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;
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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
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the aid and assistance of the Agency.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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City of West Covina, California