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RESOLUTION NO. 94-224
RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA,
MAKING FINDINGS AND DETERMINATIONS AS TO THE
BENEFIT OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE
VARIOUS REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREAS OF THE
AGENCY (532 NORTH "D" STREET BUILDING)
WHEREAS, the City of San Bernardino, California (the
8 "City"), is a municipal corporation and a charter city duly
9 created and existing pursuant to the Constitution and the laws of
10 the State of California; and
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12 WHEREAS, the Community Development Commission of the
13 City of San Bernardino (the "Commission") on behalf of the
14 Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Bernardino (the
15 "Agency"), is a redevelopment agency, a public body, corporate
16 and politic of the State of California, organized and existing
17 pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 of
18 Division 24 commencing with Section 33000) of the Health and
19 Safety Code of the State of California (the "Act"); and
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WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 33445 of the Act, the
Agency may, with the consent of the Mayor and Common Council of
the City (the "Council"), pay all or a part of the cost of
installation and construction of any building,
facility,
structure or other improvement which is publicly owned either
within or without the boundaries of a redevelopment project area
if the Council determines: (1) that such buildings, facilities,
28 structures or other improvements are of benefit to the
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redevelopment proj ect area or the immediate neighborhood in which
the project is located, regardless of whether such improvement is
within another project area, or in the case. of a project area in
which substantially all the land is publicly owned that the
improvement is of benefit to an adjacent project area of the
Agency, (2) that no other reasonable means of financing such
buildings, facilities, structures or other improvements is
available to the community, and such determination by the Agency
and the Council shall be final and conclusive, and (3) that the
payment of funds for the cost of the facilities, structures or
other improvements will assist in the elimination of one or more
blighting conditions inside the project; and
WHEREAS, the City and the Commission have previously
approved and adopted Redevelopment Plans (collectively
hereinafter referred to as the "Redevelopment Plans") for various
redevelopment project areas within the City which project areas
include: the Meadowbrook-Central City Project Area, Central City
North Project Area, Central City East Project Area, Central City
South Project Area, Central City West Project Area, Tri-Cities
Project Area, Southeast Industrial Park Redevelopment Project
Area, South Valle Project Area, State College Project Area,
Northwest Project Area and the Mt. Vernon Project Area; and
WHEREAS, it is in the interests of the present
landowners within the various project areas subject to the
Redevelopment plans (the "Project Areas") and the residents, both
within the Project Areas and within the City generally, that the
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Agency causes the construction and rehabilitation of a certain
publicly owned commercial office building of the Agency located
at 532 North "D" Street in the City (the "Project"); and
WHEREAS, the Project Areas presently suffer from a high
degree of impaired investments and depreciated values along with
high business vacancies which conditions are being exacerbated by
the lack of economic opportunities within the various Project
Areas; and
WHEREAS, the Project Areas also suffers from factors
which prevent or substantially hinder the economically viable use
or capacity of buildings and lots; and
WHEREAS, in order to ensure continued investment and
growth in the Project Areas, the residents and occupants of the
Project Areas are having to avail themselves of economic
opportunities and services in the central business district which
opportunities and services are often provided by governmental
offices located in the central business district; and
WHEREAS, the Project, which consists of the
construction and rehabilitation of the Agency's office building,
will allow for the rental and occupancy within said building by
the Consulate General's offices for the Government of Mexico; and
WHEREAS, the population of Mexican nationals within the
City accounts for approximately thirty-five (35%) of the entire
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population of the City according to recent census information;
and
WHEREAS, the Mexican Consulate General provides a full
range of social and economic services and opportunities to the
community, including but not limited to, the issuing of visa's,
the initiation of cultural and economic exchanges, the provision
of relocation assistance, the assistance in criminal and civil
investigations and the intervention of legal matters, which
services are relied upon by residents and occupants of the
Project Areas and the City generally; and
WHEREAS, the Project is located within a portion of the
central city area of the City of which suffers from a lack of
business opportunities as well as inadequate and deteriorating
office space facilities and which area is patronized by residents
and occupants of the Project Areas who pursue employment, seek
business opportunities and who rely on the provision of economic,
social and civic services provided by governmental businesses
including the Mexican Consulate; and
WHEREAS, the central city area suffers from high
vacancy rates and the location of the Mexican Consulate within
such area will help alleviate such vacancy rate both from its own
occupancy of office space as well as the occupancy of nearby
space by businesses and offices that typically congregate in
proximity to Consul offices; and
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WHEREAS, the undertaking of the proj ect in the downtown
area of the City, wherein residents of the Project Areas and the
City generally may avail themselves of economic opportunities as
well as civic and commercial services, will provide a benefit for
the Project Areas and the residents of the adjacent neighborhoods
who participate in activities or who are employed in the downtown
area; and
WHEREAS, in order to promote the City's health, safety
and welfare, it is important that the Project be financed in
order to ensure the orderly development of the Project Areas and
neighboring areas; and
WHEREAS, it is appropriate at this time for the Council
to make certain findings and determinations and take certain
action with respect to the undertaking of the Project.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, DO HEREBY FIND, RESOLVE,
DETERMINE AND ORDER AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Recitals hereinabove are true and
correct and are incorporated herein by this reference.
SECTION 2. The Council consents to the payment by
the Agency of the costs of the Project to be undertaken in the
central business district which are of benefit to the Project
Areas and other neighborhoods within the City for the reasons set
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forth in the Recitals hereinabove. The Council also finds and
determines that no other reasonable means of financing of the
Project is presently available to the City and that the City and
the Agency require the use of revenues generated from the various
Project Areas in order to fund the Project. The Council further
finds that the Project will enhance the desirability of the City
for economic investment which in turn will enhance economic
viability in the Project Areas thereby eliminating existing
blighting conditions in the Project Areas.
SECTION 3. The construction of the Project in the
downtown area will make the central business district more
economically viable through the reduction of otherwise high
vacancy rates and elimination of factors hindering the economic
viability of downtown buildings which will thereby make the
entire City and the Project Areas more desirable for development
which will in turn help eliminate blight within the Project Areas
and other areas of the City.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and
directed to cause this Resolution to be transmitted to the Agency
for consideration in connection with appropriate action by that
body.
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RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, MAKING FINDINGS AND DETERMINATIONS
AS TO THE BENEFIT OF CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE VARIOUS
REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREAS OF THE AGENCY (532 NORTH "D" STREET
BUILDING)
SECTION 5.
The findings and determinations herein
shall be final and conclusive. This Resolution shall take effect
upon the date of its adoption.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly
10 adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of
11 San Bernardino at a regular meeting
thereof, held on the
1st
day of
August
1994, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
council Members Negrete, Curlin, Hernandez,
Oberhelman, Devlin, Pope-Ludlom
and Miller
NAYS:
ABSENT:
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The foregoing resolution is hereby approved this
2nd
day of August
, 1994.
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M~yor of the City of
San Bernardino
Approved as to form and legal content:
City Attorney
By:
SBEO\OOOl\DOC\993
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO
On 8-2.,94 before me, Rachel R. Sha"
(here insert name and title of the officer), personally appeared
Suzanna Cordova & Torn Minor , personally known to me (or proved to
me on the basis of satisfactory evidence) to be the person(s)
whose name (s) is/are subscribed to the within instrument and
acknowledged to me that ~~/they executed the same in
~i$~r/their authorized capacity(ies), and that by his/her/their
signature(s) on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon
behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument.
WITNESS my hand and official seal.
Signatu~-f- L Lq.~
(Seal)
(.....- --..... ""-"- -- -~~1
.... RACHEL R, SHAY
IJl COMM, No, 997208 G)
a:: NOTARY PUBLIC. CALIfORNIA :0
Cl SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IJl
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