RES-ORA-0393 Cooperation & Reimbursement Agreement For Acquisition of Pedestrian EasementRESOLUTION NO. ORA-
0393 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING
THE EXECUTION OF A COOPERATION
AND REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT BY
AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF ORANGE AND
THE ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR
THE ACQUISITION OF A PEDESTRIAN EASEMENT
IN THE PLAZA HISTORIC
DISTRICT WHEREAS, on November 20, 1984, the City Council of the City of Orange
adopted Ordinance No. 37-84 approving the Redevelopment Plan for the Southwest
Redevelopment Project,which Redevelopment Plan was amended (i) on July 15, 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 California Health and Safety Code Sections 33000 et seq. and herein referred
to as the "Law"), the Agency is a duly constituted redevelopment agency under the laws
of the State of California, and pursuant to such laws is responsible for carrying
out the Redevelopment Plan for the Redevelopment Project in the
redevelopment area (the "Project Area"); and WHEREAS, the City, in accordance with its Santa
Fe Depot Area Specific Plan (as adopted by the City Council by Ordinance 4-94 on February
15, 1994) and to aid and cooperate in the undertaking of redevelopment projects, pursuant
to authority granted to it by Section 33220 of the Law, desires to acquire a mid-
block east/west pedestrian walkway easement at 152-158 N. Glassell Street, which connects
customer parking facilities located west of N. Glassell Street with business locations along N. Glassell Street
and the rest of the Plaza Historic District;such public walkway
easement constitutes the "Public Improvements" described in the Cooperation and Reimbursement Agreement by and
between the City of Orange
and the Orange Redevelopment Agency (the "Agreement"); and WHEREAS, pursuant to Section
33445 of the Law, the Public Improvements are provided for in the Redevelopment Plan for the
Project Area, and the Agency desires to cause their implementation by financially assisting the
City in the cost of acquisition thereof; and WHEREAS, the City Council
has determined that the Public Improvements are of benefit to the Project Area and the immediate
neighborhood in which the Project Area is located;that the Agency's financial participation
benefit the City and that the owner of the property over which the pedestrian walkway easement
is located has the ability to maintain such improvements; and
WHEREAS, the City and the Agency have similar public purposes for the acquisition 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 the Agreement under which the City will pay the cost of
acquisition of the Public Improvements, and thereafter, the Agency will reimburse the City for
the cost of the Public Improvements in the amount of Forty Thousand Five Hundred Forty
Dollars ($40,540), plus such other and customary costs as are associated with escrow and title
insurance in connection with said acquisition; and
WHEREAS, there are no other reasonable means of funding the cost of the acquisition of
the Public Improvements other than the funds provided by the Agency.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Orange Redevelopment Agency as
follows:
Section 1. The Agency hereby determines that the Agreement is of benefit to the
Project Areas, 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 2. The Agreement between the Agency and the City, in the form presented at
this meeting, is hereby approved, and the Agency Chairman is authorized and directed to execute,
and the Agency Clerk to attest, said Agreement on behalf ofthe Agency.
Section 3. 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 lOth day of July, 2001.
Jt
Mark A. Murphy, Ch
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ATTEST:
L AfA.4AU-t'~...u ~ L4-;
t-d! ~Cassandra J. Cathcart, tl rk of the Orange
Redevelopment Agency 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 10th day of July, 2001
by the
following
vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:ABSTAIN:DIRECTORS: SLATER, ALVAREZ, MURPHY,
COONTZ, CAVECCHE
DIRECTORS: NONE
DIRECTORS: NONE
DIRECTORS: NONE rk ofthe Orange
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