CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
ACTION REQUESTED:
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Reconsider options regarding existing non-conforming residential parkway aprons located in the City's right-of-way.
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DEPARTMENT: Transportation, Engineering and Development
SUBMITTED BY: Allison Laff, AICP, Deputy Director
BOARD/COMMISSION REVIEW:
Not required.
BACKGROUND:
Under new business at the October 1, 2019 meeting, Patti Bernhard, attorney with Rosanova & Whitaker, requested City Council support of a right-of-way encroachment agreement to allow an existing parking space to remain in the parkway adjacent to an existing single-family residential home located at 6 N. Wright Street. Following some discussion, City Council directed staff to research potential options pertaining to this request and return to the City Council for further discussion.
At the November 5, 2019 City Council meeting, staff presented a variety of options that could be used if City Council determined that the non-conforming parkway aprons should either be permitted or prohibited. Following discussion of these options, City Council directed staff to pursue the removal of existing non-conforming residential parkway aprons in conjunction with street resurfacing occurring adjacent to the effected properties. Per Council direction, the City would pay for 60% of the cost to remove the parkway apron and restore the parkway; the impacted property owner would pay for 40% of said costs.
Based on City Council direction, staff notified approximately twenty residents located within the City's historic district that their existing non-conforming residential parkway aprons would be removed in conjunction with street resurfacing programmed for their area in 2020. The total cost to remove the 20 aprons would be $22,500 ($13,500 paid by the City; $9,000 paid by impacted property owners). Since receiving notice, many of the impacted property owners have contacted the City requesting that their apron be permitted to remain, including sev...
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