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RESOLUTION NO. CRA 2006-004
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:
Sp.ction 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 oftstreet 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;
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.
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E. The City of Santa Ana is the owner of a vacant lot, located generally at
2129 North Main Street, within the former Central City Project Area. The City desires to
construct a public improvement, a parking lot, on this vacant lot, primarily to serve as
additional public parking for employees and visitors to the Charles W. Bowers Museum, a
City owned, nationally renowned museum, currently being expanded.
F. The City lacks funds to pay for the construction of a parking lot at this time.
G. Construction of a publicly owned parking lot at 2129 North Main Street will
assist in the elimination of one or more blighting conditions in that it will help reactivate the
east side of north Main Street, provide additional public parking for the expanded Charles
W. Bowers Museum, the cornerstone of the City's Museum District, and is called out for in
both the Central City Redevelopment Plan and the most recent Five Year Implementation
Plan.
H. The Central City Redevelopment Plan was last amended to add territory in
1975. For this reason the findings specified in section 33445(b) of the California Health &
Safety Code, although set forth above, are not required.
I. Negative Declaration for Environmental Review No. 2005-45, was
approved and adopted by resolution which came before the City Council on this date.
This resolution incorporates by reference, as though fully set forth herein, said Council
resolution and the Negative Declaration.
Section 2. The Agency is hereby authorized to contribute up to $445,900 in
Agency funds from the Merged Project Area for this publicly owned improvement, in
accordance with that certain Cooperative Agreement between the Agency and the City of
Santa Ana., .
Section 3. The Executive Director of the Agency is hereby authorized to take all
steps, and to sign all documents and instruments necessary to implement and carry out
the Resolution on behalf of the Agency.
ADOPTED this 6.tb...day of March, 2006.
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Joseph W. Fletcher, General Counsel
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V
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AYES:
Boardmembers: Alvare7 Bist Bustamante Christy Garcia Solorio
(6)
NOES:
Boardmembers: None (0)
ABSTAIN:
Boardmembers: Pulido (1)
NOT PRESENT: Boardmembers: None (0)
CERTIFICATION OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, PATRICIA E. HEALY, Secretary of the Agency, do hereby attest to and certify the
attached Resolution No. 2006-011 to be the original resolution adopted by the
Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Ana on March 6 2006.
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Patricia Healy .
Recording Secretary
Community Redevelopment Agency
Date:
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