Mountain View Municipal Code Art. IV Revitalization Authority

The council hereby declares that there is need for a redevelopment agency to function in the city.

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69.)

The name of the redevelopment agency shall be "City of Mountain View Revitalization Authority," hereinafter referred to as "the authority."

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69.)

a. The council hereby declares itself to be the authority, and all of the rights, powers, duties, privileges and immunities, vested by law in the authority, except as otherwise provided in this article, shall be vested in the council.

b. The council hereby creates the Mountain View revitalization authority committee to be formed of members including property owners and businesspersons in the downtown area which is part of the revitalization authority project area and shown in the revitalization plan.

c. The city council declares that individuals owning businesses and real property and/or employed by businesses in the downtown area appointed to the revitalization committee are intended to represent and further the interests of the property owners and businesspersons of the downtown area and that such furtherance will ultimately serve the public interest. Accordingly, the city council finds that for purposes of persons who hold the office of downtown revitalization committee member, the ownership of businesses and/or property, or participation in the foregoing, is tantamount to and constitutes the public generally within the meaning of Section 87103 of the Government Code.

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69; Ord. No. 16.90, 6/12/90.)

This article is adopted pursuant to the municipal affairs provision of the charter of the city and Section 33204 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California. To the extent that any power granted to the authority herein is adjudged to be a state affair, the source thereof shall be deemed to be the Community Redevelopment Law. To the extent that such power is adjudged to be a municipal affair, its source shall be deemed to be Article XI, Sec. 6, of the State Constitution and said municipal affairs provision of the City Charter.

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69.)

The authority shall have and may exercise all of the powers granted to a redevelopment agency by the Community Redevelopment Law. The authority shall also have and may exercise the powers hereinafter enumerated in this article.

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69.)

The authority may designate survey areas, select project areas, formulate preliminary plans and adopt redevelopment plans (herein called "revitalization plans") for project areas in the manner provided for redevelopment agencies in the Community Redevelopment Law; provided, that the notice of hearings on the revitalization plan shall be given by publication and mailing in the manner required by this chapter. The planning commission may select a project area, formulate a preliminary plan, and recommend approval thereof as a revitalization plan prior to the effective date of this ordinance. The notice of hearing by the authority shall be published at the same time as the notice of hearing by the council, and both hearings shall be held concurrently. It shall not be necessary to submit the plan to the council and to the planning commission, as required by Section 33356 of the Health and Safety Code, provided said commission has theretofore recommended approval thereof under this section. The revitalization plans may include the acquisition or construction of any improvements of a local nature authorized by this chapter and Sec. 17.3 thereof. All council action in said proceedings, including action to adopt any revitalization plan, may be by resolution to be effective upon adoption.

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69.)

The method of financing the redevelopment of the project area may include any method authorized by the Community Redevelopment Law, by any other applicable general law, or by this chapter, and may consist of all or any combination of some of said methods.

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69.)

The method of financing the local improvements within the revitalization plan may, without limiting the generality of Sec. 17.189, provide for the issuance of bonds by the city pursuant to Bond Plans D or E of this chapter, additionally secured by either or both of the following:

a. An irrevocable pledge by the authority of the portion of taxes mentioned in subdivision (b) of Section 33670 of the Health and Safety Code to the payment of principal and interest on said bonds, as an indebtedness assumed by the authority pursuant to joint powers agreement with the city; and

b. An irrevocable pledge of the revenues of any of the services and facilities of the public improvements being provided under the plan or existing within the project area.

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69.)

The council may annually, at or prior to the time any such special assessment levy is made, or at such other time as it shall determine, transfer to the fund established for the repayment of the indebtedness such amounts as it shall determine.

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69.)

The supplemental remedy provisions of Part 13 (commencing at Section 8800) of Division 10 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California shall apply.

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69.)

The authority may issue and sell its bonds at public or private sale, at or below par, and at the interest rate fixed by the bid of the purchaser.

(Ord. No. 38.69, 10/27/69.)

Upon the occurrence of either of the events specified in Paragraphs C.l or C.2 of Resolution No. 11743, Series 1977, and the subparagraphs thereunder, every person who is the owner of record of any parcel of property located within the project area of the revitalization plan shall enter into an owner-participation agreement with the City of Mountain View, acting as the authority, unless such person has completed improvements to said property which the city has determined are in accordance with the revitalization plan and all applicable owner-participation standards contained within Resolution No. 11743, Series 1977. Any such person who fails to sign an owner-participation agreement, if such requirement is applicable, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Upon the nonoccurrence of either of the events specified in Paragraphs C.1 or C.2 of Resolution No. 11743, Series 1977, and the subparagraphs thereunder, every person who is the owner of record of any parcel of property located within the project area of the revitalization plan shall, by the effective date of this ordinance (November 12, 1982), enter into an owner-participation agreement with the City of Mountain View, acting as the authority, unless such person has completed improvements to said property which the city has determined are in accordance with the revitalization plan and all applicable owner-participation standards contained with Resolution No. 11743, Series 1977. Any such person who fails to sign an owner-participation agreement, if such requirement is applicable, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Any person who fails to satisfy terms of a signed owner-participation agreement by the effective date of this ordinance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. No. 59.77, 10/10/77; Ord. No. 20.82, 10/12/82.)