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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1988-2274 0 1843 (2) ORDINANCE NO. 2274 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PlAN FOR THE TOWN CENTRE NO. II REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Chula Vista (the "Agency") has formulated, prepared and approved a proposed Amended Redevelopment Plan (the wRedevelopment Plan") for the Second Amendment to the Town Centre No. II Redevelopment Project to add area (the "Amendment Area") to the Town Centre No. II Redevelopment Project Area (the "Original Area"), and has recommended that the City Council of the City of Chula Vista approve and adopt said Redevelopment Plan; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Chula Vista by Ordinance No. 1827 approved a Redevelopment Plan for the Town Centre No. II Redevelopment Project (the "Redevelopment Project"); and WHEREAS, the Amendment Area and Original Area shall together be referred herein as the "Project Area;" and WHEREAS, the Agency has adopted Rules Governing Participation and _ Reentry Preferences for Property Owners, Operators of Businesses and Tenants ~ithin the Project Area; and WHEREAS, the Agency has adopted the State Relocation Guidelines (Title 25 California Administration Code Section 6000 et seq.) as the method or plan for the relocation assistance to such persons, families and businesses; and WHERFAS, the Agency has submitted the proposed Redevelopment Plan and its Report thereon to the City Council; and WHEREAS, the Agency has consulted with proparty owners and businesses within the Project Area and taxing agencies which levy taxes, or for which taxes are levied, on property in the Project Area; and ~EREAS, the Agency and this City Council have approved and adopted a Final EIR for the adoption of the proposed Redevelopment Plan and have certified as to their review and consideration thereof in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended, 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 this City Council, 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 irovided by law. 0 1844 NC~q, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF 'EdE CITY OF CHULA VISTA DOES ~EREBY ORDAIN AS FOLDD~: SECTICN 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 reoccurrence of blighting conditions within the Project Area. (c) To provide for participation by owners and tenants and reentry preferences to persons engaged in business within the Project Area to participate in the redevelopment of the Project Area; to encourage and ensure the development of the Project Area in the manner set forth in the proposed Redevelopment Plan; and to provide for the relocation of any residents, if any, displaced by the effectuation 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 and 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 redevelopment of the Project Area and by replanning, redesigning, or developing portions of the Project Area which are stagnant or improperly utilized because of other causes. (f) To provide housing as required to satisfy the needs and desires of the various age, income and ethnic groups of the conununity. SECTION 2. The proposed Redevelopment Plan for the Redevelopment Project is hereby approved, adopted and designated as the official Redevelopment Plan for the 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. SECTION 3. The City Council hereby finds and determines that: (a) The area is a blighted area, the redevelopment of which is necessary to effectuate to the public purposes declared in the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California and specifically that the 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 -2- 0 845 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) high density of population and overcrowding; (4) inadequate provision for ventilation, light sanitation, open spaces, and recreation facilities; (5) age, obsolescence, deterioration, dilapidation, mixed character, or shifting of uses; and further characterized by properties which suffer from economic dislocation, deterioration or disuse because of one or more of the following factors: (1) economic dislocation, deterioration, or disuse resulting from faulty planning; (2) the laying out of lots in disregard of the contours and other topography or physical characteristics of the ground and surrounding conditions; (3) the existence if inadequate public improvements, public facilities, open spaces, and utilities which cannot be remedied by private or governmental action without redevelopment; (4) the prevalence of depreciation values, impaired investments and social and economic maladjustment; (5) the existence of lots or other areas which are subject to being submerged by water; which conditions cause 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 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. -3- !/ 0 1846 (d) The Redevelopment Plan conforms to the General Plan of the City of Chula Vista; (e) The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan will promote the public peace, health, safety and welfare of the City of Chula Vista and will effectuate the purposes and policies of the Con~nunity Redevelopmerit Law of the State of California; (f) 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; (g) 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 cor~nercial facilities and at rents or prices within 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 reasonably accessible to their places of employment; (h) 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 redevelopmentally of the Project Area and is not included for the purpose of obtaining the allocation of tax increment revenues from such area pursuant to Section 33670 of the Con~aunity Redevelopment Law without other substantial justification for its inclusion; and (i) 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. SECTION 5. The City Council is satisfied permanent housing facilities will be available within four (4) 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 faculties at rents comparable to those in the City of Chula Vista at the time of their displacement. No persons or families of low and m~derate income shall be displaced from residents 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. SECTICN 6. The City Council is convinced that the effect of tax increment financing, as provided for in the Redevelopment Plan will not cause a severe financial burden or detriment to any taxing agency deriving revenues from the Project Area. -4- 0 1847 SECTION 7. The City Clerk is hereby directed to send a certified ~opy of this ordinance to the Agency, and the Agency Redevelopment Plan, subject to the provisions of the Redevelopment Plan for the Redevelopment Project. SECTION 8. The City of Chula Vista is hereby, directed to record within thirty (30) days from the adoption of this Ordinance with the County Recorder of San Diego 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 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. SECTION 9. The Building and Housing Department of the City of Chula Vista 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. SECTION 10. The City Clerk is hereby directed to transmit a copy of the description and statement recorded by the City Clerk pursuant to Section 8 of this ordinance, a copy of this ordinance, and a map of plat indicating the boundaries of the Project Area to the Audit Tax ASsessor of San Diego 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. SECTION 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 Chula Vista, and this ordinance shall take force and effect after its passage in the manner provided by law. Mayor. Pro Tempore ATEST Presented "..' /r Approved as to Form by Development Director -5- 0 1848 FIRST READ AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CI OF CHULA VISTA· CALIFORNIA· HELD July 12 19 88 AND , · FINALLY PASSED AND ADOPTED AT A REGULAR MEETING THEREOF HELD July 19 · 19 88 j BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE· TO-WIT: AYES: Councilmen Moore, McCandl i ss, Nader NAYES: Councilmen None ABSTAI N: Councilmen Ma 1 co 1 m ABSENT: Councilmen Cox Mayor Pro Tempore of the City of Chulo Visto ATTEST ~" C, S%-. ~ OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ) SS. CITY OF CHULA VISTA ) I, JENNIE M FULASZ, CMC, CITY CLERK of the City of Chulo Visto, Colifornio, DO HEREBY CERTIFY thor the obove ond foregoing is o full, true ond correct copy of 0rdlnance 2274 ,ond thor the some hos not been oreended or repeoled, CI1Y OF Ct-iUIA VISTA CC-660 ORDINANCE NO. 2274 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE TOWN CENTRE NO. II REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT By a majority vote of the City Council (Councilman Malcolm abstained and Mayor Cox was absent), the ordinance was placed on second reading and adoption on July 19, 1988. The California Community Redevelopment Law requires that a public hearing be held by both the City Council and Redevelopment Agency to consider evidence and tes- timony both for and against the Amendment to the Rede- velopment Plan. The joint meeting was held on July 12 and 19, 1988. At the joint meetings, the City Council/Agency received testimonies on the report, the proposed Redevelopment Plan Amendment and the Final EIR on the Amendment. The text of the proposed Second Amendment outlines the apecific sections of the Town Centre No. II Redevelop- ment Plan proposed to be amended through this process, along with the potential fiscal impacts. It is anti- cipated that the Agency will generate approximately $23.4 million in tax imcrement revenue from those properties proposed to be added by the Redevelopment Plan Amendment which will be generated over a 40-year period. Copies of the ordinance are available at the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 276 Fourth Avenue, Chula Vista, CA. Dated: 7-25-88 ~sz, CMC~~/ City Clerk