RES-ORA-0409 Cooperation & License Agreement for Public Parking ImprovementsRESOLUTION NO. ORA-
0409 A RESOLUTION OF THE
ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY APPROVING
A COOPERATION AND LICENSE
AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF ORANGE, WHEREBY
THE AGENCY WILL EXPEND AN AMOUNT NOT
TO EXCEED $225,000 FOR THE DEMOLITION
OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS AT 190 S. OLIVE
AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC
PARKING IMPROVEMENTS
THEREON.WHEREAS, on November 20, 1984, the City Council of the City of Orange
adopted Ordinance No. 37-84 approving the Redevelopment PI:m for the
Southwest Redevelopment Project, which Redevelopment Plan was amended (i) on July IS, 1986 by Ordinance
No. 20-86,ii) on July 5, 1988 by Ordinance No. 24-88, (iii) on November 22, 1994
by Ordinance No. 22-94, and (iv) on July 9, 1996 by Ordinance No. 17-96 (collectively
referred to herein as the Redevelopment Plan"), thereby authorizing the
Orange Redevelopment Agency, a public body, corporate and politic (the "Agency"), to administer
the Redevelopment Plan for the Southwest Redevelopment
Project (the "Redevelopment Project"); and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Community Redevelopment
Law of the State of Califomia (Health and Safety Code Sections 33000 et seq.) (herein
referred to as the "Law"),the AgEncy is carrying out the Redevelopment Plan for
the Redevelopment Project in the redevelopment
area (the "Project Area"); and WHEREAS, Section 33220 of the Law authorizes cities to
aid and cooperate in the planning, undertaking, construction, or
operation of redevelopment projects, including,among other things, causing public improvements to be
furnished adjacent to or in
connection with redevelopment projects; and WHEREAS, the Agency owns the real property commonly
known as 190 S. Olive,which was formerly the site of an automobile repair business most
recently known as Paul'
s Auto R{:pair; and WHEREAS,. the Agency purchased the property with the intent
of developing it as a parking lot once the lease with the then existing tenant expired.
The lease has expired and the Agency has heretofore prepared and obtained approval from
the City of Orange Staff Review Committee and Design Review Committee of a
conceptual parking plan for
the subj ect property; and WHEREAS, because the City's Public
Works Department has the expertise necessa:ry to conduct the competitive bidding process for
public works projects and because the general contractor for the work associated with the
Glassell Street between Almond Avenue and 300 feet south of Culver Avenue desires to use
the subject property for staging of its equipment and materials during the street reconstruction
work, this Board of Directors desires to let the City's general contractor use the subject
property as a construction staging area while final plans and specifications for the parking lot
improvements are prepared followed by the City's handling of the competitive bidding for
the demolition of existing improvements on the subject property and the subsequent
construction of the public parking lot improvements (collectively, the "Improvements"); and
WHEREAS, as the lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act
CEQA"), this Board of Directors finds and determines that the Improvements are within that
class'es of projects which consist of (a) the demolition and removal of a small structure and (b)
the minor public alteration of the land into a public parking lot, and that, therefore, pursuant to
SectiDns 15301 and 15304 of the State CEQA Guidelines, the construction of the Improvements
will not cause a significant effect on the environment and is, therefore, categorically exempt
from the provisions of CEQA; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority confelTed by Section 33220 of the Law and in
furthlerance of the Redevelopment Project, the Agency and the City desire to enter into a
Cooperation and License Agreement in the form attached hereto (the "Agreement") pursuant
to which the City will cause the Improvements to be installed and constructed and thereafter
maintained, and the Agency will pay the City for certain costs of such Improvements as more
particularly set forth in the Agreement and in accordance with that certain Cooperation
Agreement dated August 18, 1983, between the City and the Agency; and
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Directors of the Orange Redevelopment Agency
does hereby resolve as follows:
Section I:
The Agency hereby consents to the undertaking of the Improvements in accordance
with the Agreement, finding and determining that the: terms and provisions of the Agreement
betwe~en the City and the Agency, in the form as submitted by the Executive Director, are
approved and that the Executive Director is authorized to execute the Agreement on behalf of
the Clty.
Section II:
The officers and employees of the Agency are authorized and directed, jointly and
severally, to do any and all things necessary or advisable in order to effectuate the purposes
of this resolution and to administer the Agency's obligations, responsibilities and duties to be
perfOlmed hereunder, and all actions previously taken by such officers and employees in
connection with the Agreement are ratified and approved.
ADOPTED this 23rd day of April, 2002.
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ATTEST:
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Cassandra J. Cath , Clerk
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the
Orange Redevelopment Agency at a regular meeting thereof held on the 23rd day of April,
2002 by the following vote:
AYES: DIRECTORS: Slater, Murphy, Coontz, Cavecche
NOES: DIRECTORS: None
ABSENT: DIRECTORS: None
ABSTAIN: DIRECTORS: Alvarez
e'#'L/t-d2ud~Cassandra J. Cath ,
Clerk ORA-0409
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