HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC Resolution 11431 (Buckelew Community Housing Grant)CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL
RESOLUTION NO. 11431
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL
APPROVING A THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS GRANT BY
THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL TO BUCKELEW
COMMUNITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION, INC. AND MAKING
FINDINGS AND APPROVALS PURSUANT TO THE CALIFORNIA
REDEVELOPMENT LAW IN CONNECTION WITH THE UTLIZATION OF AGENCY
LOW AND MODERATE INCOME HOUSING FUNDS OUTSIDE THE CENTRAL SAN
RAFAEL REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA (1103 Lincoln Avenue)
WHEREAS, the City Council (the "City Council") of the City of San Rafael (the "City")
has adopted and amended, from time to time, the Redevelopment Plan (the "Redevelopment
Plan") for the Central San Rafael Redevelopment Project Area (the "Project Area"); and
WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of San Rafael (the "Agency") is
responsible for administering the Redevelopment Plan to cause redevelopment of the Project
Area, including the provision of housing available at affordable housing cost to low and
moderate income households; and
WHEREAS, Buckelew Community Housing Development Organization, Inc. a
California nonprofit public benefit corporation (the "Developer") desires to purchase certain real
property located outside the Project Area at 1103 Lincoln Avenue (the "Property"). The Property
is improved with a fourteen (14) unit residential building which the Developer intends to
rehabilitate and rent the units at affordable housing cost to very low income persons (the
"Development"); and
WHEREAS, the Agency desires to provide a grant to the Developer (the "Agency Grant")
to finance acquisition of the Property by the Developer; and
WHEREAS, it is proposed that the Agency fund the Agency Grant with Three Hundred
and Sixty Thousand Dollars ($360,000) from the Agency's Low and Moderate Income Housing
Fund (the "Housing Fund"); and
WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 33334.2(g) authorizes expenditure of
Housing Fund monies outside the Project Area upon a finding by the Agency and the City
Council that such use will be of benefit to the Project Area; and
WHEREAS, the Development will benefit the Project Area and serve major
Redevelopment Plan goals and objectives by increasing the amount of housing available at
affordable housing cost in the community, thereby decreasing the market pressure on the supply
of affordable housing in the community and the Project Area, by enhancing the economic
viability of business within the Project Area by providing housing near the Project Area for
people who will patronize businesses in the Project Area, and by alleviating blight in an area in
close proximity to the Project Area; and
WHEREAS, The California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code Sections
21000 et sec .) ("CEQA") imposes no conditions on the City's consideration and approval of this
Agreement, because the project undertaken pursuant to this Agreement is the rehabilitation of
existing improvements and such projects are exempt from CEQA requirements under the
categorical exemption set forth in 14 CCR Section 15301; and
WHEREAS, by staff report accompanying this Resolution and incorporated into this
Resolution by this reference (the "Staff Report"), the City Council has been provided with
additional information upon which the findings and actions set forth in this Resolution are based.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council hereby finds and
determines that the above recitals are true and correct and have served as the basis, in part, for the
findings and actions of the City Council set forth below.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, based on information and analysis set forth in the
above Recitals and contained in the Staff Report accompanying this Resolution, the City Council
hereby finds and determines pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33334.2(g) that the use
of moneys from the Housing Fund to assist the Development will be of benefit to the Project
Area and the program of redevelopment pursuant to the Redevelopment Plan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council hereby approves allocation of Three
Hundred and Sixty Thousand Dollars ($360,000) of Housing Fund monies to fund the Agency
Grant.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution shall take immediate effect upon
adoption.
I, JEANNE M. LEONCINI, City Clerk of the City of San Rafael, hereby certify that the
foregoing resolution was duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the
City Council held on the 20th day of October, 2003, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Cohen, Heller, Miller, Phillips and Mayor Boro
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: (done
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: Bone
JE �MLEONCINI, City Clerk