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Department of Transportation recommending the Board consider the following actions pertaining to the Country Club Heights Erosion Control Project, CIP 95191:
1) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution of Intent 026-2020 to remove a 330-foot portion of Waverly Drive from the County maintained mileage system; and
2) Authorize the Clerk of the Board to schedule a hearing for the proposed removal from the maintained mileage system.
FUNDING: California Tahoe Conservancy (100% - State).
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Department of Transportation (Transportation) plans to construct the final phase of the Country Club Heights Erosion Control Project (Project) during the 2021 construction season. This Project is included in the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's (TRPA) Environmental Improvement Program. The Project, located in EI Dorado County on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, includes Country Club Heights Unit No. 1 Subdivision. As a part of the Project environmental strategy, the County identified the removal of existing asphalt from a 330-foot portion of Waverly Drive, between Tam O Shanter Drive and Elks Club Drive in the Country Club Heights subdivision. This section of Waverly Drive is bordered by undeveloped publicly owned parcels. It has also been determined to have very low traffic volumes and does not provide primary access to properties on Waverly Drive.
Waverly Drive is a county highway pursuant to Streets and Highways Code Section 960.5.
Section 954.5(a) of the Streets and Higways Code states, "The board of supervisors may, by resolution, terminate the maintenance of any county highway if it finds that the highway is unnecessary for public convenience." Section 954.5(b) of the Streets and Highways Code provides that a county highway may be deemed unnecessary for the public convenience on the basis of any of the following:
1. The county highway does not provide the primary access to occupied properties.
2. Traffic on the county highway...
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