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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRDA RES 410RESOLUTION NO. 410 A RESOLUTION OF THE PALM DESERT REDEVELOPMENT � AGENCY APPROVING PAYMENT BY THE AGENCY FOR THE COST OF CONSTRUCTING UNDERGROUND UTILITY SERVICE CONNECTIONS FOR HOMES LOCATED ALONG FRED WARING DRIVE THE PALM DESERT REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY HEREBY FINDS, DETERMINES, RESOLVES, AND ORDERS AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City of Palm Desert is undertaking the widening of Fred Waring Drive between San Pascual and Deep Canyon. In connection with such widening, the public necessity, health, safety, and welfare requires the removal of poles, overhead wires, and associated overhead structures along the subject portion of Fred Waring Drive and the underground installation of wires and facilities for supplying electric, communication, or similar or associated service. In order to continue to receive electric and other service following such undergrounding, the affected property owners must construct, reconstruct, relocate, or convert service connections from the undergrounded facilities to their premises. Section 2. Health and Safety Code Section 3334.2 (a} provides that not less than 20 percent of all taxes that are allocated to the Agency must be used by the — Agency for the purposes of increasing, improving, and preserving the City's supply of low and moderate income housing available at an affordable housing cost to persons and families of low or moderate income. Section 3334.2 (e) provides that, in meeting this requirement, an agency may improve real property with onsite or offsite improvements if such improvements are necessary to eliminate a specific conditivn that jeopardizes tF1'e health or safety of existing low or moderate income residents. Section 3. Based an a survey conducted by Agency staff, staff has determined that the homes located along the subject portion of Fred Waring Drive where the utilities are to be undergrounded are owned and occupied by persons and families of low or moderate income. In addition, staff has determined that the subject homes are available to low and moderate income persons and families at an affordable housing cost. Section 4. The Agency hereby determines that the presence of overhead utilities creates a condition that jeopardizes the health and safety of the existing residents along the subject portion of Fred Waring Drive which will be eliminated by undergrounding the utilities: The location of the existing poles, overhead wires, and associated overhead structures are such that they jeopardize the safety of residents because the poles could RESOLUTION NO. 4io be struck, thereby causing the poles and overhead wires and structures to fall on the hames; the presence of trees in this area and the occurrence of high winds further increases the chance of falling wires; certain poles obstruct the sidewalks, thereby interfering with their safe use; and the existing system emits noise, thereby contributing to noise pollution, which is detrimental to health. Section 5. Based on the foregoing, the Agency hereby determines to pay for the cost of constructing, reconstructing, relocating, and converting service connections from the undergrounded facilities to the affected homes along Fred Waring Drive so that the owners may continue to receive electric, communication or similar or associated service following undergrounding of utilities. In that regard, the Agency hereby directs that sufficient funds be deposited into the Housing Fund from time to time from any available revenues of the Agency and to be used to pay for the cost of providing the required service connections. Section 6. Staff is hereby authorized and directed to take ali other actions that may be necessary or desirable to effectuate the purposes of this resolution. PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 14tt�day of December , 2000. AYES: BENSON, CRITES, KELLY, SPIEGEL, FERGUSON NOES: NONE ABSENT: rrorrE ABSTAIN: NONE