ORDINANCE No. 826
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE, STATE OF
CALIFORNIA, DELEGATING TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE
CERTAIN POWERS TO ACT AS THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR CERTAIN UNINCORPORATED
TERRITORY PROPOSED FOR INCLUSION IN A CITY OF RIVERSIDE REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
AREA (HUNTER PARK / NORTHSIDE REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA)
WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Riverside,
in conjunction with the City of Riverside, desires to form the Hunter
Park/Northside Redevelopment Project Area (the “Project Area”), which is
approximately 2,640 acres in size; and
WHEREAS, the Project Area would comprise an area within the
City of Riverside’s territorial limits, with the exception of approximately 70
acres of unincorporated land along both sides of Main Street north of Carter
Avenue, as shown in Exhibit “A” attached hereto and incorporated by this
reference; and
WHEREAS, the Project Area is characterized by economic and
physical blight and are necessary for effective redevelopment of the entire
Project Area; and,
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 33213 of the California
Community Redevelopment Law (the “CRL”), Health and Safety Code Section 33000, et
seq., the legislative body of one community may be ordinance authorize
redevelopment of an area within its territorial limits by another community if
such area is contiguous to such other community; and
WHEREAS, the Project Area is contiguous to City of
WHEREAS, the County wishes to retain and extend the
cooperative relationship between the County and the City, and desires to
authorize the City of
WHEREAS, the Board has reviewed and considered the Final
Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the Project Area and has determined the
FEIR adequately addresses the impacts of the Redevelopment Plan; and
NOW,
THEREFORE, THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE
Section 1: That certain
document entitled “Redevelopment Plan for the Hunter Park/Northside
Redevelopment Project” (the “Redevelopment Plan”), the maps contained therein,
the Environmental Impact Report for the Project Area, and such other reports as
are incorporated herein by reference, a copy of which is on file in the Office
of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Riverside, having
been duly reviewed and considered, are hereby incorporated in this Ordinance by
reference and mad a part thereof.
Section 2: The Board of
Supervisors hereby delegates to the City of Riverside Redevelopment Agency the
authority to act as the redevelopment agency for the area shown in Exhibit “A”,
including all the rights, powers, and privileges pertaining thereto under law,
as provided in Section 33213 of the CRL.
Section 3: The
Riverside City Council and the Riverside Redevelopment Agency shall have all
rights, powers and privileges of the CRL with respect to the Project Area.
Section 4: The Board
of Supervisors shall retain all the rights, powers, and privileges of a
legislative body under the CRL as they pertain to the area shown on Exhibit A,
including the authority to hold a public hearing and adopt an ordinance
approving the Redevelopment Plan.
Section 5: The
Redevelopment Plan is hereby approved as the official Redevelopment Plan for
the Project Area.
Section 6: Nothing
herein shall constitute a waiver by the County of its status as a “taxing
agency” under the CRL.
Section 7: This
Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after the date of final passage.
Section 8: If any
part of this Ordinance or the Redevelopment Plan, which it approves, is held to
be invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portion of this Ordinance or of the Redevelopment Plan, and the Board
of Supervisors hereby declares it would have passed the remainder of this
Ordinance or approved the remainder of the Redevelopment Plan if such invalid
portion thereof had been deleted.
Section 9: The Clerk of
the Board of Supervisors is hereby directed to transmit a duly signed copy of
this Ordinance to the Executive Director of the City of Riverside Redevelopment
Agency.
ADOPTED:
826 (3.25)