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RESOLUTION NO. 8556
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF AZUSA AUTHORIZING THE USE OF LOW
AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING FUNDS FOR THE
RENTAL HOUSING INSPECTION PROGRAM
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA DOES RESOLVE
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Azusa
hereby finds, determines and declares that:
A. The City Council of the City of Azusa has
established the Low and Moderate Income Housing
Fund by Council Resolution No. , which
authorizes the Council to expend the funds therein
for the purpose of increasing and improving the
community supply of low and moderate income housing
available at affordable housing costs within the
entire City of Azusa;
B. The City of Azusa currently has approximately
6,500 rental units, comprising approximately fifty
percent (50%) of the total available housing within
the City. Of the 6,500 rental units, there are
approximately 346 licensed apartment buildings
containing four or more units, which account for
4,500 units, and another 1,500 units consisting of
single-family dwellings, duplexes and triplexes.
While many of the owners maintain their property
and provide quality management, many others fail to
be responsible owners and are chronic problems for
the City. Indeed, the vast majority of complaints
received by the City involve rental housing. These
complaints involve many substantial problems
affecting renters such as insect and rodent
infestation, accumulated trash and debris,
substandard plumbing and heating, dangerous
electrical wiring, structural deficiencies, and
failure to maintain improvements such as
landscaping, open space and child -play areas.
C. Almost all of the City's rental stock is
affordable to persons of low and moderate income,
as well as low and moderate income families as
defined by state law.
D. Without a rental housing inspection program,
the City's available stock of apartment units
available to low and moderate income persons and
families will be depleted, and there will be no
generation of such new facilities. A regular
inspection program will force all landlords to
bring their apartment units into compliance with
minimum standards of safe, decent and sanitary
housing. Such a program will provide an incentive
for the landlord to maintain the apartment units in
such acceptable condition. The rental housing
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inspection program is the most cost efficient way
for the City to increase the supply and quantity of
apartment units available to persons and families
of low and moderate income housing. Moreover, a
general improvement of the quality of apartment
units affordable to persons and families of low and
moderate income would encourage the development of
more units for such groups in that the overall
image of the City as an attractive place to rent an
apartment affordable to persons of low and moderate
income would be enhanced.
E. The expenditure of the low and moderate income
housing funds for the city-wide rental inspection
program will benefit the project area established
by the merger of the Central Business District and
West End Redevelopment areas by improving the
supply of low and moderate income housing and
increasing the supply of such housing for persons
who work or may wish to work within the project
area. An adequate supply of safe, decent and
sanitary housing available to persons and families
of low and moderate income will encourage employers
to relocate to the project area because they will
have a readily available supply of workers within a
short commuting distance of the facility.
SECTION 2. Based upon the findings set forth
above, the Council hereby authorizes the use of money from
the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund to pay all or part
of the costs of the City of Azusa's rental housing
inspection program. The members of the City Council are
authorized to take such actions as are necessary to
implement this resolution.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify the
adoption of this resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day
of January , 1989.
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MAYOR
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was
duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa at a
regular meeting thereof, held on the 3rd day
Of January 1989, by the following vote of the
Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS AVILA, STEMRICH, NARANJO, LATTA, MOSES
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS NONE
CITY CLERK
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