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RESOLUTION NO. 2000-06
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A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA APPROVING AN OWNER
PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT WITH IMPERIAL
HOTEL GROUP, LLC
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, AS FOLLOWS:
I. Findings. The Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Ana finds,
determines and declares as follows:
a. Pursuant to Health & Safety Code § 33380, the Community Redevelopment
Agency of the City of Santa Ana ("Agency") must allow owner participation in redevelopment
project areas.
b. Imperial Hotel Group, LLC is an owner in the Agency's South Main
Redevelopment Project Area and desires to construct an approximately 251 room hotel on its
property.
. c. The Agency finds that approval of an Owner Participation Agreement
(OP A) between the Agency and this owner will serve to:
(i) effectuate the Redevelopment Plan, specified in Section 102 of this OP A, by
providing for the rehabilitation and redevelopment of a portion of the South Main
Redevelopment Project Area;
(ii) provide for a modem, attractive, and first class business hotel, with
approximately 8,130 square feet of banquet and ballroom facilities in order to serve
MacArthur Place and the City of Santa Ana as a whole;
(iii) implement SD 43, adopted by the City of Santa Ana; and
(iv) provide the tenus and conditions by which Owner can develop its first class
hotel facility with approximately 8,130 square feet ofbaiJ.quet and ballroom facilities.
d. The Agency fmds that the rehabilitation and redevelopment by the owner
pursuant to this OPA, and the fulfillment generally of this OPA, are in the vital and best interest
of the City and the health, safety, morals, andwelfare of its residents, and in accord with the
public purposes and provisions of applicable laws and requirements. .
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2. CEQA Compliance, Pursuant to the provisions of the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA), the City of Santa Ana has prepared, approved and certified a negative
declaration (Environmental Review No. 00-151) for this Project. As a responsible agency for
pUlpOses of CEQA, the Agency has considered this negative declaration and accepts it pursuant
to State CEQA Guidelines § 15096. The Executive Director is directed to prepare and file an
appropriate Notice of Determination with the County Clerk of the County of Orange in the
manner required by law,
Pursuant to Title XN, California Code of Regulations ("CCR") § 735.5(c)(I), the
Agency has determined that, after considering the record as a whole, there is no evidence that the
proposed project will have the potential for any adverse effect on wildlife resources or the
ecological habitat upon which wildlife resources depend. The proposed project exists in an urban
environment characterized by paved concrete, roadways, surrounding buildings and human
activity. Therefore, pursuant to Fish and Game Code § 711.2 and Title XN, CCR § 735.5(a)(3),
the payment ofFish and Game Department filing fees is not required in conjunction with this
project
3, Approval ofOPA. The Agency Counsel is directed to prepare and the Executive
Director and Chair are authorized to execute an Owner Participation Agreement with Imperial
Hotel Group, LLC, pursuant to Health & Safety Code § 33380.
4. Acceptance of Loan. The Agency Counsel is directed to prepare, and the Chair and
Executive Director are authorized to approve appropriate loan documents pursuant to City of
Santa Ana Resolution No, 2000-~,
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ADOPTED this ~ day of
ATTEST:
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Executive Director
AGENCY MEMBERS:
Pulido
McGuigan
Alvarez
Bist
. Christy
Franklin
Solorio
Absent
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye
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December
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~_Miguel A. Pulido
Chairman
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Joseph W. Fletcher, Agency Counsel