RES-ORA-0413 Cooperation & Reimbursement Agreement for Landscape & Irrigation ImprovementsRESOLUTION NO. ORA-
0413 RESOLUTION OF THE
ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY APPROVING
AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF
A COOPERATION AND
REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF ORANGE
FOR LANDSCAPE AND IRRIGATION
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE VICINITY OF THE CITY DRIVE
AND INTERSTATE 5
INTERCHANGE WHEREAS, the Orange Redevelopment Agency (the Agency) is a duly
constituted redevelopment agency under the laws of the State of California, and pursuant to such laws
is responsible for redevelopment of the redevelopment Project Area within the City of
Orange the Cily);
and WHEREAS, the City, in accordance with that certain Memorandum
of Understanding by and between the City of Orange and the City of Anaheim Regarding the
1-5 Freeway Corridor TEA-21 Landscaping Project (the MOD), desires to implement
a plan for the improvement of landscaping along the 1-5 freeway c:orridor within
the boundaries of both the City of Orange and the Orange Merged and Amended
Redevelopment Project Area (the Public Improvements). The Public Improvements are more
particularly described on those certain Plans for the Construction of Highways and Streets
Landscape Project TEA 21 Landscape & Irrigation Improvement from SR-22 to City of
Anaheim City Limit, prepared in the office of Lynn Capouya, Inc., consisting of 17 sheets and approved
by the City's Director of Public Works on February 13, 2002 (the Plans). The Plans are on file
as a public record in the Office of the City's Public Works Director and are
incorporated herein by this reference as
though fully set forth; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 33445
of the California Community Redevelopment Law (Health and Safety Code Section 33000 et seq.),
the Public Improvements are provided for in the Redevelopment Plan for the Project An~a, and the
Agency desires
to cause their implementation; and WHEREAS, the Agency and the City have
determined that the Public Improvements are of benefit to the Project Area and the immediat{: neighborhoods
in which the Project Area are located; that the Agency's financial participation in
the engineering and construction of the Public Improvements will benefit the City, <md that the City has or
will have the ability to maintain (or cause to
be maintained) such improvements; and WHEREAS, the City and the Agency have
similar public purposes for the construction
of the Public Improvements; and WHEREAS, in furtherance of the public purposes of the
Agency and the City, the Agency and the City desire to enter into
that certain Cooperation and Reimbursement Agreement By and Between the City of Orange and
the Orange Redevelopment Agency for the Provision of Public Improvements of Benefit to
Redevelopment Project Area (Landscape & Irrigation Improvements from SR-22 to City
of Anaheim City Limit) (the Agreement) under which the City will pay the cost of
engineering and constructing the Public Improvements, and thereafter, the Agency will reimburse the
City for the Agency's share of the cost of the Public Improvements in the amount not to
exceed One Hundred Sixty-five Thousand Dollars ($165,000.
00); and WHEREAS, there are no other reasonab1le means of funding the Agency's
portion of the costs of the engineering and construction of the Public Improvements other than
the funds provided by the
Agency; and WHEREAS, as the lead agency under the California Environmental
Quality Act CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEP A), the City Council of the
City of Anaheim has previously determined that, under NEP A, the Improvements will not
have a significant adverse impact upon the environment and, that under CEQA, the
Improvements are within that class of projects which consists of a minor alteration of existing
public structures,facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible
or. no expansion of use beyond that previously existing. Moreover, the City Council of the
City of Anaheim found that the Improvements are categorically exempt pursuant to NEP A
and Section 15301 of the State CEQA
Guidelines; and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Orange Redevelopment Agency,
as a responsible agency under NEP A and CEQA, has duly considered
the environmental dete:rmination made by the City Council of the City of Anaheim and all of the
terms and conditions of the proposed Agreement and believes that the Public Improvements are 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
and requirements.NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOI,VED by the Orange
Redevelopment Agency as
fi)llows:Section 1. The foregoing recitals are true
and correct.Section 2. The Agency hereby detemlines that the Agreement is of benefit
to the Project Area, that no other reasonable means of financing the actions contemplated
by the Agreement are available to the community, and that the Public Improvements will
assist in the elimination of one or more blighting conditions inside the Project Area and
are consistent with the Implementation Plan adopted for the
Project Area.Section 3. The Agency hereby finds and determines that the Agreement
is exempt from the application of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public
Resource Code Se<;tion 21000 et seq.) pursuant to a Class 1 categorical exemption as set forth
in Section 15301 of Title 14 of the California Code
of Regulations.Section 4. The Agreement between the Agency and the City, a copy of which
is on file with the Agency Clerk, is hereby approved, and the Agency Chairman is
authorized and directed to execute said Agreement on behalf of
Section 5. Agency staff is hereby authorized and directed to take any appropriate
action consistent with the purposes of this Resolution and the Agreement approved hereby to
carry out the Agreement on behalf of the Agency.
ADOPTED this 9th day of July, 2002.
ATTEST:
r!aU<A~1i{l,4~.-(~Cassandra
J. Cath , Clerk hereby
certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the Orange
Redevelopment Agency at a regular meeting thereof held on the 9th day of July, 2002 by
the following vote:AYES:
DIRECTORS:NOES:
DIRECTORS:ABSENT:
DIRECTORS:ABSTAIN:
DIRECTORS:SLATER,
ALVAREZ, MURPHY, COONTZ, CAVECCHE NONE
NONE
NONE
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f~~A~Cassandra
J. Cath#, Clerk