HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2216ORDINANCE NO. 2216 NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD APPROVING AND ADOPTING AMEND-
MENTS TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE
DOWNTOWN BAKERSFIELD REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
WHEREAS, the Bakersfield Redevelopment Agency (hereinafter
referred to as the "Agency") formulated and prepared proposed
amendments to the Redevelopment Plan for the Downtown Bakersfield
Redevelopment Project; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Bakersfield
has submitted its report and recommendations, finding said proposed
amendments to the Redevelopment Plan are in conformity with the
General Plan and recommending approval and adoption of said pro-
posed amendments; and
WHEREAS, the Agency adopted and amended rules governing
participation by and reasonable preferences to owners and tenants
in the original Project area and the area to be added to the Project;
and
WHEREAS, the Agency submitted to the City Council of the
City of Bakersfield said proposed amendments to the Redevelopment
Plan, accompanied by the Report of the Agency on said proposed amend-
ments and the Draft Environmental Impact Report on the Project and
the area to be added to the Project; and
WHEREAS, after due notice, a joint public hearing was held
by the Agency and the City Council to consider said proposed amend-
ments and said Draft Environmental Impact Report; and
WHEREAS, at said joint public hearing, this City Council
heard and passed upon all oral and written objections by overruling
such objections; and
WHEREAS, the Agency recommended approval and adoption of
said proposed amendments to the Redevelopment Plan, and certified,
approved and adopted the Environmental Impact Report on the Project
and the area to be added to the Project; and
WHEREAS, all action required by law has been taken by all
appropriate public agencies.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City
of Bakersfield as follows:
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SECTION 1.
The purposes and intent of
the area added to the Project are
the City Council with respect
to:
1. Eliminate the conditions of blight existing in the
area added to the Project;
2. Insure, as far as possible, that the causes of
blighting conditions will be either eliminated or protected
against;
3. Provide participation for owners and a reasonable
preference for persons engaged in business in the area added to
the Project;
4. Encourage the rehabilitation, rebuilding, and develop-
ment of the area added to the Project;
5. Encourage and foster the economic revitalization of the
area added to the Project;
6. Relocate the owners and occupants of the area added to
the Project as needed;
7. Redevelop and rebuild the public facilities in the
area added to the Project to provide safer and more efficient service
for the people in the area and the general public as a whole.
SECTION 2.
The Amendments to the Redevelopment Plan for the Downtown
Bakersfield Redevelopment Project are hereby incorporated herein by
reference and made a part hereof as if fully set out at length
herein.
SECTION 3.
The Amendments to the Redevelopment Plan are hereby
approved and adopted, and the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended)
is hereby designated the official Rmdevelopment Plan for the Down-
town Bakersfield Redevelopment Project.
SECTION 4.
The City Council hereby certifies that it has reviewed
and considered the information contained in and comments on the
Environmental Impact Report on the Project and the Area Proposed
to be Added to the Project concurrent with its approval and adoption
of the Amendments to the Redevelopment Plan; hereby finds that
redevelopment activities conducted pursuant to the Redevelopment Plan
(as hereby amended) will not have a significant adverse impact on
the environment; and hereby approves and adopts said Environmental
Impact Report as the report of the City Council.
SECTION 5.
The City Council hereby finds and determines that:
1. The area added to the Project 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;
2. The Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended) will
redevelop the area added to the Project in conformity with the
Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California and in the
interests of the public peace, health and safety and welfare;
3. The adoption and carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan
(as hereby amended) is economically sound and feasible;
4. The Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended) conforms
to the General Plan of the City of Bakersfield.
5. The carrying out of the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby
amended) will promote the public peace, health, safety and welfare
of the City of Bakersfield and will effectuate the purposes and
policies of the Cormnunity Redevelopment Law of the State of
California;
6. The condemnation of real property, as provided for
in the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended) for the area added to
the Project, is necessary to the execution of the Redevelopment Plan
(as hereby amended) and adequate provisions have been made for pay-
ment for property to be acquired as provided by law;
7. There are families and persons to be displaced from
housing facilities in the area added to the Project, and when any such
families and persons are displaced by redevelopment activities:
a. The Agency has feasible methods and plans for the
relocation of families and persons to be temporarily or permanently
displaced from housing facilities in the area added to the Project;
b. There will be provided in the entire Project
area (including the area added to the Project) 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 displaced from the area
added to the Project, 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;
8. The Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended) will
afford a maximum opportunity consistent with the sound needs of the
locality as a whole for the redevelopment of the area added to the
Project by private enterprise;
9. In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation
of the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended), it is found and
determined that certain official action must be taken by the City
Council with reference, among other things, to changes in zoning,
the vacating and removal of streets, and other public ways, the
location and relocation of sewer and water mains and other public
facilities, and other public action, and accordingly the City
Council hereby:
a. Pledges its cooperation in helping to carry out
the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended); and
b. Requests the various officials, departments,
boards and agencies of the City of Bakersfield 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 the Redevelopment Plan (as hereby amended); and
c. Stands ready to take appropriate action upon
proposals and measures designed to effectuate the Redevelopment
Plan (as hereby amended).
SECTION 6.
In the event any occupants are displaced from housing
facilities in the area added to the Project, the City Council is
satisfied that permanent housing facilities will be aw~ilable within
three years from the time occupants of the 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 Bakersfield
at the time of their displacement.
SECTION 7.
All written and oral objections to the Amendments to
Redevelopment Plan are hereby overruled.
the
SECTION 8.
The City Clerk hereby is directed to cause the incorpora-
tion of the Amendments hereby approved and adopted into the Redevelop-
ment Plan. The City Clerk hereby is further directed to send a
certified copy of this Ordinance and a copy of the Redevelopment Plan
(as hereby amended) to the Agency. The Agency hereby ls vested with
the responsibility for carrying out the Redevelopment Plan (as
hereby amended) for the Downtown Bakersfield Redevelopment Project,
provided that every contract of the Agency for the sale of real
property shall be subject to the approval of the City Council.
SECTION 9.
The City Clerk hereby is directed
Recorder of Kern County descriptions of the
to the Project and the entire Project area
to the Project), and a statement that proceedings for the redevelop-
ment of the area added to the Project have been instituted under the
California Cormnunity Redevelopment Law. The Agency hereby is
directed to effectuate recordation in compliance with the provisions
of Section 27295 of the Government Code to the extent applicable.
to record with the County
land within the area added
(including the area added
SECTION 10.
The Building Department of the City of Bakersfield is
hereby directed for a period of two years after the effective date
of this Ordinance to advise all applicants for building permits within
the area added to the Project that the site for which a building
permit is sought for the construction of buildings or for other
improvements is within a redevelopment project area.
SECTION 11.
The City Clerk is directed, as promptly as practicable
following the adoption of this Ordinance (but in any event, on or
before January 1, 1975), to transmit a copy of this Ordinance, a
copy of Ordinance No. 2033 approving and adopting the Redevelopment
Plan, a copy of the descriptions and statement recorded by the
City pursuant to Section 9 of this Ordinance, and a map or plot
indicating the boundaries of the area added to the Project and
the entire Project area (including the area added to the Project)
to the Tax Assessor of Kern County, to the Auditor-Controller of
Kern County, to the governing body of each of the taxing agencies
which levies taxes upon any property in the entire Project area,
and to the State Board of Equalization.
SECTION 12.
The Mayor (or in his absence the Vice-Mayo~ shall sign
this Ordinance; the City Clerk shall attest and certify to the
adoption of this Ordinance and its approval by the City Council
and shall cause the same to be published once in a newspaper with
general circulation in the City of Bakersfield; and immediately
thereinafter this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 25th day of November, 1974, by the
following vote:
AYES, COIJNCILM~.N BAqTON, BLE~.CKER, HE.ISFY, F,IEDDERS, ROGERS, STRONG, THOMAS
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Counczl of the C~y of Bakersfield
APPROVED this 25th day~f ~o~v.~ember, 1974
ersfield
APPROVED as to form:
CITY ATTORNEY o~ the C~ty of Bakersfield
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Affi av of Iosttng (Ordinances
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, t
County of Kern ss.
H. E. BERGEN, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
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at the City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
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AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD APPROVING AND ADOPTING AMEND-
MENTS TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE
DOWNTOWN BAKERSFIELD REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
City C~rk
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
day of ......5[~.v.e~n.b~ ..............,19_7.4
Marguerite Anderson