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Cupertino, CA 95014-3255
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CITY OF
CUPEIQ1NO
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
Summary
AGENDA ITEM
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AGENDA DATE April 18. 2006
SUBJECT AND ISSUE
Adoption of Resolution No. 06----º.J.L, approying a semi-rural designation to eliminate the
requirement for sidewalks and streetlights for portions of Merriman Road between Santa Lucia
Road and Alcazar Avenue, pursuant to Ordinance No. 1925.
BACKGROUND
Over the last few years, a number of residential property owners and neighborhood residents
voiced objections to the City Municipal Code requirement that City standard curb, gutter,
sidewalk, and streetlights be installed along their street rrontages as a condition of their
residential building permits. The typical street improvement requirements can for sidewalk to be
installed behind curb and gutter on both sides of the street. The typical streetlight requirements
call for high-pressure sodium vapor cobra head lamps on 30-foot metal poles to be installed
along City streets at about 150 to 200-foot or sometimes greater spacings. In general, the
objecting property owners felt that their neighborhoods were of a rural or semi-rural character
that would be compromised if the normal concrete curb, gutter and sidewalk, and streetlight
improvements were applied.
On October 20, 2003, after receiving rrom such property owners a number of requests for
exceptions to the City requirements, City Council adopted Ordinance No. 1925, amending the
City Municipal Code by establishing criteria to be used for designating certain streets or
neighborhoods as rural or semi-rural in nature. Such a designation allows modified street
improvement standards for local streets that are not covered under the hillside development
proyisions of the Code. Certain findings concerning neighborhood consensus, safety, and
drainage form the basis ofthe criteria.
. Property owners along the street rrontage of the segment of Merriman Road shown as Area 24 on
the attached map have circulated a petition in support of altering their neighborhood designation
to semi-rural by waiving sidewalk requirements and streetlight requirements. As required, over
2/3 of the property owners haye signed in support of the semi-rural designation necessary to
modify the sidewalk and streetlight requirements. There is presently neither sidewalk nor curb
and gutter on either side of Merriman Road in this vicinity. There have been 25 applications
under the ordinance so far. Of those, 19 will haye been completed and approved if the present
application is approved, two have not been completed because the applicants have not returned
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completed petitions to the City, three have forgone the application process, and the last petition
for the latest application has only recently been submitted to the City.
In terms of safety, the street is not designated as a safe route to school. Also, street conditions
are such that pedestrians will have sufficient space to trayel safely along the street without a
separate pedestrian pathway. Based on the recorded incident history between 2000 and 2003,
there have been no pedestrian or vehicular accidents reported in the area.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no financial impact.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staffrecommends that the City Council adopt, Resolution No. 06-m, approving a semi-rural
designation to eliminate the requirement for sidewalks and streetlights for portions of Merriman
Road between Santa Lucia Road and Alcazar Avenue, pursuant to Ordinance No. 1925.
Submitted by:
Approved for submission to
the City Council:
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David W. Knapp
City Manager
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~ Ralph A. Qualls, Jr.
Director of Public Works
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DRAFT
RESOLUTION NO. 06-074
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CUPERTINO
APPROVING A SEMI-RURAL DESIGNATION FOR PORTIONS OF MERRIMAN ROAD
BETWEEN SANTA LUCIA ROAD AND ALCAZAR AVENUE
WHEREAS, property owners along the rrontages of Merriman Road have circulated a petition in
support of altering their neighborhood designation to semi-rural; and
WHEREAS, oyer 2/3 of the property owners have signed in support ofwaiying sidewalk
and streetlight requirements for these streets.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City Council hereby approves a
semi-rural designation for portions of Merriman Road between Santa Lucia Road and Alcazar
Ayenue, as shown on Exhibit A, pursuant to Ordinance No. 1925.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Cupertino this 18th day of April, 2006, by the following vote:
Vote Members of the City Council
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
City Clerk
Mayor, City of Cupertino
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