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. . . RESOLUTIONNO.1999-14 A'RESOLUTION OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA FINDING THAT THE AGGREGATION OF THE NEW OR SUBSTANTIALLY REHABILITATED DWELLING UNITS IN ONE OR MORE REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREAS WILL NOT EXACERBATE RACIAL, ETHNIC OR ECONOMIC SEGREGATION WHEREAS, the State Community Redevelopment Law (Health & Safety Code section 33000 et seq.) requires at section 33413(b)(2)(A) that at least fifteen percent (15%) of all new and substantially redeveloped dwelling units developed within any redevelopment project area by public or private entities or by persons other than the redevelopment agency be available at as affordable housing to persons and families with low or moderate income, and that not less than forty percent (40%) of such dwelling units be available to and occupied by persons and families with very low income; and WHEREAS, this provision of state law further provides that the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Ana ("Agency") must adopt a plan to accommodate this and associated requirements of this section as part of the five year ImplementationPlan, which has been considered and approved by the Agency as part of this same agenda item; and WHEREAS, this provision of state law further allows a redevelopment agency having jurisdiction over more than one redevelopment project area to aggregate such new or substantially rehabilitated dwelling units in one or more project areas, provided only that the agency fmds, based on substantial evidence that the segregation will not exacerbate racial, ethnic or economic segregation within the jurisdiction; and WHEREAS, at a duly noticed public hearing held on December 6, 1999 in conjunction with the adoption of the Agency's five year Implementation Plan, the Agency has considered all public testimony offered regarding this portion of the five year Implementation Plan; and WHEREAS, the Agency has detennined that rather than adopt an Implementation Plan to meet the provisions of this section separately for each project area, that the Implementation Plan should address these issues in an aggregate fashion; and WHEREAS, all demographic infonnation available to the Agency demonstrates that the persons and families of differing racial, ethnic and economic backgrounds are dispersed throughout the different redevelopment project areas of the city as well as in neighboring residential areas; and