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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 2196 ORDINANCE NO. 219 6 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AZUSA APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE AZUSA WEST END REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Azusa hereinafter referred to as the "Agency", has formulated and prepared the proposed Redevelopment Plan for the Azusa West End Redevelopment Project, hereinafter referred to as the "Redevelopment Plan"; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Azusa submitted its report and recommendation finding the said proposed Redevelopment Plan to be in conformity with the General Plan; and WHEREAS, the Agency has adopted rules governing participation and rules for reasonable reentry preferences to property owners, operators of businesses and tenants in the Project Area; and WHEREAS, the Agency has adopted a Relocation Method which is to be extended to all persons who may be caused to be displaced resulting from Agency activities; and WHEREAS, the Agency submitted to the City Council of the City of Azusa, hereinafter referred to as the "City Council", said proposed Redevelopment Plan; and WHEREAS, the Agency has submitted the Report to the City Council accompanying the Redevelopment Plan to the City Council; and WHEREAS, that Report describes conditions of blight existing within the Project Area; and WHEREAS, after due notice, a Joint Public Hearing has been held by the Agency and the City Council; and WHEREAS, all actions required by law have been taken by all appropriate public agencies; and WHEREAS, after said joint public hearing, the Agency approved said Redevelopment Plan and recommended adoption of said Redevelopment Plan to the City Council. NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The purposes and intent of the City Council with respect to the Azusa West End Redevelopment Project Area hereinafter referred to as the "Project Area" are: (a) To eliminate and prevent the spread of economic blight and deterioration by promoting and encouraging the revitalization or redevelopment of currently deteriorating or underutilized areas within the Project Area. (b) To encourage new industrial and commercial development within the Project Area thereby providing additional employment and service opportunities. (c) To provide needed public improvements in the Project Area. (d) To provide for construction which in turn will provide short-term and long-term employment opportunities for local residents. (e) To eliminate or alleviate the conflicts between land uses. (f) To assist with the rehabilitation or modernization of substandard and/or obsolete structures. SECTION 2. The Redevelopment Plan for the the Azusa West End Redevelopment Project is hereby approved and adopted and designated as the official Redevelopment Plan for the Azusa West End Redevelopment Project Area, and is incorporated herein by reference. SECTION 3. The City Council hereby finds and determines that: (a) The Project Area is a blighted area for the reasons described in the Report to City Council accompanying the Redevelopment Plan and the Assessment of Conditions Report. The Project Area is characterized by the existence of buildings and structures, used or intended to be used for living, commercial, industrial, or other purposes, or any combination of such uses, which are unfit or unsafe to occupy for such purposes and are conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, and crime because of any one or a combination of the following factors: (1) Defective design and character of physical construction. (2) Faulty interior arrangement and exterior spacing. (3) Inadequate provision for ventilation, light, sanitation, open spaces, and recreation facilities. (4) Age, obsolescence, deterioration, dilapidation, mixed character, or shifting of uses. The Project Area is also characterized by properties which suffer from economic dislocation, deterioration, or disuse because of one or more of the following factors: (1) An economic dislocation, deterioration, or disuse resulting from faulty planning. (2) The subdividing and sale of lots of irregular form and shape and inadequate size for proper usefulness and development. (3) The laying out of lots in disregard of the contours and other topography or physical characteristics of the ground and surrounding conditions. (4) The existence of inadequate public improvements, public facilities, open spaces, and utilities which cannot be remedied by private or governmental action without redevelopment. (5) A prevalence of depreciated values, impaired investments, and social and economic maladjustment. (6) The existence of lots or other areas which are subject to being submerged by water; provided that any ecologically valuable existing features in such areas shall, to the maximum extent feasible, be preserved. The Project Area is characterized by one or more of these conditions causing a reduction of, or lack of, proper utilization of the area to such an extent that it constitutes a serious physical, social, or economic burden on the community which cannot reasonably be expected to be reversed or alleviated by private enterprise acting alone; (b) The Redevelopment Plan will redevelop the Project Area in conformity with the California Health and Safety Code, Section 33000 et seq. 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 General Plan of the City of Azusa; (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 California Health and Safety Code, Section 33000 et seq.; (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 required by law, except that the Redevelopment Agency will not subject residences, regardless of zoning, tenure (owner- occupied or rental), or condition to eminent domain unless requested in writing by the property owner; (g) The Agency has a feasible method for the relocation of families and persons who may be temporarily or permanently displaced from facilities in the Project Area; - 2 - L � (h) There are or will be 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 who may be displaced from the Project Area, decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings equal in number to the number of and available to such displaced families and persons and reasonably accessible to their places of employment; (i) All noncontiguous areas of the Project Area are either blighted or necessary for effective redevelopment and are not included for the purpose of obtaining the allocation of taxes from such area pursuant to Section 33670 without other substantial justification for their inclusion; (j) Inclusion of any land, 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; that any such area included is necessary for effective redevelopment and is not included for the purposes of obtaining the allocation of tax increment revenues from such area pursuant to Health and Safety Code, Section 33670, without other substantial justification for its inclusion; (k) The elimination of blight and the 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; SECTION 4. The City Council is satisfied permanent housing facilities will be available within three years from the time occupants of the Project Area are displaced 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; SECTION 5. The Redevelopment Plan for the Azusa West End Redevelopment Project Area provides for the expenditure of money by the City of Azusa in carrying out the Redevelopment Plan, and authorizes the City to financially assist the Agency by way of loans, grants, or other financial assistance. The City Council hereby provides that such financial assistance to the Agency shall be made from time to time as the City Council shall determine to be necessary, and that all such financial assistance shall be deemed to be loans to the Agency based on terms to be established by an agreement between the City Council and Agency, unless the City Council shall provide in specific cases that such assistance shall be treated other than as a loan; SECTION 6. 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 must be taken by the City Council with reference to, among other things, changes in zoning, the location and relocation of sewer and water mains and other public facilities and other public action, and 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 (b) Requests the various officials, departments, boards, and agencies of the City of Azusa having administrative responsibilities for the City likewise to cooperate to such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with the Redevelopment Plan. SECTION 7. The City Council is convinced that the effect of tax increment financing will not cause a severe financial burden or detriment on any taxing agency deriving revenues from the Project Area. SECTION 8. All written and oral objections to the Redevelopment Plan are hereby overruled. - 3 - SECTION 9. 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. SECTION 10. The City Clerk hereby is directed to record 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 have been instituted under the California Health and Safety Code, Section 33000 et seq. The Agency hereby is directed to effectuate recordation in compliance with the provisions of Section 27295 of the Government Code to the extent applicable. SECTION 11. The Public Works/City Engineering Department through the Building and Safety Diision is hereby directed for a period of two 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. SECTION 12. The City Clerk is hereby directed to transmit a copy of the description and statement recorded pursuant to Section 33373 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California, a copy of this Ordinance and a map or plan indicating the boundaries of Azusa West End Redevelopment Project to the Auditor and Tax Assessor of the County of Los Angeles; to the officer or officers performing the functions of auditor or assessor for any of the taxing agencies which, in levying or collecting its taxes, do not use the County Assessment Roll or do not collect their taxes through the County; to the governing body of each of the taxing agencies which levies taxes upon any property in the Azusa West End Redevelopment Project and to the State Board of Equalization. Such documents shall be transmitted as promptly as practicable following the adoption of this Ordinance, but in any event, such documents shall be transmitted within 30 days following the adoption of the Redevelopment Plan. SECTION 13. The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk shall cause the same to be published as required by law within fifteen (15) days after its passage at least . once in the Azusa Herald, a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Azusa, California. APPROVED and ADOPTED this 28thlay of November , 1983. THE CITY OF AZUSA BY: ;�.� lY�mer May 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. 2196 was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council on the 14th day of November , 1983. That thereafter said Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 28th day of November , 1983, by the following vote to wit: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: CRUZ , LATTA, MOSES NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS : NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS : NONE I TY CL� APPROVED AS TO FORM: Publish Azusa Herald: December 7 , 1983 A;Ct di2C414-070-------- CITY ATTORNEY