Recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, conclude the public hearing, find that the area to be vacated is not needed for present or prospective public use; and, adopt resolution ordering the vacation of the alley west of Cedar Avenue between La Reina Way and 7th Street.  (District 1)
So, Madam Clerk, hearing number one. Here, item one is a report from Public Works recommendation to receive supporting documentation into the record, concludes a public hearing find that the area to be vacated is not needed for present or prospective public use and a resolution ordering the vacation of the alley west of Cedar Avenue between La Reyna Way and Seventh Street, District one. Staff, please. Yes. The presentation will be given by Sean Crombie, our Deputy Director of Public Works. Good evening, Honorable Mayor and Council. Item one on the agenda is a continuation in a process to vacate property located off of Marina and Cedar. Vacation of property has. It's a multiple step process and this this. Property, like any property going through vacation, has gone through through those steps. This property was found to be compliant with the general plan, the vacation. The Planning Commission heard and approve that item on December 1st, 2016. It also came before this. Council on February 7th with multiple actions. First to deal with California Environmental Quality Act and then to. Set a. Public hearing for tonight. One of the the boarding property owners requested that this item be continued until May 16th because they couldn't be here. And so it's our recommendation that we that we do that. Thank you, Councilmember Pearce. Yes, I just on behalf of Councilwoman Lina Gonzalez and the residents would like to make the motion that we continue till May 16th, which is the earliest date that was available for this hearing. Okay. Thank you. With that, there's any comment on the hearing. The postponement of the hearing. Please come forward. This is a public comment on the postponement of the hearing. I live in that area. I don't I've never heard of this before. I don't know what vacation means. Does that mean abandon it? To vacate it and between. Between Cedar and Laredo. I heard between Marina and Dana. That's on Cedar, that's on Main Street. And they did. Is that what it is? No. So just to explain that work and so we're not going to actually hear the item today. It's the motion is just to postpone it for another day, but just for your own, so that, you know, they're looking at possibly vacating an alley west of Cedar. No, not cedar itself, but an alley. And so that discussion about whether or not vacating it, which essentially means not using the alley, so it would go to another use and Mr. Crumby would use would be in this case. The property was previously used as an alley. And what this would do is. We find. That the the property is not needed for public benefit and a return it to the private property owners. So currently it's fenced off. And it's not being used for anything other than growing weeds and. Collecting trash. This would allow the property owners that are there to incorporate it into their properties and use it. So I think. That just completed last year in order to turn it into a recreation area and put park benches in it and and so at a very large cost. So this would this would. Border that property. That's not our property currently. It's fenced. Off. You cannot get access to it. But behind the. Fences. Weeds are growing and trash fills in there and. It's serves no purpose. Currently it's on Marina way. Yes. And so it will do it so, ma'am. So because today's and actually we're not doing the hearing. Oh, I understand. Yeah. So I will. Because I own property, right? Absolutely. So we're going to do is we're going to have someone as soon as this hearing votes over is going to come chat with you from the first council district. And we're going to get you the information. And then when this comes back, we'll make sure that you're here for the hearing. Okay. Absolutely. And so there's a motion in a second to postpone the hearing at the request of the the person making the hearing request. Any other public comment on postponing the hearing? Seeing nonmembers, please cast your votes. Bush and Kerry's.