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ÇOMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
CITY OF SA NT A ANA, CALIFORNIA
May 7, 1973
The Regular Meeting of the Community Redevelopment Agency was called
to order at 2:10 P. M., by Vice Chairman Lorin Griset, in the City Council
Chambers, 22 Civic Center Plaza. Roll call was answered as follows:
Present,
John Garthe, Commissioner
Harry K. Yamamoto, Commissioner
Vernon S. Evans, Commissioner
James E. Ward, Commissioner
Lorin Griset, Vice Chairman
Absent
J. Ogden Markel, Commissioner
Jerry M. Patterson, Chairman
Also present were Thomas J. Andrusky, Executive Director-Secretary of
the Agency; James A. Withers, Agency Counsel; Bruce C. Spragg, City
Manager; Charles Zimmerman, Planning Director; Ronald Wolford, Direc-
tor of Public Works; Florence I. Malone, Recording Secretary and
representatives of the Press.
The Minutes of the Adjourned
Regular Meeting held on
April 16, 1973, were approved as presented on the unanimously carried
motion of Commissioner Evans, seconded by Commissioner Ward.
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Thomas Andrusky reported
that, on April 17, the Community
Redevelopment Commission had
recommended Agency approval of the owner Participation and Preference
Rules, and he provided Agency members with copies of the Rules.
REPORT OF EXECUTIVE
DffiECTOR-SECRET AR Y
The Vice Chairman recognized Mr. Joseph Gilmaker, 308 West Fourth
Street, who stated that there had not been reasonable and sufficient time
allotted for review and discussion of the Rules; and that they were not in
conformity to the California Health and Safety Code.
The Secretary further reported that property owners in the Project Area
were members of the Project Area Committee; that the rules provide for
property owners and existing business in the Project Area to have the first
opportunity to participate in the event a development plan is proposed to
the Agency.
Mr. Gilmaker added that he and others have been working on a project
for the downtown area for quite a few ¡rears which would take the building
height over 35 feet and that the Redevelopment Plan limits C-3 develop-
ment to a height of 35 feet; that the Plan also lists the Federal Government
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May 7, 1973
participation as a method for financing developments and that several
members of the Agency had publicly stated no federal or state funds
would be used; that the development would be financed by local money;
and that a policy should be declared whereby eminent domain would only
be effected for street widening and for building public facilities to
benefit the public and not for private use.
Mr. Gilmaker offered to serve as a member and requested appointment
to the Project Area Committee.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY
OF SANTA ANA REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY ADOPTING RULES FOR
OWNER PARTICIPATION IN THE
CITY OF SANTA ANA REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA PURSUANT TO
THE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ACT, SECTION 33339
AND SECTION 33345 OF THE CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
was adopted by title only on motion of Commissioner Ward seconded by
Commissioner Yamamoto and carried on the following roll call vote:
RESOLUTION 73-4
RULES FOR OWNER
PARTICIPATION
AYES:
Ward, Yamamoto, Garthe, Griset
NOES:
Evans
ABSENT:
Markel, Patterson
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY
OF SANTA ANA REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY ADOPTING CITY OF
SANTA ANA REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA RULES TO EXTEND
REASONABLE PREFERENCE TO PERSONS IN BUSINESS PURSUANT TO
THE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ACT was adopted on
motion of Commissioner Yamamoto, seconded by Commissioner Ward and
carried on the following roll call vote:
RESOLUTION 73-5
RULES OF PREFERENCE
AYES:
Yamamoto, Ward, Garthe, Griset
NOES:
Evans
ABSENT:
Markel, Patterson
An agreement dated May 7, 1973,
between the Community Redevelop-
ment Agency of the City and
O'Melveny and Myers, Attorney's, to provide certain legal services relative
to the adoption of the redevelopment plan, was approved and its execution
by the Chairman and Secretary was authorized on the unanimously approved
motion of Commissioner Ward, seconded by Commissioner Yamamoto.
AGREEMENT
BOND COUNSEL
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REVISED SCHEDULE
REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
The Revised Schedule for City
of Santa Ana Redevelopment
Project, dated April 27, 1973,
was received and filed on the unanimously approved motion of Commissioner
Evans, seconded by Commissioner Yamamoto.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at
2:43 P. M. on the unanimously
approved motion of Commissioner Evans, seconded by Commissioner
Garthe.
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