96-198 RESOLUTION NO. 96R-198
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ANAHEIM HPPROVING THE SECOND COOPERATION
HGREEMENT WITH THE ANAHEIM REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY REGAHDING DEVELOPMENT AND FUNDING OF
THE DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER
WHEREAS, the Anaheim Redevelopment Agency (the "Agency") is
engaged in implementation of the Redevelopment Plan for the Alpha
Redevelopment Project area (the 'Project Area");
WHERE~E, in order to provide new and improved cultural,
community service, educational and recreational opportunities to
residents of the City of Anaheim generally and of the Project
Area particularly, the City of Anaheim (the 'City") and the
Agency desire to construct the Downtown Community Center on
property located at the intersection of Center and Philadelphia
Streets (the "Community Center");
WHEREAS, the Community Center will consolidate several
existing and new uses, including a Senior Citizen's Center, City
Recreation and Human Services Programs, City Gymnasium, Arts
Center, and City Boxing Club;
WHEREAS, in connection with the Community Center, City and
Agency have heretofore entered into that certain Cooperation
Agreement Regarding Downtown Community Center dated as of
January 10, 1995;
WHEREAS, in order to further develop the Community Center
(the "Project"), City and Agency propose to enter into that
certain Second Cooperation Agreement Regarding Downtown Community
Center dated as of December 3, 1996 (the "Second Cooperation
Agreement");
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Second Cooperation Agreement,
(a) Agency, with funds drawn from its Low and Moderate Income
Housing Fund, will prepay (the "Agency Payment") certain City
park and recreation fees (the "Park Fees") for future Agency-
sponsored affordable housing projects located within the area
benefitted by the Community Center, (b) City will pay interest on
the Agency Payment, (c) City will hold Park Fees at current
levels for five (5) years for such affordable housing projects,
and (d) City will allocate the Agency Payment to fund the cost of
constructing the Community Center;
WHEREAS, Agency contemplates that the prepaid Park Fees will
be used to support the development of approximately two hundred
(200) affordable housing units within the central Anaheim area;
WHEREAS, development of the Community Center will free up
the site on which an affordable senior housing project (the
"Senior Housing Project") will be developed adjacent to the
Community Center and, inasmuch as the Community Center will
provide facilities for the use of the residents of the Senior
Housing Project, it will also reduce the cost of development of
the Senior Housing Project;
W~ERR~$, the City freezing, for five (5) years at current
levels, Park Fees for Agency-sponsored affordable housing
projects will promote the development of affordable housing in
the community;
WRER~AS, the Community Center will be used by area groups,
organizations (such as the Boys and Girls Club) and residents,
many of whom are of very low and low or moderate income; and
~ERRAS, in conjunction with the use of federal funds for
the Project, City, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy
Act, prepared and circulated a Finding of No Significant Impact
("FONSI") for the Project, which FONSI found that, with the
inclusion in the Project of certain mitigation measures, the
Project would have no significant impact on the environment.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Anaheim as follows:
1. The City Council finds that the Project is primarily of
benefit to the Project Area.
2. The City Council hereby finds that the payment of funds
for the acquisition of land and/or the cost of the Community
Center will assist in the elimination of one or more blighting
conditions inside Redevelopment Project Alpha, and is consistent
with the Agency's Implementation Plan adopted pursuant to Health
and Safety Code Section 33490.
3. The City Council finds that implementation of the
Second Cooperation Agreement and development of the Downtown
Community Center will promote Agency's obligation to increase the
supply of affordable housing in the community.
4. The Second Cooperation Agreement is hereby approved.
5. The Mayor, or the City Manager, and the city Clerk are
hereby authorized and directed to sign and execute the Second
Cooperation Agreement on behalf of the city.
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THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Anaheim this 10th day of December ,
1996.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM ) ·
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing
Resolution No. 96R-198 was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting provided by law, of
the Anaheim City Council held on the 10th day of December, 1996, by the following vote of the
members thereof:
AYES: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: McCracken, Zemel, Lopez, Daly
NOES: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: Tait
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Resolution
No. 96R-198 on the 10th day of December, 1996.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City
of Anaheim this 10th day of December, 1996.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing
is the odginal of Resolution No. 96R-198 was duly passed and adopted by the City Council of
the City of Anaheim on December 10th, 1996.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM