RES-ORA-0480 Acquisition Approval of Certain Unimproved Real PropertyRESOLUTION NO. ORA-
0480 A RESOLUTION OF THE
ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY APPROVING
THE ACQUISITION FROM THE CITY OF ORANGE
OF THAT CERTAIN UNIMPROVED REAL
PROPERTY CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY 19,672
SQUARE FEET AND GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE
WEST SIDE OF STATE COLLEGE
BLVD.APPROXIMATELY 235 FEET NORTH OF
THE INTERSECTION OF STATE COLLEGE BLVD.
AND W. CHAPMAN AVENUE IN THE CITY OF
ORANGE.WHEREAS, the City of Orange (the City) is a municipal corporation
exerclSlng 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 has been duly created, established and authorized to
transact business and exercise its powers under and pursuant to the Redevelopment Law;
and WHEREAS, the City is the owner of that certain irregular-shaped,
unimproved real property consisting of approximately 19,672 square feet and generally located on the
west side of The City Drive approximately 235 feet north of the intersection of The City
Drive and Chapman Avenue in the City of Orange (the Property). The Property is depicted on
the map attached hereto as Exhibit B and more particularly described on Exhibit A, attached
hereto and incorporated herein by this
reference; and WHEREAS, the Property is located within the boundaries of the Orange
Merged and Amended Redevelopment Project Area (the Redevelopment Project Area),
which Redevelopment Project Area was duly established by the City Council ofthe City of Orange on November
27,2001 by Ordinance No. 21-01, pursuant to the
Redevelopment Law; and WHEREAS, the City Council has heretofore found and determined that
the Property is surplus to the City's needs and not needed for any other public purpose and that its
sale to the Agency, in accordance with the authority conferred upon the City by Section
33396 of the Redevelopment Law, is for the common benefit of
the City; and WHEREAS, Section 33396 of the Redevelopment Law authorizes the
Agency to accept a conveyance of City-owned surplus real property for disposition by
the Agency to private persons or to public or private entities by sale or lease
for redevelopment purposes; and WHEREAS, Section 33391 of the Law authorizes the Agency to
acquire for purposes of redevelopment any real
WHEREAS, the Agency proposes to acquire the Property from the City pursuant to the
terms and provisions of a Purchase and Sale Agreement in the form presented at this meeting
the Agency Purchase Agreement); and
WHEREAS, the Property has been appraised as having a fair market value of
708,000.00 and the purchase price set forth in the Agency Purchase Agreement is m
accordance with said appraisal; and
WHEREAS, the Agency Purchase Agreement by and between the City and the Agency has
been prepared and submitted, providing for the conveyance of the Property by the City to the
Agency for the purchase price and upon the terms stated therein; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Agency, along with the City Council, has duly
considered all of the terms and conditions of the Agency Purchase Agreement, 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 acquisition of the Property 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
Proj ect Area.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Directors of the Orange Redevelopment Agency
the Agency Board) resolves, 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. As a responsible agency under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA),
the acquisition of the Property by the Agency pursuant to the Agency Purchase Agreement is
categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA under Section 15312 of the State CEQA
Guidelines.
3. The Agency Board hereby approves the acquisition by the Agency from the City
for redevelopment purposes of the fee simple estate in and to the Property, subject to easements,
covenants, rights and rights-of-way of record, for the sum of $708,000.00 in cash
in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Agency Purchase Agreement. Accordingly,
the Agency Board hereby finds and determines that the terms and provisions of the
Agency Purchase Agreement between the Agency and the City with respect to the acquisition of the
Property, in the form as submitted by the Executive Director,
are approved.4. The Chairman is hereby authorized and directed to execute on behalf
of the Agency the Agency Purchase Agreement, together with any and all documents
necessary and appropriate to carry out and implement the Agency Purchase Agreement and to
administer the Agency's obligations, responsibilities and duties to be performed thereunder,
including
acceptance in the name and on behalf of the Agency of a grant deed conveying to this Agency
the above-described interest in the
Property.ADOPTED this 26th 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 26th day of February,
2008.
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:COUNCILMEMBERS: Smith, Murphy, Cavecche, Dumitru,
Bilodeau COUNCILMEMBERS:
None COUNCILMEMBERS:
None COUNCILMEMBERS:
None
EXHIBIT A
LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY
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Exhibit "A"
That portion of Lots 1,2 and 37 of the Dawn Tract, as shown on a map recorded in Book 8, Page
21 of Miscellaneous Maps, records of Orange County, California, described as follows:
Beginning at the South East comer of said Lot 2, said comer being also a point on the centerline
of Chapman A venue;
Thence northerly along the East line of said Lot 2, North 00041' 40" East a distance of 50.00
feet;
Thence continuing along said easterly line, North 000 41' 40" East, a distance of 449.33 feet,
more or less, a point on a non-tangent curve concave southwesterly, having a radius of 669.
99 feet, a radial bearing to said point bears North 670 39' 05" East, said point also being the
North East comer of an easement granted to the City of Orange for public road and highway
purposes and for public utility line purposes per document recorded March 24, 1971, in Book 9581,
pages 106 through 109 Official Records, records of said county, said point being also a point on
the southwesterly line of the area relinquished by The State of California Division of Highways
to the City of Orange for use as a city street, per document recorded December 27, 1966,
as Relinquishment of Highway Right of Way in the City of Orange, Road 07-0RA-
5-34.7, Request No. 491, in Book 8136, pages 342 through 344, said Official Records
of said county, and delineated as Parcell, Frontage Road, on maps recorded on June 17, 1966
in State Highway Map Book No.4, page 5 and 6,
records of said county;Thence northwesterly along said curve and along the southwesterly line of
said Request No. 491,through a central angle of ISO 42' 43", an arc length
of 183.73 feet;Thence continuing North 380 03' 38" West, along said southwesterly line
of said Request No.491, a distance of81.96 feet to a point on the northeasterly line of Deed
recorded January 3 1975 in Book 11317, Pages 611 through 617,
of said Official Records.Thence South 730 37' 26" East, a distance of 101.07 feet to the northeasterly
line of said Request No. 491 and a point on a non-tangent curve concave to the Southwest,
having a radius of730.00 feet, a radial bearing to said point
bears South 51049' 48" West;Thence Southeasterly along said curve and along said northeasterly
Request No. 491 line through a central angle of 160 21' 05", an arc length of208.33
feet to an angle point;Thence South 16022' 34" West, a distance of 128.70 feet, to
the beginning ofa tangent curve concave to the east, having
a radius of920.00 feet;Thence southerly along said curve through a central angle of 6046' 03" an
arc length of 108.67 feet to a point on the easterly line of said Lot 2 and a point of
non-tangency, a radial bearing to said
point bears South
Thence North 00 41' 40" East, along said easterly line, a distance of 214.82 feet to the True Point
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