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Tiburon council lifts moratorium on new undergrounding districts, directs staff to solicit engineering bids for Mar West
Summary
After months of neighborhood outreach, the council voted to lift a moratorium on new utility undergrounding assessment districts and directed staff to solicit proposals for a final engineer's report for the proposed Mar West district; council discussion focused on financing approaches and the town’s role in bridging upfront engineering costs.
The Tiburon Town Council on April 2 voted to lift a moratorium on the formation of new utility undergrounding assessment districts and directed staff to solicit proposals from engineers to prepare final engineer’s reports for the proposed Mar West district.
Staff explained two typical project paths: town‑initiated projects funded with PG&E Rule 28 credits and owner‑initiated Rule 20B projects funded by property owners through assessment districts. Under the town’s older policy, owners had to front substantial subscription deposits to pay for a preliminary engineer’s report; that process was criticized because preliminary estimates sometimes diverged widely from final bids. Staff summarized two recent local projects for context: the Virginia district (early phase costs about $225,477; total project cost about $1.45 million) and the larger Hawthorne project (design and engineering costs about $536,000 with a total project cost about $8.68 million).
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