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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 2402 ORDINANCE NO. 2402 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA APPROVING AND ADOPTING A REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE RANCH CENTER REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AS THE OFFICIAL REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR SAID PROJECT WHEREAS, the Azusa Redevelopment Agency (the "Agency") has formulated, prepared and approved a Redevelopment Plan for the Ranch Center Redevelopment Project(the"Redevelopment Plan"); and WHEREAS, said redevelopment plan has been prepared pursuant to California Community Redevelopment Law (Health and Safety Code Sections 33000 et seq.); and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Azusa has submitted its report and recommendation on the proposed Redevelopment Plan, finding that the proposed Redevelopment Plan is in conformity with the Azusa General Plan, and has recommended approval of the proposed Redevelopment Plan; and WHEREAS, the Agency has adopted, by reference, Rules Governing Participation and Re-Entry Preferences for Property Owners, Operators of Businesses and Tenants in the Azusa Central Business District Redevelopment Project Area, which document meets the requirements of California Community Redevelopment Law for the Ranch Center Redevelopment Project; and WHEREAS, the Agency has adopted by reference a Relocation Method for the Azusa Central Business District Redevelopment Project Area, which Relocation Method provides for the relocation of persons, families and businesses from the Project Area, the payment of relocation benefits and the giving of relocation assistance to such persons, families and businesses, which document meets the requirements of California Community Redevelopment Law for the Ranch Center Redevelopment Project;and WHEREAS,the Agency has submitted the proposed Redevelopment Plan and its Report thereon (pursuant to Section 33352 of the Health and Safety Code) to the 1 • City Council, which Report contains, among other things, the Planning Commission's reports and recommendations, the Report of the County Fiscal Officer and responses thereto by the Agency; and WHEREAS, the Agency has consulted with the property owner within the Project Area and taxing agencies which levy taxes, or for which taxes are levied, on property in the Project Area; and WHEREAS, the Agency and this City Council have approved and adopted a Negative Declaration in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970 and the state and local guidelines and regulations adopted pursuant thereto; and WHEREAS, a joint public hearing has been fully noticed and held by the Agency and the City Council as required by law, all objections have been heard and passed upon by this City Council, the Agency and Council have received written and oral testimony concerning the proposed Redevelopment Plan and have duly considered all thereof and the proceedings for the adoption of the proposed Redevelopment Plan have been duly conducted and completed as provided by law. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: 1. The purposes and intent of this City Council with respect to the Project Area are: (a) To eliminate the conditions of blight existing in the Project Area. (b) To prevent recurrence of blighting conditions within the Project Area. (c) To provide for participation by owners and tenants and preferences to persons engaged in business within the Project Area to participate in the redevelopment of the Project Area; to encourage and ensure the redevelopment of the Project Area in the manner set forth in the proposed Redevelopment Plan; and to provide for the 2 relocation of residents, if any, displaced by the implementation of the proposed Redevelopment Plan. (d) To improve and construct or provide for the construction of public facilities, roads, and other public improvements and to improve the quality of the environment in the Project Area to the benefit of the Project Area and the general public as a whole. (e) To encourage and foster the economic revitalization of the Project Area by protecting and promoting the sound development and utilization of the Project Area and by replanning, redesigning or redeveloping portions of the Project Area which are stagnant or improperly utilized because of the lack of adequate facilities, utilities and other causes. (f) To provide housing as required to satisfy the needs and desires of the various age, income and ethnic groups of the community. 2. The Redevelopment Plan for the Ranch Center Redevelopment Project is hereby approved, adopted and designated as the official Redevelopment Plan for the Ranch Center Redevelopment Project, and is hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully set forth at length herein, three copies of which are hereby directed to be on file with the City Clerk. 3. The City Council hereby finds and determines that: (a) The Project Area is a blighted area, the redevelopment of which is necessary to effectuate the public purposes declared in the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California and specifically that the Project Area is characterized by properties which suffer from economic dislocation, deterioration or disuse because of one or more of the following factors: (1) deficiencies in the public infrastructure systems serving the Project Area; 3 (2) faulty interior arrangement and exterior spacing of buildings in the Project Area; (3) age, obsolescence, deterioration, dilapidation, mixed character or shifting of uses in the Project Area; (4) buildings in the Project Area suffer from defective design and character of physical construction; and (5) depreciated values, impaired investments and economic maladjustment are present in the Project Area; (b) The Redevelopment Plan will redevelop the Project Area in conformity with the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California in the interests of the public peace, health, safety and welfare; (c) The adoption and carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan is economically sound and feasible; (d) The Redevelopment Plan conforms to the Azusa General Plan; (e) The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan will promote the public peace, health, safety and welfare of the City of Azusa and will effectuate the purposes and policies of the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California; (f) The condemnation of real property, as provided for in the Redevelopment Plan, is necessary to the execution of the Redevelopment Plan and adequate provisions have been made for payment for property to be acquired as provided by law; (g) The Agency has a feasible method or plan for the relocation of families and persons to be temporarily or permanently displaced from housing facilities in the Project Area; 4 (h) There are or are being provided in the Project Area, or in other areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and persons displaced from the Project Area, if any, decent, safe and sanitary dwellings equal in number to the number of and available to such displaced families and persons and reasonable accessible to their places of employment; (i) Inclusion within the Project Area of any lands, buildings or improvements which are not detrimental to the public health, safety or welfare is necessary for the effective redevelopment of the area of which they are a part; and any such area included is necessary for effective redevelopment and is not included for the purpose of obtaining the allocation of tax increment revenues from such area pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section 33670 of the Community Redevelopment Law without other substantial justification for its inclusion;and (j) The elimination of blight and redevelopment of the Project Area cannot be reasonably expected to be accomplished by private enterprise acting alone without the aid and assistance of the Agency. 4. In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation of the Redevelopment Plan hereby approved and adopted, it is found and determined that certain official actions may be taken by the City Council with reference, among other things, to the construction of improvements to the system of public service infrastructure, accordingly, the City Council hereby: (a) Declares its intention to undertake and complete any proceedings necessary to be carried out by the City of Azusa under the provisions of the Redevelopment Plan; and 5 (b) Requests the various officials, departments, boards, commissions and agencies of the City of Azusa having administrative responsibilities with respect to the Project likewise to cooperate to such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with the Redevelopment Plan. 5. The City Council is satisfied permanent housing facilities will be available within three (3) years from the time occupants of the Project Area are displaced, if any, and that pending the development of such facilities, there will be available to such displaced occupants adequate temporary housing facilities at rents comparable to those in the City of Azusa at the time of their displacement. No persons or families of low- and moderate-income shall be displaced from residences unless and until there is a suitable housing unit available and ready for occupancy by such displaced person or family at rents comparable to those at the time of their displacement. Such housing units shall be suitable to the needs of such displaced persons or families and must be decent, safe, sanitary and otherwise standard dwellings. The Agency shall not displace such person or family until such housing units are available and ready for occupancy. 6. The City Council is convinced that the effect of tax-increment financing, as provided for in Section 510 of the Redevelopment Plan and as described in the Report to City Council submitted to the City Council in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 33352, will not cause a severe financial burden or detriment to any taxing agency deriving revenues from the Project Area. 7. The City Clerk is hereby directed to send a certified copy of this ordinance to the Agency, and the Agency is hereby vested with the responsibility for carrying out the Redevelopment Plan, subject to the provisions of the Redevelopment Plan. 8. The City Clerk is hereby directed to record within thirty (30) days from the adoption of this ordinance with the County Recorder of Los Angeles County a description of the land within the Project Area and a statement that the proceedings for the redevelopment of the Project Area has been 6 instituted under the California Redevelopment Law. The Agency is hereby directed to effectuate recordation in compliance with the provisions of Section 27295 of the Government Code to the extent applicable. 9. The Building Department of the City of Azusa is hereby directed for a period of two (2) years after the effective date of this ordinance to advise all applicants for building permits within the Project Area that the site for which a building permit is sought for the construction of buildings or for other improvements is within a redevelopment project area. 10. The City Clerk is hereby directed to transmit a copy of the description and statement recorded by the City pursuant to Section 8 of this ordinance, a copy of this ordinance, and a map or plat indicating the boundaries of the Project Area to the Auditor-Controller and Tax Assessor of Los Angeles County, to the governing body of each of the taxing agencies which levies taxes upon any property in the Project Area and to the State Board of Equalization. 11. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and cause a copy thereof to be published as required by law in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Azusa, and this ordinance shall take force and be in effect after its passage in the manner provided by law. PASSED,APPROVED AND ADOPTED this17tlxlay of July, 1989. LGA ? i Ma f r City of Azusa ATTEST: 71,y7' City Clerk City of Azusa 7 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss. CITY OF AZUSA ) I, ADOLPH A. SOLIS, CITY CLERK, of the City of Azusa, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 2402 was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 5th day of July , 1989. That thereafter, said Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 17th day of July, 1989, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: AVILA, STEMRICH, NARANJO, LATTA, MOSES NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE „,27 /// / //if 2/7/L _ CITY CLERK l% 8