Report Prepared by: Scott McBride, Director of Development Services
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SUBJECT: Report and Request for Direction on Partial Cancellation of Development Agreement Including Reservation and Dedication of Future Fire Station Within the Weaver Annexation Area
REPORT IN BRIEF
Provide Direction to Staff to initiate the partial cancellation of the Development Agreement (DA) including the reservation and dedication of a future fire station location within the Weaver Annexation Area near Coffee Street and Gerard Avenue.
RECOMMENDATION
City Council - Provide staff direction to initiate a partial cancellation of the Development Agreement (DA) including the reservation and dedication of a future fire station to be located within the Weaver Annexation Area near Coffee Street and Gerard Avenue.
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ALTERNATIVES
1. Approve as recommended by Staff; or,
2. Approve, subject to conditions other than recommended by Staff (identify specific findings and/or conditions amended to be addressed in the motion); or,
3. Deny; or,
4. Continue to a future meeting (date and time to be specified in the motion).
AUTHORITY
Charter of the City of Merced, Section 200.
CITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES
N/A
DISCUSSION
The City of Merced has received a request from the Gateway Park Development Partners for the City to consider eliminating a reservation for the dedication of land for a Fire Station. The requirement outlined in Section 6 of the executed Development Agreement (DA) for the Weaver Annexation Area, copy attached.
The DA was executed in 1995 and amended twice in 1996. The annexation area is generally bound by Coffee Street to the west, Baker Drive to the north, Campus Parkway to the east, and Mission Avenue to the south. Based on the original legal description within the DA, approximately 332 acres. An exhibit showing the annexation area is attached.
The location of the proposed station near Gerard Ave. and Coffee Street was determined sometime after the DA was executed...
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