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Department of Transportation recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 009-2021 adopting an El Dorado County Frontage Improvement Deferral Program pursuant to County Ordinance Chapter 12.09.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Chapter 12.09 of the El Dorado County Frontage Improvement Ordinance allows the County Engineer, at the time of approval of a project, to require the concurrent construction of frontage improvements such as curb, gutter, sidewalk and conform paving. The expectation is that as new projects are developed or sites redevelop, County roads will be improved and will have consistent improvements. For example as the Crossings project builds out along Missouri Flat Road at Headington, they will widen the street to its ultimate width and construct curb, gutter and sidewalk consistent with the adjacent Social Security complex and Target shopping center.
The Ordinance also acknowledges that there are, and will be, instances where construction of the frontage improvements is not currently warranted or advisable and Section 12.09.050 allows for the deferral of the construction of frontage improvements at the time of approval of the development project, subject to a separate deferral program as adopted by resolution by the Board of Supervisors. The El Dorado County Frontage Improvement Deferral Program would authorize the County Engineer to defer the requirement that a developer constructs frontage improvements at the time of the approval of the Project. The developer could then construct the improvements at their own cost at a date determined by the County Engineer or provide the County sufficient funding for the County to construct the improvements. The intent of the deferral program is to recognize that although the developer has an obligation to construct the improvements, there are instances where the developer could not construct the improvements at the time the Project is approved, and it would be ...
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