HomeMy WebLinkAbout79-25 Adopting a Redevelopment Plan for Project No. 2 (Wallace Neighborhood Strategy Area)ORDINANCE NO. 7 / —.� S
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA,
CALIFORNIA, APPROVING AND ADOPTING A REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR
PROJECT AREA NO. 2 (WALLACE NEIGHBORHOOD STRATEGY AREA) IN
THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, AS THE OFFICIAL DEVELOP-
MENT PLAN FOR SUCH PROTECT AREA.
WHEREAS, the Costa Mesa Redevelopment Agency of the City of Costa Mesa,
California ("Agency") has prepared and approved a Redevelopment Plan for Project
Area No. 2 in the City of Costa Mesa, and has recommended that the City Council
approve and adopt said Redevelopment Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Costa Mesa has submitted its
Report and Recammendation, recamending approval of the Redevelopment Plan for
Project Area No. 2; and
WHEREAS, the Agency has adopted rules for owner participation within the
Project Area; and
WHEREAS, the Agency has submitted the Redevelopment Plan for Project Area No. 2
and its report thereon to the City Council; and
WHEREAS, a joint public hearing has been held by the Agency and the City Council,
duly noticed as required by law, and the Agency and Council have received written, and
verbal testimony concerning the Redevelopment Plan for Project Area No. 2.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa does hereby ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council hereby declares that its purposes and intent with
respect to Project Area No. 2 are:
(a) To eliminate the conditions of blight existing in the Project Area.
(b) To prevent the reoccurrence of blighted 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 insure the
development of the Project Area in the manner set forth in the Rede-
velcpment Plan, to provide for the relocation of any residents dis-
placed by the effectuation of the Redevelopment Plan; and
(d) To improve and construct or provide for the construction of public
facilities, roads, housing and other public improvements to the
benefit of the Project Area and the general public.
SECTION 2. The Redevelopment Plan for Project Area No. 2 in the City of Costa
Mesa is hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully
set forth at length herein.
SECTION 3. The Redevelopment Plan for Project Area No. 2 in the City of Costa
Mesa, as submitted to the City Council, is hereby approved and designated as the
official Redevelopment Plan for that Project Area.
SECTION 4. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa hereby finds and deter-
mines that:
(a) Project Area No. 2 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.
(b) The Redevelopment Plan for Project Area No. 2 would redevelop the area
in conformity with the Ca comity Redevelopment Law of the State of
California and in the interests of the public peace, health, safety
and welfare.
(c) The adoption and carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan for Project
Area No. 2 is economically sound and feasible.
(d) The Redevelopment Plan for Project Area No. 2 conforms to the General
Plan of the City of Costa Mesa.
(e) The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan for Project Area No. 2
would promote the public peace, health, safety, and welfare of the
camnmity and would effectuate the purposes and policy of the Com-
munity Redevelopment Law of the State of California.
(f) The condemnation of real property, as provided for in the Redevelop -
went Plan for Project Area No. 2, is necessary for 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 Redevelopment Agency has a feasible plan for the relocation of
families and persons displaced from the Project Area, in the event
the Redevelopment Plan may result in the temporary or permanent dis-
placement of any occupants of housing facilities in the Project Area.
(h) A substantial number of low and moderate income households will not be
displaced as a result of implementing the Redevelopment Plan.
(i) There are, in areas other than the Project Area 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, 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.
(j) The Redevelopment Plan does not include the provision of tax allocation
financing of Redevelopment projects.
(k) No non-contiguous areas are included in the Project Area.
(1) Inclusion of any lands, buildings or improvements which are not detri-
mental 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 purpose of obtaining the allocation of tax increment
revenues from such area pursuant to Section 33670 of the Community Re-
development Law of the State of California without other substantial
justification for its inclusion.
(m) The elimination of blight and the redevelopment of Project Area could
not be reasonably expected to be accomplished by private enterprise
acting alone without the aid and assistance of the Agency.
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SECTION 5. The City Council is satisfied that permanent housing facilities will
be available within three (3) 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 ccw mitt' at the time of their displacement.
SECTION 6. The Redevelopment Plan provides for the expenditure of money by.the
City of Costa Mesa in carrying out the Redevelopment Plan, arra authorizes the City to
financially assist the Agency by way of loans, grants, or other financial assistance.
The City Council hereby provides that all such finanacial assistance shall be deemed
to be loans to the Agency, which shall bear interest at an established rate per annum
until paid, unless the City Council provides in any specific case that the expenditures
shall be treated otherwise than as a loan.
SECTION 7. The City Council hereby declares its intention to undertake and
complete any proceedings necessary to be carried out by the City of Costa Mesa under
the provisions of the Redevelopment Plan, and requests that all City departments and
commissions cooperate with the Agency in carrying out the provisions of the Redevelop-
ment Plan.
SECTION 8. Upon the filing of this Ordinance adopting the Redevelopment Plan
for Project Area No. 2 with the City Clerk, the City Clerk is hereby directed to send
a certified copy of this Ordinance to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Costa
Mesa, and the Agency is vested with the responsibility for carrying out the Redevelop-
ment Plan for Project Area No. 2.
SECTION 9. The Development Services Department is hereby directed, after the
adoption of this ordinance, to advise all applicants for building permits in Project
Area No. 2 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 10. The City Clerk is hereby directed to record with the County
Recorder of Orange County a description of the land within Project Area No. 2 and a
statement that proceedings for the redevelopment of Project Area No. 2 have been in-
stituted under the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California. Additional
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recordation of documents may be effected pursuant to Section 27295 of the Government
Code of the State of California. (§ 33373)
SECTION 11. 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 plat in-
dicating the boundaries of Project Area No. 2, to the Auditor and Tax Assessor of
the County of Orange, 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,
and to the governing body of each of the taxing agencies which levies taxes upon any
property in Project Area No. 2, and to the State Board of Equalization. Such docu-
ments shall be transmitted as promptly as practicable following the adoption of
this Ordinance but in any event on or before January 1, 1980.
SEMCN 12. Having considered all the evidence, verbal and written, the City
Council hereby overrules all written and verbal objections to the Redevelopment Plan
for Project Are No. 2.
SECTION 13. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect
thirty (30) days from and after its passage, and before the expiration of fifteen (15)
days after is passage, shall be published onece in the Orange Coast Daily Pilot, a
newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, to-
gether with the names of the members of the City Council voting for and against the
same.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 19th day of November, 1979.
Mayor of the Ci of Cog to Mesa
City Clerk of the City of Cos Mesa
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: APPROVED AS TO FORM
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Executive Direc r, Redevelopment Agency -qafJu&y(-CityMtorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of
the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance
Number 79-25 was introduced and considered section by section at a regular
meeting of said City Council held on the 5th day of November, 1979, and thereafter
passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said City Council held on
the 19th day of November, 1979, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MN34BERS: McFarland, Schafer, Raciti, Hertzog, Hall
NOES: COUNCIL MEM13ER.S : None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereby set my hand and affixed the Seal of the City
of Costa Mesa this 20th day of November, 1979.
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk q the
City Council of the City of Cost# Mesa