Chapter 2.56 — REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY

It is hereby found and declared pursuant to Section 33101 of the Community Redevelopment Law, that there is a need for the Redevelopment Agency created by Section 33100 of said Law to function in the City of Vernon, and said Agency is hereby authorized to transact business and exercise its powers under the Community Redevelopment Law. (Prior code § 27.10)

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 33200 of the Community Redevelopment Law, the City Council hereby declares itself to be the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Vernon, and that all the rights, powers, duties, privileges and immunities vested by the Community Redevelopment Law in said agency shall be, and are, vested in this City Council as said Agency. (Prior code § 27.11)

The City Council hereby appoints the Mayor as Chair of said Agency; the Mayor Pro Tempore as Vice-Chair of said Agency, to perform the duties of the Chair during his or her absence or disability; and the terms to be served by the members of said Agency shall correspond to the terms so served as members of the City Council. (Prior code § 27.12)

The Redevelopment Plan for the Industrial Redevelopment Project was approved and adopted and designated the official Redevelopment Plan for the Industrial Redevelopment Project on November 27, 1990.

On July 14, 1998, the Industrial Redevelopment Project was amended to add 30 parcels constituting an additional 139.2 acres.

The Redevelopment Plan for the First Amendment to the Industrial Redevelopment Project is hereby incorporated herein by reference and made part hereof as if fully set out at length herein. (Prior code § 27.13)

The purposes and intent of this Council with respect to the project area are to:

• A. Eliminate the conditions of blight existing in the project area;

• B. Ensure, as far as possible, that the causes of blighting conditions will be either eliminated or protected against;

• C. Encourage the alteration, improvement, modernization, reconstruction and rehabilitation of existing obsolete and/or deteriorated industrial, commercial and office sites and buildings, including unreinforced buildings;

• D. Encourage the assembly of land into parcels suitable for modern industrial, commercial and office development with proper off-street parking, loading, storage and vehicular and pedestrian circulation;

• E. Provide for the elimination of buildings and uses and for the recycling of land where economics do not support the investment to upgrade deteriorated, dilapidated, or obsolete facilities;

• F. Encourage the amelioration of hazardous substances and hazardous waste conditions at industrial plants and transportation facilities which necessitate extraordinary coordination and costs for the protection of the public health and safety;

• G. Encourage the participation of existing owners and businesses in the revitalization and redevelopment of properties;

• H. Provide for the replanning, redesign and reconfiguration of unsafe and inefficient freeway, street and railroad intersections (including grade separations) where necessary to provide adequate vehicular access for trucks, trains and automobiles to and from the properties they serve and through traffic;

• I. Provide for the consolidation of rail spurs and lines and reuse of right-of-way areas for more productive activities;

• J. Provide for the replanning, redesign and upgrading of inadequate sewer, water and drainage facilities in connection with remedying obsolete site conditions;

• K. Encourage the elimination or relocation of inappropriate land uses which are detrimental to the circulation system of the City and/or adjacent uses and inconsistent with the General Plan; and

• L. Encourage the amelioration of traffic congestion due to narrow streets, heavy truck traffic (with oversized vehicles), inadequate off-street loading and parking, and buildings located on property lines which limit street widening and/or reconfiguration of uses on the site.

• (Prior code § 27.14)

The City Council hereby 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 Redevelopment Plan will redevelop the project area in conformity with the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California and in the interests of the public peace, health, safety and welfare;

• C. The adoption and carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan is economically sound and feasible;

• D. The Redevelopment Plan conforms to the General Plan of the City of Vernon;

• E. The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan will promote the public peace, health, safety and welfare of the City of Vernon 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 Redevelopment Plan, is necessary to the execution of the Redevelopment Plan and adequate provisions have been made for payment for property to be acquired as provided by law;

• G. The Agency has a feasible method and plan for the relocation of families and persons who may 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 who may be 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. Inclusion within the project area of any lands, buildings or improvements which are not detrimental to the public health, safety or welfare is necessary for the effective redevelopment of the area of which they are a part; any such area included is necessary for effective redevelopment and is not included for the purposes of obtaining the allocation of tax increment revenues from such area pursuant to Section 33670 of the Community Redevelopment Law without other substantial justification for its inclusion;

• J. The elimination of blight and the redevelopment of the project area cannot be reasonably expected to be accomplished by private enterprise acting alone without the aid and assistance of the Agency; and

• K. The effect of tax increment financing, as provided for in Section 610 of the Redevelopment Plan, will not cause a significant financial burden or detriment on any taxing agency deriving revenues from the project area;

With respect to the amendment area, as defined in the Redevelopment Plan for the First Amendment to the Industrial Redevelopment Project, the Council has additionally found and determined that:

• L. All noncontiguous areas of the amended project area are either blighted or necessary for effective redevelopment and are not included for the purpose of obtaining the allocation of taxes from the area pursuant to Section 33670 without substantial justification;

• M. The amended project area is predominantly urbanized, as defined by subdivision (b) of Section 33320.1; and

• N. The time limitation, and the limitation on the number of dollars to be allocated to the Agency that are contained in the amended Redevelopment Plan are reasonably related to the proposed projects to be implemented in the amended Project Area and to the ability of the Agency to eliminate blight within the amended project area.

• (Prior code § 27.15)

The City Council 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 City of Vernon at the time of their displacement. No persons of 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. (Prior code § 27.16)

In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation of the Redevelopment Plan hereby approved and adopted, it is found and determined that certain official actions may be required to be taken by the Council 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 Council hereby:

• A. Declares its intention to undertake and complete any proceedings necessary to be carried out by the City of Vernon under the provisions of the Redevelopment Plan.

• B. Requests the various officials, departments, boards, commissions, and agencies of the City of Vernon 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 such Redevelopment Plan.

• (Prior code § 27.17)

In accordance with the requirements of the Community Redevelopment Law Reform Act of 1993, and in accordance with the provisions of the Redevelopment Plan for the First Amendment to the Industrial Redevelopment Project, the City Council of the City of Vernon has established the following limitations:

• A. With regard to the original project area, as defined in the Redevelopment Plan for the First Amendment to the Industrial Redevelopment Project:

  1. In accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6(a), the time for establishing loans, advances and indebtedness to be paid with the proceeds of property taxes received pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33670, to finance in whole, or in part, the redevelopment project shall be eliminated.

  2. In accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6(b), the effectiveness of the Industrial Redevelopment Project, in the original project area only, shall is extended one year to November 27, 2031, after which time the Agency shall have no authority to act except to pay previously incurred indebtedness and to enforce existing covenants, contracts or other obligations.

  3. In accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6(c), except as provided in subdivisions (g) and (h) of Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6, the payment of indebtedness or receipt of property taxes pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section

33670, with respect to the original project area only, after November 27, 2041, is prohibited.

• B. With regard to the amendment area, as defined in the Redevelopment Plan for the First Amendment to the Industrial Redevelopment Project:

  1. In accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 33333.2(a)(1), the time for establishing loans, advances and indebtedness to be paid with the proceeds of property taxes received pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33670, to finance in whole, or in part, the redevelopment project shall not exceed July 14, 2018.

  2. In accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 33333.2(a)(2), the effectiveness of the Industrial Redevelopment Project, in the amendment area only, is extended one year to July 14, 2029, after which time the Agency shall have no authority to act except to pay previously incurred indebtedness and to enforce existing covenants, contracts or other obligations.

  3. In accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 33333.2(a)(3), the payment of indebtedness or receipt of property taxes pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33670, with respect to the amendment area only, after July 14, 2044, is prohibited.

• C. Application. The limitations established in the Redevelopment Plan for the First Amendment to the Industrial Redevelopment Project may only be amended by amendment of the Redevelopment Plan in the manner required and to the extent permitted by law.

• D. The Redevelopment Plan is amended to extend the time limit for commencement of eminent proceedings to acquire property within the Redevelopment Plan for the remaining life of the plan.

(Prior code § 27.18)