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a valuable resource for displacees and further substantiates the availability of replacement rental units. The Housing Division has also compiled a list of vacant, available, residentially zoned lots throughout the city in order to be able to construct replacement housing units as necessary, a copy of which is also attached hereto. Although the inventory is not static, it is indicative of the inventory that exists throughout the city at any point in time. Tbese lots, dispersed throughout the conm~unity, provide the opportunity to construct up to 65 single-family and duplex residential units. The ttousing Division has shelf-ready, approved house plans, either three- or four-bedroom units, including three floorplans and a choice of six exterior elevations for compatibility with a variety of Santa Aha neighborhoods. This is being done to assure that the Redevelopment Agency [las the capability to produce replacement housing as the need arises. Certain nonblighted parcels are necessary to be included in tile project area for the effective redevelopment of the project area. A process of elimination was utilized to identify the nonbiighted, non- Bristol Street properties which the Court of Appeals has stated require further articulation to explain why their inclusion is necessary for the effectiveness of the redevelopment plan. Those properties which will be affected by the widening of Bristol Street are not at issue, according to the Court. Nor are those residentially zoned and utilized properties within the project area lying outside the influence of Bristol Street. The evidence of overcrowding throughout the project area, the age and condition of the residential ilousing stock, and crime rates within the project area, all testify to the blighted condition of these residential units. Parcels owned or leased long-term by government entities were also subtracted from the from the list of properties to be analyzed. This process of subtraction left 285 non-Bristol, primarily nonresidential properties, generally lying along First, Fifth and Seventeenth Streets for consideration as possibly nonblighted. These parcels were analyzed for a variety of blighting criteria as identified in the Health and Safety Code, such as lots of irregular shape and inadequate size, nonconforming and incompatible land uses, high incidence of criminal activity, marginal tenancies and high vacancies. This analysis is attached hereto. The following 14 parcels do not exhibit sufficient negative characteristics to be deemed blighted within tile definitions of the Health and Safety Code: 1. 413-419 West 17th Street - a new strip retail center 2. 521-525 West 17th Street- bank building 1205 West 17tt~ Street - car wash 4. 2111 West 17th Street - apartment complex Attachment Page 2 of