HomeMy WebLinkAboutRES NO 19-52RESOLUTION NO.
WHEREAS, on January 29, 1951, the Council of the City of
Bakersfield passed Resolution No. 100 approving the development,
construction and ownership of a low-rent housing project or pro-
Jects by the Housing Authority of the County of Kern for the purpose
of improving low-rent housing' conditions and to raise the living
standards of persons in the low-income brackets, based upon the
1937 Federal Public Housing Act and the Public Housing Act of the
State of California, and
EREAS, said resolution was based upon the belief that
said housing project was to improve the conditions then existing
in the Sunset-Mayflower District, and
WHEREAS, said Council did, on said day enter into a Co-
operation Agreement between the City of Bakersfield and the Kern
County Housing .Authority in accordance with Section 15 (7) (b) (i)
of the U. S. Housing Act of 1937, as further amended by the Housing
Act of 1949, to'meet the specific needs of the Sunset-Mayflower
District, and
WHEREAS, there is no provision in said resolution or
assurance that said low-rent housing project will be confined in
its operation and effect to the primary purpose of improving and
benefiting said district or any other district within the City of
Bakersfield, and
WHEREAS, the National Housing Policy of the Housing Act of
1949, provides in part as follows:
"The Congress hereby declares that the general welfare
and security of the Nation and the health and living
standards of its people require. ...the elimination of
substandard and other inadequate housing through the
clearance of slums and blighted areas, and the realization
as soon as feasible of the goal of a decent home and a
suitable living environment for every American family,
thus contributing to the development and redevelopment
'of communities and to the advancement of the growth,
wealth, and security of the Nation....
"The policy to be followed....shall be (1) private enter-
prise shall be encouraged to serve as large a part of the
total need as it can; (2) governmental assistance shall
be utilized where feasible to enable private enterprise
to serve more of the total need; (3) appropriate local
public bodies shsll be encouraged and assisted to undertake
positive programs of encouraging md assisting the develop-
ment of well-planned, integrated residential neighborhoods,
the development and re development of cormnunities, and the
production, at lower costs, of housing of sound standards
of design, construction, livability, and size for adequate
family life; (4) goverranental assistance to eliminate sub-
standard and other inadequate housing through the clearance
of slums and blighted areas...."
and
WHEREAS, the policy and purpose of said Act as expressed in
the statement of the Administrator, Division of Slum Clearance and
Urban Re deve lopment , will accomplish the object of this Council in
improving, re deve loping and/or abolishing slum areas in our particu-
lar coEmunity, for the reason that the purpose and policy of said
1949 Act is declared as follows:
"All projects must be local undertakings---they must be
started by the community, approved by the cornunity, and
carried out by the coEraunity. The cormnLtuity decides what
areas it wants to clear and for what purposes it wants to
redevelop them. The Federal Government,s job is to review
plans developed by the cormnunity to see that they conform
with the requirements and objectives that Congress has
laid do~-n for Federal assistance, and to make sure that
they will result in the removal of slums and blight today
and in the future."
and
WHEREAS, the City Council should not attempt to encroach
upon other governing bodies outside the City ~f Bakersfield, but
should confine itself to the corporate area wherein it has juris-
diction, and
WHEREAS, Resolution No. 100 of the Council of the City of
Bakersfield approving the application of an amount not to exceed
$11~,000 for survey of slum conditions to be remedied was intended
by said Council to be restricted to the Sunset-Mayflower District,
and
WHEREAS, said survey as made and used by the Housing Auth-
ority of Kern County in the planning and developing of the project
is based upon a survey of the United States Census Bureau and the
Housing Authority of Kern County and did not include the corporate
area of the City of Bakersfield, and
WHEREAS, it is to the best interest of the citizens of this
coxmnunity that steps be taken to iraprove the locality wi thin this
city in need of such improvement, under the Slum Clearance and Urban
Redevelopment Act, and Title I of the Housing Act of 1949.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that Resolution No. lO0
of the City of Bakersfield, and the Cooperation Agreement between
the Housing Authority of the County of Kern m d the City of Bakersfield,
dated January 29, 1951, be and the same are hereby rescinded.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the b~L~ day of Marc~, 1952, by the follow-
ing vote:
AYES: -rm,~PcN./~'S, SAUNDE~:S, .~t-E-~R-EE~, S?,IIT}], SULLIVAN, V'AI~IDERLEI, VEST
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ABSENT: ...... _~., ~0 o~ ...... ...~__ ...................
~ity Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield.
APPROVED this ~ d y of March, 19~2.
MA~O~ oi' t~e City of ~al~ersI'ield.
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