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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRedevelopment Agency - 257 RESOLUTION NO. _257 A RESOLUTION OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY 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(201/o) 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\s\es/Associates.Nine-AM.Hsg./04/22/94 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 Agency 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 Agency has considered the report of Agency staff on the proposed rehabilitation project to be carried out pursuant to said Agreement, NOW, THEREFORE, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby resolve as follows: 1. The Agency,finds that the Agreement is categorically exempt under CEQA, pursuant to Section 15326 of the Guidelines to the California Environmental Quality Act. 2. The Agency 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 Agency finds and determines that expenditures from the Housing Fund as contemplated by the Agreement are of benefit to the Project Area. 2 4\s\es/Associates Nine-Affd.Hsg./04/22/94 257 4. The Agency 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. 5. The Chairman of the Agency is hereby authorized to execute the Agreement on behalf of the Agency. A copy of the Agreement when executed by the Agency shall be placed on file in the office of the Secretary of the Agency. 6. The Executive Director of the Agency (or his or her designee) is hereby authorized, on behalf of the Agency, to sign all documents necessary and appropriate to carry out and implement the Agreement and to administer the Agency's obligations, responsibilities and duties to be performed under the Agreement and related documents. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach at an adjourned regular meeting thereof held on this 2nd day of May , 1994 Chairman ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: Agency Clerk A enc Counsel REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPROVED: loit- J1 ,J>1L11A_ Executive Director Director of Special Projects 3 4\s\es/Associates Nine-AM.Mg./04/22/94 257 Res. No. 257 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) CITY OF HUNTING'TON BEACH) I, C:ONNIE BROCKWAY, Clerk of the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach, California, DO BERREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach at a meeting of said Redevelopment Agency.-held.on.the 2nd day of May 19 94, and that it was so adopted by the following vote: AYES: Members: Silva, Bauer, Robitaille, Moulton-Patterson, Winchell, Leipzig NOES: Members: Sullivan ABSENT: Members: None Clerk of the Redevelopmen gency of the City of- Huntington Beach, Ca.