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Resolution approving a license agreement and fee for tiebacks within Dubuque Avenue for the construction of 580 Dubuque Avenue, authorizing the City Manager to execute said agreement, and approving Budget Amendment #23.040.
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WHEREAS, 580 Dubuque, the empty lot north of and adjacent to the City of South San Francisco ("City") Caltrain Station parking lot, is being developed by IQHQ ("Developer") to construct an eight-story office/R&D building of approximately 263,000 square feet above grade, a four-story subterranean garage, and supporting site improvements ("Project"); and
WHEREAS, the Project was approved by the City Council on May 11, 2022 and July 27, 2022; and
WHEREAS, the construction of the four-story subterranean garage requires a temporary shoring wall to support the adjacent earth until the permanent basement walls are constructed; and
WHEREAS, the Project proposes to install 217 tiebacks within Dubuque Avenue consisting of 4 vertical rows all deeper than 20-feet below the surface; and,
WHEREAS, the Developer and City staff have met and discussed multiple alternatives to the temporary shoring and have ruled out other shoring options due to physical constraints and practical infeasibility; and,
WHEREAS, City staff determined that tiebacks will be allowed in the public Right-of-Way ("ROW") subject to the issuance of an Encroachment Permit and execution of a License Agreement; and,
WHEREAS, the License Agreement defines the License Area of ROW for tiebacks to extend into and the License Fee associated with the Project; and,
WHEREAS, the City and Developer have reviewed and agreed upon the License Agreement in Exhibit A; and,
WHEREAS, Budget Amendment #23.040 will receive the License Fee of $434,000 into the Infrastructure Reserve with the intent that, if ever in the future, a tieback left within the ROW needed to be removed the Infrastructure Reserve would be utilized.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Sout...
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