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02/5/04 les <br />H. The Santa Ana Community Redevelopment Agency ( "Agency ") is <br />vested with the responsibility to carry out the Existing Plans. <br />I. The Agency desires to amend each of the Existing Plans <br />( "Amendments ") to merge the Project Areas in order to combine the tax <br />increment revenues from the Project Areas and reallocate the revenues to and <br />among the entire merged Project Area that will best facilitate the revitalization of <br />blighted areas through increased economic vitality and increase and improve <br />housing opportunities; and <br />J. California Health and Safety Code section 33385 (Community <br />Redevelopment Law - "CRL ") requires that a Project Area Committee (PAC) be <br />formed if: <br />(1) A substantial number of low income persons or moderate income <br />persons, or both, reside within the project area, and the redevelopment <br />plan as adopted will contain authority for the agency to acquire, by <br />eminent domain, property on which any persons reside; <br />(2) The redevelopment plan as adopted contains one or more public <br />projects that will displace a substantial number of low income persons <br />or moderate income persons, or both; and <br />K. California Health and Safety Code Section 33385.3 requires, in part: <br />(a) If a project area committee does not exist, and the agency <br />proposes to amend a redevelopment plan, the agency shall <br />establish a project area committee pursuant to Section 33385 if the <br />proposed amendment to a redevelopment plan would do either of <br />the following: <br />(1) Grant the authority to the agency to acquire by eminent <br />domain property on which persons reside in a project area in <br />which a substantial number of low and moderate - income <br />persons reside. <br />(2) Add territory in which a substantial number of low and <br />moderate - income persons reside and grant the authority to <br />the agency to acquire by eminent domain property on which <br />persons reside in the added territory. <br />L. The Bristol Corridor Project does not currently contain the authority to <br />use eminent domain as that authority has expired; and <br />M. The Agency currently has eminent domain authority within the Central <br />City Project, Inter -City Project, North Harbor Project, South Harbor and South <br />Main Project which will not be impacted by the proposed Amendments; and <br />N. The proposed Amendments do not grant additional eminent domain <br />authority within the Project Areas or add territory to the Project Areas. <br />42 <br />2 <br />