Agenda Index City of Vancouver

TO: Vancouver City Council

FROM: General Manager of Engineering Services

SUBJECT: Local Improvements by Petition - December 4, 2001

RECOMMENDATION

COUNCIL POLICY

Policies governing the Local Improvement process are set out in the Vancouver Charter and Local Improvements Procedure by-law.

PURPOSE

A Court of Revision is scheduled for December 4, 2001 at 7:30 p.m. to review a number of petition and initiative projects. This is the "First and Second Step" report for the petition projects. The report for initiative projects was approved by Council on October 2, 2001. The purpose of this report is to begin the formal Local Improvement process by advancing the petition projects to the Court of Revision and to report on the financial arrangements for the projects. Approval of this report does not commit Council to undertake the projects.

First Step
As required by the Local Improvement Procedure By-law, projects for:

Court #601

shown on the attached schedule (Appendix I) are advanced to Council by Petition for review at a Court of Revision which will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 4, 2001.

Request for the deletion of Street Trees from Project Number 15, Pavement & Curbs, Local Residential

In 1991 Council approved a motion recommending that street tree planting be included in all residential and higher zoned street pavement and curb local improvements where possible. At its meeting of July 27, 1993, Council approved a mechanism for considering petitions with signatures from at least two-thirds of the property owners representing at least one-half of the actual property value supporting paving without tree planting.

A petition has been received for the installation of new pavement and curbs on Manitoba Street from 20th Avenue to 21st Avenue. All of the three property owners who properly signed the petition form indicated an opposition to tree planting. The Tax Department has reviewed the petition and advises the necessary two-thirds majority representing at least one-half of the actual property value has been acquired (3 required out of 4).

Recommendation "C" allows Council to decide on proceeding with this project.

FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

Local Improvements
Local Improvements is estimated at $1.78 million. The City's share is $0.96 million funded as follows:.
- $0.94 million for the City's share is available from existing Engineering Department Basic Capital Accounts as itemized in Appendix II
- $0.02 million is subject to the approval of the 2002 Streets Basic Capital Budget

Second Step

The Director of Finance reports as follows:

In accordance with the Local Improvements Procedure By-Law, I am submitting the attached City Engineer's Report. The estimated cost of these Local Improvement projects is $1,787,623. The Property owners share of these projects is $823,669. The City's share is $963,954. I have to report that the necessary financial arrangements can be made to carry out this work subject to approval of the 2002 Streets Basic Capital Budget.

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APPENDIX I

COURT OF REVISION - DECEMBER 4, 2001

Petition Projects - Schedule #604

I. STREET LIGHTING

2. Union Street from Hawks Avenue to Campbell Avenue

II. LANE LIGHTING

3. L/S of King Edward Avenue from the L/E of Blenheim Street to Balaclava Street

4. L/W of Rupert Street from 26th Avenue to 27th Avenue

5. L/E of Sherbrooke Street from 35th Avenue to 37th Avenue

6. L/E of Sherbrooke Street from 55th Avenue to the L/N of 57th Avenue and the L/N of 57th Avenue from Sherbrooke Street to Inverness Street

7. L/S of 12th Avenue from Carolina Street to Fraser Street

8. L/S of 17th Avenue from Yukon Street to Columbia Street

9. L/S of 26th Avenue from Hudson Street to Selkirk Street

10. L/S of 27th Avenue from Selkirk Street to the L/W of Osler Street

11. L/S of 59th Avenue from the L/E of Prince Edward Street to St. George Street

III. PAVEMENT & CURBS, HIGHER ZONED

12. Pandora Street from Salsbury Drive to Victoria Drive

IV. PAVEMENT & CURBS, LOCAL RESIDENTIAL

13. Ash Street from 27th Avenue to 28th Avenue

14. Commercial Street, East Side, from 52nd Avenue to 53rd Avenue

15. Manitoba Street from 20th Avenue to 21st Avenue

16. Stephens Street from 7th Avenue to 8th Avenue

17. 37th Avenue, South Side, from Trafalgar Street to Elm Street

18. 46th Avenue from Nanaimo Street to Elliott Street

V. LANE PAVEMENT, LOCAL RESIDENTIAL

19. L/E of Chester Street from the L/S of 33rd Avenue to 35th Avenue

20. L/E of Cypress Street from 52nd Avenue to 54th Avenue

21. L/E of Fraser Street from 33rd Avenue to 35th Avenue

22. L/E of Garden Drive from the L/S of 4th Avenue to 5th Avenue

23. L/S of McGill Street from Slocan Street to Kaslo Street and the L/E of Slocan Street from the L/S of McGill Street to Eton Street

24. L/W of Quebec Street from 47th Avenue to 48th Avenue

25. L/W of Rupert Street from 26th Avenue to 27th Avenue

26. L/S of 2nd Avenue from Macdonald Street to 166.86 feet east

27. L/S of 4th Avenue from Lakewood Drive to Templeton Drive

28. L/S of 15th Avenue from Collingwood Street to the L/W of Waterloo Street

29. L/S of 27th Avenue from Selkirk Street to the L/W of Osler Street

30. L/S of 29th Avenue from Ash Street to the L/W of Cambie Street

31. L/S of 29th Avenue from Fleming Street to the east property line of the L/E of Fleming Street projected and the L/E of Fleming Street from the L/S of 29th Avenue to 31st Avenue

32. L/S of 44th Avenue from Maple Street to Cypress Street

33. L/S of 45th Avenue from the L/E of Main Street to Sophia Street and the L/E of Main Street from 45th Avenue to 46th Avenue

34. L/S of 50th Avenue from the L/E of St. George Street to the L/W of Fraser Street

VI. SPEED HUMPS

35. L/N of Hastings Street from Glen Drive to Vernon Drive

36. L/E of Somerville Street from the L/S of 33rd Avenue to 35th Avenue

37. L/E of Victoria Drive from 51st Avenue to 52nd Avenue

VII. SIDEWALK RECONSTRUCTION

38. 11th Avenue S/S from Granville Street to the L/W of Granville Street

APPENDIX II

CITY OF VANCOUVER - LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS DETAILED SECOND STEP REPORT

Summary of Estimated Costs and Certificates to the Attached Local Improvement Estimates
Advanced on the Petition Principle for a Court of Revision December 4, 2001

Court #604

CATEGORY

ITEM NUMBER

TYPE OF PROJECT

P.O.
SHARE

CITY'S
SHARE

TOTAL
COST

EXISTING FUNDS

SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF THE 2002 CAPITAL BUDGET

I

1-2

Street Lighting

$ 9,770

$ 12,234

$ 22,004

$ 12,234 30003030

  

II

3-11

Lane Lighting

$ 27,706

$ 1,728

$ 29,434

$ 1,728 30003030

  

III

12

Pavement & Curbs, Higher Zoned

$ 230,599

$ 11,521

$ 242,120

$ 11,521 30003092

  

IV

13-18

Pavement & Curbs, Local Residential

$ 143,775

$ 513,845

$ 657,620

$513,845 30003093

  

V

19-34

Lane Pavement, Local Residential

$ 395,346

$ 401,030

$ 796,376

$401,030 30003095

  

VI

35-37

Speed Humps

$ 10,805

0

$ 10,805

    

VII

38

Sidewalk Reconstruction

$ 5,668

$ 23,596

$ 29,264

$23,596

   

TOTAL

$ 823,669

$ 963,954

$1,787,623

$940,358

$23,596

The estimated costs provide for necessary incidental work. The cost of the property owner's share of the above noted projects, and interest, is repayable over 15 years, except for lane lighting which is repayable over five years and Street Lighting which is repayable over 10 years.

Certified correct as to measurements.

___________________ ___________________ ________________________
Collector of Taxes Director of Finance City Engineer

Certified adopted by the City Council on ______________________ ______________________ A/City Clerk

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