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THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Adopted this Order on August 7_,: 2001 , by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Gioia, Gerber, DeSaulnier, Glover and Uilkema
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
Resolution No.: RA-2001-2
SUBJECT: Making Findings Regarding Use of Housing Fund for Acquisition of the Las
Juntas Swim Club Property (Assessor's Parcel Numbers 148-180-050, 051 &
052), Comprising a 2.1 Acre Site Situated within the Corporate Limits of the City
of Walnut Creek and Adjacent and Contiguous to the County of Contra Costa
Pleasant Hill BART Station Redevelopment Project Area.
The Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency RESOLVES THAT:
WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors (the "Board") of the County of Contra Costa (the
"County") has adopted the Pleasant Hill BART Station Redevelopment Plan by Ordinance No.
84-30 on July 10, 1984, and subsequent amendments thereto (the "Redevelopment Plan"). The
Redevelopment Plan sets forth a plan for redevelopment of the Pleasant Hill BART Station
Redevelopment Project Area (the "Project Area").
WHEREAS,Health and Safety Code Section 33334.2(g)(2)(A) allows the
Redevelopment Agency of the County of Contra Costa ("Agency") to use low and moderate
income housing funds maintained pursuant to Health and Safety Code Sections 33334.2 and
33334.3 ("Housing Funds") on projects within the incorporated limits of the City of Walnut
Creek, on-site, and contiguous to the Project Area if the Agency and the Board determine that the
use will benefit the Project Area and the Agency and the Board make certain findings.
WHEREAS, the Agency seeks to acquire the Las Juntas Swim Club (the "Property")
(Assessor's Parcel Numbers 148-180-050, 051 & 052), consisting of a 2.1 acre site situated
within the incorporated limits of the City of Walnut Creek and adjacent and contiguous to the
Project Area and, to that end, the Agency's Board concurrently with adoption of this resolution,
is authorizing Agency acquisition of the Property from the current owners, Las Juntas Swim
Club, David Fischer, Garson Soe and Robert Ormiston, and making the findings required
pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33334.(g)(2)(A).
WHEREAS, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33334.2(g)(2)(B)(i), the
Agency desires to acquire the Property for the development of housing containing units
affordable to low- and moderate-income persons, to further the affordable housing and
community revitalization goals of the Agency.
WHEREAS, development of affordable housing on the Property would provide
affordable housing contiguous to the Project Area within walking distance of the BART Station,
which will be of benefit to the Project Area.
WHEREAS, by staff report accompanying this Resolution and incorporated into this
Resolution by this reference (the "Staff Report"), the Agency 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 pursuant to Health and Safety Code
Sections 33334.2(g)(1) and (g)(2)(A), the Agency hereby finds that acquisition and development
of the Property with Housing Funds will be of benefit to the Project Area by providing affordable
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housing adjacent to the Project Area and the BART Station, thereby reducing traffic congestion
in the Project Area by allowing persons to live within walking distance of the BART station or
workplaces in the Project Area. These findings are based on the facts and analysis set forth in
the Staff Report accompanying this Resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section
33334.2(g)(2)(A)(i), the Agency finds, based on the information in the Staff Report, that both the
County of Contra Costa and the City of Walnut Creek have adopted and are implementing
complete and current housing elements of their general plans that the Department of Housing and
Community Development has determined to be in compliance with the requirements of Article
10.6 (commencing with Section 65580) of Chapter 3 of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government
Code.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section
33334.2(g)(2)(A)(ii), the Agency finds that the acquisition and development of the Property
through the use of Housing Funds will not result in any residential displacement from the site
where the development is to be built, in that, as set forth in the Staff Report, there are no
residents or residential units on the Property.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section
33334.2(g)(2)(A)(iii), the Agency finds, based on the information in the Staff Report, that the
area where the Property is located is not one in which more than 50 percent of the population is
comprised of racial minorities or low-income families.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section
33334.2(g)(2)(A)(iv), the Agency finds that development of the Property will allow construction
of affordable housing at a location closer to a rapid transit station than any other location in the
unincorporated territory of the County outside the Project Area, in that the Property is closer to
the BART Station than any other incorporated area outside the Project Area.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Agency shall use the Housing Funds within the
incorporated limits of the City of Walnut Creek in compliance with the requirements set forth in
Health and Safety Code Section 33334.2(g)(2)(B).
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