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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 09221992 - 1.57 TO: REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY Contra FROM: Phil Batchelor Costa o, - Executive Director County; . DATE: September 22, 1992 SUBJECT: California Redevelopment Association SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATIONS (S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS Acknowledge receipt of the California Redevelopment Association "Redevelopment Journal, " in which the Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency is the featured Agency, and the Pleasant Hill BART Station Area is the featured project. FISCAL IMPACT None. BACKGROUND/REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS The California Redevelopment Agency Association is an Association of California Redevelopment Agencies and private firms involved in redevelopment. The CRA publishes a monthly journal. The September 1992 journal featured Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency and its Pleasant Hill BART Station Redevelopment Project. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR RECODATION OF GENCY COMM TEE APPROVE OTHER 7 SIGNATURE(S) : ACTION OF AGENCY ON �a�ntamhPr 2.2. , 193 . APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER VOTE OF COMMISSIONERS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A - � UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF AN AYES: NOES: ACTION TAKEN AND ENTERED ON THE ABSENT: ABSTAIN: MINUTES OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ON THE DATE SHOWN. Contact: Jim Kennedy 646-4076 ATTESTED September 22 , 1992 cc.: Community Development PHIL BATCHELOR, County Administrator AGENCY SECRETARY County Counsel Community Development Redevelopment BY o , DEPUTY i OP.LL. EL "E AsiaRk' NUMB' ER 138 SEPTEMBER 1992 -Project of • Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency's Pleasant Hill BART Station Area dopted in 1984, the ated with developing at the BART Station project was Asia Pleasant Hill BART desired intensities and still explicitly designed to reduce Station Area Redevelopment have financially feasible de- regional traffic by locating Plan represented the initial velopment projects. new office and housing de- effort by Contra Costa The Redevelopment velopment next to a regional County in redevelopment. Agency used its powers of transportation hub. The The adoption of a Redevel- eminent domain to assist in master planned community ". . . is an opment Plan was the final the assemblage of sites, and provides a balance of jobs step in an extended planning is also using its property tax and housing. The Pleasant emerging model process for the Pleasant Hill increments to finance ap- Hill BART Station currently for the BART Station Area. Plan- proximately $40 million in features approximately one ning for the Pleasant Hill road and drainage improve- million square feet of exist- development of BART Station Area began in ments. Private developers, ing Class A office space, a suburban 1980 with a specific focus on through development fees, 249-room Embassy Suites employment/ locating development next to two assessment districts, two hotel, and nearly 1,000 a regional transportation hub. Mello-Roos special tax multi-family residential housing centers A regional planning effort districts and land dedications units. At completion the involving the County, adja- financed an additional $40 Station Area will consist of nextto cent cities and BART, as million in infrastructure. more than 3.3 million square transportation well ds property owners was The Pleasant Hill BART feet of office and commercial facilities." undertaken after previous Station Area is a 140-acre development and over 1,200 efforts to intensify land uses area surrounding the Pleasant residential units (an addi- at this transportation hub Hill Station of the Bay Area tional 900 residential units failed to produce results. A Rapid Transit District. Built are outside the redevelop- Specific Plan for the area in the early 1970s, the Pleas- ment project boundaries, but was developed and adopted ant Hill Station is strategi- are contiguous to the Station in 1983. The adopted Rede- cally located in the I-680 Area). The Pleasant Hill velopment Plan provided a corridor, a major suburban BART Station Area is an solution to two problems development area in the East emerging model for the de- identified in the Specific Bay. The Pleasant Hill velopment of suburban em- Plan process as ployment/ limiting devel- housing opment poten- centers next tial: to transporta- 1. The tion facilities. inability of the ;, Planners and private sector _ environmental to achieve full - ;.' interests have assemblage of advocated this logical devel- type.of devel- opment sites; opment for and "`" years. 2. The Develop- inability of the ment of the private sector "= _ Pleasant Hill �;xfi�; ` .F �- to absorb _ u*'`' A " BART'Station 100% of the Area provides significant in- for economic frastructure 249-Room Embassy Suites Hotel growth, new costs associ- Pleasant Hill BART Station jobs and af- Troject Continued. . . fordable housing, while also West, Taylor Woodrow of dential development site in 11 A contributing part of the solu- California, Urban West the Station Area. Upon com- tion to the Bay Area's trans- Communities, Oak Hill pletion of the assemblage portation problems. The Capital Corporation, Thomas process, the Agency intends Pleasant Hill BART Station Properties, KOAR, Inc., plans have been publicly ac- HOMART Development claimed as an outstanding Company, GBW Properties, 3 example of public agency co- Desco Investment, the Bay operation and public/private Area Rapid Transit District, financing of infrastructure and Trammel Crow. Major improvements. Growth tenants within the Station management and unique ele- Area include Pacific Telesis, ments of the plan include: Levi Strauss, Embassy Suites, General TT410 A regional approach to ad- Electric Company, r!�® dressing development and Chevron, Bank of traffic concerns; the West, Citibank, — � '•izzim "'•� • and Fidelity Na- Concentration of development around existing regional trans- tional Title. - A key determi- portation hubs; Parkin Structure �• The completion of nearly $40 pant for continued 9 • million in major public infra- economic viability Pleasant Hill BART Station is accessibility. structure improvements con- The Pleasant Hill to go through a competitive current with or prior to devel- BART Station Area process to secure a private opment; is without challenge developer to build 200+ The capacity to finance up to with respect to ac- units of affordable multi- $40 million in additional in- cessibility. There- family residential housing on frastructure improvements fore, continued fi- the development site. The through redevelopment tax in- nancial success is Agency is also undertaking crements; expected even in final design work in prepara- i- Requirements for transporta- the current slow tion for the construction of a tion demand management and economic times. major road arterial to im- child care programs; Vacancy rates at the prove access to the Pleasant Public/private financing of in- Pleasant Hill BART Hill BART Station Area frastructure improvements; Station Area are from the north and east. The Creation of a jobs/housing currently around extensive environmental and balance; 10%. Within the design work on this $12 Public financing of affordable past year, approxi- million "Bancroft extension" • housing projects through re- mately 300,000 is currently underway, with development, tax increments square feet of office construction to take place in and tax exempt bonds; and space was absorbed spring of 1984. Permitting density only to the quickly. Additional levels affordable by infra- new development structure improvements. will occur as pre- leasing commit- ments are achieved. Major property owners Current Redevelopment within the Station Area in- Agency activities include the clude Hillman Properties assemblage of the final resi- Agency-Profile Contra Costa County someontra Costa County, county experienced its most also serves central and C created in 1850, was rapid population growth dur- western Contra Costa County. one of Californias original 27 ing, and subsequent to, World Eight of the thirty-four counties. The County's name War II when war industries stations within the BART was derived from the early attracted tens of thousands of system are within the county, Spanish explorers who called workers. The initial compo- including the Pleasant Hill it "contra costa" (opposite nents of the county's heavy BART Station. coast) because of its location industrial base were estab- opposite San Francisco. The lished during this time period. Contra Costa County Rede- only major boundary change During the mid 50s and 60s, tielopment Agency occurred in 1853 when the the county began to be In the 1980s, the Contra area which is now Alameda attractive as a location for Costa County Board of Super- County, was visors began to detached. The h recognize the count covers a t .:; :,,:::.::.., Y .. ;.. ..�. _ important role total of 805 square is ; ... .. redevelopment miles and is among : ... ..... ...... . could play in the fastest growing = rt shaping the future of the Bay Area ` of the county and counties in terms :... <w....:. :. :.... .. of population and °`"'" its unincorporated ' s ' communities. Th employment. L.; 7K.-I: -d ! ' Redevelopment Situated in the East Agency was .; g Y Bay, Contra Costa ti established in County is bounded !1 J 1983. The Board by San Francisco of Supervisors sit and San Pablo "" as the governing bays and the Sac- body of the ramento River/San Agency. The Joaquin delta. Park Regency Apartments Agency currently Ranges of hills Pleasant Hill BART Station oversees redevel- effectively divide opment activities the county into in five project three distinct regions. The housing, particularly for areas: the Pleasant Hill BART western portions, with its relatively affluent office Station Area, North access to water, has a substan- workers commuting to the San Richmond, West Pittsburg, tial industrial base centered in Francisco and Oakland urban Oakley and Rodeo. the Richmond area; the central centers. In the late 70s and The Pleasant Hill BART section is rapidly developing 80s and continuing into the Station Area is an unincorpo- into a major commercial and 90s, Contra Costa County ex- rated area of approximately financial headquarters center perienced the decentralization 125 acres. The focal point of along the 1-680 corridor; and of employment centers that the project area is the Bay the eastern part of the county began to occur throughout the Area Rapid Transit District is undergoing substantial nation. (BART) Station. The suburbanization as it transi- The County is well served Agency's principal objectives tions from a rural, agricultural by, and its development his- are to: (1) improve land use area to a suburban region. tory has been substantially and development; (2) improve The county has a population influenced by major transpor- transportation and circulation of over 800,000 people. tation facilities. Major high- of traffic; (3) promote urban The county was initially ways include Interstate 80, design which will project a settled in the mid 1800s. Ini- Interstate 680, Highway 24 positive image and have tial settlement reflected its and Highway 4. The Bay regional and local identity; agricultural character. The Area Rapid Transit District and (4) provide for a mix of I ' Agency Profil CO/ltllllled. . . i employment and residential (5) stimulate new industrial town commercial area for land uses, including afford- development. Oakley residents; (1�) a first able housing. Current projects within time homebuyer program The North Richmond the West Pittsburg area which provides silent second Rederelollmcnt Plan was include: (1) infrastructure im- loans to qualified families; adopted in 1987. The North provements'along Willow and (3) a street widening and Richmond project area is a Pass Road, a major commer- improvement project along 900-acre area in west Contra cial corridor; (2) construction Highway 4, a major transpor- Costa County. The North financing for a ten-unit tation corridor through town. Richmond Project Area has condominium project, of The Rodeo Redcvelon- been historically subject to which all will be priced to be meat Pro sect Arca was seasonal flooding and has had affordable to families below adopted in 1990. The Rodeo major accessibility problems. 120% of area median income, project area is approximately "The Agency These historical problems and five will be priced to be 650 acres. The Rodeo Cur"r"ently have been or are being affordable to families below community is in western resolved. The Agency's 80% of area median income; Contra Costa County along oversees principal objectives are to: (3) a first time homebuyer Interstate 80. The Agency's redevelopment (1) revitalize and expand in- program providing silent principal ncipal objectives are to: dustrial and employment second loans to qualified (1) facilitate the revitalization activities In related development; (2) purchasers, and (4) identify- of an existing older and five project develop a neighborhood com- ing and marketing potential historic old commercial mercial district and expand site assemblages of vacant or downtown; (2) fund circula- areas . . ." community facilities; and (3) underutilized properties along tion and transportation upgrade deteriorated housing the Willow Pass Road corn- improvements; (3) improve and stimulate the construction dor, including property public and community of affordable housing. acquisition/development facilities: and (4) provide for Current projects in the activity by a nonprofit eco- the upgrade of deteriorating North Richmond Area include nomic development corpora- housing stimulating the con- developing a seven-unit af- tion. struction of new infill hous- fordable for sale housing The Oaklc l Redevelop- ing. project, realigning and ment Plan was adopted in Current projects include reconstructing a main collec- 1989. The Oakley project is the finalization of a major wa- tor road in the industrial approximately 960 acres and terfront development feasibil- portion, neighborhood clean- is located in far east County. ity study completed in con- up and abatement activities, The project area is bisected by junction with the East Bay and assisting private develop- State Route 4. The project Regional Park District and the ers to provide affordable area includes the historical County. Subsequent implem- home ownership opportuni- Oakley downtown core, as entation will be completed ties. well as a light industrial area pursuant to a Specific Plan The West Pittsburc,, Rede- to the west. The Agency's that is to be prepared in the velopment Plan was adopted principal objectives are to: near future. A downtown in 1987. The West Pittsburg (1) fund transportation and improvement program, in- project area is approximately circulation improvements, cluding design guidelines, and 1,550 acres located along particularly those related to park improvements, are also State Route 4 in east Contra State Route 4 deficiencies; (2) underway. Negotiations with Costa County. The Agency's upgrade inadequate public and private developers regarding principal objectives are to: community facilities and the provision of affordable (1) stimulate the construction infrastructure; (3) upgrade and housing units are ongoing. of new affordable housing; (2) rehabilitate existing housing upgrade and rehabilitate units; and (4) stimulate new existing housing units and the light industrial and commer- development of community cial development. facilities; (3) provide major Current projects in the infrastructure improvements; Oakley area include: (1) pre- (4) expand and revitalize paring a specific plan for commercial development; and "oldtown" Oakley, a down-