CRA - 119RESOLUTION NO. CRA-119
A RESOLUTION OF THE CYPRESS REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY CONSENTING
TO A JOINT PUBLIC HEARING WITH THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CYPRESS REGARDING THE PROPOSED MERGER AND AMENDMENTS TO THE
CIVIC CENTER (ORIGINAL AND AMENDMENT AREA), LINCOLN AVENUE
(ORIGINAL AND PROPOSED ADDED AREA) AND LOS ALAMITOS RACE TRACK
AND GOLF COURSE REDEVELOPMENT PLANS AND RELATED
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Cypress ("City Council") and the
Cypress Redevelopment Agency ("Agency") are taking steps to (i) amend the
Redevelopment Plan for the Lincoln Avenue Redevelopment Project Area to add
territory ("Proposed Added Area") to that project area, (ii) effect certain technical
amendments to the Redevelopment Plans for the Civic Center (Original and
Amendment Area), Lincoln Avenue (Original and Proposed Added Area) and Los
Alamitos Race Track and Golf Course Redevelopment Project Areas ("Project Areas"),
(iii) merge the three Project Areas for financial reasons pursuant to Section 33485-
33489 of the California Health and Safety Code ("Redevelopment Law"), and (iv)
consolidate the three separate redevelopment plans into a single amended and merged
redevelopment plan (all of the foregoing, collectively, the "Amendments/Merged Plan");
and
WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 5743 on March 8, 2004,
designating a redevelopment survey area generally located near the Lincoln Avenue
Redevelopment Project Area ("Survey Area") for the purpose of studying an area that
potentially could be proposed as the Added Area; and
WHEREAS, on June 28, 2004, the City Council, acting as the City's Planning
Agency, selected the boundaries for the proposed area to be added to the Lincoln
Avenue Redevelopment Project Area and approved the Preliminary Plan for the
Proposed Cypress Merged and Amended Project, inclusive of the Proposed Added
Area; and
WHEREAS, on February 14, 2005, the Cypress Redevelopment Agency
("Agency") adopted new Owner Participation Rules covering all the Project Areas and
proposed Added Area and also adopted a Method of Relocation applicable to all the
Project Areas and proposed Added Area; and
WHEREAS, the Amendments/Merged Plan will be submitted to the City's
Planning Agency for its report prior to the joint public hearing; and
WHEREAS, Section 33355 of the California Community Redevelopment Law,
Health and Safety Code, Section 33000 et seq., authorizes a joint public hearing on the
proposed Amendments/Merged Plan and related EIR with the consent of the Agency
and the Cypress City Council.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Cypress
Redevelopment Agency, does hereby find, determine and resolve as follows:
SECTION 1. The Agency hereby authorizes and consents to holding a joint
public hearing with the City Council on the proposed Amendments/Merged Plan, related
Environmental Impact Report, and all documents pertaining thereto, for the Cypress
Merged and Amended Redevelopment Project on Monday, June 13, 2005, at 7:00 pm,
or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, at the City Council Chambers,
Cypress City Hall, 5275 Orange Avenue, Cypress, California.
SECTION 2. The Agency hereby requests that the City Council of the City of
Cypress call a joint public hearing of the Agency and the City Council for Monday, June
13, 2005, at 7:00 pm, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, at the City
Council Chambers, Cypress City Hall, 5275 Orange Avenue, Cypress, California, to
consider and act upon the proposed Amendments/Merged Plan and related
Environmental Impact Report for the Cypress Merged and Amended Redevelopment
Project.
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SECTION 3. The Agency Secretary is authorized, in cooperation with the
Executive Director of the Agency, to prepare, publish and mail such notices and
documents and do all other acts as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this
resolution.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Cypress Redevelopment Agency at a regular
meeting held on the 25t" day of April, 2005.
CHAIRMAN
CYPRESS REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
ATTEST:
SECRETARY
RESS REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE ~ ss
I, JILL R. GUERTIN, Secretary of the Cypress Redevelopment Agency DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted at a regular meeting
of the said Redevelopment Agency held on the 25t" day of April, 2005, by the following roll
call vote:
AYES: 5 AGENCY MEMBERS: Luebben, McCoy, Seymore, Sondhi and McGill
NOES: 0 AGENCY MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 0 AGENCY MEMBERS: None
SECRETARY
C RESS REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
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