Title
Salt River Project Land Use License for Grand Canalscape Phase II, Segment 2, Appropriator's Canal Drainage Project - ST87600114 (Ordinance S-43518)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into a land use license with Salt River Project (SRP) for a City of Phoenix Canalscape Drainage Project on the north side of the Grand Canal from 24th Street and Cambridge Avenue to 31st Street and McDowell Road.
Report
Summary
The purpose of the license is to allow for drainage improvements along the north side of the Grand Canal from 24th Street and Cambridge Avenue to 31st Street and McDowell Road. The drainage improvements are in support of the proposed pedestrian pathway improvements on the Grand Canal bank and will be consistent with and shall not interfere with USA Fee Property.
Indemnification
The SRP license agreement includes authorization pursuant to Phoenix City Code Section 42-20 (B) to indemnify, release and hold harmless SRP for: (A) acts of omissions of the City, its agents, officers, directors or employees; (B) the City's use of occupancy of the licensed property for the purposes contemplated by the license, including but not limited to claims by third parties who are invited or permitted onto the licensed property, either expressed or implied by the City or by nature of the City's improvement or other use of the licensed property pursuant to this license; and (C) the City's failure to comply with or fulfill its obligations established by the license or by laws. Per City of Phoenix Code, indemnification of another public entity requires approval from the City Council.
Location
North side of the Grand Canal, 24th Street and Cambridge Avenue to 31st Street and McDowell Road.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Mario Paniagua and the Street Transportation Department.