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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso RDA 04-2005RESOLUTION NO. 04-2005 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO STATE OF CALIFORNIA A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE REPORT TO COUNCIL ON PROPOSED REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AMENDMENTS AND FISCAL MERGER, ADOPTING FINDINGS THAT A PROJECT AREA COMMITI'EE IS NOT REQUIRED AND THAT ADEQUATE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW HAS BEEN COMPLETED, TRANSMITTING THE REPORT TO THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL, AND REQUESTING A JOINT PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PLAN AMENDMENTS AND FISCAL MERGER WHEREAS, on March 10, 2004, the City Council of the City of South San Francisco ("City Council") adopted Resolution No. 25-2004 which designated a Survey Area for the purpose of amending the Downtown/Central Redevelopment Project Area ("Project Area") to add territory to the Project Area; and WHEREAS, on April 15, 2004, the Planning Commission of the City of South San Francisco ("Planning Commission") adopted Resolution No. 2633 establishing the boundaries of the area proposed to be added to the Project Area (the "Added Area"), approving a Preliminary Plan for the Added Area in accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 33324, and recommending that the Agency accept the Preliminary Plan; and WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 06-2004, adopted on May 12, 2004, the Agency approved the Preliminary Plan and directed staff to prepare amendments to add the Added Area to the Downtown/Central Project Area and to fiscally merge the Downtown/Central, Gateway, and U.S. Steel/Shearwater project areas; and WHEREAS, the Agency subsequently resolved that the fiscal merger should also include the E1 Camino Corridor project area; and WHEREAS, the Agency is in the process of preparing: (i) an amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Downtown/Central project area to add the Added Area to the Project Area, (ii) amendments to the redevelopment plans for the E1 Camino Corridor project area and the Downtown/Central project area to extend the time period within which the Agency will have authority to acquire nonresidential property by eminent domain within such project areas, and (iii) amendments to the redevelopment plans for the Downtown/Central project area, the E1 Camino Corridor project area, the U.S. Steel/Shearwater project area and the Gateway project area in order to effectuate a fiscal merger of such project areas; and WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing amendments, the Agency has caused to be prepared, and pursuant to Resolution No. 13-2004, adopted December 8, 2004, has approved a Preliminary Report pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33344.5 and has authorized transmittal of the Preliminary Report to affected taxing entities, the Planning Commission and the community; and WHEREAS, the Agency has consulted with representatives of the affected taxing entities and with project area residents, property owners, businesses and community organizations, and the Agency has scheduled a series of community meetings to continue such consultation; and WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing amendments, the Agency has caused to be prepared a Report to Council pursuant to Health & Safety Code Section 33352; and WHEREAS, the proposed amendments will not authorize the Agency to use eminent domain to acquire property on which persons reside and do not provide for public projects that will displace a substantial number of low- and moderate-income persons; and WHEREAS, Agency and Planning Department staffhave determined that the fiscal merger, as a financing mechanism for unspecified future projects and which will itself have no significant effect on the environment, is exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061 (b)(3); and WHEREAS, the proposed amendments do not alter the projects and activities proposed to be implemented in the project areas, and do not extend the financial and time limitations set forth in the existing redevelopment plans; and WHEREAS, the potential environmental effects of the activities proposed to be undertaken in the existing project areas and in the proposed Added Area were analyzed in the East of 101 Area Plan Environmental Impact Report which was adopted and certified in 1994 and in the General Plan Environmental Impact Report, a program level EIR that was adopted and certified in October, 1999; and WHEREAS, the City's Chief Planner has reviewed the proposed amendments and has determined that in connection with the adoption of the plan amendments, the Agency and the City Council may properly rely upon the prior EIRs because no new impacts are associated with the amendments, no projects have been specified that were not analyzed in the prior EIRs, there are no substantial changes to the circumstances under which the previously analyzed project will be undertaken, and there is no new information that was unavailable at the time the prior EIRs were certified; and WHEREAS, Sections 33348 and 33349 of the Health and Safety Code require both the City Council and the Agency to conduct public hearings on the proposed amendments; and WHEREAS, Section 33355 of the Health and Safety Code authorizes the Agency and the City Council to hold a joint public heating upon the consent of both. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of South San Francisco that the Agency hereby: Section 1. Approves the Report to Council on the proposed plan amendments and fiscal merger, directs the Executive Director to transmit the Report to the City Council, and requests that the City Council hold a joint public heating with the Agency to consider the proposed plan amendments and fiscal merger on April 27, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. at 400 South Grand Avenue, South San Francisco, California. Section 2. Directs the Executive Director to transmit the Report to Council to affected taxing entities, the Planning Commission, community organizations, property owners, business owners, and residents of the project areas, and directs the Executive Director and Agency staff to continue consultation with such parties, to hold at least one community meeting prior to the joint public hearing on the proposed amendments, and to make the proposed ordinances adopting the amendments available for public inspection prior to submitting them to the City Council. Section 3. Directs the Executive Director of the Agency to comply with all noticing requirements for the joint public hearing set forth in the Community Redevelopment Law. Section 4. Finds that the formation of a Project Area Committee is not required because the proposed amendments do not authorize the use of eminent domain for property on which persons reside and do not propose public projects that will cause displacement of a substantial number of low- and moderate-income households. Section 5. Finds that adequate environmental review has been completed for the proposed amendments and fiscal merger because (i) the fiscal merger is exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061 (b)(3), and (ii) the potential environmental effects of the proposed amendments have been analyzed in previously certified Environmental Impact Reports, and no new projects are proposed, no new impacts have been identified, there are no substantial changes in the circumstances under which the prior EIRs were certified, and there is no new information that was unavailable at the time the prior EIRs were certified. I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was regularly introduced and adopted by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of South San Francisco at a regular meeting held on the 9th day of March 2005 by the following vote: AYES: Boardmembers Richard A. Garbarino, Pedro Gonzalez, and Karyl Matsumoto, Vice Chair Joseph A. Femekes and Chair Raymond L. Green NOES: None. ABSTAIN: None. ABSENT: None ATTEST: