2009-03 RESOLUTION NO. 2009-03
A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY OF THE CITY OF GRAND TERRACE,
CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING CERTAIN FINDINGS REGARDING
THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF PUBLIC
IMPROVEMENTS, .WHICH ARE OF BENEFIT TO THE
GRAND TERRACE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
PROJECT AREA
WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Grand Terrace ("Agency")
desires and intends to construct and install public infrastructure improvements consisting of
landscaping and irrigation in the Grand Terrace Community Redevelopment Project(the "Project
Area") with funding provided by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Grand Terrace
("Agency"); and
WHEREAS, the lack of landscaping improvements along the west side of Mt. Vernon
Avenue, south of Van Buren Street in the Project Area creates a blighting influence in the area
and causes a deterrent to the physical and economic health of area by deterring new development
in the Project Area, thereby constituting.blight; and
WHEREAS, the Mt. Vernon Irrigation and Landscaping Improvements will improve the
physical and economic health of the surrounding area, thereby benefiting the Project Area; and
WHEREAS, the Improvements are anticipated to enhance and promote the revitalization
of the Project Area; and
WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 33445 provides that the Agency may, with
the consent of the legislative body, pay all or part of the value of the land for, and the cost of the
installation and construction of, any building, facility, structure, or other improvements that is
publicly owned either within or without the Project Area.
NOW THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED by the Community Redevelopment Agency
of the City of Grand Terrace hereby:
Section 1. That the Mt. Vernon Avenue Irrigation and Landscaping Improvements will
be of benefit to the Project Area in that it will assist in removing blight by improving the health
and safety, and promoting revitalization of the area.
Section 2. That there are no other reasonable means of financing the entire
Improvements available to the community because the Mt. Vernon Irrigation and Landscaping
Improvement Project is not within the budget of the City.
Section 3. That consistent with the implementation plan adopted pursuant to Health and
Safety Code Section 33490, the payment of funds for the Mt. Vernon Avenue Irrigation and
r ` Landscaping Improvements will assist in the elimination of visual and economic blight and
promote and enhance the revitalization of the Project Area, thereby eliminating one or more
blighting conditions contained in the Project Area.
PASSED AND ADOPTED. by the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of
Grand Terrace, California at a regular meeting held on the 24th day of February 2009 by the
following vote:
ATTEST:
Secretary of the Community Redevelopment Chairper n of the Community
Agency of the City of Grand Terrace Redevel pment Agency of the City of Grand
Terrace
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Resolution No. 2009- 03
I, Brenda Mesa, Secretary of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Grand
- Terrace, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was introduced and adopted at a regular
meeting of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Grand Terrace held on the 241h
day of February, 2009, by the following vote:
AYES: Agency Members Cortes, Miller and Stanckiewitz; Cha=rpeisonsFer a and
Vice-Chairperson Garcia
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
Brenda Mesa
City Clerk
Approved as to form:
Join R. Harp r, Ci y Attorney
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