During the review of the Sierra College Boulevard frontage improvements to be constructed as part of the Sierra Gateway Apartments (Sierra College Apartments, Design Review project DR2015-0018, approved on December 12, 2017), staff discovered that a small (approximately 261 square feet) triangular portion of land within the proposed improvement area of Sierra College Boulevard was privately owned, rather than owned by the City of Rocklin. Research into City archives and County records indicates that the small portion of land may have been inadvertently omitted in the right-of-way dedication on a previously recorded subdivision map known as the Reedy Subdivision.
On November 28, 1995, the City Council approved the Tentative Subdivision Map for Reedy Subdivision/SD-92-03 (Resolution No. 95-271) which included a condition requiring “All rights-of-way and easements associated with the subdivision improvements [to be] be offered on, or by separate instrument concurrently with, the final subdivision map.” (Condition of Approval 6.F., Tentative Subdivision Map for Reedy Subdivision/SD-92-03). Said Tentative Subdivision Map references Assessor’s Parcel Numbers 045-160-014, 048, and 049 as being included in the map, with parcel -014 being the triangular parcel in question, although the Tentative Map drawing does not clearly show the small triangular piece of property.
The error was not discovered at that time and subsequently, the final subdivision map was recorded in BOOK V OF MAPS, PAGE 30 on February 24, 1999, by the office of the Recorder of Placer County, State of California. The Owner’s Statement on the face of the final subdivision map includes a dedication, in fee, to the public the drive, courts, boulevard, circle and lot “A” and “B” for roadway, public utilities, and landscaping.
Helen Reedy, the owner of the small portion of land was contacted, and she has no objection to correcting the error through a dedication of the remnant parcel to the City of Rocklin to facilitate the construction of the required improvements within the property. There would be no payment from the City to the private property owner with said dedication.
Staff recommends the City Council authorize the City Manager to: (1) acquire and accept the remnant parcel on behalf of the City; (2) create a public utility easement on, over, across and under the remnant parcel; and (3) execute all agreements and documents related thereto, subject to the approval of the City Attorney.