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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 832ORD 832̤<žjh£ŸjHÒæORDINANCE NO.832 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Baldwin Park hereinafter Agency"), has formulated and prepared a proposed Redevelopment Plan for the Central Business District Redevelopment Project hereinafter Redevelopment Plan"); and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Baldwin Park, Baldwin Park, California hereinafter City"), submitted its report and recommendation finding said proposed Redevelopment Plan to be in conformity with the General Plan and recommending approval of said proposed Redevelopment Plan; and WHEREAS, the Agency has heretofore 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 heretofore adopted a Relocation Method which is to be extended to all persons who may be caused to be displaced resulting from Agency acquisition of certain property; and WHEREAS, the Agency submitted to the City Council of the City hereinafter City Council"), said proposed Redevelopment Plan; and WHEREAS, the Agency has submitted, pursuant to Section 33352, the Report to City Council accompanying the Redevelopment Plan to the City Council; and WHEREAS, that Report and the Assessment of Conditions Report describe 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 BALDWIN PARK DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The purposes and intent of the City Council with respect to the Project Area are: a) To eliminate and prevent the spread of physical, social and economic blight and physical deterioration by promoting and encouraging the revitalization or redevelopment of currently deteriorating and underutilized areas within the Central Business District Redevelopment Project Area. b) To encourage new development within the Project Area to provide additional residential housing at affordable prices. BIB] 37960-U01 ORD-U02 832-U02 LI2-U03 FO4404-U03 FO32708-U03 DO32710-U03 C5-U03 ORDINANCES-U03 12/4/2003-U04 ROBIN-U04 ORD 832̤<žjh£ŸjHÒæORDINANCE NO. PAGE TWO c) To encourage development of office, industrial and commercial uses within the Project Area to reinforce, strengthen and compliment other developments in the City's downtown. d) To provide for construction which in turn will provide short-term and long-term employment opportunities for local residents. SECTION 2. The Redevelopment Plan is hereby approved, adopted and designated, dated February 3, 1982, and entitled Redevelopment Plan for the Central Business District Redevelopment Project", and is incorporated herein by this reference, the original of the same being on file with the City Clerk of the City. that: SECTION 3. The City Council hereby finds and determines a) The Project Area is a blighted area within the meaning of the California Health and Safety Code, Section 33000 et seq. hereinafter Code")/ the redevelopment of which is necessary to effectuate the public purposes declared in said Code; and b) The Redevelopment Plan will redevelop the Project Area in conformity with the said Code in the interests of the public peace, health, safety, and welfare; and c) The adoption and carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan is economically sound and feasible; and d) The Redevelopment Plan conforms to the General Plan of the City; and e) The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan will promote the public peace, health, safety, and welfare of the City and will effectuate the purposes and policies as set forth in said Code; and 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; and g) The Agency has a feasible method for the relocation of families and persons to be temporarily or permanently displaced from facilities in the Project Area; and h) There are or are being provided in the Project Area or in other areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities, public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and persons 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; and i) Inclusion of any land, buildings, or improvements which are not detrimental to the public health, BIB] 37960-U01 ORD-U02 832-U02 LI2-U03 FO4404-U03 FO32708-U03 DO32710-U03 C5-U03 ORDINANCES-U03 12/4/2003-U04 ROBIN-U04 ORD 832̤<žjh£ŸjHÒæORDINANCE NO. PAGE THREE safety, or welfare is necessary for the effective redevelopment of the Central Business District Project Area; 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 Section 33670 of said Code, without other substantial justification for its inclusion; and j) 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 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 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 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 6. The Redevelopment Plan for the Central Business District Redevelopment Project Area provides for the expenditure of money by the City 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 and Agency, unless the City Council shall provide in specific cases that such assistance shall be treated other than as a loan. SECTION 7. 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, among other things, to changes in zoning, improvements to existing streets 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 Ci ty unde r the provi s ions of the Re dev^lopment Plan; and b) Requests the various officials, departments, boards, and agencies of the City 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. BIB] 37960-U01 ORD-U02 832-U02 LI2-U03 FO4404-U03 FO32708-U03 DO32710-U03 C5-U03 ORDINANCES-U03 12/4/2003-U04 ROBIN-U04 ORD 832̤<žjh£ŸjHÒæORDINANCE NO PAGE FOUR SECTION 8. A full and fair public hearing having been held on the said Redevelopment Plan and on the Report thereon, as stated in the recitals herein, and the City Council having considered all evidence and testimony for and against the adoption of said Redevelopment Plan and all written and oral objections thereto, and this City Council being fully advised in the premises, all written and oral objections to said Redevelopment Plan are hereby overruled. SECTION 9. The City Clerk hereby is 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 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 Department of Community Services, Building Division, 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 9 of this Ordinance and Section 33373 of the Code, a copy of this Ordinance and a map or plot indicating the boundaries of the Central Business District 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 taxing agencies which, in levying or collecting its taxes, do not use the County Assessment Roll or do not collect its taxes through the County; to the governing body of each of the taxing agencies which levies taxes upon any property in the Central Business District 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 for the Central Business District Redevelopment Project. SECTION 13. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and cause the same to be published once in the newspaper of general circulation. APPROVED and ADOPTED this i^ day ofJFebruary______, 1982. / t^^ MAYOR L. GAIK, CITY CLERK BIB] 37960-U01 ORD-U02 832-U02 LI2-U03 FO4404-U03 FO32708-U03 DO32710-U03 C5-U03 ORDINANCES-U03 12/4/2003-U04 ROBIN-U04 ORD 832̤<žjh£ŸjHÒæORDINANCE NO. PAGE FIVE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) SS: CITY OF BALDWIN PARK I, LINDA L. GAIR, City Clerk of the City of Baldwin Park, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a Regular Meeting of the City Council and Joint Public Hearing of the City Council and Redevelopment Agency Board on the 20th day of January, 1982. That, thereafter, said Ordinance was duly approved and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 3rd Y of February_______/ 1982, by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEN KING. McNEILL. AGUILAR. HOLMAN. AND MAYOR WHITE COUNCILMEN NONE COUNCILMEN NONE COUNCILMEN NONE BIB] 37960-U01 ORD-U02 832-U02 LI2-U03 FO4404-U03 FO32708-U03 DO32710-U03 C5-U03 ORDINANCES-U03 12/4/2003-U04 ROBIN-U04