Los Angeles County Municipal Code Part 2 Hicks Camp Project Area

The Hicks Camp Project Area official redevelopment plan, as amended on June 27, 1974 by the county and as so amended and prepared by the county of Los Angeles community redevelopment agency, is incorporated by reference, approved and adopted and designated as the official redevelopment plan for the Hicks Camp Project Area.

(Ord. 10945 § 1, 1974: Ord. 10478 § 1 (part), 1972: Ord. 4099 Art. 60 § 1413, 1942.)

The purposes and intent of the board with respect to the Hicks Camp Project Area are to:

A.

Eliminate the conditions of blight existing in the project area;

B.

Insure, as far as possible, that the causes of blighting conditions will be either eliminated or protected against;

C.

Provide participation for owners and tenants and a reasonable preference for persons engaged in business in the project area;

D.

Encourage and insure the redevelopment of the project area;

E.

Encourage and foster the economic revitalization of the project area;

F.

Relocate the owners and occupants of the project area as needed; and

G.

Develop public facilities in the project area to provide safer and more efficient service for the people in the area and the general public as a whole.

(Ord. 10478 § 1 (part), 1974: Ord. 4099 Art. 60 § 1414, 1942.)

The board finds and determines that:

A.

The project area is a blighted area, the redevelopment of which is necessary to effectuate the public purposes declared in the Community Redevelopment Law of the state of California;

B.

The official redevelopment plan will redevelop the project area in conformity with the Community Redevelopment Law of the state of California in the interests of the public peace, health, safety and welfare;

C.

The adoption and carrying out of the official redevelopment plan is economically sound and feasible;

D.

The official redevelopment plan conforms to the general plan of the county of Los Angeles;

E.

The carrying out of the official redevelopment plan will promote the public peace, health, safety and welfare of the county of Los Angeles and will effectuate the purposes and policies of the Community Redevelopment Law of the state of California;

F.

The condemnation of real property, as provided for in the official redevelopment plan, is necessary to the execution of the official redevelopment plan and adequate provisions have been made for payment for property to be acquired as provided by law;

G.

The community redevelopment agency has a feasible method and plan for the relocation of families and persons to be temporarily or permanently displaced from housing facilities in the project area;

H.

There are or are being provided in the project area or in other areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and persons displaced from the project area, decent, safe and sanitary dwellings equal in number to the number of and available to such displaced families and persons and reasonably accessible to their places of employment;

I.

For purposes of federal financial aid, the project area, which may be financed through aid provided in federal contracts, shall be considered an urban renewal area and the aforesaid redevelopment project shall be considered an urban renewal project within the meaning of Title I of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended;

J.

The redevelopment of the portions of the project area which may be financed through aid provided in federal contracts for predominantly nonresidential uses is necessary for the proper development of the community;

K.

The official redevelopment plan will afford a maximum opportunity consistent with the sound needs of the locality as a whole for the redevelopment of such area by private enterprises;

L.

The official redevelopment plan give due consideration to the provisions of adequate park and recreational areas and facilities, as may be desirable for neighborhood improvement, with special consideration for the health, safety and welfare of

children residing in the general vicinity of the area covered by the plan;

M.

In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation of the official redevelopment plan hereby approved and adopted, it is found and determined that certain official action must be taken by the board of supervisors with reference, among other things, to changes in zoning, the vacating and removal of streets, alleys and other public ways, the establishment of new street patterns, the location and relocation of sewer and water mains and other public facilities, and other public action, and accordingly the board of supervisors hereby:

Pledges its cooperation in helping to carry out such official redevelopment plan, and

Directs the various officials, departments, commissions and agencies of the county of Los Angeles having administrative responsibilities in the premises likewise to cooperate to such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with said official redevelopment plan, and

Pledges appropriate action upon proposals and measures designed to effectuate the official redevelopment plan;

N.

The objectives of the official redevelopment plan cannot be achieved through rehabilitation of the project area.

(Ord. 10478 § 1 (part), 1974: Ord. 4099 Art. 60 § 1415, 1942.)

The board declares that it is satisfied permanent housing facilities will be available within three years from the time occupants of the project area are displaced and that pending the development of such facilities there will be available to such displaced occupants adequate temporary housing facilities at rents comparable to those in the county of Los Angeles at the time of their displacement. No persons or families of low and moderate income shall be displaced from residences unless and until there is a suitable housing unit available and ready for occupancy by such displaced person or family at rents comparable to those at the time of their displacement. Such housing units shall be suitable to the needs of such displaced persons or families and must be decent, safe, sanitary and otherwise standard dwellings. The agency shall not displace such person or family until such housing units are available and ready for occupancy.

(Ord. 10478 § 1 (part), 1974: Ord. 4099 Art. 60 § 1416, 1942.)