PREPARED BY: LYNN TRACY NERLAND DATE OF MEETING: 03/19/18
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RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN PABLO AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A TERMINATION OF LICENSE AGREEMENT, QUITCLAIM OF THE MEMORANDUM OF RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL AND OTHER DOCUMENTS NECESSARY FOR THE CLOSE OF ESCROW OF THE FORMER DOCTORS MEDICAL CENTER PROPERTY AT 2000 VALE ROAD, SAN PABLO
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RECOMMENDATION
Recommendation
Adopt Resolution
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COMPLIANCE STATEMENTS
Policy Area, "Economic Development," and particularly Development Projects, is an adopted policy item under the FY 2018-21 City Council Priority Workplan Update, effective November 1, 2017.
CEQA Compliance Statement
This resolution to "clear up title" to the former Doctors Medical Center (DMC) property before it is sold is not an activity that may cause a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical environmental change and is not a project as defined by CEQA (California Government Code Section 21065) or the CEQA Guidelines (California Public Resources Code Section 15738). Future development of the property may require further environmental review.
BACKGROUND
Given the financial struggles of Doctor's Medical Center ("DMC"), the City Council approved the purchase of certain real property from the West Contra Costa Healthcare District ("District"). These properties included: 1) a parking lot associated with the hospital at 2000 Vale Road pursuant to a Purchase and Sale Agreement between the City and the District dated March 11, 2015 ("March 11, 2015 Agreement"); and 2) medical office buildings (2023 Vale Road) and condominium (2121 Vale Road #105) adjacent to DMC pursuant to a Purchase and Sale Agreement between the City and District dated March 26, 2015 ("March 26, 2015 Agreement").
The March 11, 2015 Agreement also included a Right of First Refusal for the purchase of the former DMC hospital site that the District continued to own that was memorialized in a recorded Memorandum ...
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