AgdaPkt 2013-05-20 Closed Cancelled and Special

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6.1.B. - Page 1 RE PO RT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the Cit Mana er May 20, 2013 SUBJECT First Amendment to Revocable License Agreement Between the City of Redwood City and the Redwood City Kiwanis Club for Relocation of the Kiwanis Farmers Market RECOMMENDATION Approve, by motion, and authorize the City Manager to execute, Amendment No. 1 to the Revocable License Agreement Between the City of Redwood City and the Redwood City Kiwanis Club to Implement a Relocation of the Kiwanis Farmers Market. BACKGROUND The Kiwanis Farmers Market takes place each Saturday morning during the months of April through November, in the City-owned Winslow Street parking lot at the corner of Winslow Street and Hamilton Street, directly across the street from the City's Middlefield Road parking lot. Use of the Winslow Street parking lot is through a Revocable License Agreement between the City and the Kiwanis Club, approved by the Council on March 19, 2012. Construction of the Redwood Tower project on the Middlefield Road parking lot is anticipated to begin in fall of this year. The City is working on a proposal to allow the developer of the Redwood Tower project to utilize the Winslow Street parking lot as a construction staging area. Therefore, the Kiwanis farmers market is vacating the Winslow parking lot by September. There are also future development possibilities for the Winslow Street parking lot, so the relocation of the farmers market will be permanent. ANALYSIS City staff has been in communication with the manager of the Kiwanis farmers market since last year regarding the need for identifying a suitable alternate location. The most suitable new location which City staff and the Kiwanis Club have mutually identified is on Arguello Street between Marshall Street and a point approximately 530 feet northwest toward Brewster, and on Bradford Street from Arguello Street to a point approximately 150 feet northeast (to mid-block) toward Warren. These mid-block points were selected in order to maintain driveway access to the adjacent properties. Other possible locations were discussed, including Caltrain's Perry Street parking lot, the Main Street parking lot, and closed streets around Courthouse Square; however, the Arguello Street option was determined by both the Kiwanis Club and the City to be the Page 1 of 3