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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: EAST COUNTY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION
DATE: November 3, 1992
SUBJECT: FUNDING OF MEDIAN ISLAND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE OAKLEY AREA
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) &BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. Recommended Action:
Direct the Director of Public Works and Director of Community Development to work with the
Oakley Municipal Advisory Council to determine the extent of median islands in the Oakley area
that will be constructed through the development process, and to explore methods of funding
those portions of median islands that will not likely be constructed through the development
process.
II. Financiallmpact:
Some staff time involving preparation of a report on the various funding mechanisms to
construct median islands within the Oakley area.
III. Reasons for Recommendations and Background:
Several of the main arterials in the Oakley road system are planned as parkways with
landscaped median islands. The County has considered median islands and their surface
treatment (landscaping, textured concrete, etc.) to be a frontage improvement. Frontage
improvements are constructed with the development of properties that front along a public
street. Frontage improvements typically consist of curb, gutter, sidewalk, landscaping behind
the sidewalk, street lights, twenty feet of pavement widening along the street frontage, and half
a median island, if the road along their frontage is planned to be a divided road.
On July 27, 1992, the East County Regional Plan Commission (ECRPC) held a public hearing
for a development on the corner of Laurel Road and O'Hara Avenue. At this public hearing the
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_ RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
_ RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
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ACTION OF BOARD ON NOV 3 1992 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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I Hoard of supervisors/on the date shown.
Orig. Div: Public Works (RE)
ATTESTED: N 0 Y 2 1 X92
Contact: M. Avalon 313-2235 PHIL BATCHELOR,Clerk of the Beard
of Supervisors and Cou ty Administrator
cc: County Administrator
Community Development
Engineering Services By -,Deputy
ECRPC -via Public Works
OMAC -via Public Works
FUNDING OF MEDIAN ISLAND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE OAKLEY AREA
AUGUST 18, 1992
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III. Reasons for Recommendations and Background, cont.:
issue was raised about the funding of median islands along those portions of the road system
where the fronting property has already developed or cannot develop in the future. These
properties, for example, would include parks, school districts, property owned by utilities, such
as the water treatment plant along Empire Avenue, and those properties that have already been
subdivided. Staff had recommended that this project construct or contribute the cost of
installing the median islands on Laurel Road and O'Hara Avenue similar to other projects in the
past along these planned parkways.
The ECRPC is concerned that the median islands will be constructed along portions of the
planned parkways where fronting properties are developing, but that there is no funding
mechanism or overall plan to ensure that the balance of the median islands will be funded and
constructed. It was noted that area of benefit funds could be used to construct the median
island curb, but could not be used to fund the installation of landscaping and irrigation facilities.
In addition, there is a maintenance cost that must be identified to maintain all of the landscaping
within the median islands of the future parkways.
The ECRPC urges the Board to direct staff to prepare a report of how many miles of median
islands are planned in the Oakley area, what percentage of those islands can be expected to
be funded through the development process, what percentage cannot be funded through
development process, and then explore the options available to fund the unfunded portion of
the islands. This effort could be done in conjunction with the update of the Oakley Landscaping
Plan.
IV. Consequences of Negative Action:
The Oakley area would not have a comprehensive plan to fund and construct the median islands
within the future parkways.