030606 AA and Contract Ward-Bowers Overflow Prkg Lot

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RESOLUTION NO. CRA 2006 -xxx A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AUTHORIZING THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY TO PAY THE COST OF CONSTRUCTION OF A PUBLICLY OWNED IMPROVEMENT, A PARKING LOT LOCATED AT 2129 NORTH MAIN STREET, PURSUANT TO SECTION 33445 OF THE HEALTH & SAFETY CODE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: The Board of the Community Redevelopment Agency 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 Central City Project Area. B. Section I, Paragraph B of the Central City Redevelopment Plan, as amended, states that the "provision of substantial offstreet parking" in the project area is necessary to implement the objectives of the Plan. Section III, Paragraph G.2. of said Plan further provides that the Agency is authorized to construct public improvements and public facilities necessary to carry out the Plan. C. The most recent Five Year Implementation Plan of the Agency further provides that one of the prospective projects of the Agency for the period of July 2005 to June 2010 is: "Expansion of the Bowers Museum." D. Section 33445 of the Health & Safety Code, part of the California Redevelopment Law, provides that the Agency may pay for the cost of construction of a public improvement, upon the consent of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana, 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; 1 3.A. - 5