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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 1112 RESOLUTION NO. 1112 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUN'TINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING THAT THERE IS NEED FOR A REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY TO FUNCTION WITHIN SAID CITY. WHEREAS , the City Planning Commission of the City of Huntington Beach, California, has prepared a master and general community plan for said City, and has held public hearings thereon as provided for by law, and said plan has been approved and adopted by the City ouncily WHEREAS , the City Planning Commission has also made an extensive investigation and comprehensive survey, which discloses that blighted areas which constitute either social or economic liabilities, or both, requiring redevelopment in the interest of the health, safety, and general welfare of the people of the City of Huntington Beach in particular, and the people of the State of California generally. Said blighted areas are character- ized by one or more of the following conditions: (a) An economic dislocation, deterioration or disuse, as a result of faulty planning, the subdividing and the sale of lots of irregular form and shape and inadequate size for proper usefulness and development, the laying out of lots... in disregard of the contours and other physical characteristics of the ground and surrounding 1 Reso. 1M • conditions , or the existence of inadequate streets, open spaces and utilities, or of lots or other areas which are subject to being submerged by water. (b) A prevalence of depreciated values, impaired investments and social and economic maladjustment to such an extent that there exists a reduced capacity to pay taxes and consequent inadequacy of tax receipts in relation to the cost of public services rendered. • (c) Further, that the existence of blighted areas characterized by any or all of such conditions, separately or collectively, constitutes a serious and growing menace which is hereby condemned as injurious and inimical to the public health, safety and welfare ofthe people of the City of Huntington Beach in particular, and to the people of the State of California generally; and WHEREAS , such areas present difficulties and handi- caps which are beyond remedy and control solely by regul- atory processes in the exercise of the police power; that they contribute substantially and increasingly to the problems of, and necessitiate excessive and dispropor- tionate expenditures for the preservation of the public health and safety and the maintaining of adequate police, fire and accident protection, and other public services and facilities ; that this menace is becoming increasingly direct and substantial in its significance and effect; that the benefits which will result from; the remedying of these conditions and the redevelopment of these areas 2 Reso, 1112 • of blight will accrue to all the inhabitants and property owners in the City of Huntington Beach. Further, such conditions of blight tend to further obsolescence, deterioration and disuse because of the lact of incentive to the individual landowner and his inability to improve, modernize or rehabilitate his own particular property while the condition of the neighbor- ing properties remains unchanged; that as a consequence the process of deterioration of a blighted area frequently cannot be halted or corrected except by redeveloping the entire area, or substantial portions thereof; that such conditions of blight are chiefly found in areas which have been subdivided into small parcels; that in most instances the lands are held in divided and widely scattered ownerships, frequently under defective titles; that in many such instances the private assembly of the lands in blighted areas for purposes of redevelopment is so difficult and costly that it is uneconomic and as a practical matter impossible for individual owners • independently or collectively to undertake to remedy such conditions because of lack of the legal power nec- essary for, and the excessive costs involved in, the private acquisition of the real property of the area; that the remedying of such conditions requires public acquisition at fair prices of adequate areas, the clearance of the areas through demolition of existing • 3 Resoo 1112 obsolete, inadequate, unsafe and insanitary buildings and the redevelopment of the areas suffering from such conditions under proper supervision, with appropriate planning, and continuing land use and construction policies; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that for these reasons it is hereby declared to be the policy of the City of Huntington Reach to protect and promote the sound devel- • opment and redevelopment of blighted areas within the City and the general welfare of the inhabitants cf the community by remedying such injurious conditions through the employment of all means appropriate for that purpose; that whenever the redevelopment of blighted areas cannot be accomplished by private enterprise alone, without public participation and assistance in the acquisition of land, in planning and in the financing of land assembly, in the work of clearance and in the making of improvements necessary therefor, it is in the public interest to employ the power of eminent domain to advance or expend public funds for these purposes and to provide a means whereby the blighted areas within the City may be redeveloped or rehabilitated; that the redevelopment of such blighted areas and the provision for appropriate continuing land use and construction policies therein, constitute public uses and purposes for which public money should be advanced or expended and private property acquired, and are govern- mental functions of state and municipal concern in the 4 Reso• II12 • interest of the health, safety and welfare of the people of the State generally and of the people of the City of Huntington Beach, in which such areas exist, in par- ticular; that it is in the public interest that work on such projects be commenced as soon as possible; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this City Council hereby finds and declares that there is need • for a Redevelopment Agency in the City of Huntington Beach pursuant to the provisions of the "Community Redevelopment Act". PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California, at a regular meeting thereof held on the 20th day of March, i 1950. l MAYOR ATTEST: • City Clerk • 5 r STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) County of Orange ). ss City of Huntington Beach I, JOHN L. HENRICKSEN, the duly elected, qualified and acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is five; L• that the foregoing Resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 20th day of March, , 1950, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen: LeBardt Woode Seabridges, Langenbeck,* Greer„ NOES: Councilmen: ?Jones ABSENT: Councilmen: None. Ci y Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of he City Council of the City of Huntington Breach, California. 6