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1/29/07LES RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SANTA ANA CONSENTING TO THE PAYMENT OF THE COST OF IMPROVEMENTS TO A PUBLICLY OWNED IMPROVEMENT, THE ELEVATOR AT THE TRAIN DEPOT, BY THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, PURSUANT TO SECTION 33445 OF THE HEALTH & SAFETY CODE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines and declares as follows: A. The Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Ana (hereinafter referred to as the "Agency") is engaged in activities necessary to execute and implement the Redevelopment Plan for the Merged Project Area (the Redevelopment Plan"), in the area formerly known as the Inter City Project Area. B. Section 33445 of the Health & Safety Code, part of the California Redevelopment Law, provides that the Agency may pay for all or part of the cost of installation and construction of any building, facility, structure or other improvement which is publicly owned either within or without the project area, upon the consent of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana ("City"), if the following findings can be made: 1. That the public improvement is of benefit to the project area or the immediate neighborhood in which the project is located; 2. That no other reasonable means of financing the public improvement is available to the community; and 3. That the payment of funds for the cost of the public improvement will assist in the elimination of one or more blighting conditions inside the project area. C. The City is the owner of The Depot at Santa Ana, a regional transportation hub combining Amtrak, MetroLink, Orange County Transit Authority and other bus services, along with office space for various State, County and City departments. The Depot is located within the former Inter City Project Area. Patronage at The Depot has escalated in recent years to 80C-5