Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Michael P. Callagy, County Executive
Subject: Bel Aire Heights Subdivision Access
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing and directing the President of the Board of Supervisors to execute a Quitclaim Deed to release, relinquish and abandon certain property interests relating to rights of ingress and egress to Bel Aire Road from the Ascension Heights Subdivision (Tract No. 946, unincorporated San Mateo Highlands area).
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BACKGROUND:
On February 9, 2016, the Board of Supervisors took action to approve a 19-lot subdivision of a lot at the intersection of Bel Aire Road and Ascension Drive in the unincorporated San Mateo Highlands area by denying an appeal of the Planning Commission's approval of a Major Subdivision, a Grading Permit, and certification of a Final Environmental Impact Report pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, for the proposed Ascension Heights Subdivision. (The project has subsequently been renamed the Bel Aire Heights subdivision by the developer.)
The subsequently recorded subdivision map entitled "Tract No. 946," which was recorded on November 9, 2022, in Book 144 of Maps, at Pages 54 through 56 to effectuate this approval made reference to an element of an earlier document recorded in 1959 referred to as "Relinquishment of Rights of Ingress and Egress To/From Ascension Drive and Bel Aire Road (53 Maps 9)", by which a prior owner of the property dedicated to the County of San Mateo, and released, relinquished, and abandoned any and all rights of ingress and egress from Bel Aire Road and Ascension Drive over the southeasterly and northeasterly line, respectively, where indicated on the 1959 map ("the 1959 Relinquishment"). It is not known exactly why this Relinquishment was offered to the County, but the steep slopes of the property and a concern for erosion onto the adjoining public rights...
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