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2002-169RESOLUTION NO. 2002R-169 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CITY'S SUBMITTAL OF A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES GRANT AND LOAN PROGRAM APPLICATION TO THE CALIFORNIA POLLUTION CONTROL FINANCING AUTHORITY FOR FUNDING ASSISTANCE RELATED TO REMEDIATION AND REDEVELOPMENT OF THE KWIKSET PROPERTY LOCATED AT 516 EAST SANTA ANA STREET IN THE CITY OF ANAHEIM, COUNTY OF ORANGE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim ("City") is a municipal corporation and charter city of the State of California, authorized and empowered to conduct the municipal affairs of thc City; WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Anaheim ("City Council") is the legislative and governing body of the City; WHEREAS, the Anaheim Redevelopment Agency ("Agency"), a public body corporate and politic, is a community redevelopment agency organized, existing and exercising its powers pursuant to the California Community Redevelopment Law, Health and Safety Code Section 33000, et seq. (the "CRL"); WHEREAS, the Commercial/Industrial Redevelopment Plan ("Redevelopment Plan") and the Commercial/Industrial Redevelopment Project Area boundaries were duly established and adopted in accordance with the CRL; WHEREAS, the Agency is vested with the power to implement the Redevelopment Plan in order to carry out its adopted goals and objectives; WHEREAS, in specific implementation of the Redevelopment Plan, the Agency and the City are desirous of undertaking redevelopment of a vacant and idle sixteen (16) acres of real property located at 516 East Santa Ana Street in the City of Anaheim, California (the "Kwikset Property"); WHEREAS, the Agency has entered into a contract to purchase the Kwikset Property in an effort to redevelop the vacant industrial property as new residential housing, including market- rate for-sale, rental, and assisted affordable rental housing; WHEREAS, the Kwikset Property was formally occupied by the Kwikset Corporation and used for metal fabrication and related activities associated with manufacturing security devices such as household locks, deadbolts and keys; F/DOCS',DEVSVCS~,RESOLUTNXAHR2710B DOC WHEREAS, environmental assessments and reports have determined that soil contamination of various hazardous materials and substances exists on the Kwikset Property and that remediation of such contamination is necessary in order to redevelop the property for residential uses; WHEREAS, the Community Development Department of the City has submitted an application to the California Pollution Control Financing Authority for a Sustainable Communities Grant and Loan Program in order to secure financial assistance in remediating the environmentally contaminated conditions existing on the Kwikset Property; WHEREAS, remediation and redevelopment of the Kwikset Property from a vacant and under-utilized industrial property to new residential housing meets all eligibility requirements of California Pollution Control Financing Authonty's Sustainable Communities Grant and Loan Program, in that: a) the project will remediate soil contaminatmn found on the Kwikset Property and thereby reduce the pollution hazards and degradation of the environment at the site and the surrounding neighborhood; b) the project will assist in the revitalization and economic development of the surrounding neighborhood; c) the project promotes infill development by redeveloping the vacant and under utilized industrial property into new residential housing that will be designed and developed to promote a mixture of housing opportunities from market-rate tbr-sale and rental to affordable housing; and d) the Kwikset Property is part of an overall one hundred twenty (120) acres "Downtown Industrial Reuse Area" fbr which thc City has initiated a General Plan Amendment and reuse study to redevelop and revitalize the existing depilated physical and environmental conditions. NOW THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Anaheim does hereby resolve as follows: lt. The City Council finds the foregoing Recitals are true and correct and are hereby made a substantive part of this Resolution. The City Council certifies that the City meets the criteria fbr the Sustainable Communities Grant and Loan Program and respectfully requests the Califbmia Pollution Control Financing Authority accept the application for review and approval. 3. The City Council certifies that the City has the authority to carry out the work included in the Sustainable Communities Grant and Loan Program conducted by the California Pollution Control Financing Authority. 1-9 DOCS',DEV SVC S\RESOLU YN',AHR27 ! OB DOC THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION IS PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM THIS 23 ( rd ) DAY OF July ,2002. ATTEST: C6Y ~ - CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM APPROVED AS TO FORM: JACK L.3,VHI'TE~CITY ATTORNEY S~ISTANT CITY ATTORNEY F \DOC$',DEV SVCS\RESOLUTNL~'-IR2710B DOC STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF ANAHEIM ) I, SHERYLL SCHROEDER, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. 2002R-169 was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting provided by law, of the Anaheim City Council held on the 23rd day of July, 2002, by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: Feldhaus, Tait, Kdng, McCracken, Daly NOES: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSTAINED: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: MAYOR/COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ~ITY CLER~ OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM (SEAL)