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AGENDA STATEMENT
City Council Meeting Date: May 14, 1990
SUBJECT:
Public Hearing: Ordinance Amending Certain Provisions
of Subdivision Ordinance Relating to Soils Reports)
(Report by Public Works Director Lee Thompson)
EXHIBITS ATTACHED'
Draft Ordinance
RECOMMENDATION: _ ~)
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Open public hearing.
Receive Staff presentation and public testimony.
Question Staff and the public.
Close public hearing and deliberate.
Waive reading and ADOPT ordinance amending certain
provisions of Chapter I of Title 8 of the
Subdivision Ordinance as adopted by the City of
Dublin.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT:
None associated with adopting of ordinance. Staff's
time in reviewing soils reports is paid for by the
developer.
DESCRIPTION'
This ordinance was introduced at the April 23, 1990, City Council meeting.
Senate Bill 423, which became effective January 1, 1990, allows a City or
County Engineer to reject soils reports that are felt to be inadequate or to
require corrections or amplifications to the reports. This power was not part
of California law prior to the passage of SB 423.
The City's Subdivision Ordinance was adopted by Ordinance 13 and amended in
relation to soils reports by Ordinance 19-83, an excerpt from which is
attached as Exhibit 2. The proposed new amendment is more detailed than the
existing City regulation and also mimics the new State law. Staff time
involved in the review of soils reports is paid for by the developer. The
City Attorney has confirmed that the City can also require review by a City-
hired consultant and can require that the developer pay that cost under the
City's adopted fee schedule ordinance.
Staff recommends that the City Council conduct a public hearing, waive the
reading, and ADOPT the ordinance amending certain provisions of Chapter I of
Title 8 of the Subdivision Ordinance as adopted by the City of Dublin.
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ORDINANCE NO. - 90
AN_QRDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF
CHAPTER I OF TITLE 8 OF THE SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE
AS ADOPTED BY THE CITY OF DUBLIN,
RELATING TO SOILS REPORTS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
section 1. AMENDMENTS
Section 8 - 2.4(c) of Chapter I of Title 8 of the Alameda
County Code as adopted by the City of Dublin by Ordinance No. 13,
and as amended by Dublin Ordinance No. 19-83, is amended to read
as follows:
,,(c) A preliminary soils investigation report prepared
by a soils Engineer who is a Civil Engineer registered
by the State of California. This report shall be
submitted to the City Engineer for review. The City
Engineer may review the report and may require
additional information or may reject the report if it
is found to be incomplete, inaccurate, or
unsatisfactory.
said data and material shall be consistent with
requirements and specifications of the Dublin Grading
Ordinance. Additional reports and data may be required
by the Planning Director when deemed necessary due to
scale of the proposed subdivision or presence of
potential hazardous or environmentally sensitive
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(d) A report evaluating the geological conditions
present, prepared by a Geologist certified in
Engineering Geology by the State of California."
Section 2. PostiDq ~nd Effective Date.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30)
the city of Dublin shall cause this Ordinance to be posted in at
least three (3) public places in the city of Dublin in accordance
with Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of
California.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this day of ,
1990, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ATTEST:
Mayor
City Clerk
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