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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRedevelopment Agency - 359 RESOLUTION NO. 3 A A RESOLUTION OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH APPROVING AN OWNER PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH AND COLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME, A CALIFORNIA NONPROFIT CORPORATION WHEREAS, California Health and Safety Code Section 33449 and the Redevelopment Plan for the Huntington Beach Redevelopment Project ("Project Area") authorizes the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach ("Agency") to produce housing for persons and families of lower income; and The Agency also has destroyed and removed certain units which housed persons of lower income within the Project Area; and Pursuant to Section 33413, the Agency is required to produce housing that it has destroyed or removed from the lower income housing as part of a redevelopment project; and In order to carry out and implement the Redevelopment Plan and the affordable housing requirements thereof, the Agency proposed to enter into an Owner Participation Agreement ("OPA") with Colette's Children's Home, a California nonprofit corporation("Developer"), for the creation of transitional housing for very low income households on a site ("Site") located within the Project Area, as described in the OPA; and The Agency has duly considered all terms and conditions of the proposed OPA and believes that the creation of transitional housing on the Site pursuant to the OPA 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 project is categorically exempt under CEQA; and The Agency has considered the report of Agency staff on the proposed project to be carried out pursuant to the OPA, 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 Agency's Housing Set Aside 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 Sections 33334.2 and 33449. 05reso/colette OPA/4/25/05 1 3. The Agency finds and determines that the housing units to be produced by the Agreement which are restricted to persons and families of very low income qualify as replacement dwelling units for those dwelling units in the Project Area which were destroyed and removed pursuant to the Redevelopment Project. 4. The Chairman of the Agency is hereby authorized to execute the OPA on behalf of the Agency. A copy of the OPA when executed by the Agency shall be placed on file in the office of the Secretary of the Agency. 5. 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 OPA and to administer the Agency's obligations, responsibilities and duties to be performed under the OPA and related documents. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 1r t h day of May , 200 6 Chair REVIEWED AND APPROVED: APPROVED AS TO FORM: xecutiv irectort Jgency�G—en`eral Counsel Q� 0 1 y�a?for INITIATED A AP OVED: Director of Econo evelopment 05reso/colette OPA/4/25/05 2 i Res. No. 359 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH ) I, JOAN FLYNN, Clerk of the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Huntington Beach at a regular meeting of said Redevelopment Agency held on the 15th day of May, 2006 and that it was so adopted by the following vote: AYES: Bohr, Green, Coerper, Sullivan, Hardy, Hansen, Cook NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None i Cletyof the Redevelopmen gency of the City of Huntington Beach, CA