HomeMy Public PortalAbout11-13 - Approving a Transfer Agreement for the Transfer of Certain Properties Owned by the Agency to the City of Carson for Use for Public Purposes and for The City to Carry out Redevelopment Activities, Pursuant to the California Redevelopment LawRESOLUTION NO. 11-13
A RESOLUTION OF THE CARSON REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
APPROVING A TRANSFER AGREEMENT FOR THE TRANSFER
OF CERTAIN PROPERTIES OWNED BY THE AGENCY TO THE
CITY OF CARSON FOR USE FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES AND FOR
THE CITY TO CARRY OUT REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES,
PURSUANT TO THE CALIFORNIA REDEVELOPMENT LAW
A. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Carson ("City Council") approved
and adopted certain Redevelopment Plans for 4 various project areas starting December 20, 1971
pursuant to Ordinance No. 74-288 through July 16, 2002 pursuant to Ordinance No. 02-1254.
Subsequently on October 11, 2010, the Agency consolidated the project areas into the Carson
Consolidated Redevelopment Project Area ("Project Area") pursuant to Ordinance No. 10-1459,
which resulted in the allocation of taxes from the Project Area to the Carson Redevelopment
Agency ("Agency") for purposes of redevelopment; and
WHEREAS, the intent of the Redevelopment Plan is, in part, to provide for the
development and redevelopment of blighted areas in the community; to promote the general
welfare of the people within the community by improving physical and economic conditions
through employment of all appropriate means; to perform specific actions necessary to promote
the redevelopment and the economic revitalization of the Project Area; to provide for the
construction and installation of necessary public infrastructure and facilities and facilitate the
repair, restoration, and/or replacement of existing public facilities; to increase, improve and
preserve the community's supply of low and moderate income housing, some of which may be
located or implemented outside the Project Area; and to take all other necessary actions to
implement the Redevelopment Plan for the Project Area and to expend tax increment to
accomplish the goals and objectives of the Redevelopment Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Agency has adopted its Implementation Plan for the Project Area
("Implementation Plan") with established goals to support affordable housing, economic
development, community revitalization, commercial revitalization, and institutional
revitalization, and to implement the programs and activities associated with these goals, the
Agency has acquired real property within the Project Area to be redeveloped; and
WHEREAS, the Agency was established by the City to decrease blight and remediate and
redevelop the high number of environmentally contaminated sites ("Brown Fields") impacted by
former land uses such as landfills, auto wrecking yards, petroleum manufacturing sites, and other
hazardous land uses operated by the County of Los Angeles prior to the city's incorporation. To
date the Agency and the City have enabled redevelopment of more than 25% of the city's Brown
Field properties. However, the Project Area consists of 4,866 gross acres of which 749 acres
remain blighted Brown Fields that are difficult to redevelop without public/private partnerships.
The Agency has, during the course of its redevelopment activities, acquired properties listed in
Exhibits "A," "B," and "C" to Transfer Agreement (collectively, the "Properties") to remediate
and redevelop for fixture economic development projects, for the elimination of blight and for the
creation of housing; and
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WHEREAS, the Agency embarked on the redevelopment of certain projects and the City
has been involved with the redevelopment of Brown Fields within the City; and, more
specifically, the City has been intimately involved with the development of the 93 -acre BEDI
Grant area, for which the City has received federal grants from both the US Environmental
Protection Agency and the Housing and Urban Development Department to remediate and
redevelop said area; the Agency has negotiated the purchase of a 14 acre property located at
20630 South Figueroa Street within the BEDI Grant area; and the City has also been involved
with the negotiations between BP America, Inc. ("BP") and the Agency for the development of
the BP office campus built partially on 5 acres of environmentally impacted Agency -owned
property located at 2254 East 223 Street, and BP has an option to purchase the remaining
neighboring 5 acres of Agency -owned property to the west, which is also environmentally
impacted; and
WHEREAS, the City has also been active in establishing an auto -row along 223 Street
through zoning and general plan designations and the Agency has acquired property located at
2403 East 223 to assist in the creation of said auto -row; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 33220 of the California Community Redevelopment
Law, which is codified as Health and Safety Code Section 33000 et seq. ("CRL"), certain public
bodies, including the City, may aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction, or
operation of redevelopment projects; and
WHEREAS, the Agency desires to transfer the Properties to the City along with the
responsibility for implementing the Redevelopment Plan and the Implementation Plan to bring
about the redevelopment of those Properties, as the City is familiar with the environmental issues
associated with the Properties and the goals of the CRL, the Redevelopment Plan, and the
Implementation Plan; the City has land use authority within the City; and the City desires to
cooperate with the Agency and to carry out the redevelopment of the Properties, in accordance
with the objectives and purposes of the CRL, the Redevelopment Plan, and the Implementation
Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Agency and the City have prepared a Transfer Agreement for the for the
Agency to transfer to the City the Properties for the following purposes: (i) the City shall retain
each of the Properties listed in Exhibit "A" for public use, in accordance with the City's
authority as a duly organized municipal corporation; (ii) the City shall convey each of the
properties listed in Exhibit "B" within ninety (90) days through disposition and development
agreements for private development by qualified developers experienced in development of
environmentally constrained land; (iii) the City shall have all the authority that the Agency has
under the CRL to carry out the redevelopment of these Properties; and (iv) the activities of the
City hereunder shall be undertaken, in accordance with the CRL, as the CRL is written as of the
execution date of the Agreement; and
WHEREAS, all other legal prerequisites to the adoption of this Resolution have occurred.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF
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CARSON DOES HEREBY RESOLVE, AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Agency hereby finds and determines that the foregoing recitals are true
and correct.
Section 2. The Agency has received and heard all oral and written objections to the
proposed transfer of Properties from the Agency to the City as proposed in the Agreement, and
to other matters pertaining to this transaction, and all such oral and written objections are hereby
overruled.
Section 3. The Agency hereby approves the Transfer Agreement transferring the
Properties listed in Exhibits "A" and "B" of the Transfer Agreement, and approves the transfer of
such Properties pursuant to the terms thereof. The transfer is subject to the following terms (see
staff request).
Section 4. The Agency Interim Executive Director may include the transfer of
additional parcels or portions of parcels thereof for street, utility, or other public purposes related
to the foregoing.
Section S. The Agency Chairman, or designee, is hereby authorized to execute the
Agreement on behalf of the Agency, together with such non -substantive changes and
amendments as may be approved by the Agency Executive Director and Agency Counsel.
Section 6. The Agency Chairman, or designee, is hereby authorized, on behalf of the
Agency, to sign all documents necessary and appropriate to carry out and implement the
Agreement, and to administer the Agency's obligations, responsibilities and duties to be
performed under the Agreement.
Section 7. The Agency Secretary shall certify to the adoption of this resolution.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED, this 8h day of March, 2011.
Jim Dear, Agency Chairman
ATTEST:
Helen S. Kawagoe, Agency Se etary
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
William Wynd Agency Counsel
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF CARSON )
I, Helen S. Kawagoe, Agency Secretary of the Redevelopment Agency, Carson, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the Carson Redevelopment Agency is five;
that the foregoing resolution, being Resolution No. 11-13 was duly and regularly adopted by said
Agency at a special joint meeting duly held on the 8th day of March, 2011, and that the same was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES:
AGENCY MEMBERS:
Chairman Dear, Santarina, Gipson, Davis -Holmes and Ruiz-Raber
NOES:
AGENCY MEMBERS:
None
ABSTAIN:
AGENCY MEMBERS:
None
ABSENT:
AGENCY MEMBERS:
None
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Agency Secretary Helen . Ka goe
Property Address
21208 Shearer Ave.
EXHIBIT A
APN No.
7334-003-903, 904, 905
Public Use/Purpose
Neighborhood. Passive Park
20630 S. Figueroa 7336-003-030 Sports Complex
1:0.14: $1 �
ProperlyPropgly Address
APN No.
20820 S. Main St.
7336-016-900 thru 906
17505 S. Main St.
7339-003-900
401 E. Carson St.
7334-018-903
2403 E 223" St.
7315-012-900
2254 E. 223` St.
7315-007-903
2201 E. 223rd St. 7315-004-903
EXHIBIT C
ProperPropqjy Address
APN No.
600-610 W. Carson St.
7343-020-902, 903, 904
21704 S. Figueroa St.
343-019-900
526 W. Carson St.
7343-019-901
21227 S. Figueroa St.
7343-007-903
415 E. Carson St.
7334-018-902
425 E. Carson St.
7334-018-900
437 E. Carson St.
7334-018-901
615 E. Carson St.
7337-011-900, 901
21521 S. Avalon Blvd.
7337-011-902
542 E. Carson St.
7335-010-905
550 E. Carson St.
7335-010-904
616 E. Carson St.
7335-010-905, 907, 908
21009 S. Prospect Ave
7309-002-900
2671 E. Tyler St.
7308-002-034
2673 E. Tyler St.
7308-002-901
2677 E. Tyler St.
7308-002-036
2535-2569 E. Carson St.
7316-009-902, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09