Metro - File #: 2025-0135

• File #: 2025-0135
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 2/18/2025
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 6/26/2025
• Title: ADOPT the proposed Resolutions of Necessity ("Resolutions") authorizing the commencement of eminent domain actions to acquire the Property Interests ("Property Interests") as identified in Attachment A and summarized below: 1) 10060 Remmet Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 (APN: 2747-025-030) - a 36-month Non-Exclusive Temporary Access Easement ("TAE" or "EST") - Project Parcel CH-EST-003 2) Eastside of Remmet Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 (APN: 2747-025-031); a Partial Fee ("Fee" or "PART") - Project Parcel CH-PART-001, a 36-month Temporary Construction Easement ("TCE") - Project Parcel CH-TCE-001, and a 36-month TAE - Project Parcel CH-EST-001 3) Eastside of Remmet Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 (APN: 2747-025-032) - a Partial Fee - Project Parcel CH-PART-002, a 36-month TCE - Project Parcel CH-TCE-002, and a 36-month TAE - Project Parcel CH-EST-006 (REQUIRES TWO-THIRDS VOTE OF THE FULL BOARD)
• Sponsors: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• Indexes: Board approved a Motion, Budgeting, Chatsworth, Construction, Easements, Eminent domain, Las Virgenes/Malibu subregion, Metro Busway G Line, Metrolink, Motion / Motion Response, Pedestrians, Private property, Project, Property acquisition, Railroad commuter service, Resolution, Safety, San Fernando Valley Service Sector, Station 1135, Strategic planning, Temporary Construction Easement, Underpasses

Meeting_Body
REGULAR BOARD MEETING
JUNE 26, 2025

Subject
SUBJECT: PUBLIC HEARING ON RESOLUTIONS OF NECESSITY FOR METROLINK CHATSWORTH STATION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION


Heading
RECOMMENDATION

Title
ADOPT the proposed Resolutions of Necessity ("Resolutions") authorizing the commencement of eminent domain actions to acquire the Property Interests ("Property Interests") as identified in Attachment A and summarized below:

1) 10060 Remmet Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 (APN: 2747-025-030) - a 36-month Non-Exclusive Temporary Access Easement ("TAE" or "EST") - Project Parcel CH-EST-003

2) Eastside of Remmet Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 (APN: 2747-025-031); a Partial Fee ("Fee" or "PART") - Project Parcel CH-PART-001, a 36-month Temporary Construction Easement ("TCE") - Project Parcel CH-TCE-001, and a 36-month TAE - Project Parcel CH-EST-001

3) Eastside of Remmet Avenue, Chatsworth, CA 91311 (APN: 2747-025-032) - a Partial Fee - Project Parcel CH-PART-002, a 36-month TCE - Project Parcel CH-TCE-002, and a 36-month TAE - Project Parcel CH-EST-006

(REQUIRES TWO-THIRDS VOTE OF THE FULL BOARD)

Issue
ISSUE

Acquisition of the Property Interests is required for the construction and operation of the Southern California Regional Rail Authority ("SCRRA" or "Metrolink")'s Southern California Optimized Rail Expansion (SCORE) Chatsworth Station Improvement Project ("Project"), specifically to construct and operate a new pedestrian underpass, along with its associated staircase and ramp, at Chatsworth Station. After testimony and evidence has been received from all interested parties at the hearings, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority ("LACMTA"), by a vote of two-thirds of its Board of Directors ("Board"), must make a determination as to whether to adopt the proposed Resolutions of Necessity (Attachments B1-B3) to acquire the Property Interests by eminent domain. Attached is evidence submitted by staff that s...