Ordinance - 1481ORDINANCE NO. 1481
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE SECOND
AMENDMENT TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE
WEST COVINA CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT REDEVELOPMENT
PROJECT
WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of West Covina
(hereinafter referred to as the "Agency") formulated and prepared a pro-
posed Second Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan for the West Covina
Central Business District Redevelopment Project (the "Project") which
includes the addition of land to the Project; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of West Covina has
submitted its report and recommendations, finding that the uses designated
in the Redevelopment Plan as it is proposed to be amended are in conformity
with the uses designated in the General Plan and recommending approval and
adoption of said proposed Amendment; and
WHEREAS, the Agency adopted rules governing participation by and
reasonable preferences to owners and tenants in the Project area on May 12,
1980; and
WHEREAS, the Agency submitted to the City Council of the City of
West Covina said proposed Second Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan accom-
panied by the Report of the Agency on said proposed Amendment which Report
contains, among other things, the Planning Commission's report and recom-
mendations, the Final Environmental Impact Report on the proposed Second
Amendment, and the Report of the County Fiscal Officer and analysis thereof
by the Agency; and
WHEREAS, the Agency consulted with and obtained the advice of residents
and community organizations in the area of the proposed Second Amendment; and
WHEREAS, the Agency consulted with the taxing agencies which levy
taxes, or for which taxes are levied, on property in the Project area with
respect to the Plan and to allocation of taxes pursuant to Section 33670; and
WHEREAS, after due notice, a joint public hearing was held by the
Agency and the City Council to consider said proposed Second Amendment to the
Redevelopment Plan and the Final Environmental Impact Report; and
WHEREAS, the Agency and this Council certified to the preparation
and completion of the Final Environmental Impact Report pertaining to the
proposed Second Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan as being in conformity
with the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, State Guidelines pur-
suant thereto, and the procedures adopted therefor by the Agency; and
WHEREAS, at said joint public hearing the City Council heard and
considered all oral and written objections to the proposed Second Amendment;
and
WHEREAS, all actions required by law have been taken by all appropri-
ate public agencies.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of West Covina does
hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The purpose and intent of the City Council with respect
to the areas added to the Project are to:
(1) Eliminate the conditions of blight existing in the areas added
to the Project;
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(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 tenants and a reasonable
preference for persons engaged in business in the areas added
to the Project;
(4) Encourage the redevelopment and rebuilding of the areas added
to the Project;
(5) Encourage and foster the economic revitalization of the areas
added to the Project;
(6) Relocate the owners and occupants of the areas added to the
Project;
(7) Redevelop and rebuild the public facilities in the areas added
to the Project to provide safer and more efficient service for
the people in the areas and the general public as a whole.
SECTION 2. All written and oral objections to the Redevelopment
Plan as amended are hereby overruled.
SECTION 3. The Second Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan is hereby
approved and adopted, and the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended by the
inclusion of said Second Amendment) is hereby designated the official Redevelop-
ment Plan for the West Covina Central Business District Redevelopment Project.
. The -Redevelopment Agency staff is hereby directed to
negotiate with the owners of the properties at 1904 Pacific Lane, 1914 Pacific
Lane, and 1920 Pacific Lane, and a vacant parcel adjacent to the south of 1920
Pacific Lane, owner participation agreements which shall exempt such properties
from acquisition by condemnation and bring such owner participation agreements
before the Redevelopment Agency for its approval..
SECTION 4. The Redevelopment Plan for the West Covina Central
Business District Redevelopment Project as amended by said Second Amendment
is hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully
set out at length herein.
SECTION 5., The City Council hereby finds and determines that:
(a) Upon the record of the joint public hearing on the Second Amend-
ment to the Redevelopment Plan, the Report of the Agency thereon
and supporting data thereto, the Final Environmental Impact
Report, and the testimony received at the joint public hearing,
the areas added to the Project are necessary for effective
redevelopment.
1. The area contains blight, as the same is defined in the
California Community Redevelopment Law, which constitutes
social and economic liabilities requiring redevelopment in
the interest of the health, safety, and general welfare
of the people of the City of West Covina.
2. Many buildings and structures in the areas used for living,
commercial and industrial purposes are vacant, aged, obso-
lescent, dilapidated, and of shifting uses.
3. Lot sizes in the areas are rather small and land parcels
are owned in fee by many different persons and/or corpora-
tions, therefore making it difficult to assemble land for
proper development.
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4.. The areas are characterized by economic dislocation,
deterioration, and disuse resulting in depreciated land
values, impaired investments, and social and economic mal-
adjustment, all contributing to the reduced.capacity to
pay taxes.
5. The growing or total lack of proper utilization of the areas
has resulted in a stagnant and unproductive condition of
land potentially useful and valuable for contributing to
the public health, safety, and welfare..
(b) The Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended by the inclusion of said
Second Amendment) will redevelop the area added to the Project in
conformity with the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of
California and in the interests of the public peace, health and
safety and welfare;
(c) The adoption and carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan (as here-
by amended by the inclusion of said Second Amendment) is economi-
cally sound and feasible;
(d) The Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended by the inclusion of said
Second Amendment) conforms to the General Plan of the City of West
Covina.
(e) The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended by
the inclusion of said Second Amendment) 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 Rede-
velopment Law of the State of California;
(f)
The condemnation of real property, as provided for in the Rede-
velopment Plan (as hereby amended by the inclusion of said Second
Amendment) for the area added to the Project, is necessary to the
execution of the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby so amended) and
adequate provisions have been made for payment of property to be
acquired as provided by law;
(g)
There are families and persons who may be displaced from housing.
facilities in the area added to the Project, and when any such
families and persons are displaced by redevelopment activities:
1. the Agency has a feasible method and plan for the relocation
of families and persons to be temporarily or permanently dis-
placed from housing facilities in the origi.nal Project area;
2, there will be provided in the entire Project area (including
the areas added to the Project) or in other areas not gene-
rally 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
original Project, 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 of any lands, buildings or improvements
which are not detrimental to the public health, safety or welfare
is necessary for the effective redevelopment of the area of which
they are a part; any such area included is necessary for effective
redevelopment and is not included for the purpose of obtaining the
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allocation of tax increment revenues from such area pursuant to
Section 33670 of the Community Redevelopment Law without other
substantial justification for its inclusion; and
(i) Parcel 2d, as identified in the proposed Second Amendment to the
Redevelopment Plan is blighted and. is necessary for effective
redevelopment and is not included for the purpose of obtaining the
allocation of taxes from such area without substantial other justi-
fication for its inclusion.
SECTION 6. In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation
of the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended by inclusion of said Second Amend-
ment), it is found and determined that certain official actions must be taken
by the City Council with reference, among other things, to changes in zoning,
the vacating and removal of streets, alleys, and other public ways, the estab-
lishment of new street patterns, the location and relocation of sewer and
water mains and other public facilities, and other public action, and accord-
ingly, this Council hereby:
(a) declares its intention to undertake and complete any proceedings
necessary to be carried out by the City of West Covina under the
provisions of the Redevelopment Plan as hereby amended;
(b) requests the various officials, departments, boards, commissions,
and agencies of the City of West Covina having administrative
responsibilities (in the Project) likewise to cooperate to such
end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a
manner consistent with said Redevelopment as hereby amended.
SECTION.7. The elimination of blight and the redevelopment of the
areas added to the Project area could not be reasonably expected to be
accomplished by private. enterprise acting alone without the aid and assistance
of the Agency.
SECTION 8. The City Council is convinced that the effect of tax
increment financing will not cause a severe financial burden or detriment on
any taxing agency deriving revenues from the areas added to the Project.
SECTION 9. The City Council is satisfied permanent housing facilities
will be available within three years from the time occupants of the Project
area are displaced and that pending the development of such facilities there
will be available to such displaced occupants adequate temporary housing facil-
ities at rents comparable to those in the community at the time of their dis-
placement.
SECTION 10. The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause the incorpora-
tion of the Amendment hereby approved and adopted into the Redevelopment Plan
and to print and reproduce copies of said Redevelopment Plan as so amended.
The City Clerk is hereby further directed to send a certified copy of this
ordinance and a copy of the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby so amended) to the
Agency. The Agency is hereby vested with the responsibility for carrying out
the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended) for the Project, subject to the
provisions of the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended).
SECTION 11. The City Clerk is hereby directed to record with the
County Recorder of Los Angeles County descriptions of the land within the areas
added to the Project and the entire Project area (including the area added to
the Project), and a statement that proceedings for the redevelopment of the
areas added to the Project 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.
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SECTION 12. The City Clerk is hereby directed to transmit a copy
of this Ordinance, a copy of Ordinance No. 1180 approving and adopting the
. Redevelopment Plan, a copy of Ordinance No. 1342 amending said Plan, a copy of
the descriptions andstatement recorded by the City pursuant to Section 11 of
this Ordinance, and a map or plat indicating the boundaries of the area added
to the Project and the entire Project area (including the area added to the
Project) 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 entire Project area, and to the State
Board of Equalization..
SECTION 13. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by law.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 7th day of July 1980.
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ATTEST:
Mayor
City Clerk .
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS:
CITY OF WEST COVINA )
I, HELENE MOONEY, City Clerk of th�4C� ty of West Covina, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. was regularly introduced and placed
upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 23rd day
of June 1980. That, thereafter, said ordinance was dyly adopted at a regular
meeting of the City Council on the 7th day of Ju y 1980, by the
following vote:
AYES: Councilmen: Tice, Chappell, Shearer, Browne
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
ABSTAIN: Councilmen: Tennant..
City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
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C I; R T IF I C AT ION
State of California. )
County of Los Angeles ) ss.
City of west Covina )
I, JANET BERRY, Deputy City Clerk of the City of
West Covina., State of California., do hereby certify
that a true and accurate copy of Ordinance No. �
was published, pursuant to law,. in the west Covina.
Tribune, a. newspaper of general circulation published
and circulated in the City of west Covina..
Jane erry, Deputy ity Clerk
City of west Covina, California
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