Chapter 18.80
AMENDED REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
Sections:
18.80.010 Amendment deemed necessary—Authorization of agencies for implementation.
18.80.030 Approved and adopted.
18.80.040 Objections overruled.
18.80.050 Incorporated by reference.
18.80.060 Findings of council.
18.80.070 Official action to be undertaken.
18.80.080 Statement of cooperation by council.
18.80.090 Temporary housing facilities.
18.80.100 Copy transmittal—Redevelopment agency to carry out plan.
18.80.110 Recordation required.
18.80.130 Documents to be sent to government agencies.
18.80.150 Effect on other provisions.
18.80.010 Amendment deemed necessary—Authorization of agencies for implementation.
On November 19, 1970, the Cerritos city council adopted Ordinance No. 290 codified as Chapter 18.76. Said ordinance approved the Los Cerritos redevelopment plan and vested the Cerritos redevelopment agency with the responsibility for carrying out the same. Although there has been some development and/or redevelopment of properties within the original project area boundaries, there are many problems and conditions of blight both within and outside of the project area boundaries, which impede the redevelopment of properties. The Cerritos redevelopment agency has therefore recommended to the Cerritos city council that it is necessary and/or desirable to amend the Los Cerritos redevelopment plan and also authorize the undertaking by the Cerritos redevelopment agency, independently and/or in conjunction with other public agencies, of various public improvements as are described in the amended redevelopment plan in order to eliminate and to alleviate the conditions of blight which exist and to provide for the maximum implementation of the Los Cerritos redevelopment plan. (Ord. 489 § 1, 1975)
18.80.020 Purpose and intent.
The Cerritos city council does determine and declare that, in addition to those statements contained in Ordinance No. 290 as codified in Chapter 18.76 respecting the city council’s purpose and intent in adopting the redevelopment plan on November 19, 1970, which statement of purpose and intent is incorporated herein by reference, the Cerritos city council does further declare that its purpose and intent with respect to adopting the amended redevelopment plan for the Los Cerritos Project Area is to:
(1) Eliminate existing blighted conditions, be they properties or structures, and prevent reoccurring blight in and about the project area;
(2) Develop property within a coordinated land use pattern of residential, commercial, industrial, recreational and public facilities within the project area, consistent with the goals, policies, objectives, standards, guidelines and requirements set forth in the redevelopment plan, and the city’s adopted general plan and development code;
(3) Develop and construct public facilities and services, including but not limited to, fire prevention and safety facilities, sewers, storm drains and public facilities, open space and park and recreational facilities. It is specifically found that the existing public facilities and services are overburdened and inadequate to accommodate and provide for the development of properties within the project area boundaries, as amended. In addition these facilities are determined to be necessary and required to provide safer and more efficient services for the people and property within the project area and the general community and to insure the implementation of the redevelopment plan;
(4) Eliminate physical, development and environmental deficiencies within the project area, including inadequate street improvements, inadequate utility systems and inadequate public facilities and services; and the removal of deficiencies in and related to the freeway system, including its social, physical and environmental blighting effect on property within the project area;
(5) Develop a more efficient and effective circulation corridor system, free from hazardous vehicular, pedestrian circulation flow;
(6) Implement techniques to mitigate blight characteristics resulting from exposure to the freeway, including but not limited to, those visual and audible conditions affecting adjacent properties within the project area;
(7) Eliminate all forms of blight, including, but not limited to, visual blight in order to maximize development within the project area and maintain property values;
(8) Encourage, promote and assist in the development and expansion of local commerce and needed commercial and industrial facilities, thus increasing local employment opportunities, and improving the economic climate within the project area and the community;
(9) Assemble sites of usable and marketable sizes and shapes for commercial, industrial, recreational and public facility development, within the project area;
(10) Create a more cohesive and unified Cerritos community by strengthening the physical, social and economic ties between residential, commercial, industrial, and recreational land uses within and about the project area;
(11) Acquire and dispose of property, for the purpose of providing relocation housing, as may be required to implement the objectives of this plan;
(12) Encourage the coordination, cooperation and assistance of other local agencies, including but not limited to the ABC Unified School District, the Cerritos Community College District, the Los Angeles County Sanitation District No.1, and the Consolidated Fire Protection District of the county of Los Angeles, in order to provide needed public facilities as are required to benefit the project area;
(13) Achieve a physical environment which is devoid of blighting conditions and reflective of the high level of concern for architectural and urban design principles which are deemed important by the Cerritos community. (Ord. 489 § 2, 1975)
18.80.030 Approved and adopted.
The proposed amended redevelopment plan for the Los Cerritos redevelopment project, as amended after public hearing and as recommended by the Cerritos redevelopment agency and the Cerritos planning commission, is approved and adopted and designated as the official amended redevelopment plan for the Los Cerritos redevelopment project. (Ord. 489 § 3, 1975)
18.80.040 Objections overruled.
All written and oral objections to the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan are overruled. (Ord. 489 § 4, 1975)
18.80.050 Incorporated by reference.
The amended redevelopment plan for the Los Cerritos redevelopment project, hereinafter referred to as the “amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan” is incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof as if set forth in full. (Ord. 489 § 5, 1975)
18.80.060 Findings of council.
The city council finds and determines that:
(1) It is necessary and/or desirable to amend the Los Cerritos redevelopment plan adopted by the city on November 19, 1970, to encompass the additional property referred to in the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan and to provide for those amendments to the plan and authorize the development and/or construction of such public facilities and/or improvements as are set forth in the same amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan;
(2) The amended Los Cerritos project area is a blighted area, the redevelopment of which is necessary to effectuate the public purposes declared in the California Community Redevelopment Law;
(3) The amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan will provide for the redevelopment of properties within the amended Los Cerritos project area boundaries in a manner conforming with the California Community Redevelopment Law and in the interests of the public peace, health, safety and general welfare;
(4) The adoption and carrying out of the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan is economically sound and feasible since it is based upon the Los Cerritos redevelopment plan which has been shown to be both economically sound and feasible;
(5) The amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan conforms to the general plan of the city;
(6) The carrying out of the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan will promote the public peace, health, safety and welfare of the community and will effectuate the purposes and policy of the California Community Redevelopment Law;
(7) The condemnation of real property, as is provided for in certain limited circumstances in the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan, is necessary to the execution of the Los Cerritos redevelopment plan and adequate provisions have been made for the payment of just compensation for any property to be acquired as is provided by law;
(8) The relocation of persons or businesses is not anticipated or at best would be minimal. However, the redevelopment agency has a feasible method or plan for the relocation of families and persons who might be displaced from the amended project area, through the implementation of the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan;
(9) There are or are being provided in the amended project area 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 amended project area, 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. (Ord. 489 § 6, 1975)
18.80.070 Official action to be undertaken.
In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation of the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan which is hereby approved and adopted, it is found and determined that certain official action must be undertaken by the city with reference to, among other things, the following:
(1) Institution and completion of proceedings for opening, closing, vacating, widening, or changing the grades of streets, alleys, and other public rights-of-way, and for other necessary modifications of the freeways, streets, the street layout, and other public rights-of-way in the amended project area. Such action by the city shall include the requirement of abandonment and relocation by the public utility companies of their operations in public rights-of-way as appropriate to carry out this plan;
(2) Institution and completion of proceedings necessary for changes and improvements in publicly owned public utilities within or affecting the amended project area;
(3) Revision of zoning within the amended project area to permit the land uses and development authorized by this amended redevelopment plan, provided that such action is consistent with the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan;
(4) Performance of the above (and of all other functions and services relating to public health, safety and physical development normally rendered in accordance with a schedule which will permit the development of the amended project area) shall be commenced and carried to completion without unnecessary delays;
(5) The acquisition of property, and/or the development of publicly owned property in cooperation with the agency and/or other public agencies with such public facilities and public uses as are provided in Section 500.26 et seq. of the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan;
(6) The undertaking and completion of any other proceedings necessary to carry out the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan. (Ord. 489 § 7, 1975)
18.80.080 Statement of cooperation by council.
The city council agrees and does:
(1) Pledge its cooperation in helping to carry out the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan and requests the various officials, departments, boards and agencies of the city having administrative responsibilities in the premises, likewise to cooperate to such extent, and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner which is consistent with the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan; and
(2) Stand ready to consider the taking of appropriate action upon proposals and measures which are designed to effectuate the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan. (Ord. 489 § 8, 1975)
18.80.090 Temporary housing facilities.
This city council, although it does not contemplate the relocation of residents, is satisfied that within the amended project area boundaries or within the greater community, permanent housing facilities either exist or will be available within three years of the time occupants of the amended project area are displaced, and pending the development of such facilities, there will be adequate housing available to such displaced occupants at rents comparable to those in the community at the time of their displacement. (Ord. 489 § 9, 1975)
18.80.100 Copy transmittal—Redevelopment agency to carry out plan.
The city clerk is directed to send a certified copy of the ordinance codified herein to the Cerritos redevelopment agency, and the Cerritos redevelopment agency is vested with the responsibility of carrying out the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan. (Ord. 489 § 10, 1975)
18.80.110 Recordation required.
The city clerk is directed to record with the county recorder a description of the land within the amended Los Cerritos project area and a statement that proceedings for the redevelopment of the amended project area have been instituted under the California Community Redevelopment Law. The Cerritos redevelopment agency is directed to effectuate recordation of documents in accordance with the provisions of Section 27295 of the Government Code to the extent they are applicable. (Ord. 489 § 11, 1975)
18.80.120 Building permits.
The building department of the city is directed, for a period of two years, to advise all applicants for building permits in the amended project area boundaries that the site for which a building permit is being sought for the construction of buildings or for other improvements is within the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment project area. (Ord. 489 § 12, 1975)
18.80.130 Documents to be sent to government agencies.
The city clerk is directed to transmit a copy of the description and statement recorded by the city clerk pursuant to Section 18.80.110 of this chapter, a copy of the ordinance codified herein adopting the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan and a map or plat indicating the boundaries of the project area to the auditor and tax assessor of Los Angeles County, to the governing body of each of the taxing agencies which levies taxes upon any property in the project area, and to the State Board of Equalization. (Ord. 489 § 13, 1975)
18.80.140 Severability.
If any clause, paragraph, section or portion of this chapter, or the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan or any project provided for therein, is challenged in a court of competent jurisdiction and is thereafter declared to be unconstitutional, illegal, inoperative or otherwise ineffective, such decision shall not affect the constitutionality, legality or effectiveness of any other clause, paragraph, section or portion of this chapter or the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan, or any project provided for therein; each clause, paragraph, section or portion of this chapter and of the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan and each project thereof, is severable from each and every other clause, paragraph, section or portion of this chapter and the amended Los Cerritos redevelopment plan and each project thereof. (Ord. 489 § 14, 1975)
18.80.150 Effect on other provisions.
Until such time as the ordinance codified herein becomes effective for all purposes, Ordinance No. 290 as adopted by the Cerritos city council on November 19, 1970, and the Los Cerritos redevelopment plan adopted thereby, shall remain in full force and effect for all purposes and the Cerritos redevelopment agency shall be vested with the responsibility of implementing and carrying out the Los Cerritos redevelopment plan and is directed to undertake all activities and/or projects as are provided, authorized or contemplated in the Los Cerritos redevelopment plan, in order to provide for the redevelopment of the Los Cerritos project area. (Ord. 489 § 15, 1975)