To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
From: Julie Lucido, Public Works Director
Prepared By: Jeff Freitas, Property Manager
TITLE:
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Abandonment of Portions of Water Street for the First and Oxbow Hotel Project
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Recommendation
Adopt a resolution authorizing the conditional abandonment of portions of Water Street in support of the First and Oxbow Hotel Project (PL16-0124) located on the parcels bound by Soscol Avenue, First Street, McKinstry Street, and Water Street, and determining that the actions authorized by this resolution were adequately analyzed by a previous CEQA action.
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DISCUSSION:
PT-Five Investments, LP, owns the entire block bound by Soscol Avenue, First Street, the Napa Valley Wine Train ("NVWT") tracks, and Water Street (APNs 003-235-003, 003-235-004, 003-235-005, and 003-235-006) except for a sliver of property owned by the City of Napa along Soscol Avenue (APN 003-235-002), and Foxbow Development, LLC, owns two of the four parcels in the block further east bound by the NVWT tracks, First Street, McKinstry Street, and Water Street (APNs 003-241-003 and 003-241-006). The adjacency of the two blocks are split by the north-south alignment of the NVWT tracks. PT-Five Investments, LP, and Foxbow Development, LLC, (collectively, the "Developer") submitted an application for the development of their properties into the First and Oxbow Hotel Project, Project No. PL16-0124, (the "Project").
The Developer has requested that the City abandon and vacate the portion of Water Street located between Soscol Avenue and McKinstry Street (the "Subject Easement"), which extends along the southern boundary of the Project site. The Subject Easement was created with the filing of the map of Cornwell's Addition to Napa City on March 11, 1852. Like the Project site, the Subject Easement is split by the alignment of the NVWT tracks.
The portion of Water Street between Soscol Avenue and the NVWT tracks has neve...
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