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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRDA Minutes 1995-01-11Chairman Robert Yee M I N U T _E_ S Boardmembers: Jack Drago Redevelopment Agency Joseph A. Fernekes ~'-John R. Penna Municipal Services Building Roberta Cerri Teglia Community Room January 11, 1995 AGENDA ACTION TAKEN CALL TO ORDER: (Cassette No. 1) 7:15 p.m. Chairman Ye~ presiding. ROLL CALL: Boardmembers present: Drago, Penna, Teglia and Yee. Boardmembers absent: Fernekes. Clerk Battaya stated Boardmember Fernekes in- formed her Office that, due to an emergency that necessitated his going out of town, he would not be present for tonight's meeting. AGENDA REVIEW AGENDA REVIEW Acting Executive Director Martel stated there were no changes to the Agenda. ONSENT CALENDAR CONSENT CALENDAR 1. Motion to confirm expense claims of 1/11/95.,5_~t5~ Approved in the amount of $3,918.30. M/S Penna/Drago - To approve the Consent Calen- dar. Carried by unanimous voice vote. PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC HEARINGS 2. Public Hearing - To review the Agency's proposed Chairman Yee opened the Public Hearing. AB315 Housing Compliance Plan and its AB1290 Implementation Plan for the period of January 1994 Counsel Mattas stated that, because of potential to January 2000 pertaining to all the City's Redevel- conflicts, with the. four plans, the Board will draw opment Areas including the Downtown/Central, El straws for it must be done by a random procedure. Camino, Shearwater and Gateway; Conduct Public Hearing; resolution adopting the Plan. ,~ O~ , Boardmember Teglia stated that Boardmember Drago did not have an on-going conflict because of A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE IMPLEMEN- his profession, her conflict is in the redevelopment TATION PLAN FOR THE DOWNTOWN-CEN- area being by her home and Boardmember Penna ~ TRAL REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA, EL had a conflict because of his profession. She stated CAMINO CORRIDOR REDEVELOPMENT PRO- Boardmember Drago once assisted his son in the JECT AREA, GATEWAY REDEVELOPMENT sale of his house and she believed that conflict PROJECT AREA AND SHEARWATER REDEVEL- disappeared after one year. 1/11/95 Page 1 ... PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC HEARINGS Public Hearing - Continued. Boardmember Drago stated that he had taken a finder's fee once for the sale of his son's house and OPMENT PROJECT AREA that had activated his real estate license. Counsel Mattas stated that, if Boardmember Drago did not intend to use the real estate license in the future he did not have a conflict. Boardmembers drew straws and Boardmember Penna stepped down from the podium and did not participate, or take part in the vote on this item. Interim Director of Economic & Community Devel- opment Beyer gave a brief staff report focusing on affordable housing activities in the redevelopment areas to meet housing needs. He stated the Agency is required to consider policies over the next year for this implementation of housing needs. Discussion followed: if the Agency provides afford- able housing, it could be in the community and not in the redevelopment area; any housing constructed has to meet Iow and moderate income housing crite- ria. Ms. Elizabeth Seiffel, Consultant, gave an overview of the housing and non-housing described in the document and the requirements in AB1290: the requirements must include Agency goals and objec- tives for each redevelopment area with respect to the Plan; how the housing set aside funds are to be expended; the Plan deals with a five year period; proposed programs for public improvements, such as retrofitting the Metropolitan Hotel and the Li- brary; included is a program of economic develop- ment to assist, retain and expand businesses; the ob- jectives could be amended or changed as long as they continue to alleviate blight; in two and a half years the Agency must review how far they have gone in meeting the goals and objectives; there is little revenue generated in Shearwater, Terrabay and the El Camino Projects; to meet the requirements the City might have to subsidize a project; the Agency should focus the low cost housing in the El Camino Corridor; etc. Discussion followed: the Plan called for $500,000 being spent for street circulation and other improve- ments for Grand Avenue; are there detailed items 1/11/95 Page 2 PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC HEARINGS Public Hearing - Continued. for public infrastructure for the expenditure of $500,000.00; there was not a specific list that matched the dollars; the figure was a general guide- line rather than being specific; the affordable hous- ing requirement in AB315 - for all housing con- structed or substantially rehabilitated within a project area the Agency must have 15% of the project low and moderate income housing, of which 6% of the total must be available for very low income housing; there was not housing in the Gateway nor Shear- water Projects; units must be replaced on a one to one basis, as there is a housing replacement obli- gation on the Agency; the Agency has to concentrate on the El Camino area for the next five to ten years for housing; the City has a low cost Housing Authority and Boardmember Teglia questioned if set-aside funds could be used to develop 10 new units at the Authority to take care of the requirement for very low income housing, rather than force it into an area that doesn't fit; does it mean the Agen- cy has to require a developer to provide low cost housing in a new development; the Agency does r- have two options, one being the inclusionary option of requiring a developer to provide the percentage of low income housing or taking units from the down- town and using them in the El Camino Corridor and McLellan property, if developed; if housing is locat- outside the area you have to provide two to the one unit from 1994 to 1996 for production for that time period, which may be or may not be extended by legislation; the Agency received a two for one credit in funds spent on the Metro Hotel; the Agency had to come up with eleven new units of affordable housing; the Council should have a study session to discuss the housing obligations and adopt policies for the implementation; in a new development elev- en units could be considered replacement units; whether the eleven unit requirement can be turned over to the Housing Authority; whether it would suffice to have the replacement units as rentals; the units have to be permanently affordable and the City can restrict the sale of the property; it is important to look at affordable housing strategy; having a non- profit organization'develop new units that COuld .. satisfy the 15% and 6% low cost housing require- ments; if the inclusionary process is not used, the Agency will have to fill that void; Boardmember Teglia related that the City of Los Altos Hills had provided money to Mountain View to acquire a 1/11/95 Page 3 AGENDA ACI!QN _TAKEN . 1 PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC HEARINGS Public Hearing - Continued. building for Iow and moderate housing but the State came down and said no that would not suffice for their requirement; Chairman Yee wants these cre- ative ideas discussed and developed by staff for the study session; the production obligation has been met in the downtown with the Sun Dial and the Metro Hotel; Ms. Seiffel recommended against turning funds over to the Housing Authority to meet the housing obligation, unless they were going to meet the City's housing production requirements; develop suitable housing sites and use the set-aside funds for the production or use the inclusionary option; typically, the very low income housing is rentals; etc. Chairman Yee closed the Public Hearing. Boardmember Drago wants staff to come up with specific areas to meet the commitment, start with Grand Avenue rental units up to Spruce Avenue and concentrate on the poor housing units before moving on. Chairman Yee closed the Public Hearing. M/S Drago/Teglia - To adopt the Resolution. RESOLUTION NO. 1-95 Carried by majority voice vote, Boardmember Penna did not participate, or take part in the vote. Boardmember Penna Returned to the Podium: Boardmember Penna returned to the podium at 8:00 p.m. ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS 3. Discussion of goals and objectives. ~ ~ 0 ~ Boardmember Drago stated he asked for this to be agendized to discuss specifics in the downtown area for the next three years, because he felt the plan was not specific. First of all was the hiring of a staff person to study redevelopment issues, develop an implementation plan at Linden and Airport Blvd. to relocate the train station site and to get a new sta- ~_. tion. Those are the three things he wants to see accomplished. Discussion followed: Boardmember Teglia felt it should include the acquisition of properties in that 1/11/95 Page 4 A~_ENDA ACTION TAKEN ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS Discussion of goals and objectives - Continued. area for development; Chairman Yee inStructed the Acting Executive Director to incorporate the above ideas and their time frame in a report; Boardmember Drago related Caltrain has turned over the station to the new Joint Powers Authority to upgrade the sta- tion, yet we heard it was going to be demolished. So, if they are willing to spend $200,000, let's look at a better location and have it fit into a plan we want for the betterment of the downtown; Chairman Yee felt the Agency should first see what they are going to do and then present a plan; Boardmember Drago wants to go out and hire someone at the next meeting and move on this, because the money is not coming out of the General Fund; Acting City Man- ager Martel felt it may take some time to find someone with the skills required; get the recruitment process in place by February; contact Caltrain and ask them to include us in their plans for the station; a position exists of Economic Coordinator that could be used rather than create a new position, however, presently that position is not only redevelopment ~ and, if a new position is required, staff would devel- op the job specifications; Chairman Yee stated the Board wants it agendized at the next meeting on 1/25/95 for a new position; the existing position is part-time; no, the previous position, was full time and held by Sue McCue; full time but half the salary is paid by the Redevelopment Agency and the other by the City and Boardmember Drago did not feel that was enough time for redevelopment; Acting City Manager Martel stated the issue is whether we can staff it 100% and only do redevelopment half time or allocate another position only to redevelop- ment and, at that time, make the shift back and there be an additional program; Boardmember Drago stat- ed the University of Calif. has a plan where we pay a person's registration, the person comes on site, goes back to the University and designs anything we want and these would be undergraduate students and this is sort of their thesis; the Interim Director of Economic & Community Development Beyer has a contact with Cai Poly who can make similar ar- rangements; in reference to the new position, Acting City Manager Martel proposed coming back with a ___ preliminary plan at the study session and, at that time, would have something on a new position; Boardmember Teglia wanted to know if there were restrictions on the City expanding their Housing Authority; Counsel Mattas is to investigate expand- 1/11/95 Page 5 AGENDA ACTION TAKEN 013 ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIVE BUSINESS Discussion of goals and objectives - Continued. ing the Housing Authority; etc. GOOD AND WELFARE GOOD AND WELFARE No one chose to speak. M/S Penna/Drago - To adjourn the meeting. Carried by unanimous voice vote. ADJOURNMENT: Time of adjournment was 8:10 p.m. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, APPROVED. ~ C~l~r~ ~arbara A. Battaya, Robert Yee, Chairman Redevelopment Agency Redeveloprr ent Agency City of South San Francisco City of Sou h San Francisco lhe entries of this Agency meeting show the action taken by the Redevelopment Agency to dispose of an item. Oral communications, arguments and comments are recorded on tape. The tape and documents related to the items are on file in the Office of the City Clerk and are available for inspection, review and copying. 1/11/95 Page 6