received by the City Clerk’s Office or the Department of Public
Works.
The establishment
of this District and the proposed project schedule have been coordinated with
PG&E, Pacific Bell, AT&T Cable Services and the Redevelopment
Agency. The required resolution to set
the public hearing has been reviewed by the City Attorney's Office.
1. COST
OF RECOMMENDATION: None
2.
COST OF
PROJECT (ESTIMATED) $325,000
a.
COST TO
UTILITIES
Pacific
Gas & Electric Company 30,000
Pacific
Bell Rule 32 Cost 30,000
AT&T
Cable Services Cost 10,000
b.
COST TO
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (Fund 450) 250,000
c. PROJECT
DEVELOPMENT, ADMINISTRATION
AND
CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION (Fund 450) 5,000
TOTAL
PROJECT COST $325,000
3.
SOURCE OF
FUNDING: Fund 450, Redevelopment Agency
Improvements
4.
ESTIMATED
START DATE OF CONSTRUCTION: July, 2001
5.
ESTIMATED
COMPLETION DATE OF CONSTRUCTION:
October, 2001
Fund: 450 Redevelopment
Agency Improvements
Appn: 5320
RC: 450-57109883
Amount: $65,000*
Budget
Document: Appropriation Ordinance
26141, as amended on 11/28/00, Section 20.05, Page 5, Item #N.3
* The Redevelopment Agency will amend the PSM
(PSM #221) upon the award of the contract.
Exempt.
RAJEEV BATRA
Acting Director, Public Works Department
ATTACHMENT B
UNDERGROUND UTILITY DISTRICT AT
KING ROAD/LIDO WAY
May 15, 2001 City Council adopts a
resolution setting a time and place for a Public Hearing.
May 16, 2001 Director of Public Works
mails a notice of Public Hearing to all adjacent property owners.
May 28, 2001 Director of Public Works
transmits a report of comments and/or protests received for consideration at
the Public Hearing.
June 12, 2001 City Council conducts a Public Hearing and at its conclusion approves an Ordinance establishing an Underground Utility District at King Road from Story Road to Marsh Street.
January 2001 Utility companies began
design of substructure, conduit, vaults, electric and cable facilities.
July 2001 Construction
starts
December 2001 Utility companies complete
connections and remove overhead wires and poles.