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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 6590 RESOLUTION NO. �590 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH APPROVING AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH AND ASSOCIATES NINE WHEREAS, California Health and Safety Code Section 33334.2 and the Redevelopment Plan for the Main-Pier Redevelopment Project ("Project Area")authorize and direct the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach("Agency") to expend not less than twenty percent(20%)of all taxes which are allocated to the Agency pursuant to California Health and Safety Code Section 33670 (all section references herein are to the Health and Safety Code unless otherwise specified) for the purposes of increasing, improving and preserving the community's supply of low and moderate income housing available at affordable housing cost to persons and families of low and moderate income, lower income, and very low income; and Pursuant to applicable law the Agency has established a Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund("Housing Fund");and Pursuant to Section 33334.2(e), in carrying out its affordable housing activities the Agency is authorized to provide subsidies to or for the benefit of very low income and lower income households, or persons and families of low and moderate income to the extent those households cannot obtain housing at affordable costs on the open market; and Pursuant to Section 33334.2(g), City Council Resolution No. 6026 dated June 26, 1989, and Agency Resolution No. 174 dated June 26, 1989,the Agency is authorized to make expenditures from the Housing Fund outside redevelopment project areas if such use will be of benefit to one or more of the project areas; and The Agency is required pursuant to Section 33413 to rehabilitate, develop or construct replacement dwelling units for those units housing persons and families of lower income which 1 4%slRe U 5mdate Nin AfT'ord.Hsg.U04/22194 have been destroyed or removed from the lower income housing market as part of a redevelopment project; and The Agency has destroyed and removed certain units which housed persons of lower income within the Project Area; and In order to carry out and implement the redevelopment plan for the Project and the affordable housing requirements thereof,the Agency proposes to enter into an Affordable Housing Agreement ("Agreement")with Associates Nine, a California general partnership ("Developer"), for the rehabilitation of affordable housing on a site located outside the Project Area("Site"), as described in the Agreement; and The City Council has duly considered all terms and conditions of the proposed Agreement and believes that the rehabilitation of the Site pursuant to the subject Agreement is in the best interests of the City and the health, safety, and welfare of its residents, and in accord with the public purposes and provisions of applicable State and local law requirements; and Pursuant to Section 15326 of the Guidelines to the California Environmental Quality Act, the rehabilitation project is categorically exempt under CEQA; and The City has considered the report of Agency staff on the proposed rehabilitation project to be carried out pursuant to said Agreement, NOW, THEREFORE,the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby resolve as follows: 1. The City Council finds that the Agreement is categorically exempt under CEQA, pursuant to Section 15326 of the Guidelines to the California Environmental Quality Act. 2. The City Council finds and determines that expenditures from the Housing Fund as contemplated by the Agreement will directly and specifically benefit, improve, and preserve the community's supply of lower income housing within the meaning of Section 33334.2. 3. The City Council finds and determines that expenditures from the Housing Fund as contemplated by the Agreement are of benefit to the Project Area. 2 As1RmWgociRMS Nine-Affbrd.MF,\0 722/94 6590 4. The City Council finds and determines that the housing units to be rehabilitated by the Agreement which are restricted to persons and families of lower income qualify as replacement dwelling units for those dwelling units in the Project Area which were destroyed and removed pursuant to the Redevelopment Project. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at an adjourned regular meeting thereof held on this 51 h day of July , 1994. Mayor ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: Agency Clerk City Attorney -qY. je-Zcfl REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPROVED: ty Admnis ?GoV Director of Special Projects 3 ALs1ResW mciaten Nin�Atrord.11sg.104 M94 6590 Res. No. 6594 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss: CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH ) 1, CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-ofI•icio 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 seven; that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of said City Council at an regular meeting thereof held on the 2nd of May.1994, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers: Silva, Bauer, Robitaille, Moulton-Patterson, Winchell, Leipzig NOES: Councilmembers: Sullivan ABSENT: Councilmembers: None City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California