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HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 1111~' 4 _ a ~, ORDINANCE N0. 1111 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD APPROVING AND ADOPTING AN AMENDMENT TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA A WHEREAS, the Lynwood Redevelopment Agency ("Agency") has formulated, prepared, and approved an amendment to the Rede- velopment Plan for Redevelopment Project Area A and has recom- mended that the City Council approve and adopt said Amendment. The Planning Commission of the City of Lynwood has determined that the Amendment conforms to the General Plan of the City and has recommended approval of the Amendment; and WHEREAS, the Agency has submitted the Amendment and its report thereon to the City Council, 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 by this City Council, the Agency and Council have received written and oral testimony concerning the Amendment, and have duly considered all thereof and the proceedings for the adoption of said Rede- velopment Plan have been duly conducted and completed as pro- vided by law; THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD DOES HEREBY ORDAIN A.S FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: The City Council having heard all of the evidence presented to the City Council relating to the Amend- ment to the Redevelopment Plan for Redevelopment Project Area A (the "Amendment"), both written and oral, and having considered such evidence hereby overrules all objections to the Amendment. SECTION 2: The purposes and intent of this City Council with respect to the area added by the Amendment to the Rede- velopment Plan for Redevelopment Project Area A are: (a) To eliminate the conditions of blight existing in the Project Area. (b) To prevent recurrence of blighting conditions within the Project Area. (c) To provide for participation by owners and tenants and for 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 Redevelopment Plan; and to provide for the relocation of any residents, if any, displaced by the effecutation of the 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 to the benefit of the Project Area and the general public. (e) To encourage and. foster the economic revital- ization of the Project Area by protecting and promoting the sound development and redevelopment of the Project Area and by replanning, redesigning, or developing por- tions of the Project Area which are stagnant or im- properly utilized because of defective or inadequate street layout, faulty lot layout in relation to size, shape, accessibility, or usefulness, lack of adequate utilities, and other causes. SECTION 3: The Amendment to Redevelopment Plan for Re- development Project Area A, attached hereto as Exhibit A is hereby approved, adopted, and designated as part of the offi- cial Redevelopment Plan for the Redevelopment Project Area A, attached hereto as Exhibit B, and both are hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully set forth at length herein. SECTION 4: Based on the written and oral evidence pre- sented to the Council at or prior to the introduction of this Ordinance, including the Report to City Council prepared in accordance with Health & Safety Code Section 33352, the City Council hereby finds and determines: (a) The area added by the Amendment (the "Amended Area") is a blighted area, the redevelapment of which is necessary to effectuate the public purposes declared in the Community Redevelopment Law and specifically that: 1.) The Amended Area is characterized by the existence of buildings and structures, used or intended to be used for living, commercial, in- dustrial, or other purposes, or any combination of such uses, which are unfit or unsafe to occupy for such purposes and are conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, juvenile delinquency and crime because of one or a combination of the following factors: -2- (a) Defective design and character of physical construction. (b) Faulty interior arrangement and exterior spacing. (c) High density of population and over- crowding. (d) Inadequate provision for ventilation, light, sanitation, open spaces, and recreation facilities. (e) Age, obsolescence, deterioration, dilapidation, mixed character, or shifting of uses. 2.) The Amended Area is characterized by properties which suffer from economic dislocation, deterioration, or disuse because of one or more of the following factors: (a) An economic dislocation, deterioration, or disuse resulting from faulty planning. (b) The subdividing and sale of lots of irregular form and shape and inadequate size for proper usefulness and development. (c) The laying out of lots in disregard of the contours and other topography or physical characteristics of the ground and surrounding con- ditions. (d) The existence of inadequate public im- provements, public facilities, open spaces, and utilities which cannot be remedied by private or govermental action without redevelopment. (e) A prevalence of depreciated values, impaired investments, and social and economic mal- adjustment. (f) The existence of lots or other areas which are subject to being submerged by water; provided that any ecologically valuable existing features in such areas shall, to the maximum extent feasible, be preserved. 3.) That the conditions described in sub- sections (a) and (b) cause a reduction of, or lack of, proper utilization of the area to such an extent that it constitutes a serious physical, -3- social or economic burden on the community which cannot reasonably be expected to be reversed or' alleviated by private enterprise acting alone. (a) Redevelopment Project Area A is a blighted area, the redevelopment of which is necessary to effectuate the public purposes de- clared in the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California. (b) The Redevelopment Plan for Rede- velopment Project Area A, as amended hereby will redevelop the area in conformity with the Com- munity Redevelopment Law of the State of Cali- fornia and in the interests of the public peace, health, safety and welfare. (c) Based upon the use of tax increment financing, available state and federal funding sources, other available funding sources, and the proper timing of the implementation of the Rede- velopment Plan for Project Area A, the adoption and carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan in the Amended Area is economically sound and feasible. (d) The Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan for Redevelopment Project Area A conforms to the General Plan of the City of Lynwood. (e) The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan in connection with the Amended Area will pro- mote the public peace, health, safety, and welfare of the community and will effectuate the purposes and policies of the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California. (f) The Redevelopment Agency of the City of Lynwood has a feasible method or plan for the re- location of families and persons displaced from the Project Area if the Redevelopment Plan results in the temporary or permanent displacement of any occupants of housing facilities in the Project Area. (g) There are or are being provided in Re- development Project Area A, as amended hereby, or in other areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and com- mercial facilities, and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and persons displaced, if any, from the Project Area, decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings equal in number to -4- the number of, and available to, such displaced families and persons and reasonably accessible to their places of employment. (h) Inclusion of any land, buildings, or improvements which are not detrimental to the public health, safety, or welfare is necessary for the effective redevelopment of the Project Area, as amended hereby; any such area included is necessary for effective redevelopment and is not included for the purpose of obtaining the alloca- tion of tax increment revenues from such area pur- suant to Health & Safety Code Section 33670, with- out other substantial justification for its inclu- sion. (i) The elimination of blight and the re- development of the Amended Area cannot reasonably be expected to be accomplished by private enter- prise acting alone without the aid and assistance of the Agency. (j) There is presently an adequate supply of low- and moderate-income housing in the community and a further substantial effort to meet 1_ow and moderate-income housing needs in the com- munity is being made and this effort, including the obligation of funds currently available for the benefit of the community from state, county and federal sources for low and moderate-income housing is equivalent in impact to the funds otherwise required to be set aside pursuant to Section 33334.2 of the Health & Safety Code. SECTION 5: The City Council is convinced that the effect of the 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 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, if any, and 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 com- munity at the time of their displacement. All other provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law with respect to relocation shall be fully complied with. SECTION 7: The Redevelopment Plan as amended hereby for Redevelopment Project Area A provides for the expenditure of money by the City of Lynwood in carrying out the Redevelopment -5- 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 us'e the County Assessment rcll, or do not collect its taxes through tine County- to t`~e governing body of each of the taxing agencies ~.>h.i.cl.. levies taxes upon any property in the F:edevelooment Project and to the State Board of Equalization. Such aocumen.ts shall be transmitted as promptly as practicable following the adopting of this Ordinance, but in any event such documents shall be transmitted within thirty (30) days following the adoption of the Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan for Redevelopment Project Area A. APPROVED AND PASSED this 16th day of DECEMBER 1980. First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 2nd day of DECEMBER 1980, and finally adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 16th day of DECEMBER 1980. AYES: Councilmen Byork, Morris, Thompson, Green. NOES: Councilman Rowe. Absent: None. THE CITY OF LYNWOOD EUGENE~R. GREEN, MAYOR ATTEST; LAURENE COFFEY, CITY CLE&?< v APPROVED AS TO FORM: GJ~~iy-- ty orney -7- PYan, and authorizes the City to financially assist the Agency by way of loans, grants, or other financial assistance. The- City Council hereby confirms 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 which shall bear interest at a rate to be determined by the City Council, unless the City Council shall provide in specific cases that such assistance shall be treated otherwise than as a loan. SECTION 8: The City Council hereby declares its inten- tion to undertake and complete any proceedings necessary to be carried out by the City of Lynwood under the provisions of the Redevelopment Plan as amended hereby for Redevelopment Project Area A, and directs that all City departments, commissions, and officers cooperate with the Agency in carrying out the provi- sions of the Redevelopment Plan. SECTION 9: Upon the filing of this Ordinance adopting the Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan for Redevelopment Project Area A with. the City Clerk, the City Clerk is hereby directed to send a certified copy of this Ordinance to the Lynwood Redevelopment Agency and said Agency is vested with the resonsibility for carrying out the Redevelopment Plan as amended. SECTION 10: The Building Department of the City of Lynwood is hereby directed to comply with the requirements of the Plan and, for a period of two (2) years after the effective date of this Ordinance, to advise all applicants for building permits in the Amended 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 11: The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to record with the County Recorder of Los Angeles County within thirty (30) days from the date of adoption of this Ordinance a description of the land added to Redevelopment Project Area A by the Amendment and a Statement that pro- ceedings for the redevelopment of the Amended Area have been instituted under the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California. Additional recordation of documents may be effected pursuant to Section 27295 of the Government Code of the State of California. SECTION 12: The City Clerk is hereby directed to transmit a copy of the description and statement recorded pur- suant to Section 33373 of the Health & Safety Code of the State of California, a copy of this Ordinance, and a map or plat in- dicating the boundaries of the Area added by the Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan for Redevelopment Project Area A, to the -6- ' ! s STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) ) ss. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) 1, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No, 1111 adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood, and that the same was passed on the date and by the vote therein stated. Dated this 18th da,y of DECEMBER _, 19 80„ Cit~i clerk, City of L,~ :woo//i ' Laurene Coffey V (SEAL)