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Ordinance - 1657ORDINANCE NO. 1657 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE REDVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE WEST COVINA CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT • WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of West Covina (the "Agency") formulated and prepared a proposed Third 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 area which is necessary for the effective redevelopment of 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 by the City Council of land uses, zoning and related issues proposed by the Third Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan; 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 for approval and adoption the proposed Third Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan, accompanied by the Agency's Report to City Council on the proposed Third Amendment; and WHEREAS, it was determined that the proposed Third Amendment would not displace a substantial number of low- and moderate- income families from the Project area and therefore, the Agency consulted with and obtained the advice of residents and community organizations in the area added by the proposed Third Amendment; and • WHEREAS, after the effective date of this Ordinance approving the Third Amendment to the .Redevelopment Plan, all taxes levied upon taxable property within the areas added to the` Project shall not be allocated to the Agency pursuant to California Community Redevelopment Law Section 33670, but shall continue to be allocated to and when collected paid to the taxing agencies; and WHEREAS, no taxes from property in the areas added by the Third Amendment will be collected and allocated to the Agency therefore, no Report of the County Fiscal Officer and analysis thereof and consultation with taxing agencies which levies taxes on property in the added areas were required; and WHEREAS, the Agency has, in accord with the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code, Sections 21000 et seq.) and State and local Guidelines, prepared a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report with respect to the environmental effects of the proposed Third Amendment; and WHEREAS, after due notice, a joint public hearing was held by the Agency and this City Council to consider the proposed Third Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan and the Supplemental Environmental Impact Report; and WHEREAS, both the Agency and this City Council have adopted resolutions certifying the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report and making all necessary findings and determinations in connection therewith; and WHEREAS, at said joint public hearing, this Council heard and passed upon all oral and written objections; and • WHEREAS, all actions required by law have 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 purpose and intent of the City Council with respect to the Project area was and still is to: (a) Eliminate the conditions of blight existing in the Project area; (b) Insure, as far as possible, that the causes of blighting conditions will be either eliminated or protected against; • (c) Provide participation for owners and tenants and a reasonable preference for persons engaged in business in the Project area; (d) Encourage the redevelopment and rebuilding of the Project area; (e) Encourage and foster the economic revitalization of the Project area; (f) Relocate the owners and occupants of the Project area; (g) 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 City Council hereby finds and determines that upon the record of the joint public hearing on the Third Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan, the Report of the Agency thereon and supporting data thereto, the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report, and the testimony received at the joint public hearing, the inclusion of the areas added to the Project by the Third Amendment is necessary for effective redevelopment of the existing Project. SECTION 3. The Third Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan is hereby approved and adopted, and the Redevelopment Plan as amended by the Third Amendment is hereby designated the official Redevelopment Plan for the West Covina Central Business District Redevelopment Project. • SECTION 4. The Redevelopment Plan as amended by said Third Amendment is hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if fully set out at length herein. SECTION 5. All written and oral objections to the Third Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan are hereby overruled. SECTION 6. The City Council hereby finds and determines that: a. The Project area was and is a blighted area, the redevelopment of which was and is necessary to effectuate the public purposes declared in the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California; b. The Redevelopment Plan as amended by the Third Amendment will redevelop the Project area in conformity with the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California in the interest of the public peace, health, safety, and welfare; C. The adoption and carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan as amended by the Third Amendment is economically sound and feasible; d. The Redevelopment Plan as amended by the Third Amendment conforms to the General Plan of the City of West Covina; e. The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan as amended by the Third • 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 Redevelopment Law of the State of California; -2- f. The condemnation of real property as provided for in the Redevelopment Plan as amended by the Third Amendment is necessary to the execution of said Redevelopment Plan, and adequate provisions have been made for payment for property to be acquired as provided by law; g. The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan as amended by the Third Amendment will result in the displacement of occupants of housing facilities in the area added to the Project by the Third Amendment, and: • 1. The Agency has a feasible method and plan for the relocation of families and persons to be temporarily or permanently displaced from housing facilities in the Project Amendment areas; 2. There will be provided 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 Amendment areas, 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. Tax increment revenues from the areas added to the Project by the Third Amendment will not be allocated to the Agency pursuant to Section 33670 of the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California, therefore, the inclusion 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; and such added areas are not included for the purpose of obtaining an allocation of taxes from such areas pursuant to Section 33670 without other substantial justification for inclusion. • SECTION 7. In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation of the Redevelopment Plan as amended by the Third Amendment, 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 vacation and removal of streets, alleys, and other public ways, the establishment of new street patterns, the location and relocation of sewer and water mains and other public facilities, and other public action, and accordingly, 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 amended by the Third Amendment; b. Request the various officials, departments boards, commissions and agencies of the City of West Covina having administrative 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 as amended; C. Stands ready to take appropriate action upon proposals and measures designed to effectuate the Redevelopment Plan as amended by the Third Amendment. SECTION 8. The elimination of blight in the Project area and the redevelopment of the areas added to the Project by the Third Amendment could not reasonably be expected to be accomplished by private enterprise acting alone without is the aid and assistance of the Agency. -3- SECTION 9. Since no tax increment will be allocated to the Agency from the Third Amendment areas, the addition of the areas will not cause a severe financial burden or detriment on any taxing agency, deriving revenues from the areas added to the Project. SECTION 10. The City Council is satisfied permanent housing facilities will be available within three years from the time occupants of the areas added to the Project are displaced, and that 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 community at the time of their displacement. • SECTION 11. The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause the incorporation of the Third 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 amended by the Third Amendment to the Agency. The Agency is hereby vested with the responsibility for carrying out the Redevelopment Plan as amended by the Third Amendment, subject to the provisions of said Redevelopment Plan. SECTION 12. 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 areas 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. SECTION 13. The City Clerk is hereby directed to transmit a copy of this Ordinance adopting the Third Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan, a copy of Ordinance No. 1180 approving and adopting the Redevelopment Plan, a copy of Ordinance No. 1342 adopting the First Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan, a copy of Ordinance No. 1481 adopting the Second Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan, a copy of the descriptions and statement recorded by the City pursuant to Section 12 of this Ordinance, and a map or plat indicating the boundaries of the areas 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 14. Ordinances Nos. 1180, 1342 and 1481 shall remain in full force and effect except to the extent they are changed by this amending Ordinance. -4- SECTION 15. 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 20th day of December , 1984. Mayor ATTEST: kt- STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) SS: CITY OF WEST COVINA ) I, Helene M. Mooney , City Clerk of the City of West Covina, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1657 was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the loth day of December , 1984. That, thereafter, said ordinance was duly adopted at an adjourned regular meeting of the City Council on the 20th day of December , 1984, by the following vote: AYES: Manners, Chappell, Bacon NOES: Shearer ABSENT: Tennant • APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Cle k 6 0—�%ac)� '�&o .�L �� Citf Atto ney 110/4-22 • -5- C E R T I F I C A T I O N 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 San Gabriel Valley. Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City of West.Covina. n U DATED: i IF-% Ig6 0 Qm"OAAM 66v Janet Berry, Deputy City Clerk City of West Covina, California