CRA - 82RESOLUTION NO. CRA-82
A RESOLUTION OF THE CYPRESS REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY APPROVING THE
FUNDING FOR PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS RELATED TO THE LINCOLN AVENUE
STREETSCAPE PROGRAM AND MAKING THE FINDINGS REQUIRED THEREFOR IN
ACCORDANCE WITH HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 33445
WHEREAS, the Cypress Redevelopment Agency ("Agency") is a
public body, corporate and politic, organized and existing under
the California Community Redevelopment Law (Health & Safety Code
~33000 et seq.) ("CRL"); and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Cypress ("City" or
"City Council," as appropriate) previously, and in accordance with
applicable law, adopted an ordinance approving the Redevelopment
Plan for the Lincoln Avenue Redevelopment Project ("Plan" or
"Project Area" as appropriate"), as such Plan may from time to
time have been amended in accordance with applicable law; and
WHEREAS, in furtherance of the Plan, the Agency desires to
pay for the installation and construction of the publicly owned
improvements and facilities identified in Exhibit "A" attached
hereto and incorporated herein (the "Public Improvements") along
an approximately three (3) mile portion of Lincoln Avenue between
Coyote Creek Bridge and Valley View Street (the "Improvement
Area") as part of the Lincoln Avenue Streetscape Program; and
WHEREAS, the primary portion of the Improvement Area is
located within the territorial boundary of the City within the
Project Area; and
WHEREAS, a small portion of the Improvement Area of
approximately two hundred (200) feet in length along Lincoln
Boulevard, between the City of Cypress/City of Buena Park boundary
on the west and Valley View Street on the east, lies within the
City of Buena Park (the "Buena Park Area"); and
WHEREAS, the CRL, specifically Health and Safety Code Section
33445, authorizes the Agency, with the consent of the City
Council, to pay for all or part of the value of the land for and
the cost of installation and construction of any building,
facility, structure or other improvement which is publicly owned
either within or without the Project Area, upon the Agency and
City Council making certain finding as set forth in Section 33445
and which findings are set forth hereinbelow; and
WHEREAS, the authorization contained in Section 33445
includes the authority of the Agency to pay for the publicly owned
improvements physically located within the Buena Park Area upon
the Agency's adoption of this Resolution, the City Council's
adoption of its consenting Resolution, and upon the Buena Park
City Council adopting a resolution making the finding that no
other reasonable means of financing the publicly owned
improvements located within the Buena Park Area are available to
the City of Buena Park; and
WHEREAS, on September 22, 1998, the Buena Park City Council
adopted a resolution making the finding that no other reasonable
means of financing the publicly owned improvements located within
the Buena Park Area are available to the City of Buena Park; and
WHEREAS, all actions required of the Agency with respect to
this Resolution have been taken in accordance with all laws
applicable thereto;
NOW, THEREFORE, the Cypress Redevelopment Agency resolves as
follows:
Section 1.The Agency hereby finds and determines as follows:
A. That the Agency's payment for the cost of the
Public Improvements are of benefit to the Project Area, in that
(i) Lincoln Avenue is the major commercial corridor for the
Project Area and for the City as a whole and is currently
characterized by haphazard visual identity and lack of visual and
streetscape cohesiveness, the absence of which detrimentally
affects the economic and physical desirability, attractiveness,
and usefulness of the Project Area's main focus area; (ii) the
Public Improvements are designed to provide an enhanced visual
image and strong urban design statement, thereby articulating a
vision for the Project Area as an attractive, high quality,
pedestrian friendly, mixed use activity center that accommodates
both commercial and residential mixed use neighborhoods linked by
common pedestrian and streetscape design elements; (iii) the
installation and construction of public improvements, including
reconstruction of streetscape features along Lincoln Avenue, is
expressly identified as needed public improvements in the Plan and
as necessary to the fully implement redevelopment in the Project
Area; and (iv) the portion of the Improvement Area located within
the Buena Park Area is necessary for inclusion in order to provide
a cohesive and complete streetscape element along Lincoln Avenue
within the Project Area, in that the failure to include the Buena
Park Area would mean the failure to carry the streetscape
improvement and theme to the main arterial intersection of Lincoln
Avenue and Valley View Street, thereby preventing the Project Area
from having an effective point of entry to enhance the Lincoln
Avenue corridor and undermining the concepts set forth in clauses
(i) and (ii) above and the effort to implement redevelopment in
the Project Area as stated in clause (iii) above.
B. That no other reasonable means of financing the
Public Improvements are available to the community other than
Agency financing, in that (i) the City's general funds are devoted
to necessary police, fire, recreation, and other essential public
health, safety, and welfare expenditures and are unavailable for
this project, (ii) the City's capital improvement funds are
allocated to other critical improvement projects within the City
and are unavailable for this Project; and (iii) other sources of
funding, including Lighting District funds, Measure M funds,
AB2766 funds, and traffic mitigation fees, are unavailable for the
Project.
C. That the Agency's payment for the cost of the
Public Improvements will assist in the elimination of one or more
blighting conditions, in that (i) the Report to Council prepared
in connection with the adoption of the Redevelopment Plan
identified inadequate public facilities, including necessary
streetscape rehabilitation, as a condition of blight within the
Project Area, (ii) Attachment No. 4 to the Plan identifies,
consistent with the Report to Council, public improvement needs in
the Project Area contributing to the blighting condition which the
Agency's payment for the Public Improvements is designed to
address; and (iii) the inadequate street, sidewalk, traffic, and
streetscape environment along Lincoln Avenue have a detrimental
impact on the safety and movement of pedestrians and traffic and
the economic and physical desirability, attractiveness, and
usefulness of the principal commercial corridor within the Project
Area.
D. That the Agency's payment for the cost of the
Public Improvements are consistent with the Agency's
Implementation Plan adopted pursuant to Health and Safety Code
Section 33490, in that assisting in the financing of streetscape
improvements is identified as a potential project for alleviating
blighting conditions within the project area.
Section 2.The Agency's funding of the Public Improvements
listed on Exhibit "A" for the Lincoln Avenue Streetscape Program,
in an amount not to exceed $ 890,000, is hereby approved.
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Section 3.The Agency's Executive Director is authorized and
directed to take such actions and sign such agreements and
documents as necessary to implement the purposes of the Agency's
resolution on behalf of the Agency, including but not limited to
one or more cooperation agreements with the City of Buena Park as
may be necessary to address the construction and maintenance of
the portion of the Public Improvements to be located within the
Buena Park Area.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the governing body of the Cypress Redevelopment
Agency at its meeting held on the 13th day of October 1998.
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )ss
I, Lillian M. Haina, Agency Secretary of the Cypress
Redevelopment Agency, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing
Resolution was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the said
Cypress Redevelopment Agency held on the 13th day of October ,
1998, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 5
NOES: 0
ABSENT: 0
AGENCY MEMBERS: Bowman, Carroll, Keenan, Piercy
and Jones
AGENCY MEMBERS: None
AGENCY MEMBERS: None
Ag~ndy Secretary
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