5915ORDINANCE NO. 5915
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ANAHEIM APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE THIRD AMENDMENT
TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE PLAZA
REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
WHEREAS, the Anaheim Redevelopment Agency ("Agency") is a community
redevelopment agency organized and existing under the California Community Redevelopment
Law, Health and Safety Code Section 33000, et. seq., ("CRL") and has been authorized to
transact business and exercise the powers of a redevelopment agency pursuant to action of the
City Council of the City of Anaheim ("City Council"); and
WHEREAS, on June 12, 1990, by Ordinance No. 5136, the City Council approved and
adopted the Redevelopment Plan for the Plaza Redevelopment Project ("Project Area") and
subsequently amended the redevelopment plan ("Existing Plan") twice to establish time limits in
compliance with AB 1290, SB 1045 and other provisions of the CRL; and
WHEREAS, the ordinances adopting the Existing Plan, as amended (collectively, the
"Original Ordinances"), including the findings and determinations made by the City Council
therein are made part hereof by this reference; and
WHEREAS, the Agency is vested with the responsibility to carry out the Existing Plan;
and
WHEREAS, as a part of this amendment proceeding, the Agency desires to amend the
Existing Plan ("Amendment") to merge the Project Area with the Alpha, River Valley,
Commercial/Industrial, West Anaheim Commercial Corridors, and Stadium Redevelopment
Projects ("Merged Project Area") to allow the combining of tax increment revenues from each
and all of these constituent project areas so that taxes attributable to each constituent project area
which are allocated to the Agency pursuant to CRL Section 33670(b) are allocated to the entire
Merged Project Area for the purpose of paying principal of, and interest on, indebtedness
incurred by the Agency to finance or refinance, in whole or in part, the Merged Project Area;
except that any such taxes attributable to any constituent project area shall first be used to pay
indebtedness in compliance with the teens of any bond resolution or other agreement pledging
such taxes from the constituent project area, which resolution or other agreement was adopted or
approved by the Agency prior to the merging of these projects; and except as otherwise noted
above, tax increment revenue attributed to each constituent project may be used for any lawful
purpose in any constituent project now within the Merged Project Area; and
WHEREAS, further, the Amendment (as well as the concurrent amendments to the other
constituent project areas) creating the Merged Project Area will best facilitate the revitalization
of blighted areas through economic vitality and increased and improved housing opportunities
pursuant to CRL Article 16, Section 33485, et seq.; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has received from the Agency the proposed Amendment, a
copy of which is on file at the office of the City Clerk, City Hall East, 200 S. Anaheim
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Boulevard, Anaheim, California, 92805, together with the Agency's Report to the City Council
on the Amendment and Supplement to the Report to the City Council on the Amendment,
including the reasons for the Amendment; proposed projects and programs; the proposed method
of financing the redevelopment of the Merged Project Area which includes the Project Area; the
report of the Planning Commission of the City with respect to the conformity of the Amendment
with the General Plan of the City of Anaheim (`General Plan"); a neighborhood impact report; a
summary of consultations with Project Area property owners, businesses and community
organizations; and a summary of consultations with affected taxing agencies; and
WHEREAS, a project area committee was not required to be formed in connection with
this Amendment because it does not affect the existing authority of the Agency to acquire
property on which a substantial number of low and moderate income persons reside and because
this Amendment does not contain additional public projects and does not grant the Agency
authority to fund or develop additional public projects that would displace a substantial number
of low and moderate income persons; and
WHEREAS, although this Amendment, and each of the proposed plan amendments
causing the merger, will be considered and adopted separately pursuant to the CRL to facilitate
their consideration this Amendment and each of the proposed plan amendments causing the
merger have been aggregated and presented together in a single joint public hearing; and
WHEREAS, the City Council and the Agency held a joint public hearing on May 11,
2004, on the adoption of the Amendment in the City Council Chambers, City Hall East, 200 S.
Anaheim Boulevard, Anaheim, California, 92805; and
WHEREAS, notice of said joint public hearing was duly and regularly published in a
newspaper of general circulation in the City, once a week for four successive weeks prior to the
date of such joint public hearing, and a copy of said notice was mailed, by first class mail, to
each last known assessee of each parcel and to all known residents and businesses located on
each parcel in the Project Area not less than thirty days prior to the date of commencement of the
joint public hearing and affidavits of such publication and such mailing are on file with the City
Clerk and the Agency; and
WHEREAS, copies of the notice of joint public hearing were mailed by certified mail
with return receipt requested to the governing body of each affected taxing agency which
receives taxes from property in the Project Area; and
WHEREAS, the Agency, in accordance with CRL Section 33488, has notified timely the
State of California Department of Housing and Community Development of its intention to
merge the Project Area with the Alpha, River Valley, Commercial/Industrial, West Anaheim
Commercial Corridors, and Stadium Redevelopment Projects; and
WHEREAS, in conformity with the requirements of CRL Section 33490, the Agency has
previously adopted and has in place an implementation plan for the Existing Plan and each of the
constituent project areas (`Implementation Plan") that describes the redevelopment project areas,
the specific goals and objectives for the project areas, and the specific programs, including
potential projects and estimated expenditures proposed during the five (5) year term of such
Implementation Plan, and further, the Implementation Plan includes an explanation of how the
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goals, objectives, programs, and expenditure will eliminate blight in the project area and
implement the affordable housing requirement of the CRL; and
WHEREAS, the Implementation Plan in place is current for the applicable five year
period, and does not require amendment in connection with this Amendment or other merger
proceedings; and
WHEREAS, these proceedings for the merger of all existing project areas have
proceeded pursuant to and in conformity with CRL Section 33486 through the proposed
amendment of each affected redevelopment plan for each constituent project area as provided in
Article 12 of CRL Section 33450, et seq.; and
WHEREAS, Section 33457.1 of Article 12 provides that to the extent warranted by a
proposed amendment to a redevelopment plan, the reports and information required by Section
33352 and 33367 will be prepared; and
WHEREAS, Section 15061 of the Guidelines for the California Environmental Quality
Act (CEQA), Title 14, California Code of Regulations, Sections 15000, et seq. ("CEQA
Guidelines"), provides that after a preliminary review a public agency may determine that a
project is exempt from the provisions of CEQA; and
WHEREAS, as to the proposed Amendment, the exemption set forth in Section
15061(b)(2) is applicable to this Ordinance and the project approved hereby, states that
amending the Existing Plan so that it is merged with all other existing project areas to create the
Merged Project Area is exempt pursuant to the categorical exemption set forth in Section
15378(b)(4), in that creation of a government funding mechanism or other government fiscal
activity which does not involve any commitment to any specific project which may result in a
potentially significant physical impact on the environment; and
WHEREAS, after determining that a project is exempt, the Agency may prepare a notice
of exemption which may be filed with the county clerk after the project is approved; and
WHEREAS, a preliminary review of environmental impacts was prepared in connection
with the proposed Amendment, which will cause the merger of the Existing Plan, as amended,
with all other existing project areas, the exemption of Section 15378(b)(4) applies, in that the
merger proceedings are a government funding mechanism or other government fiscal activity
and therefore not a "project" under said section and exempt under CEQA and the CEQA
Guidelines; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has considered the report and recommendation of the
Planning Commission, the Report to the City Council of the Agency, the Amendment to the
Existing Plan, has provided an opportunity for all persons to be heard, and has received and
considered all evidence and testimony presented for or against any and all aspects of the
Amendment and has made written findings in response to each written objection of an affected
property owner or taxing entity, if any, filed with the City Clerk before or during such joint
public hearing; and
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WHEREAS, all actions required by law have been taken by all appropriate public
bodies.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL, OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
DOES HEREBY, FIND AND ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS.
Section 1. The foregoing recitals are fully incorporated herein and made a substantive
part of this Ordinance.
Section 2. The City Council having considered the preliminary review of environmental
impacts prepared in connection with the proposed Amendment, including the record of these
proceedings and the above recitals, hereby finds and determines that Amendment to the
Rede�;,elopment Plan for the Plaza Redevelopment Project is exempt from further environmental
ncview pursuant to Sections 15061(b)(21, and I-,') and Section 15378(b)(4) of the CEQA
Guidelines.
Section 3. The City .'lerk is hereby authoriL_ed to prepare and file a Notice of Exemption
with the, Clerk for the County of Orange upon appro, al el tie Amendment by the ity Council.
Section 4. Based on the evidence in the record, including, but not limited to, the
Age!acy's Report to the City Council on the Amendment prepared in accordance with CRL
Section 3.5352, and all documents referenced therein. and evidence and testimony received at the
joint public hearing on adoption of the Amendment held on May 11, '2004, and the Original
Ordinances, the City Council, hereby makes the following findings and. determinations as
warrantPd by the A mendment:
a) The implementation of th- Amcrdment (and the other amendments
pausing tine merger) will promote the public peace, health, safety and welfare of the City
of Anaheim a.nd will effectuate the purposes and policies of the. CRL,. This finding is
based co the fact that the Amendment is and -.vill be of substantial benefit to the
community and contribute to the revitalisation of blighted areas through increased
conomIc vitality of such areas., and increased acid improved housing opportunities, in
particular th , firancial benefits ane. f as!b '.ity of the Mergeci Project Area that will
.tccruc uue to she merger.
b`. The carrying out of the Arrtendment would promote the public peace,
health, safety and welfare of the City and would effectuate the purposes and policies of
the CRI,. This finding is based on the fact that redevelopment will benefit the Project
Area and the Merged Project Area as a a%hole by correcting cordiuorts of blight and by
cnordinating public and private actions stimulate development and improve the
ecorlorr)ic and physical .;onditions of tlic Mlciged Project Area including the Project Area.
<:) Mc adoptiori and carrying out of the Amendment is economically sound
ane feasil) Lir,,, finding 'is based --,n r1a tact that under the Existing Plan and the
�_mendment the Agency w01 continue to be authoriz; d to ;eek and utilize a variety of
potential financing resources, including property tax increment revenues, that the nature
and riming; of pi:bli redeve'i"opynent assistance v,,"thin the project Area will continue to
depend upon the amount and aavarlability-)L su�,h financing resources, including tax
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increment generated by new investment in the Merged Project Area; that under the
Existing Plan and the Amendment no public redevelopment activity can be undertaken
unless the Agency can demonstrate that it has adequate revenue to finance the activity;
and that the financing plan included within the Agency's Report to the City Council
prepared for the Amendment demonstrates that sufficient financial resources will be
available to carry out the implementation of the Existing Plan and will allow flexibility
within the Merged Project Area in addressing the most pressing needs and respond to
market forces more effectively.
d) The Amendment is consistent with the General Plan, including, but not
limited to, the Housing Element of the General Plan, which substantially complies with
the requirements of Article 10.6 (commencing with Section 65580) of Chapter 3 of
Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code. This finding is based upon the General
Plan and the findings of the Planning Commission that the Amendment conforms to the
General Plan as set forth in its Resolution No. 2004-28.
e) The finding and determination required by CRL Section 33367(d)(6) is not
warranted by the Amendment because the Existing Plan does not contain authority for the
Agency to acquire, by eminent domain, any property within the Project Area.
f) The Agency has a feasible method and plan for the relocation of families
and persons who might be displaced, temporarily or permanently, from housing facilities
in the Merged Project Area by means other than the use of eminent domain. The Agency
also has a feasible method and plan for relocation of businesses. This finding is based
upon the fact that in conjunction with the adoption of the Original Ordinances, the
Agency had prepared a method or plan for relocation of families, persons and businesses
that may be displaced by Agency projects. The relocation plans prepared for the Project
Area by the Existing Plan, and included within the Report(s) to the City Council prepared
for the Existing Plan provides for relocation assistance within the Project Area according
to law, and the fact that such assistance, including relocation payments, constitutes a
feasible method for relocation.
g) There are, or shall be provided, within the Merged Project Area or within
other areas not generally less desirable with regard to public utilities and public and
commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and
persons who might be displaced from the Project Area, decent, safe and sanitary
dwellings equal in number to the number of and available to such displaced families and
persons and reasonably accessible to their places of employment. This finding is based
upon the provisions of the Existing Plan and Original Ordinances which require that
families and persons shall not be displaced prior to the adoption of a relocation plan
pursuant to CRL Sections 33411 and 33411. 1, and that dwelling units housing persons
and families of low or moderate -income shall not be removed or destroyed prior to the
adoption of a replacement housing plan pursuant to CRL Sections 33334.5, 33413 and
33413.5.
Section 5. The City Council is satisfied that permanent housing facilities will be
available within three years from the time residential occupants of the Project Area, if any, are
displaced, and that pending the development of such facilities, there will be available to any such
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displaced residential occupants temporary housing facilities at rents comparable to those in the
City at the time of their displacement. This finding is based upon the City Council's finding that
no persons or families of low and moderate income shall be displaced from residences unless and
until there are suitable housing units available and ready for occupancy by such displaced
persons or families at rents comparable to those at the time of their displacement. Such housing
units shall be suitable to the needs of such displaced persons or families and must be decent,
safe, sanitary and otherwise standard dwellings.
Section 6. Written objections to the Amendment filed with the City Clerk before the
hour set for the hearing on the Amendment and all written and oral objections presented to the
City Council at the hearing having been considered and, in the case of written objections
received from Project Area property owners, occupants and affected taxing agencies having been
responded to in writing, all such objections are hereby overruled.
Section 7. The Existing Plan, as adopted by the Original Ordinances, is hereby further
amended as set forth in the Amendment attached hereto as Exhibit A. As so amended, the
Existing Plan is hereby incorporated herein by reference. The Executive Director of the Agency
is hereby authorized to combine the Amendment attached hereto as Exhibit A with the Existing
Plan prepared for the Plaza Redevelopment Project, and when filed with the City Clerk and the
Secretary of the Agency, shall constitute the official Redevelopment Plan for the Plaza
Redevelopment Project.
Section 8. In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation of the Amendment
hereby approved, this City Council hereby: (a) pledges its cooperation in helping to carry out the
Amendment, (b) authorizes and directs the various officials, departments, boards, and agencies
of the City having administrative responsibilities in the Project Area likewise to cooperate to
such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with
redevelopment of the Project Area, (c) stands ready to consider and take appropriate action upon
proposals and measures designed to effectuate the amendment, and (d) declares its intention to
undertake and complete any proceeding necessary to be carried out by the City under the
provisions of the Amendment.
Section 9. The City Clerk is hereby directed to send a certified copy of this Ordinance to
the Agency, whereupon the Agency is vested with the responsibility for carrying out the
Amendment.
Section 10. The City Clerk is hereby directed to record with the County Recorder of the
County of Orange a statement that proceedings for the redevelopment of the Project Area,
pursuant to the Amendment, have been instituted under the CRL.
Section 11. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to certify to the passage of
this Ordinance and to cause the same or a summary thereof to be published in a newspaper of
general circulation. which is published and circulated in the City.
Section 12. If any part of this Ordinance or the Amendment which it approves is held to
be invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of
this Ordinance or of the Amendment, and this City Council hereby declares that it would have
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passed the remainder of the Ordinance or approved the remainder of the Amendment if such
invalid portion thereof had been deleted.
Section 13. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after
adoption.
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Introduced and first read at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim
held the I I th day of May 2004, and thereafter PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular
meeting of said City Council held the 25th day of May 2004, by the following roll call
vote:
AYES:Mayor Curt Pringle Council Members, Tom Tait,Shirley McCracken, Richard Chavez
NOES: none
ABSENT: Council Member Bob Hernandez
ABSTAIN: none
CITY OF AHEIM
By:
Mayor
ATTEST:
SHERYLL>WHROEDER, CITY CLERK
By.
Sheryll Schroedet-)
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
JACK L. WHITF� CITY ATTORNEY
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John E. AVoodhead Iii
Assistanf-12ity Attorney
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EXHIBIT A
THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE PLAZA
REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
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THIRD AMENDMENT TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
FOR THE
PLAZA REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
BACKGROUND
The Redevelopment Plan ("Redevelopment Plan") for the Plaza Redevelopment Project
("Project' or "Project Area") was approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of
Anaheim ("City Council") on June 12, 1990 by Ordinance No. 5136. The Project Area is
comprised of 350 acres located near the central portion of the City and is bisected by Interstate
5. Primary uses in the area include commercial, retail, office, and industrial land uses.
Subsequent to the adoption of the Redevelopment Plan, the City Council adopted the first
amendment to the Redevelopment Plan on December 13, 1994 by Ordinance No. 5465, which
established certain time limits in compliance with AB 1290. The second amendment adopted by
the City Council on December 16, 2003 by Ordinance No. 5895 extended the time limit for
Redevelopment Plan effectiveness, payment of incurred indebtedness, and receipt of tax
increment by one (1) year in accordance with SB 1045.
The Anaheim Redevelopment Agency ("Agency") is proposing a third amendment ("Third
Amendment') to the Redevelopment Plan, the sole purpose of which is to merge the Project
Area with the Alpha Redevelopment Project, River Valley Redevelopment Project, Commercial/
Industrial Redevelopment Project, West Anaheim Commercial Corridors Redevelopment
Project, and the Stadium Redevelopment Project ("Merged Projects"). No amendment is
proposed to the fiscal or time limits or the boundaries of the Project Area. The fiscal and time
limits in effect and stated in the Redevelopment Plan, as amended, for the Project Area shall
remain in force and effect.
The Redevelopment Plan is hereby further amended to include a new Part X to the
Redevelopment Plan to read as follows:
X. (§1000) MERGER
Upon the effective date of the ordinance adopting the Third Amendment to this
Redevelopment Plan, and provided the ordinances become effective amending the
Redevelopment Plans for the Merged Projects, the Plaza Redevelopment Project will hereby be
merged with the Alpha Redevelopment Project, River Valley Redevelopment Project,
Commercial/Industrial Redevelopment Project, West Anaheim Commercial Corridors
Redevelopment Project, and the Stadium Redevelopment Project, collectively referred to as the
"Merged Redevelopment Projects".
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The City Council of the City of Anaheim recently adopted an
ordin"ploproving and edopdno an amendment to the Re.
devekipmertt Plan for the Plaza_ Redevelopment Project.
With the ado
p tion of the ordinance, the City Council has
merged the Plaza Project with the Redevelopment Agency's
other five redevelopment -project areas into one project
area. The merger win allow the Agency to combine taX in-
crement revenues from the prolect areas and reallocate the
revenues throughout the entire merged project area thereby
facilitating the revitalization of blighted areas through eco-
normc vftkty, and increased and Improved housing opportu-
nties. Thet�g er also streamlines admiMshative activities
related 16 reP�fin9 requirements.
The ordinance also contains a number of findings and deter-
minations as required bbyy �die California Community Redevel-
oppment Law Section 3 187 (d)(1). The purpose and lritent,
of the enertdmarrt is to continue to eliminate bffghthtg condi-
tions in the merged project area thrpugh rrocessery moans
and prevent Qtsir reoccurrence by u an appropn-
ate redevelopment projects and programs au in the ex-
isting redeveMpmsrt plans.
I; Sheryll Schroeder, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do
hereby cer�y that the foregoi is a surnmery of Ordinance
No. 6915 which ordinance was Introduced at a regular meet-
ing of the City Council of the City of Anaheim on the lith
day of May, 1004 and was duly passed lord adopted at a
regular meeting of sant Council on the Wh day of May,
2004 by the following roll call vote of the members thereof:
AYES: Mayor Pringle, Council Members: McCracken,
Tait, Chavez
NOES: None
ABSENT: Hernandez
The above summary Is a brief description of the subject mat-
ter contained in the text of Ordinance No. 59t5, which has
been prepared purstsant to Section 512 of the Charter of the
City of Anaheim. This summery does not include or de-
scnbe every provision of the ordinance and should not be
relied or as a a btut. for die fila tent of the ordinance.
To obtain a copy of the foal ted of the ordinance, please con-
tact the Offlq of the City Clerk, (714) 7011 between
6:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday. There is no
charge for the copy.
Publish: Anaheim Bulletin
June 3, 2004
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