Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Michael P. Callagy, County Manager
Subject: Agreement with the City of San Mateo for conveyance of easements required for the City of San Mateo's North Shoreview Flood Improvement Project
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing:
A) The Board President to execute an agreement with the City of San Mateo for the conveyance of permanent easements and temporary construction easements over County-owned property comprising Coyote Point Recreation Area in connection with the City of San Mateo's North Shoreview Flood Improvements Project; and
B) The Board President to execute on behalf of the County the easement deeds and accept a quitclaim deed from the City of San Mateo as provided in the agreement; and
C) The County Manager, or his designee, to execute escrow instructions, notices, consents, approvals, and any other documents in connection with the agreement and related conveyances.
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BACKGROUND:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requires communities to address tidal flooding (from the San Francisco Bay) and residual flooding (from interior sources like creeks) to remove areas designated as flood prone from the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). The City of San Mateo ("City") is undertaking a project referred to as the "North Shoreview Flood Improvements Project" ("Project") that involves the construction or expansion and replacement of infrastructure and flood improvements to remove portions of the North Shoreview neighborhood in the city of San Mateo and adjacent areas in the city of Burlingame from the Special Flood Hazard Area on the effected FIRM for San Mateo County.
The City's Project consists of: 1) rehabilitation work to improve the City's stormwater pumping capacity deemed insufficient by FEMA at the Coyote Point and Poplar Avenue pump stations and 2) improvements to the adjacent levee and Bay Trail. ...
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