HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC ORD 1981-1762 Redevelopment plan; repeals Ord. 1420 (Special)ORDINANCE NO. 1762
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING THE REDEVELOP-
MENT PLAN AND THE FEASIBILITY OF RELOCATION FOR THE
NATIONAL CITY DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT,
NATIONAL CITY, CALIFORNIA
WHEREAS, it is desirable and in the public interest that the
Community Development Commission of the City of National City herein called
"the CDC" undertake and carry out the National City Downtown Redevelopment
Project, herein called "the Project", encompassing an area generally
described as follows: the northerly City Limit Line of the City of
National City on the North, the southerly City Limit Line of the City of
National City on the South, the easterly right of way line of Interstate
Highway 5 on the West, and the westerly right of way line of Interstate
Highway 805 on the east; excluding from the proposed Project the land
within the area called "Lincoln Acres" which land is located westerly of
Interstate Highway 805 and northerly of Sweetwater Road and is within the
County of San Diego and is not within the City of National City, California,
hereinafter called the "Project Area"; and
WHEREAS, the CDC has made detailed studies of the physical
condition of structures, land use, topography, traffic circulation,
environmental influences, and social, cultural, and economic conditions
of the Project area and has determined that the area is a blighted area
and that it is detrimental to the safety, health, and welfare of the
inhabitants and users thereof and of the locality at large and of the
people of the State because of deteriorated conditions of structures,
faulty planning and inadequate public improvements, impaired property
values and tax receipts, and lack of full utilization of area, and the
members of this Governing Body have been fully apprised of said conditions
by the CDC and are aware of the relevant facts and conditions; and
WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Plan for the Project prescribes
certain land uses for real property to be acquired and redeveloped within
the above generally described Project Area which acquired real property
will require, among other things, the construction of newp y streets and
related appurtenances, the construction and relocation of sewer and
water mains, the construction of drainage facilities, the grading of
land, and the construction of other public facilities and public utilities;
and
WHEREAS, the CDC has prepared and submitted a Relocation Program
for the relocation of families, individuals and businesses whichg
will be
displaced as a result of carrying out the Project in accordance with
Redevelopment Plan; and the
WHEREAS, there have also h<=:_n presented to the City Council
information and data respecting the Relocation Program which has been
prepared by the CDC as a result of studies, surveys, and inspections in
the Project Area and the assembling and analysis of the data and information
obtained from such studies, surveys, and inspections; and
WHEREAS, the members of the City Council have knowledge of the
conditions prevailing in the Project Area and of the availability of adequate
housing in the City of National City for the relocation of families and
individuals who will be displaced from the Project Area as a result of
Property acquisition by the CDC and, in the light of such knowledge of
local housing conditions and opportunities for relocation of businesses to
be displaced, the City Council has carefully considered and reviewed such
proposals for relocation; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary at this time that the City Council take
official action respecting the Redevelopment Plan and the Relocation
Program for said Project Area, hereinafter called the "Redevelopment Plan"
and the "Relocation Program", respectively; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is cognizant of the conditions that are
imposed by the laws of the State of California in the undertaking and
carrying out of a redevelopment project, including those regarding prohibition
of discrimination because of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin
or ancestry; and
WHEREAS, the CDC caused to be prepared a Draft Environmental
Impact Statement/Report pursuant to the California Environmental Quality
Act and the National Environmental Protection Act and a Final Environmental
Impact Statement/Report, hereinafter referred to as "EIR/EIS", which was
reviewed and considered by the CDC, was determined adequate and sufficient
by the CDC, and the CDC further found and determined that the Project as
described in said EIR/EIS would not have a significant adverse effect upon
the environment; and
WHEREAS, the City Council certified as to the adequacy and completion
of said EIR/EIS; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of National City also serves
as the Governing Body of the CDC; and
WHEREAS, the City Council and the CDC of the City of National City
set a time and place for a joint public hearing on the Redevelopment Plan
and the Relocation Program for Tuesday, November 24, 1981 at 7:00 p.m. in the
2
Council Chambers of the Civic Center and caused to be published a notice
of such hearing in the National City Star --News, a newspaper of general
circulation in San Diego County and in National City, once each week for
five successive weeks prior to the date of said hearing, a copy of said
notice and an affidavit of publication of the same being on file with the
City Clerk and the Secretary of the CDC; and
WHEREAS, copies of the notice of said public hearing were mailed
to the last known assessee of each parcel of land in the Project Area and
said notice was mailed by certified mail with return receipt requested to
the last known address of each assessee as shown on the last equalized
assessment roll of the County of San Diego; and
WHEREAS, each assessee whose property would be subject to
acquisition by purchase or condemnation under the Redevelopment Plan was
sent a statement to that effect attached to such assessee's notice of the
public hearing and, in addition to the statement, a map of all properties
which would be subject to acquisition by purchase or condemnation under
the Redevelopment Plan was mailed to assessees with the notices of hearing;
and
WHEREAS, said public hearing was duly held at the time and place
fixed therefor in said notice; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has considered all aspects of said
Redevelopment Plan and Relocation Program, considered all written
communications concerning said Plan and provided an opportunity for all
persons and organizations to be heard, and received and considered all
evidence and testimony presented for or against all aspects of the Redevelop-
ment Plan and Relocation Program; and
WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Plan and Relocation Program have been
on file in the Office of the City Clerk in the Civic Center and in the office
of the CDC at the Civic Center, 1243 National City Blvd., National City,
California, for public inspection during the period of notice given for
said public hearing;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of
National City as follows:
SECTION 1: It is hereby found and declaredthat there exist
in National City, California blighted areas which constitute either social
or economic liabilities, or both, requiring redevelopment in the interest
of the health, safety, and general welfare of the people of National City
and of the State.
3
SECTION 2: It is hereby found and determined, based upon the
evidence contained in the Report of the Community Development Commission
of the City of national City to the City Council of the City of National
City in connection with the Redevelopment Plan for the National City
Downtown Redevelopment Project,that the areas included within the Project
Area are blighted areas as described in Sections 33020 to 33071 of the
California Community Redevelopment Law for the following reasons:
A. The Project Area is characterized, by the existence of
buildings and structures, used or intended to be used for living, commercial
or other purposes or combinations of such uses, which are unfit or unsafe
to occupy for such purposes because of the following factors:
(1)
construction.
Defective design and character of physical
(2) Faulty interior arrangement and exterior spacing.
(3) Age, obsolescence, deterioration, dilapidation,
mixed character, and shifting of uses.
B. The Project Area is characterized by:
(1) Economic dislocation, deterioration, or disuse,
resulting from faulty planning.
(2) The existence of inadequate streets, utilities,
and public facilities.
(3) The existence of lots or other areas which are
subject to being submerged by water.
C. The Project Area is characterized by a prevalence of
depreciated values, impaired investments, and economic maladjustment and
the capacity of said Area to pay taxes is thereby being reduced and tax
receipts may gradually become inadequate for the cost of public services
rendered.
D. The Project Area is further characterized by:
(1) A growing or total lack of proper utilization
of land resulting in a stagnant and unproductive condition of
land potentially useful and valuable for contributing to the
public health, safety, and welfare.
(2) A reduction of proper utilization of the area,
resulting in its further deterioration and added costs to the
taxpayer for the creation of new public facilities and
services elsewhere.
(3) In general and throughout the Project Area families
and individuals, a substantial number of whoa are minority
persons and persons of low and moderate income, are living in
residential units in need of rehabilitation.
SECTION 3: It is hereby found and determined that the redevelop-
ment of the National City Downtown Redevelopment Project is necessary to
effectuate the public purposes set forth in the California Community
Redevelopment Law, hereinafter called "the Law", and that the carrying out
of the Redevelopment Plan for the Project would promote the public peace,
health, safety, and welfare of the community and would effectuate the
purposes and policies set forth in said Law.
SECTION 4: The Redevelopment Plan for the Project, having been
duly reviewed and considered, is hereby adopted and approved, and the City
Clerk is hereby directed to file said copy of the Redevelopment Plan with
the minutes of this meeting. Said Redevelopment Plan is hereby incorporated
as part of this Ordinance by this reference thereto and made a part hereof
as if fully set out at length herein. The approved Plan is the official
Redevelopment Plan of the Project and all written and oral objections to
the Plan are hereby overruled.
SECTION 5: It is hereby found and determined that the objectives
of the Redevelopment Plan cannot be achieved solely through rehabilitation
or improvement of the Project Area. The Redevelopment Plan would redevelop
the area, in part, by a combination of acquisition, relocation, clearance
and redevelopment of structures and, by rehabilitation of existing
structures in conformity with the California Community Redevelopment Law and
in the interests of the public peace, health, safety and welfare.
SECTION 6: It is hereby found and determined that the Redevelop-
ment Plan for the Project Area conforms to the General Plan of the City.
SECTION 7: It is hereby found and determined that the financing
method set forth in the Redevelopment Plan for the Project is necessary to
enable the Project to be undertaken. The adoption and carrying out of the
Redevelopment Plan is hereby found and determined to be economically sound
and feasible.
SECTION 8: The redevelopment of portions of the Project Area
for nonresidential and public uses is necessary for the proper development
of the City. P
SECTION 9: It is hereby found and determined that the Redevelop-
ment
Plan for the Project will afford maximum opportunity,
consistent with
the sound needs of the City as a whole, for the redevelopment of the Project
,act
by private enterprise. The elimination of blight and the redevelopment
of the Project Area could not be reasonably expected
P to be accomplished by
private enterprise acting alone without the aid and assistance of the CDC.
SECTION 10: 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 any such area included is necessary for effective redevelopment
and is not included for the purpose of obtaining the allocation of tax
increment revenues from such area pursuant to Section 33670 without other
substantial justification for its inclusion.
SECTION 11: The Project is financed in part or in whole from
revenues derived from the allocation of taxes pursuant to Section 33670
of the Law, and 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 Project Area.
SECTION 12: Financial assistance to persons of low and moderate
income for the improvement or rehabilitation of housing is, and will be
of benefit to the Project.
SECTION 13: The condemnation of real property as identified in
the Redevelopment Plan is hereby found and determined to be necessar =to
the execution of the Redevelopment Plan and adequateprovisionsnecessary have been
made for payment for property to be acquired as provided by law.
SECTION 14: It is hereby found and determined that the Redevelop-
ment
Plan gives due consideration to the provision of adequate parks
recreational areas and facilities, as maybe desirableq and
for neighborhood
improvement, with special consideration for the health, safety,and
of children and elderly welfare
persons residing and to reside in the Project Area
and adjacent areas.
SECTION 15: It is hereby found and determined that the program
for the relocation of families and individuals displaced in carryingout
Project in decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings in conformity the
9 with acceptable
standards is feasible and can be reasonably and timely effected to permit
the proper implementation and completion of the Project; and that such
dwellings or dwelling units provided or to be provided, available or to
be made available to such displaced families and individuals, are and will
be at the time of such displacement at least equal in number to the number
of displaced families and individuals and are not generally less desirable
in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities than
the dwellings of the displaced families and individuals in the Project
Area, are available at rents or prices within the financial means of the
families and individuals to be displaced, and are reasonably accessible
to their places of employment. In addition, the City Council is satisfied
that 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 facilities, should such be required,
at rents comparable to those in the City at the time of such displacement.
SECTION 16: In order to implement the Redevelopment Plan hereby
approved, it is found and determined that certain official action must be
taken by this City Council with reference, among other things, to changes
in zoning, the vacating and removal of streets, alleys, and other public
ways, the establishment of new streets, the location and relocation of
sewer and water mains, drainage facilities, and other public facilities,
and other public actions and, accordingly, this body hereby: (a) pledges
its cooperation in carrying out the Redevelopment Plan, including the
expenditure of money to effectuate the Plan; (b) requests the various
officials, departments, boards, and agencies of the locality having administrative
responsibilities in connection with the Project 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 consider
and take appropriate action upon proposals and measures designed to
effectuate the Redevelopment Plan, and hereby declares its intention to
undertake and complete any proceedings necessary to be carried out by the
City under the provisions of the Plan.
SECTION 17: The City Council hereby finds and determines that
the accomplishment of the objectives set forth in the Redevelopment Plan
and enumerated hereinbelow outweigh the adverse environmental impacts
described in the EIR/EIS for the Project, and that the overall benefit to
the public health, safety and welfare require that the City Council proceed
with the Project. Said objectives as set forth in the Redevelopment Plan
are as follows:
7
A. Maintaining a sound and diversified economic base, composed
of a balance of commerce, industry, housing choices including ownership of
homes, seniors' housing and related facilities and multiple family residential
rental housing.
B. Providing employment opportunities including employment
opportunities for Project Area residents.
C. Establishing a pattern of land uses which will best promote
the health, safety, convenience and welfare of all citizens of the community.
D. Eliminating blighting influences and environmental
deficiencies by redeveloping the Project Area land to its highest and best
economic use through new construction, and neighborhood improvement.
E. Merging the following existing Redevelopment Projects with
the National City Downtown Redevelopment Project (this Project):
(1) E. J. Christman Business & Industrial Park I
Redevelopment Project, including Amendment No. I.
(2) E. J. Christman Business & Industrial Park
Redevelopment Project, Amendment No. II.
(3) South Bay Town & Country Redevelopment Project.
(4) Center City Redevelopment Project.
F. Providing needed public facilities including adequate
pedestrian and vehicular traffic circulation within, through and outside
the Project Area.
G. Relocating some utilities underground in order to achieve
a more aesthetically pleasing environment.
H. Achieving changes in land uses to effect the highest
and best use of the Project land.
I. Stimulating and attracting private investment, thereby
improving the City's economic base through employment opportunities and
increased tax base.
J. Achieving an environment reflecting a high level of
concern for architectural and urban design principles, developed through
encouragement, guidance, appropriate controls and professional assistance to
homeowners, redevelopers and owner participant redevelopers.
K. Stimulating private redevelopment of the general neighborhood
within and adjacent to the boundaries of the Project Area.
L. Producing increased tax revenue from real property taxes,
hotel and motel taxes and retail sales taxes.
M. Enhancing the integrity, stability and wholeness of the
Project Area through Redevelopment Plan controls.
N. Providing needed public improvements, including but not
limited to, streets and related appurtenances, storm drainage facilities,
necessary water distribution and sewerage transmission lines, public utilities
and public facilities, including any necessary transit facilities, within
the Project Area.
0. Encouraging sound utilization of undeveloped and under-
developed land.
P. Providing areas and man-made situations to attract people
and "to provide for social and cultural exchange.
SECTION 18: The following Redevelopment Projects are hereby
merged and the following Ordinances and their related Redevelopment Plans are
hereby amended as to the duration of Plan Controls in each such Redevelopment
Plan from the duration of such controls set forth in each such Redevelopment
Plan to a date 25 years from the effective date of this Ordinance:
A. E. J. Christman Business & Industrial Park I Redevelopment
Project, adopted by City Council Ordinance No. 1233 on November 18, 1969, as
amended by City Council Ordinance No. 1303 on March 28, 1972.
B. E. J. Christman Business & Industrial Park Redevelopment
Project, Amendment No. II, adopted by City Council Ordinance No. 1610 on
December 13, 1977.
C. South Bay Town & Country Redevelopment Project, adopted
by City Council Ordinance No. 1471 on June 24, 1975.
D. Center City Redevelopment Project, adopted by City Council
Ordinance No. 1505 on April 13, 1976.
SECTION 19: The Redevelopment Agency of the City of National
City has, prior to this merger of Redevelopment Projects incurred indebtedness
on account of constituent Redevelopment Projects. merged as follows:
9
A. E. J. Christman Business & Industrial Park I
Redevelopment Project, Tax Allocation Bonds,
Series A, January, 1975.
B. South Bay Town & Country Redevelopment
Project, Tax Allocation Bonds, Series A,
September, 1975.
C. Agreements and Note with the City of
National City:
(1) E. J. Christman Business & Industrial
Park I Redevelopment Project, July,
1978, at 6% per annum due July, 1982
(2) E. J. Christman Business & Industrial
Park I Redevelopment Project, March,
1980, at 8% per annum due April, 1982
and April, 1983
(3) South Bay Town & Country Redevelopment
Project, July, 1978, at 6% per annum
due April, 1982, April, 1983, and
April, 1984
(4) Center City Redevelopment Project,
March, 1980, at 8% per annum due April,
1982 and April, 1983
(5)
National City Downtown Redevelopment
Project, August, 1980, at zero percent
per annum due when available
$650,000
690,000
200,000
200,000
90,000
97,000
$300,000
SECTION 20: Taxes attributable to the Redevelopment Projects
enumerated in Section 19 hereof which are allocated to the CDC pursuant to
Section 33670 of the Law shall first be used to comply with the terms of
relevant bond resolutions or other agreements pledging such taxes from
the constituent Project Area. Thereafter, 20% of all taxes which are
allocated to the CDC pursuant to Section 33670 of the Law shall be deposited
by the CDC in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund and shall be used in
accordance with`Section 33487 of the Law.
SECTION 21: Pursuant to Section 33445 of the Law the CDC may pay
part or all of the cost of correction of public improvement deficiencies
10
referred to in Section D, 1,b,(4) of the Redevelopment Plan for the Project
entitled "Public Improvements" including the public improvement deficiencies
referred to in the third paragraph thereof and estimated to cost $12.8
million. In connection with said public improvement deficiencies it is
hereby determined as follows:
A. Said public improvements and the correction of said
public improvement deficiencies are of benefit to the Project Area.
B. No other reasonable means of financing said public
improvements and of correcting said public improvement deficiencies are
available to the City.
SECTION 22: Ordinance No. 1420 entitled "An Ordinance Repealing
Ordinance 1169 Relating to the Authority of the National City Redevelopment
Redevelopment
Agency to Function and Providing for Limitations on Said R p
Agency to Function" adopted April 23, 1974 is hereby repealed.
SECTION 23: The City Council will implement those suggested
mitigation measures set forth in the EIR/EIS for the Project to the extent
that such mitigation measures are physically and financially feasible.
SECTION 24: The City Clerk shall cause this Ordinance to be
published as required by Law.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of National City,
California, this 1st day of December
1981.-
Ki 1 e Morgan, ayor
ATTEST:
Ione ' ampbel l , City erk
Passed and adopted by the Council of the City of National City, California,
on December 1, 1981 by the following vote, to -wit:
Ayes: Councilmen
Nays: Councilmen
Absent: Councilmen
Abstain: Councilmen
AUTHENTICATED BY:
Camacho, Da11a, Van Deventer, Waters, Morgan
None
None
None
KILE MORGAN
Mayor of the City of National City, California
City Cl ° rk of the City of Nation 1 City, California
By:
Deputy
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was not finally adopted
until seven calendar days had elapsed between the days of its introduction
and the days of its final passage, to wit, on November 24= 1981
and on December 1� 1981
I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT said ordinance was read in full prior to its
final passage or that the reading of said ordinance in full was dispensed
with by a vote of not less than a majority of the members elected to the
Council and that there was available for the consideration of each mem-
ber of the Council and the public prior to the day of its passage a written
or printed copy of said ordinance.
I FURTHER CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is a full, true and cor-
rect copy of ORDINANCE NO. 1762 of the City of National City, passed
and adopted by the Council of said City on December 1, 1981
(Seal)
City Clerk of the City of National City, California
By:
Deputy