HomeMy WebLinkAboutRDA Minutes 041399Approved as submitted
DATE: 04/27/99
Minutes
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING
TUESDAY, APRIL 13,1999
(immediately following City Council Regular Session)
Chairman Johnson called the meeting to order at 9:10 p.m.
ROLL CALL:
Present: Board Members Clay, Lerno, Luna and Chairman Johnson
Absent: Board Member Arrambide
Others Present: Board Secretary Marcia Torgerson and City Treasurer David Graham
Staff Present: Executive Director Wade McKinney, Police Sergeant Jeff Fredricks, Fire
Chief Mike. McCain, Community Services Director Brady Cherry,
Administrative Services Director Rachelle Rickard, Community and
Economic Development Director Paul Saldafia, Special Projects
Coordinator Greg Greeson, and City Attorney Roy Hanley.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA:
MOTION: By Board Member Luna and seconded by Board Member Clay to
approve the agenda.
Motion passed 4:0 by a roll -call vote.
COMMUNITY FORUM: None.
A. CONSENT CALENDAR:
1. Redevelopment Agency Minutes - March 9, 1999 - (Board Secretary recommendation:
Approve) [Marcia McClure Torgerson]
2. Redevelopment Agency Minutes - March 23, 1999 - (Board Secretary recommendation:
Approve) [Marcia McClure Torgerson]
MOTION: By Board Member Luna and seconded by Board Member Lerno to
approve the Consent Calendar.
Motion passed 4:0 by a roll -call vote.
B. PROJECT STATUS REPORTS:
1. March 1999
Community and Economic Development Director Paul Saldana explained that the Planning
Commission held a public hearing on the draft EIR. The comments given at the hearing will be
considered in the Planning Commission review of the EIR, held on May 4, 1999.
Paul Saldana stated that Item 2 was a preliminary report which was transmitted to each affected
taxing entity, on Monday 12, 1999. He assured the Council that they would receive a copy of the
report tomorrow. He expects to have a variety of consultation meetings with the taxing entities
over the next couple weeks to discuss the financial feasibility and what affects implementation of
the redevelopment project.
Mr. Saldana commented that he has participated in meetings with the public to discuss
redevelopment and solicit projects/specific activities for consideration in future implementation
plans. He has responded to requests for presentations to service and other organizations and
expects them to continue.
Finally, prior to the public hearing, which is a formal process for the council's review of the
report, the proposed redevelopment plan, financial feasibility, blight analysis and comprehensive
program, a Forum has been scheduled to present and gain input in regards to the redevelopment
plan.
Board Member Luna stated draft EIR is available at the Quad Knopf web site.
C. MANAGEMENT REPORTS: None
1. Use of Eminent Domain - (Staff recommendation: Board review options for use of
eminent domain and provide direction to staff for inclusion in the redevelopment plan)
[Paul Saldana]
Executive Director Wade McKinney explained staff included this item on the agenda to educate
the Agency and the public on the complex procedure of eminent domain as it relates to
redevelopment. Mr. Saldana explained in detail the procedures involved in the use of eminent
domain.
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Council Member Clay asked if the Council can limit the use of eminent domain and, for
example, not use it concerning residential single-family but use it for residential multi -family.
Mr. Saldana responded that the Council may adjust the use as they wish.
Council Member Luna used overheads and stated that he feels eminent domain should only be
used concerning public property. He said he supported the use of eminent domain concerning
Stadium Park where it was used because the park had been in the general plan. He felt that a
study session on the subject would be necessary (see Attachment A).
Council Member Lerno questioned whether eminent domain would be necessary. Executive
Director Wade McKinney discussed some of the pros of having eminent domain.
Mayor Johnson stated that he would agree to limit the use of eminent domain by not using it on
single family residential property.
PUBLIC COMMENT
John McGoff, 9192 Maple St., read a prepared statement where he referred to the Health and
Safety code #33392. He asked if the staff brought the Westar contract to the Council based on
the code. Mr. McKinney explained that the Westar contract was brought to the City not initiated
by the City. City Attorney Roy Hanley explained that the Westar contract only asked the
Agency to consider the use of eminent domain. (see Attachment B)
Eric Greening, 6600 Lewis Ave., agreed with the comment to have a study session on this issue,
cautioning the Council to move slowly.
Dwight Huffman, 5943 Traffic Way (business address) stated he supports a study session on this
issue. Also, he requested, because a 40 -year plan can be quite complicated, if there was some
way to consider some plans for the next 5 years.
Dorothy McNeil, 8765 Sierra Vista, asked if in the pre-eminent domain period is only one
appraisal required. Mr. Saldana responded, yes. Mr. Hanley explained that only one is required,
as the process of eminent domain is an adversarial procedure.
Rush Kolemaine, P.O. Box 1990, stated that the Council, as the Redevelopment Agency, is
finding out how difficult it is to be both entities. He encouraged the Agency to be very
accessible to the public and hold study sessions whenever possible.
Dorothy Smith, Morro Road, stated that she was appalled at the number of grocery stores and
used car lots in this town. She believes that a craftsman village would be an asset to this
community.
Lorraine Lane, 5275 El Camino Real (business address), the City Clerk read Ms. Lane's prepared
statement in which she stated that she was opposed to condemnation for private used instead of
public use.
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Chairman Johnson closed the Public Comment period.
There was Board consensus to schedule a Study Session on this issue.
A. ADJOURNMENT:
Chairman Johnson adjourned the meeting at 10:16 p.m. to the next regularly scheduled meeting
on April 27, 1999.
MEETING RECORDED BY:
Marcia McClure Torgerson, Board Secretary
MINUTES PREPARED BY:
Melanie Whaley
ATTACHMENTS: Attachment A -Overhead presentation of Council Member Luna's
Attachment B -Prepared statement by John McGoff, dated 4/13/99
Attachment C -Prepared statement by Loraine Loine, dated 4/13/99
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a) Is not needed for those .specific activities outlined in this
Plan;
b)Is not needed to provide for or replace very low-, low-,.
and moderate -income .housing pursuant .to specs c
provisions of ihis.Plan; -
c) Is not needed for any other public improvement or
facility;
d)Is not needed to promote historical or architectural
preservation;.
e) Is not needed to remove the blighting influences on
surrounding properties which might prevent
achievement of the objectives of this Plan but, rather,
said property will develop in conformity with the
objectives of this Plan through private initiative;
f) Is not needed for the elimination of any environmental
deficiency .including; among other things, inadequate
street layout, incompatible and mixed land uses,
overcrowding and small parcel size; or
g) Is not needed for the removal of impediments to land
development and disposition through assembly of land
into appropriately sized and shaped parcels served by
improved circulation, parking, and utilities.
Attachment: B
Atascadero Redevelopment
Agency
Meeting Date: 4/13/99 .
Community Forum
April 13,1999
John McGoff
9192 Maple Street
Atascadero
Mr. Mayor Members of the City Council:
Let me start out by saying: "there you go again".
Inasmuch as it has agreed that the Community may address subjects not specifically
on the City Council Agenda, I will speak my piece now and, if necessary again at the
CRA meeting.
It has been said that if you repeat something often enough, people begin to think
that whatever you have been saying is their own idea. Hope springs eternal!
How many times are we going to revisit the Eminent Domain topic?
Let me say that I am unalterably opposed to use of Eminent Domain for other than
public purposes. I'll qualify that, use of Eminent Domain as established in the
Constitution, for schools, parks, fire stations, etc. Not Eminent Domain as codified
in the California Health & Safety Code.
I believe that his exercise tonight is premature and factually inaccurate. For example
Eminent Domain and the necessity for formation of a Project advisory are usually
considered together, and this only when the project area's land use composition has
been determined.]
THE LAW, as often expressed here, dictates that if a plan contains either the power
of eminent domain over property on which persons reside, or, if public improvement
projects cited in a plan will require displacement of low and moderate income
persons, the city is required to have a Project Advisory Committee.
Are we there yet????
The Importance of a- full and fair public hearing on this subject cannot have been
lost om you when you recall the anger and resentment expressed during the
Westar/Vons/Rite Aide hearing.
I hope that this exercise tonight is not because of the Westar project and preping that
one under Section 33392 of the Health & Safety Code. I have a hunch that that was
what drove the premature and ill-advised proposal of that project by Westar.
I hope what we are saying here is heard, not only by those present, but also by the
Public through the reporters present here tinight. I don't think that the reporting of
these meetings reflect the tone, essence nor the concern of those addressing this
body, whether it sits as the Council or the RDA. just as the public deserve better
than pro -forma community Forums, they also deserve better than pro=forma
reporting.
Ad -Hoc decision such as this one tonight may well be subject to challenge. This
staff report and it's potential are too important to be approved in a rush to
judgement. Frankly, it is not well enough developed to ask you to take it as it is.
Whe it comes to residential areas, and the potential effects of redevelopment on
people, caution mandates that we take a critical look at the project area as more than
just a vehicle for the extraction of tax increment, a process more akin to taking
money out of one pocket and putting it into another with a hole in it.
Thank you.