Twentynine Palms Municipal Code Ch. 17.48 Redevelopment Agency

The City Council finds and declares that there is a need for a redevelopment agency to function in the City of Twentynine Palms and hereby establishes and activates, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Sections 33100, 33101, and 33200, the Twentynine Palms Redevelopment Agency as the redevelopment agency for the City of Twentynine Palms. The establishment and activation of the Twentynine Palms Redevelopment Agency shall enable and facilitate the redevelopment of blighted areas of the City pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law and shall promote the short- and long-term physical, social, and economic health of the community.

(91—99 § 1)

The City Council further declares, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33200, that the City Council shall be the Twentynine Palms Redevelopment Agency and all of the rights, powers, duties, privileges, and immunities vested by the Community Redevelopment Law in a redevelopment agency shall be vested in the City Council.

(91-99 § 2)

The City Council hereby finds and declares that the action taken in Section 17.48.020 shall serve the public interest and promote the public safety and welfare in an effective manner by eliminating duplication and by vesting responsibility for redevelopment in elected officials, thereby providing accountability for any redevelopment projects proposed and undertaken in the community.

(91-99 § 3)

Until such time as the Twentynine Palms Redevelopment Agency adopts a resolution appointing a Chair, Vice Chair, Executive Director, and Secretary of the Agency, the Mayor shall serve as the Chair, the Mayor Pro-Tem shall serve as the Vice Chair, the City Manager shall serve as Executive Director, the Community Development Director shall serve as the Assistant Executive Director, and the City Clerk shall serve as Secretary, of the Twentynine Palms Redevelopment Agency.

(91-99 § 4)

The City Council hereby finds and declares that community input to the redevelopment process in the City is important and therefore authorizes the Twentynine Palms Redevelopment Agency, from time to time and when it deems appropriate, to appoint, by resolution, an advisory group to facilitate community input to the redevelopment process.

(91-99 § 5)