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File #: 25-1211    Version: 1
Type: Community & Economic Development Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 11/3/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/18/2025 Final action:
Title: Master Easements Agreement and Site Works Agreement with Microsoft Corporation and Valley Water for the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility.
Attachments: 1. Memorandum

...Title

Master Easements Agreement and Site Works Agreement with Microsoft Corporation and Valley Water for the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility.

...Recommendations

Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager, or her designee, to negotiate and execute:

 (a) Master Easement Agreement with Microsoft Corporation in exchange for a payment of no less than $9,274,314, including $8,725,000 for the easements and $549,314 for the City to purchase the potable water line serving the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, that will:

 (1) Convey permanent easements to install below-grade utilities, including potable water lines, recycled water lines, sanitary sewer lines, fire water lines, and storm drains across undeveloped buffer lands situated to the south of the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility operational area;

 (2) Convey temporary construction easements as required to facilitate execution of the projects contemplated by this Agreement and enumerated in the staff memorandum;

 (3) Convey an easement for the extension of McCarthy Lane and provide ingress and egress access across McCarthy Lane; and

 (4) Convey a temporary construction easement to widen and improve Zanker Road to include bicycle lanes, a center median, pedestrian walkways, and bioswales; and

(b) Site Works Agreement with Microsoft Corporation and the Valley Water defining the scope, location, and terms of Microsoft Corporation’s construction of a new visitor center on lands of the San José-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, which are leased to the Santa Clara Valley Water District, and other site improvements; and

(c) Any other documents related to and necessary to execute, administer, and/or enforce the above Agreements.

CEQA: Addendum to the San José Data Center Final Environmental Impact Report, as Addended (Planning Commission Resolution No. 25-009), File Nos. CP23-016 and ER20-219. Council District 4. (Economic Development and Cultural Affairs/Environmental Services)