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Ordinance - 1269ORDINANCE NO. 1269 AN ORDINANCE OF. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE EASTLAND REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT. WHEREAS, the West Covina Redevelopment Agency (hereinafter referred to 40 as the "Agency") formulated and prepared the proposed Redevelopment Plan for the Eastland Redevelopment Project; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of West Covina has submitted its report and recommendations, finding said Redevelopment Plan with the Project area boundaries originally selected by the Planning Commission, or with the reduced Project area boundaries illustrated on the attached Exhibit "A"'to the Planning Commission Resolution No. 2597, is in conformity with the General Plan and recommending approval and adoption of said Redevelopment Plan with said Project area boundaries originally selected, or in the alternative, with said reduced Project area boundaries; and WHEREAS, the Agency adopted rules governing participation by and reason- able preferences to owners and tenants in the Project area; and WHEREAS, the Agency submitted to the City Council of the City of West Covina said proposed Redevelopment Plan, accompanied by the Report of the Agency on said proposed Redevelopment Plan and the Draft Environmental Impact Report on said proposed Redevelopment Plan; and WHEREAS, after due notice, a joint public hearing was held by this Council, acting as the Agency and the City Council, to consider said proposed Redevelop- ment Plan and said Draft Environmental Impact Report; and WHEREAS, at said joint public hearing, this Council heard and passed upon • all oral and written objections by overruling such objections; and WHEREAS, the Agency certified the preparation and completion of the Final Environmental Impact Report for said proposed Redevelopment Plan as being in conformity with the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, the Regulations thereto, and the Procedures adopted and amended by the Agency; and WHEREAS, all action required by law has been taken by all appropriate public agencies. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The purposes and intent of the City Council with respect to the Project area are to: (1) Eliminate the conditions of blight existing in the Project area; (2) Insure, as far as possible, that the causes of blighting con- ditions will be either eliminated or protected against; (3) Provide participation for owners and a reasonable preference for persons engaged in business in the Project area; (4) Encourage the rehabilitation, rebuilding, and development of the Project area; (5) Encourage and foster the economic revitalization of the Project area; (6) Relocate the owners -and occupants of the Project area as needed; (7) Redevelop and rebuild the public facilities in the Project area to provide safer and more efficient service for the people in the area and the general public as a whole. • SECTION 2. The Redevelopment Plan for the Eastland Redevelopment Project.with the Project area boundaries originally selected by the Planning Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Redevelopment Plan"), is hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully set out at length herein. SECTION 3. The Redevelopment Plan is hereby approved and adopted, and is hereby designated the official redevelopment plan for the Eastland Redevelop- ment Project. SECTION 4. The City Council hereby certifies that it has reviewed and considered the information contained in and comments on the Environmental Impact Report on the Redevelopment Plan concurrent with its approval and adoption of the Redevelopment Plan; hereby finds that redevelopment activi- ties conducted pursuant to the Redevelopment Plan will not have a significant effect on the environment; and hereby approves and accepts said Final Environ- mental Impact Report as the report of the City Council. SECTION 5. The City Council hereby finds and determines that: (1) Upon the record of the joint public hearing on the Redevelopment Plan, the Report of the Agency on the Redevelopment Plan (which is hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully set out at length herein) and supporting data thereto, and testimony received at the joint public hearing, the Project area 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; (2) The Redevelopment Plan will redevelop the Project area in con- formity with the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California and in the interests of the public peace, health and safety and welfare; (3) The adoption and carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan is eco- nomically sound and feasible; (4) The Redevelopment Plan conforms to the General Plan of the City of West Covina; (5) The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan will promote the public peace, health, safety and welfare of the City of West Covina and will effectuate the purposes and policies of the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California; (6) The condemnation of real property, as provided for in the Redevelopment Plan for the Project area, is necessary to the execution of the Redevelopment Plan and adequate provisions have been made for payment for property to be acquired as pro- vided by law; • (7) There are no families residing within the Project area, and pursuant to the terms of the California Community Redevelopment Law, a substantial number of low- and moderate -income families are not to be displaced by the Project. However, in event any families and persons shall be residing within the Project area and are displaced by redevelopment activities: -2- (a) The Agency has feasible method and plan for the relocation of families and persons to be temporarily or permanently displaced from housing facilities in the Project area; • (b) There will be provided in the Project area or in other areas 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; (8) The Redevelopment Plan will afford a maximum opportunity con- sistent with the sound needs of the locality as a whole for the redevelopment of the Project area by private enterprise; (9) In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation of the Redevelopment Plan, it is found and determined that certain official action must be taken by the City Council with reference, among other things, to changes in zoning, the vacating and removal of streets, and other public ways, the location and relocation of sewer and water mains and other public facilities, and other public action, and accordingly the City Council hereby: (a) Pledges its cooperation in helping to carry out the Redevelopment Plan; and • (b) Requests the various officials, departments, boards and agencies of the City of West Covina having administra- tive responsibilities in the premises likewise to cooperate to such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with the Redevelopment Plan; and (c) Stands ready to take appropriate action upon proposals and measures designed to effectuate the Redevelopment Plan. SECTION 6. In the event any occupants are residing and are displaced from housing facilities in the Project area, the City Council is satisfied that permanent housing facilities will be available within three years from the time occupants of the area are displaced, and that, pending the develop- ment of such facilities, there will be available to such displaced occupants adequate temporary housing facilities at rents comparable to those in the City of West Covina at the time of their displacement. SECTION 7. All written and oral objections to the Redevelopment Plan are hereby overruled. SECTION S. The City Clerk hereby is directed to send a certified copy of this Ordinance to the Agency, and the Agency hereby is vested with the responsibility for carrying out the Redevelopment Plan for the Eastland Redevelopment Project. • SECTION 9. The City Clerk hereby is directed to record with the County Recorder of Los Angeles County, a description of the land within the Project area and a statement that proceedings for the redevelopment of the Project area have been instituted under the California Community Redevelopment Law. The Agency hereby is directed to effectuate recordation in compliance with the provisions of Section 27295 of the Government Code to the extent applicable. -3- SECTION 10. The Department of Building and Safety of the City of West Covina is hereby directed for a period of two 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 11. The City Clerk is directed, as promptly as practicable following the adoption of this Ordinance, to transmit a copy of this Ordinance, a copy of the descriptions and statement recorded by the City pursuant to Section 9 of this Ordinance, and a map or plat indicating the boundaries of the Project area to the Tax Assessor of Los Angeles County, to the Auditor - Controller of Los Angeles 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 12. The Mayor (or in his absence the Mayor pro tem):shall sign this Ordinance; the City Clerk shall attest and certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and its approval by the City Council, and shall cause the same to be published once in a newspaper with general circulation in the City of West Covina. SECTION 13. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force immediately after the final passage thereof. APPROVED and ADOPTED this 14th day of July, 1975. ATTEST: �7 1 L City Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS. CITY OF WEST COVINA ) ON Mayor I, LELA W. PRESTON, City Clerk of the City of West Covina, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1269 was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council on the 7th day of July, 1975. That, thereafter, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 14th day of July, 1975, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Shearer, Miller, Browne, Tice, Chappell NOES: None ABSENT: None APPROVED AS TO FORM: _7"y Attorney X � �W, , "/ � - ZLIy � 1 ' City er -4-