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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1991-422 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 RESOLUTION NO. 91-422 RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, MAKING FINDINGS AND DETERMINATIONS AS TO THE BENEFIT OF UNDERTAKING CERTAIN PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE TRI CITY REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA (WATERMAN OFF-RAMP IMPROVEMENTS) WHEREAS, the City of San Bernardino, California (the "city"), is a municipal corporation and a charter city duly created and existing pursuant to the Constitution and the laws of the State of California (the "City"); and WHEREAS, the Community Development Commission of the City of San Bernardino (the "Commission") on behalf of the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Bernardino (the "Agency"), is a redevelopment agency, a public body, corporate and politic of the State of California, organized and existing pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 of Division 24) commencing with section 33000 of the Health and Safety Code of the State of California (the "Act"); and 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 Agency determines: (1) that such buildings, facilities, structures III improvements other benefit of or to the are CJ - 1 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 redevelopment project area or the immediate neighborhood in which the project is located, regardless of whether such improvements are within another project area, or in the case of a project area in which substantially all the land is publicly owned that the improvements are of benefit to an adjacent project area of the Agency, and (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 WHEREAS, the city and the Commission have previously approved and adopted the Redevelopment Plan for the Tri City Redevelopment Project (the "Redevelopment Plan"); and WHEREAS, it is in the interests of the present landowners within the project area subject to the Redevelopment Plan (the "Project Area") and the residents, both within the Project Area and within the city generally, that the Agency assist in the financing of certain public right-Of-way improvements consisting primarily of off-ramp improvements to the Waterman Avenue exit of the Interstate Highway 10 and signalization and lighting at the off-ramp terminus at Carnegie Drive/Hospitality Lane (the "Off-Ramp Improvements"); and WHEREAS, Off-Ramp Improvements are necessary to provide adequate freeway access to and from the Project Area and the traffic signal and lighting improvement will help regulate traffic flow in connection with use of the Waterman off-ramp; and - 2 - 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 WHEREAS, the undertaking of the Off-Ramp Improvements will improve the public rights-of-way providing traffic circulation throughout the Project Area thereby making such rights-of-way safer for pedestrian and vehicular traffic which in turn will ensure the health, safety and welfare of residents and occupants of the Project Area as well as other neighborhoods of the city; and WHEREAS, in order to promote the City's health, safety and welfare, it is important that the Off-Ramp Improvements be financed in order to ensure the orderly development of areas in proximity to the rights-of-way including the Project Area and neighboring areas; and WHEREAS, the City and Agency had previously attempted to arrange financing for the Off-Ramp Improvements through the establishment of a loan transaction (the "Loan") from the city to the Agency supported by revenues from the Southeast Industrial Park Redevelopment Project Area which Loan transaction was approved pursuant to Agency Resolution No. 5202 and Resolution No. 5203 and City Resolution No. 89-382 and Resolution No. 89-383 but which Loan transaction was never implemented; and WHEREAS, since the Loan was never implemented and since funding is now available from the Project Area, it is no longer necessary to rely on the Loan financing and accordingly the Council deems it desirable to rescind the terms of the Loan and its Resolution No. 89-382 and Resolution No. 89-383; and - 3 - 9 WHEREAS, it is appropriate at this time for the Council to make certain findings and determinations and take certain action with respect to the installation of the Off-Ramp Improvements. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 SECTION 3. The provision of the Off-Ramp 24 Improvements will improve traffic and pedestrian safety 25 conditions in and around the Project Area for the benefit of 26 occupants of the Project Area which will make the Project Area 27 more desirable for development which will in turn help eliminate 28 blight within the Project Area and other areas of the city. - 4 - 1 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The Recitals hereinabove are true and correct and are incorporated herein by this reference. SECTION 2. The Council approves the payment by the Agency of the costs of the Off-Ramp Improvements to be undertaken in the Project Area which are of benefit to such Project Area and other neighborhoods within the City for the reasons set forth in the Recitals hereinabove. The Council further finds and determines that no other reasonable means of financing the undertaking of the Off-Ramp Improvements is presently available to the city and that the city and the Agency require the use of revenues generated from the Project Area in order to fund the undertaking of the Off-Ramp Improvements. SECTION 4. The Council hereby rescinds its Resolution No. 89-382 and Resolution No. 89-383 in their entirety in order that said Resolutions be of no further force and effect and the Council hereby further rescinds the Loan transaction as approved by said Resolutions. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 action by that body. 11 III 12 I I I 13 I I I 14 III 15 I I I 16 I I I 17 I I I 18 I I I 19 I I I 20 II I 21 I I I 22 III 23 III 24 III 25 I I I 26 I I I 27 III 28 I I I SECTION 5. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause this Resolution to be transmitted to the Commission for consideration in connection with appropriate - 5 - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA, MAKING FINDINGS AND DETERMINATIONS AS TO THE BENEFIT OF UNDERTAKING CERTAIN PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE TRI CITY REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA (WATERMAN OFF-RAMP IMPROVEMENTS) 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 9 adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the city of 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 San Bernardino at a regular meeting thereof, held on the day of 7th October 1991, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Council Members Estrada, Reilly, Hernandez, Maudsley, Minor, Miller NAYS: None ABSENT: Council Member Rope-Ludlam ~ ~--,~ 'ty Clerk approved this 9th The foregoing resolution is day of October , 1991. 74 ./.<./ ~..- of 24 Approved as to form JAMES F. PENMAN 25 city Attorney 26 27 28 and legal content: By: ~fiaJ!00 / SBEO\OOOl \DOC\S07\ea - 6 -