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RES-ORA-0397 Cooperation & Reimbursement For Improvement of Certain Public Parking LotsRESOLUTION NO. ORA- 0397 A RESOLUTION OF THE ORANGE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A COOPERATION AND REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF ORANGE RELATING TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN PUBLIC PARKING LOTS SERVING THE CENTRAL PUBLIC SQUARE AND CIRCULAR PLAZA AT GLASSELL STREET AND CHAPMAN AVENUE.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 areas within the City of Orange (the "City"); and 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") area; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California (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 Project area; and WHEREAS, the City desires to upgrade certain trash enclosures within some of the public parking lots serving the central public square and circular Plaza at Glassell Street and Chapman Avenue (the "Plaza") with heavy duty metal gates (the "Public Improvements"), as described in that certain Cooperation and Reimbursement Agreement by and between the City and the Agency in the form presented at this meeting (the "Agreement"); and WHEREAS, as a responsible agency under the California Environmental Quality Act Public Resource Code Section 21000 et seq.). the Public Improvements will not have a significant adverse impact on the environment or historic resources; and WHEREAS, Section 33445 of the Law authorizes the Agency to enter into a contract with the City for the reimbursement of the costs of certain public improvements enumerated in the Redevelopment Plan upon the WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Plan, including materials referenced therein, enumerates certain public improvements which may be provided or contributed to by the Agency, including, without limitation, the provision of public street, sidewalk and landscaping improvements; and WHEREAS, the Public Improvements are provided for in the Redevelopment Plan for the Redevelopment Project area, 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 Redevelopment Project area and the immediate neighborhoods in which the Redevelopment Project area is located; that the Agency's financial participation in the cost of the Public Improvements will benefit the City and that the City has or will have the ability to maintain such Public Improvements; and WHEREAS, the Agency and the City have determined that the Public Improvements are of benefit to the Project Areas and the immediate neighborhoods in which the Project Areas are located; that the Agency's financial participation in the cost of the Public Improvements will benefit the City and that the City has or will have the ability to maintain 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 Redevelopment Plan for the Redevelopment Project and the public purposes of the Agency and the City, the Agency and the City desire to enter into the Agreement pursuant to which the City will cause the Public Improvements to be installed and constructed, and the Agency will reimburse the City for the Agency's share of the costs of such Public Improvements in the amount not to exceed $15,000 as more particularly set forth in the Agreement; and WHEREAS, there are no other reasonable means of funding the Agency's portion of the costs 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 foregoing recitals are true and correct. SectiOn 2. The Agency hereby determines that (a) the Agreement and the Public Improvements are of benefit to the Redevelopment Project area and the immediate neighborhoods in which the Redevelopment Project area is located, (b) that no other reasonable means of financing such Public Improvements are available to the community except as provided in the Agreement, (c) that the payment of funds for the cost of the Public Improvements will assist in the elimination of one or more blighting conditions inside the Reso No. ORA-0397 Project Area, and (d) the Public Improvements are consistent with the Implementation Plan adopted by the Agency for the Project Area pursuant to Section 33490 of the Health and Safety Code. 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 Section 21000 et seq.) pursuant to a "Class I" 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, 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 of the Agency. 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 cany out the Agreement on behalf of the Agency. ADOPTED this 14th day of August, 2001. ATTEST: 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 14th day of August, 2001 by the following vote: AYES: DIRECTORS: NOES: DIRECTORS: ABSENT: DIRECTORS: ABSTAIN: DIRECTORS: SLATER, ALVAREZ, CHAIRMAN MURPHY. COONTZ, CAVECCHE NONE NONE NONE Reso No. ORA- 0397