RES-ORA-0473 City Owned Parking Lot Ground Lease ApprovalRESOLUTION NO. ORA-
0473 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY APPROVING A GROUND LEASE OF THE
CITY-OWNED PARKING LOT BOUNDED ON
THE SOUTH BY CHAPMAN AVENUE, ON
THE NORTH BY PALM AVENUE, AND ON
THE EAST BY THE RAILROAD
RIGHT-OF-WAY USED FOR
METROLINK COMMUTER RAIL SERVICE
FOR REDEVELOPMENT PURPOSES.WHEREAS, the City of Orange (the City) is a
municipal corporation exercising governmental functions and powers, organized and existing under the laws of
the State of California, and authorized to sell and otherwise convey real property
to the Orange Redevelopment Agency (the Agency) under the California
Community Redevelopment Law commencing with Section 33000 of the Health and Safety Code and hereinafter referred
to as the
Redevelopment Law); and WHEREAS, the Agency is a redevelopment agency existing pursuant
to the provisions of the Redevelopment Law, which has been authorized to transact business
and exercise its powers under and pursuant to the
Redevelopment Law; and WHEREAS, the City is the owner ofthat certain 2.40-acre
parcel of land commonly known as the West Chapman Avenue Parking Lot (the Parking Lot) and
improved as a public parking facility, serving members of the general public and patrons
of the peripheral commuter rail passenger terminal and bus transfer facility located at 194 N. Atchison Street
in the City of Orange (the Orange Transportation Center or OTC). The Parking Lot is
bounded on the south by Chapman Avenue, on the north by Palm Avenue, and on the east by
the railroad right-of.-way used for Metrolink commuter rail service
to the OTC; and WHEREAS, the Agency desires to own, manage, operate and
maintain the Parking Lot,together with the pedestrian under-crossing to be
constructed beneath the railroad right-of-way,and the existing transit-related facilities located on
Agency-owned land on the east side of
the railroad right-of-way as an integrated transportation facility; and WHEREAS, the City Council
has authorized the lease of the Parking Lot to the Agency for redevelopment purposes
in accordance with the terms and provisions of that certain Ground Lease
in the form presented at this meeting (the Ground Lease); and WHEREAS, the Parking
Lot is located within the boundaries of the Orange Merged
and Amended Redevelopment Project Area (the Redevelopment Project Area), which Merged Redevelopment Project Area was duly
established by the City Council of the City of Orange on November 27,
WHEREAS, this Board of Directors of the Agency has duly considered all of the terms
and conditions of the Ground Lease, as set forth in the agenda report presented to it and any
testimony received at the meeting at which this matter was considered, and believes that the lease
of the Parking Lot to the Agency is in the best interests of the City and the health, safety, morals
and welfare of its residents, and in accord with the public purposes and provisions of applicable
State and local law requirements, and that such activities promote the objectives of the
Redevelopment Law as well as the Redevelopment Plan for the Redevelopment Project Area.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of the Orange
Redevelopment Agency, on the basis of the facts set forth in the agenda report presented to it
and any testimony received at the meeting at which this matter was considered, as follows:
1. The foregoing recitals are true and correct.
2. The lease of the Parking Lot to the Agency in accordance with the terms and
provisions ofthe Ground Lease is for the common benefit of the City.
3. The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Agency is hereby authorized to
execute, and the Agency Clerk to attest, the Ground Lease on behalf of the Agency and to sign
and deliver all documents and take all other actions necessary and appropriate to carry out,
implement and administer the Agency's obligations thereunder.
ADOPTED this lih day of February, 2008.
ATTEST:
I, MARY E. MURPHY, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby certify
that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the Orange Redevelopment
Agency at a regular meeting thereof held on the 1ih day of February, 2008, by the following
vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
DIRECTORS: Smith, Murphy, Cavecche, Dumitru, Bilodeau
DIRECTORS: None
DIRECTORS: None
DIRECTORS: None