East Palo Alto Municipal Code Ch. 2.60 Redevelopment Agency

This chapter provides for the establishment of a redevelopment agency and declares the city council to be such agency.

(Prior code § 2-4.801)

The city council finds:

A. That there exists in the city residential, nonresidential, commercial, industrial or vacant areas, and combinations thereof, which are slums or blighted, or which are becoming slums or blighted areas because of substandard, insanitary, deteriorated or deteriorating conditions, including obsolete and dilapidated buildings and structures, defective construction, outmoded design, lack of proper sanitary facilities, inadequate fire or safety protection, excessive population density, illegal uses and conversions, inadequate maintenance, obsolete systems of utilities, poorly or improperly designed street patterns and intersections, inadequate access to areas, or unsuitable topography, subsoil or other physical conditions, all of which hamper or impede property and economic development of such areas and which impair or arrest the sound growth of the city;

B. That there is a serious need throughout the city for adequate educational, recreational, cultural and other community facilities, the lack of which threatens and adversely affects the health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of this city;

C. That there continues to exist throughout the city a seriously inadequate supply of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons and families of low income. This condition is contrary to the public interest and threatens the health, safety, welfare, comfort and security of the residents of this city. The ordinary operations of private enterprise cannot provide an adequate supply of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations at prices or rentals which persons and families of low income can afford;

D. That Section 33200 of the Community Redevelopment Law provides that there is in each community a public body, corporate and political, known as the redevelopment agency of the community, and that the legislative body of the community may declare itself to be that agency;

E. That such action will serve the public interest and promote the public safety and welfare in a more effective manner than the current organizational arrangement;

F. That there has been full public disclosure of all reports and proposals relating to the legislative body's intent to declare itself the redevelopment agency.

(Prior code § 2-4.802)

The city council of the city, which is the legislative body of the city finds and declares, pursuant to the provisions of Section 33200 of the Community Redevelopment Law, that there is a need for the redevelopment agency in the city and that the agency be and is authorized to transact business and exercise powers under the Community Redevelopment Law.

(Prior code § 2-4.803)

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 33200 of the Community Redevelopment Law, this council declares itself to be the agency provided by Section 1 thereof and that all of the rights, powers, duties, privileges and immunities vested by the Community Redevelopment Law in such agency shall be and are vested in this council.

(Prior code § 2-4.804)