HomeMy WebLinkAboutRDA RES 394RESOLUTION NO. 394
A RESOLUTION OF THE PALM DESERT REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
APPROVING PAYMENT BY THE AGENCY FOR ALL OR A PART OF
THE COST OF INSTALLATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SIDEWALK
AND APPURTENANT LANDSCAPING AND RELATED IMPROVEMENTS
THE PALM DESERT REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY HEREBY FINDS,
DETERMINES, RESOLVES AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Pursuant to provisions of the Community
Redevelopment Law (California Health and Safety Code Section
33000, et s�.), and in particular Section 33445 thereof, the
Palm Desert Redevelopment Agency (the "Agency") proposes to
reimburse the City of Palm Desert for all or part of the cost of
installing and constructing a publicly-owned sidewalk and
appurtenant landscaping and related improvements along the east
side of Oasis Club Drive between Country Club Drive and Hovley
Lane and north side Hovley Lane between Oasis Club Drive and
approximately two-hundred yards north in the City of Palm Drive,
California in Project Area No. 4(the "Project Area") of the
Agency (the "Improvements"). The landscaping and related
improvements include the installation of box trees, vines and
shrubs; the installation of landscape materials, including a
concrete mowstrip and fines; and the installation of an
irrigation system, and are described in the Agreement by and
between the City of Palm Desert and Pink, Inc., dated June 10,
1999, on file in the office of the City Clerk of the City of Palm
Desert. The sidewalk is located in a residential area along a
major arterial which provides the only access for the residents
of the adjacent housing to a nearby shopping center. Without the
sidewalk, residents walking to the shopping center would have to
walk in the street for part of way, thereby jeopardizing the
safety of the residents. The lack of a sidewalk not only created
safety hazards, but also discouraged such residents from
patronizing businesses in the shopping center, thereby hindering
economic development opportunities. The appurtenant landscaping
and related improvements provide beautification, thereby
enhancing the desirability of the surroundings, encourage water
conservation, and improve aesthetics by providing for landscaping
which is consistent with the City's landscaping design theme.
Section 2. The Improvements are located in the Project
Area which the City Council has previously determined is an area
in which the combination of conditions of blight is so prevalent
and so substantial that it causes a reduction of, or lack of,
proper utilization of the area to such an extent that it
constitutes a serious physical, social and economic burden on the
community which cannot reasonably be expected to be reversed or
alleviated by private enterprise or governmental action, or both,
without redevelopment. Among other things, the Project Area
contains vacant and underutilized properties, properties which
suffer from depreciated or stagnant property values, and
deteriorated, aged and obsolete buildings. In addition, the
Project Area is characterized by the existence of inadequate open
spaces, public improvements and public facilities, including
inadequate sidewalk and landscaping improvements, which cannot be
remedied by private or governmental action without redevelopment.
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Resolution No. 394
The installation of the Improvements eliminates a safety hazard
and improves the aesthetics of the area, all for the benefit of
the health, safety and welfare of the residents and taxpayers of
the Project Area and the immediate neighborhood.
Section 3. The budget constraints of the City prevent
the City from financing the Improvement by any means. Except for
the moneys advanced by the City and to be reimbursed by the
Agency, no moneys of the City are available to pay for the cost
of the Improvements. Traditional methods of financing such as
the issuance of general obligation bonds are unavailable as a
practical matter because of the extraordinary majority voter
approval requirements of two-thirds of the electorate.
Assessment financing or special tax financing could overburden
benefitting properties with assessments or special taxes and, in
addition, special taxes require a two-thirds vote and assessments
are subject to a majority protest.
Section 4. The Agency hereby finds and determines that
based upon the foregoing and other information presented to the
Agency: (i) the Improvements are of benefit to the Project Area
and to the immediate neighborhood in which the project is
located; (ii) the payment of funds for the Improvements assists
in the elimination of one or more blighting conditions inside the
Project Area; (iii) the payment of funds for the Improvements is
eonsistent with the Agency's implementation plan adopted pursuant
to Health and Safety Code Section 33490; and (iv) no other
reasonable means of financing the Improvements is available to
the City.
Section 5. The Agency hereby approves payment by the
Agency for all or a part of the cost of the Improvements from any
revenues of the Agency lawfully available therefor.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 22nd day of
June , 2 0 0 0.
AYES: BENSON, KELLY, SPIEGEL, FERGUSON
NOES : NONE
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