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, I 8 CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY WITHIN THE A-lO REDEVELOPMENT SITE (ASSESSOR PARCEL NO. 398-515-02; 116 NORTH FRENCH STREET) PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 85-33 DIRECTING CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY WITHIN THE A-lO REDEVELOPMENT SITE (ASSESSOR PARCEL NO. 398-515-05 & 07; 321 EAST FIRST STREET). PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 85-34 DIRECTING CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY WITHIN THE A-10 REDEVELOPMENT SITE (ASSESSOR PARCEL NO. 398-491-01 & 03; 506 AND 510 EAST SECOND STREET). PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 85-35 DIRECTING CONDEMNATION OF PROPERTY WITHIN THE A-13 REDEVELOPMENT SITE (1006-1008 WEST SANTA ANA BOULEVARD: ASSESSOR PARCEL NO. 405-161-16) Chairman Griset announced that it was the time and place for the Public Hearing on the issue of the public necessity to acquire by condemnation properties identified by Assessor Parcel Numbers, as Book 405, Page and Block 161 Parcels 16 and 17, for redevelopment purposes. He asked that staff identify the properties and the project and to comment on the factors and evidence necessitating the condemnation action and set forth why the public interest and necessity require the project; why the project is planned or located in the manner that will be most compatible with the greatest public good and the least private injury; why the properites sought to be acquired are necessary for the project; and, whether or not the offers as required by Section 7267.2 of the Government Code have been made to the owners of record, or the offer has not been made because the owners cannot be located with reasonable diligence. The Real Estate Manager stated that 1002 through 1008 West Santa Ana Blvd. was owned by George M. Hansen, Patricia A. Hansen, Samuel T. Stewart and Donna L. Stewart and contained a total of 11,500 square feet of land improved with a total of approximately 5,000 square feet of residential, office and storage structures which house bail bondsmen and legal offices. He pointed out that the Agency, at its meeting of July 23, 1985, adopted two resolutions of necessity for the assemblage of the A-13 Site which was comprised of two square blocks on the southwest corner of Santa Ana Blvd. and Flower Street. He stated that the Agency had been apprised that 19 of the 21 ownerships within the site had been acquired and that one of the two remaining parcels had been acquired without the need for filing a condemnation action. He added that the other parcel is presently held in an estate which seems to be the complicating factor interfering with a settlement. He pointed out that, at the July meeting of the Agency, staff believed that the subject parcel's acquisition had been resolved in that two of the owners had executed escrow instruction and the others had indicated acceptance verbally; however, all four owners have since changed -2-