Chapter 18.84
LOS COYOTES REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
Sections:
18.84.010 Evidence of blighted conditions presented.
18.84.030 Approved and adopted.
18.84.040 Objections overruled.
18.84.050 Incorporated by reference.
18.84.060 Findings of council.
18.84.070 Official action to be undertaken—Statement of cooperation by council.
18.84.080 Temporary housing facilities.
18.84.090 Copy transmittal—Redevelopment agency to carry out plan.
18.84.100 Recordation required.
18.84.120 Documents to be sent to government agencies.
18.84.010 Evidence of blighted conditions presented.
The Cerritos redevelopment agency has prepared a redevelopment plan for the Los Coyotes project area. The redevelopment plan describes various properties within the project area boundaries which are blighted as that term is defined in the California Community Redevelopment Law and evidence of such blighted conditions has been presented to this city council and includes:
(1) The underutilization of many properties within the project area boundaries which results in development constraints on these properties and produces a stagnant and unproductive condition of land which is otherwise potentially useful and valuable;
(2) The unproductive use of land resulting from fragmented ownership of certain parcels of property which are of peculiar development characteristics and/or miscellaneous sizes;
(3) A street pattern which is inadequate to provide safe and efficient vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle circulation and parking;
(4) The unimproved, defective and/or inadequate construction of street improvements and public and private utilities within the project area which has resulted from the uncoordinated development pattern of certain of the property within the project area;
(5) The need for additional public and private utilities in order to accommodate the development of properties within the project area boundaries; including the need for additional water service, storm drains and sewer facilities, and additional fire protection and prevention facilities;
(6) The inadequate and/or inefficient use of the flood control channels and the public utility easements which traverse the project area boundaries and which increasingly become physical barriers and barren parcels of property which blight the immediately adjacent properties and the remainder of the properties within the project area;
(7) The lack of adequate public facilities, including open space and places for recreational activity, which are necessary to serve the property within the project area boundaries;
(8) Inadequate planning of the freeways which traverse the project area with the corresponding failure to provide for the physical and social needs of those persons and properties which are adjacent to and in close proximity with the freeways. In this regard the noise, debris and other pollutants which are generated by the freeways are blighting conditions which negatively impact the property within the project area and provision must be made to minimize or eliminate these blighting conditions and to insure compatibility between the properties adjacent to and in close proximity with the freeway and the freeways within the project area;
(9) Numerous dilapidated or deteriorated structures and properties within the project area. (Ord. 490 § 1, 1975)
18.84.020 Purpose and intent.
The purposes and intent of the city council with respect to the project area are 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 public services and facilities including but not limited to a city hall and civic center complex along with recreational, maintenance and operation services and facilities as are necessary and required in order to provide safer and more efficient services for the people and property owners within the project area and the general community;
(4) Eliminate environmental deficiencies including inadequate street improvements, inadequate utility systems, inadequate public services; and the removal of deficiencies in the freeway system, including its circulating movement and its social, physical and environmental characteristics of blight prevalent within the project area;
(5) Develop a more efficient and effective circulation corridor system, free from hazardous vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle interfaces and designed to their ultimate 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 principals which are deemed important by the Cerritos community. (Ord. 490 § 2, 1975)
18.84.030 Approved and adopted.
The proposed redevelopment plan for the Los Coyotes project area as amended after public hearing is approved and adopted and designated as the official redevelopment plan for the Los Coyotes redevelopment project area. (Ord. 490 § 3, 1975)
18.84.040 Objections overruled.
All written and oral objections to the proposed Los Coyotes redevelopment plan are overruled. (Ord. 490 § 4, 1975)
18.84.050 Incorporated by reference.
The redevelopment plan for the Los Coyotes redevelopment project area (hereinafter referred to as the Los Coyotes redevelopment plan) is incorporated by reference and made a part hereof as if set forth at length herein. (Ord. 490 § 5, 1975)
18.84.060 Findings of council.
The city council finds and determines that:
(1) The project area is a blighted area, the redevelopment of which is necessary to effectuate the public purpose declared in this part;
(2) The Los Coyotes redevelopment plan will provide for the redevelopment of properties within the 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;
(3) The adoption and carrying out of the Los Coyotes redevelopment plan is economically sound and feasible;
(4) The Los Coyotes redevelopment plan conforms to the general plan of the city;
(5) The carrying out of the Los Coyotes 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;
(6) The condemnation of real property, as is provided for in certain limited circumstances in the Los Coyotes redevelopment plan, is necessary to the execution of the Los Coyotes 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;
(7) The relocation of persons or businesses is not anticipated or at best would be minimal. However, the agency has a feasible method or plan for the relocation of families and persons who might be displaced from the project area, through the implementation of the Los Coyotes redevelopment plan;
(8) There are or are being provided in the 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 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. 490 § 6, 1975)
18.84.070 Official action to be undertaken—Statement of cooperation by council.
(a) In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation of the Los Coyotes redevelopment plan which is 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 streets, the street layout, and other public rights-of-way in the 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 project area;
(3) Revision of zoning within the project area to permit the land uses and development authorized by this plan, provided that such action is consistent with Section 500.00 et seq. of the Los Coyotes 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 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 with such public facilities and public uses as are provided in Section 500.26 et seq. of the Los Coyotes redevelopment plan;
(6) The undertaking and completion of any other proceedings necessary to carry out the Los Coyotes redevelopment plan.
(b) The city council agrees and does:
(1) Pledge its cooperation in helping to carry out the Los Coyotes 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 Los Coyotes redevelopment plan; and
(2) Stand ready to consider the taking of appropriate action upon proposals and measures which are designed to effectuate the Los Coyotes redevelopment plan. (Ord. 490 § 7, 1975)
18.84.080 Temporary housing facilities.
The city council, although it does not contemplate the relocation of any of the residents, is satisfied that within the 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 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. 490 § 8, 1975)
18.84.090 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 Los Coyotes redevelopment plan. (Ord. 490 § 9, 1975)
18.84.100 Recordation required.
The city clerk is directed to record with the county recorder a description of the land within the Los Coyotes project area and a statement that proceedings for the redevelopment of the 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. 490 § 10, 1975)
18.84.110 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 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 Los Coyotes redevelopment project area. (Ord. 490 § 11, 1975)
18.84.120 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 18.84.100 of this chapter, a copy of the ordinance codified herein adopting the Los Coyotes 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. 490 § 12, 1975)
18.84.130 Severability.
If any clause, paragraph, section or portion of this chapter, or the Los Coyotes 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 Los Coyotes redevelopment plan, or any project provided for therein; each clause, paragraph, section or portion of this chapter and of the Los Coyotes redevelopment plan as amended and each project thereof is severable from each and every other clause, paragraph, section or portion of this chapter and the Los Coyotes redevelopment plan and each project thereof. (Ord. 490 § 13, 1975)