REPORT TO COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Adopt the Official Plan Lines of Mathilda Avenue between El Camino Real and Washington Avenue as approved by Planning Commission Resolution 1-15; Introduce an Ordinance to Adopt Official Plan Lines; and Find that CEQA Review is Complete
Report
BACKGROUND
The Sunnyvale Municipal Code (SMC) authorizes the adoption of "Official Plan Lines" to implement the City's circulation plan (SMC Chapter 19.06). Official Plan Lines are "the boundaries and limits of a planned right-of-way, including the future-right-of way of an existing street as it is proposed to be widened and including all lands necessary for the building, widening or maintenance of any road, street, highway, or any other type of public way, which planned right-of-way is based on the general plan." (SMC ?19.12.160(3).) The development of Official Plan Lines is one of the City's key means of implementing its transportation network. The City designates future build-out of roadway segments by delineating planned right-of-way, which in turn allows the City to require land dedications and limit future building locations and other physical improvements as related to the planned right-of-way line.
SMC Chapter 19.06 describes the process for Official Plan Line adoption: the Planning Commission is required to adopt a resolution recommending approval of official plan lines for designated areas, the City Council then reviews the Planning Commission Resolution and adopts the Official Plan Lines and amends the Municipal Code to reference the adopted Official Plan Line. (SCM ?19.06.050).
The City has adopted Official Plan Lines for 58 roadway segments, including "Mathilda Avenue: Official Plan Lines for that Portion of State Route No. 114 Within the City Limits of Sunnyvale (known as Mathilda Avenue ), El Camino Real (U.S.101) to the Most Northerly City Limits". 1 (SMC ?19.06.050.) The proposed Mathilda Avenue Plan Line project would amend the portion of the existing Mathi...
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