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CITY OF SANTA MONICA
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DATE:
TO:
FROM:
September 1g, 1972
Perry Scott, City Manager
Doug McAteer, City Engineer
SUBJECT: Revised Procedure for Processing Street Lighting
Petition Requests.
As you know, the Gity Council, at its meeting of August 22,
1972, approved my recommendation for revising the Cityts
1911 Act Street Lighting Program by means of installing
lights within districts instead of the past procedure of
installing them on a block-by-block basis,
However, during the above mentioned meeting, there was
little discussion as to what action should be taken regard-
ing property oumers who might request a petition for street
lights on their block, when their block is not included in
the current lighting district being considered for that
particular year,
It is my recommendation that requests for street lighting
petitions be handled in the following manner:
1, Request shall be made in writing to the City Engineer
requesting a petition for a particular block or blocks,
2. Street Superintendent shall prepare the petition and
deliver same to the property owner requesting petition,
with instructions that the petition be returned to the
City after he has obtained the signatures of property
owners representing at least 60~ of the street frontage
in question.
3. When the petition is returned to the City with the
required 60~ signatures, the City Engineer shall
prepare the construction plans and specifications,
4, This street lighting project, representing the petition,
shall be included with the district street lighting
project for that particular year, This would include
public hearings, etc. (assuming petition is returned in
time; if not, it would be included in the following
year's district project)a
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Date:
Subject
September lg, 1g72
Revised Procedure for Processing Street
Lighting Petition Requests.
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5. An amount be included in each year's Street Division
Budget to cover the City's cost of financing the district
lighting project, and a few petition requests projects.
Any petition for a large project, or many small projects,
would be submitted to the City Council for their determina-
tion.
I have received a letter, dated September 6, 1972, from Mr.
Raleigh Bliss, 1034 - 18th Street, Santa Monica, for a
petition for street lights on 18th Street betti~reen Washington
Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard. The estimated cost for this
project is 8,400. The City's share would be $4,200.
It is recommended that the City Council be requested to adopt
the above street lighting petition policy, and to authorize
me to include the lighting project of the 18th Street project
mentioned above in the district lighting project for this
year (if the petition is returned in time) with the required
60~ signatures.
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DOUG cATEER
City gineer
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