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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1994-2610 ORDINANCE NO. 2610 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING AND AMENDING CERTAIN TIME LIMITATIONS WITH RESPECT TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE TOWN CENTRE II REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Chula Vista placed on Second Reading and adopted Ordinance 1827 on August 15, 1978 approving and adopting the Redevelopment Plan (the "Redevelopment Plan") for the Town Centre II Redevelopment Project; and, WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Chula Vista (the "Agency") has been designated as the official redevelopment agency to carry out in the City of Chula Vista the functions and requirements of the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California (Health and Safety Code Section 33000 et seq.) and to implement the Redevelopment Plan; and, WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Plan was amended in May 1987 to incorporate the authority to collect tax increment revenues, and amended a second time in June 1988 to add territory; and, WHEREAS, Section 33333.6 of the Community Redevelopment Law established certain limitations on the incurring and repaying of indebtedness and the duration of redevelopment plans, which limitations apply to every redevelopment plan adopted on or before December 31, 1993; and, WHEREAS, Section 33333.6 further provides that unless a redevelopment plan adopted prior to January 1,1994 already contains limitations which comply with that Section, the legislative body shall adopt an ordinance on or before December 31, 1994 to amend the redevelopment plan either ( 1 ) to amend an existing time limit that exceeds the applicable time limit established by that Section, or (2) to establish time limits that do not exceed the provisions of that Section; and, WHEREAS, the time limit for establishing loans, advances, and indebtedness for the original Redevelopment Plan (Ordinance 1827 adopted 8/15/78) and the Amendment to the Plan adding territory (Ordinance 2274 adopted July 19, 1988) do not comply with the requirements established Section 33333.6(a), and therefore the City Council is required to establish a limit in conformation with the requirements of Section 33333.6 prior to December 31, 1994; and, WHEREAS, the original Redevelopment Plan and the Amendment to the Plan adding territory do not contain a limitation for the repayment of debt as required by Section 33333.6 and, therefore the City Council is required to establish a limit in conformance with the requirements of Section 33333.6 prior to December 31, 1994; and, Ordinance No. 2610 Page 2 WHEREAS, the time limit on the effectiveness of the original Redevelopment Plan and the Amendment to the Plan adding territory, as set forth in the Redevelopment Plan, do not comply with the requirements established in Section 33333.6(a), and therefor the City Council is required to establish a limit in conformation with the requirements of Section 33333.6 prior to December 31, 1994; and, WHEREAS, the establishment of time limits as required by Section 33333.6 does not constitute a project under California Environmental Quality Act and is therefore categorically exempt from environmental review; and, WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6(e)(2) provides that the limitations established by this Ordinance shall apply to the Redevelopment Plan as if the Redevelopment Plan had been amended to include these limitations; however, neither the City nor the Agency is required to comply with any of the procedural requirements of Article 12 of the Redevelopment Law pertaining to the amendment of redevelopment plans when adopting this Ordinance. NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 750.3 of the Town Centre II Redevelopment Plan is hereby amended by replacing the existing Section with the following paragraphs: The time limit on the establishment of loans, advances, and indebtedness shall not exceed 20 years from the adoption of the original Redevelopment Plan or January 1,2004, whichever is later and for the Amendment to the Plan adding territory shall not exceed 20 years from said adoption of the Amendment or January 1,2004, whichever is later. Based upon the adoption date of the original Redevelopment Plan this time limit shall be January 1,2004; and, based upon the adoption date of the Amendment to the Plan adding territory this time limit shall be July 19, 2008. This limit, however, shall not prevent the Agency from incurring debt to the paid from the Low- and Moderate-income Housing Fund or establishing more debt in order to fulfill the Agency's housing obligations under Section 33413. The time limits established by this subdivision may be extended only by amendment of the Redevelopment Plan in accordance with Community Redevelopment Law. Section 2. Section 700.32 is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph at the end of the Section. Except as expressly authorized by Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6 or other provisions of Community Redevelopment Law, the -- Redevelopment Agency shall not pay indebtedness or receive property Ordinance No. 2610 Page 3 taxes pursuant to Section 33670 of the Health and Safety Code in that portion of the project area included within the original Redevelopment Plan after ten (10) years from the termination of the original Redevelopment Plan. Based upon the termination date of the original Redevelopment Plan as amended by Section 3 of Ordinance No. 2610, except as otherwise authorized, the Agency shall not pay indebtedness or receive property taxes in that portion of the project area included in the original project area after August 15, 2028. Except as expressly authorized by Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6 or other provision of the Community Redevelopment Law, the Redevelopment Agency shall not pay indebtedness or receive property taxes pursuant to Section 33670 of the Health and Safety Code in that portion of the project area added to the project area by the 1988 amendment to the Redevelopment Plan after ten (10) years from the termination of the amendment to the Redevelopment Plan. Based upon the termination date of the 1988 amendment to the Redevelopment Plan as amended by Section 3 of Ordinance No. 2610, except as otherwise authorized, the Agency shall not pay indebtedness or receive property taxes in that portion of the project area added to the project area by the 1988 amendment to the Redevelopment Plan after July 19, 2038. Section 3. Section 1000 of the Town Centre II Redevelopment Plan is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following: Section 1000. Effectiveness Period 1000.1 Except for the nondiscrimination and nonsegregation provisions, which shall run in perpetuity, the provisions of the original Plan and the Amendment to the Plan adding territory shall be effective and the provisions of other documents formulated pursuant to the original Plan and Amendment to the Plan may be made effective for forty (40) years from the date of the adoption of the original Plan and the Amendment to the Plan adding territory by the City Council. Based upon the adoption date of the original Plan, the original Plan shall terminate on August 15, 2018. Based upon the effective date of the Amendment to the Plan adding territory, the Amendment to the Plan shall terminate on July 19, 2028. Unless projects contemplated under the Redevelopment Plan are underta ken within ten (1 O) years of the date of the adoption or amendment of the Redevelopment Plan, respectively, then said projects shall not be undertaken thereafter unless a public hearing is conducted by the Redevelopment Agency to consider the desirability of undertaking the proposed projects in light of conditions as they then exist. Section 4. The City Clerk is hereby directed to send a certified copy of this Ordinance to the Agency. Ordinance No. 2610 Page 4 Section 5. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after its passage. Section 6. Publication. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the passage of this Ordinance and to cause the same to be published once in the Star News, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated in the City of Chula Vista, California. Section 7. Severability. If any part of this Ordinance is held to be invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this Ordinance, and this City Council hereby declares that it would have passed the remainder of this Ordinance, if such invalid portion thereof had been deleted. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 8th day of November 1994. Presented by ~~aio for b~ Chris Salomone Bruce M. Boogaard Community Development Director 'City Attorney Ordinance No. 2610 Page 5 PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista, California, this 8th day November, 1994, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers: Fox, Moore, Rindone, Nader NOES: Councilmembers: None ABSENT: Councilmembers: Horton ABSTAIN: Councilmembers: None Tim Nader, Mayor ATTEST: Vicki C. Soderquist, Deity City Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ) ss. CITY OF CHULA VISTA ) I, Vicki C. Soderquist, Deputy City Clerk of the City of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 2610 had its first reading on November 1,1994, and its second reading and adoption at a regular meeting of said City Council on the 8th day of November, 1994. Executed this 8th day of November, 1994. Vicki C. Soderquist, D~ty City Clerk