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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 05132008 - D.2 TO: REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY Contra FROM: JOHN CULLEN �; -__=--`:- :,'d Costa EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR x' "m �os CountyDATE: May 13, 2008 SUBJECT: 2005-2009 AB 1290 Amended and Restated Implementation Plan: Mid-term Plan — 5/08 SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION I RECOMMENDATION: HOLD Public Hearing; and consider ADOPTION of an Amended and Restated AB 1290 Implementation Plan — Mid-term Amendment for the North Richmond and Bay Point Redevelopment Project area. FINANCIAL IMPACT: None. The AB 1290 Implementation Plan is a planning/budgeting tool for Redevelopment Agency tax increment funds. BACKGROUND: The AB 1290 Implementation Plan provides a link between the redevelopment plan implementation, and the blighting conditions which',justified the adoption of the project areas. The AB 1290 Implementation Plan is prepared for a five-year period, and is subject to a mid- term review. The Redevelopment Agency's current Implementation Plan was adopted on January 17, 2006, and covers the time period 2005-2009. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT:'® YES SIGNATURE: 912ECOMMENDATION OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ❑ RECO E ATION OF GENCY COMMITTEE PROVE ❑ OTHER �P SIGNATURE(S): . ACTION OF AG Y ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED. OTHER ❑ VOTE OF SUPERVISORS: I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AND UNANIMOUS(ABSENT,//! ) ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ON THE DATE AYES: NOES: SHOWN. ABSENT: ABSTAIN: • ATTESTED Contact: Jim Kennedy cc: CAO JOHN CULLS ', GENCY SECRETARY County Counsel Community Development Via: Redevelopment Agency ■ Goldfarb&LipmanBy: �✓ eputy ■ RSG G:CDBG/REDEV/redev/Alicia/board orders and greenies/rda.bo.5/13/08/ab1290.imp.plan BACKGROUND: The Amended and Restated AB 1290 Implementation Plan for the North Richmond and Bay Point project areas is the result of the Agency's mid=term review. The North Richmond and Bay Point mid-term reviews are being completed in advance of the other three project areas (Contra Costa Centre, Rodeo, & Montalvin Manor) due to the pending Redevelopment Plan Amendments that will come before the Board on` May 20, 2008. In consultation with local advisory bodies, as applicable, the Implementation Plan has been amended to comprise a more contemporary planning document. A brief summary of the AB 1290 Amended and Restated Implementation Plan follows, by Project Area: NORTH RICHMOND AREA Goal: The primary goals of the North Richmond Redevelopment Plan are to revitalize and expand employment related development.in the industrial area and to strengthen and expand housing opportunities within the residential area. The plan .strives to create a productive and attractive economic center, providing job and housing opportunities'for community residents. Non-Housing Programs: Improve the employment area, including: o Industrial Area Drainage/Infrastructure Improvements o Truck Route Implementation o Neighborhood Infrastructure Improvements o Community Facilities Program • Economic development projects, including: o First Source Hiring Program o Youthbuild Program o 3rd Street Corridor Transportation and Community Streetscape Improvements Housing Programs: • Assist with infill and assemblage opportunities • Provide first time homeownership assistance • Assist in developing creative housing projects such as mutual housing, cooperative housing, land trusts, lease to own or others projects that would facilitate lower-income homeownership for community residents. • Collaborate with the Housing Authority of Contra Costa County to assess feasibility, and implement appropriate reuse opportunities for the Las Deltas housing project and scatter sites. • Undertake a residential rehabilitation program. BAY POINT AREA Goal: The goals for the Bay Point Redevelopment Project Area include stimulating new industrial, commercial, and residential (both market rate and affordable) development; providing major infrastructure improvements to serve the existing area residents and businesses, and accommodate new development;;iand upgrading the existing residential neighborhoods through rehabilitation of existing housing units, the facilitation of infill housing construction, and development of infrastructure improvements. Non-Housing Programs: • Implementation of the Bailey Road/BART Station Area Specific Plan (Orbasonia Heights) • Marina/Waterfront Implementation • Facilitate Development of Light Industrial Sites Area (Bay Harbor Commerce Center,etc.) • Continue the Neighborhood Area Infrastructure Program in the South Willow Pass Road area. • Continue to Implement a Community Funding Program • Implement a Marketing Plan/Economic Development for Bay Point G:CDBG/REDEV/redev/Alicia/board orders and green ies/rda.bo.5/13/08/ab1290.imp.plan Housing Programs: • Orbasonia Heights Housing Project • . Site Acquisition for Habitat for Humanity • Promote other Residential Mixed-Use Development within the BART Specific Plan Area • Undertake a rehabilitation'program. G:CDBG/REDEV/redev/Alicia/board orders and greenies/rda.bo.5/13/08/ab1290.imp.plan ,t 11. 2004/05 to 2008/04 Implementation Plan Amendment and Mid-terra Review Prepared to Support the 2008 Amendment to the North Richmond Redevelopment Plan The North Richmond Project Area consists of approximately 900 acres in western Contra Costa C.'ounty, adjacent to the Citv of' Richmond. North Richmond v!as hisiorically an isolated cornnlunity; but this changed dramatically when the Richmond Parkway opened to traffic in 1991. The Parkway connects Interstate 80 with Interstate 580 at the Richmond San Rafael Bridge and has placed the Ninth Richmond Pro_lect Area in the path of a regional thoroughfare. (See FiIQurC 11-1.) Redevelopment of the Project Area is intended to remove blight by revitalizing the neighborhood and by attracting jobs to the industrially zoned properties that are in need of more intensive development and redevelopment. The 2004/(15 to 2008%09 Implementation Plan adopted on January 17, 2006 (`.'Existins Implementation Plan'') identified the Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency's (".A(uency") goals and ohjectives during the 2004/05 to 2008/09 planning period, and documented .the accomplishments for North Richmond during the 1999/00 to 2003/04 planning period. The Existing Implementation Plan also identified available resources and anticipated expenditures on identified proposed projects during the planning period. T he Cxistin? implementation Plan also described how the ,Agency would expand the supply of' housing, spend its low- and moder.:tte income housin(set-aside funds ("Housing Funds"), and meet its affordable housing obligations. MIDTERM REVIEW REQUIREMENI-S Section 33490(c) of the Community Redevelopment Law (CRL) requires that at least once within the five-year term of an implementation plan, a redevelopment agency shall conduct a public hearing and hear testimony of all interested parties forthe purpose of revicwing the redevelopment plan and the corresponding implementation plan for each redevelopment project in the jurisdiction and evaluating .the progress of the redevelopment project. The mid-term review must occur no earlier ti.ran two years and no later than three years following the adoption of the implementation plan. PURPOSE FOR AMENDING 2004/05-2008/09 NORTH R.IC.HMONI) IMPLEMENTATION PIAN The .Agency has initiated the redevelopment plan amendment process to amend the North Richmond Redevelopment Plan. The proposed amendment to the. Redevelopment Plan ("2008 North Richmond .Amendment".) will, if adopted, accomplish the following: 1. increase the total dollar limit.on the amount of tax increment revenues the Project .Area may receive: and 2. Increase the limit on bonded indebtedness that can be outstandine.at any one time. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency I1-1 Amended Five. Year Implementation Plan The proposed 2008 North Richmond Amendment will enable the Agency to more effectively implement redevelopment projects and activities eliminating blighting conditions within the Project Arca. The Redevelopment Plan's current cumulative tax increment cap is S60 million and the bonded indebtedness limit is S30 million. The 2008 North Richmond Amendmem proposes to increase these caps to$712 and 5222.9 million, respectively. Section 33451.5 of the CFU- sets forth the required elements of the report on blight that must be presented by the Agency at the public hearing to consider the proposed 2008 North Richmond Amendment increasing the tax increment and outstanding, indebtedness limits. Under item (7) of' this code section, the Agency is required to amend the Implementation Plan to address any changes that the 2008 North Richmond Plan Amendment may have on the Agency's implementation activities. Such amendments to an implementation plan must comply with the requirements of Section 33490 of the CRL. SUBJECT OF TIIIS DOCUMENT This document summarizes the actions and activities of the Agency in revitalizing North Richmond that have taken place since the Existing Implementation Plan was adopted in 2006 in compliance with the requirements to conduct a midterm review of the Existing Implementation Plan. Serving as the 2004!05-2008!09 Amended Implementation Plan ("Amended Implementation Plan'), it identifies programs and projects listed in the Existing Implementation Plan as well as presents new proposed programs and projects that Agency staff recommends be added as a result of the proposed 2008 North Richmond Amendmea..it. Contra Costa County Redevelopment .Agency I.1-2 Amended Five Year implementation Plan Figure 11-.1 North Richmond Project .Area Tt6�+i'�t�li�lri il�Ic,nOf - Red % lopment Pr ;ed Area rcu!ec Pno=. Richmond Parkway North Richmond Redevelopment Pro}ect Area Interstate eo . l San I <a V G i Interstate 580 El Cern Contr-a Costa County Redevelopment Agency II-3 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan A. Legislative Changes to Implementation Plans .Among, the changes to the CRL to be addressed in this Midterm Review is the requirement that implementation plans must include a detailed description of the Redevelopment Plan's regulatory limits; as well as changes to limitations on proportional expenditures (Section 3_3334.4(1b)). The Exisitrtg Implementation Plan currently reflects the detailed description of the Redevelopment Plan's regulatory limits in Table 11-1. Changes to Section 33334.4(b) serve to modify the previous limitation that each agency expend over the duration of each implementation plan, the monies in its Low and Moderate Income Housing .Fund "in at least the same proportion as the low-income population under age 65 bears to the total low-income population of the community as reflected in the most.recent census". The new language provides a higher level of specificity as follows: "in at least the same proportion as the number of low-income households with a member under age 65 years bears to the total number of low-income households of the community as reported in the most recent census". The potential impact of the change is difficult to assess in that the census bureau does not provide a data set that reflects the ne\� requirement leaving the burden on local jurisdictions to determine. As a practical matter, the prior language may continue to be used since the available data set for seniors age 65 and over could arguably reflect only households comprised of such seniors. In addition; AB 987 expanded the monitoring and notification requirements in CRL Section 33418(c) to require that the agencies compile and maintain annually a database of all existing new and substantiall) rehabilitated units assisted by the .AO�ency or otherw-ise counted toward fulfilling the .agency's affordable housing production obligations. Accordingly, the Agency will ensure compliance \n11th the provisions of AB 987 no later than December 31; 2008. B. Agency Accomplishments, FY 1999/00 — FY 2003/04 The.Agency has undertaken numerous housing. public safety, health, infrastructure; urban design; and economic and communiry development pro.ects as part of its efforts. to attract jobs; remove blight and improve access to affordable housing. The Agency's accomplishments since FY 1999,2000 are listed below: f=unded road and strcetscape improvements to 3" Street.and connector roads. Initiated a planning process with the Contra Costa Community Development Department's Transportation .Division to identify alternative truck routes around the North Richmond neighborhood and site a pedestrian railroad crossing. .Initiated a First-Source Hiring Program with the Workforce Investment Board that works Nvith local and potential businesses to encourage the hirine of local residents. Developed a Machining. and Tooling Incubator that will work with adults and youth to provide the skills and training.necessary to work in the Machining and Tooling wades. Established a youth build program in coniunction with the Housing Authority to train high school dropouts between the ages of 16 and 22 in the construction industry and work towards completion of the GED. Participants work with qualified contractors to rehabilitate substandard units in the North Richmond area. Once homes are rehabilitated, they are sold to a qualified low income First-Time Homebuyers. p sonsored a commercial retail center on 3"' Street developed by a non- tofit Financial]) I p p- developer,NN hich has achieved good occupancy rates. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-4 Amended Five fear linplernentation Plan Promoted economic development in North Richmond through a website with site selection assistance for those interested in locating either residential or commercial developments in the project area. - Cheated marketinu,materials for business attraction and retention. C:rcated a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy in conjunction with other County departments and community members. r Applied to the Economic Development Administration to fund the construction of a Machining/Tooling Business Incubator. l E=stablished the Community Preservation-Abatement and Revolving Loan Fund. Initiated a comprehensive infiastructure planning prograu) for tite industrial area north of kVildcat Creek. To date. the redevelopment of'the Project .Area has been constrained by the lack of basic infrastructure. Formed a partnership xvith the City of Richmond and Contra Costa County to address cross-jurisdictional issues such as code enforcernent, junk vehicle abatement, trash collection, and other community clean-up activities. Facilitated the development of two ne\N affordable and/or mixed-income housing priliects known as the Parkwav Estates and the North Richmond Senior Heritage Apartments, which were awarded as the best HOME project by the National Association of Local Housing Funding AL*encies. Initiated First-Time Hontebuver and Individual Deposit Account Prop=rains with A`�.ency and federal funds to assist first time ho rrebuvers. Established an operating Farmer's Market for the area. C. Project Area Goals and Objectives The Project Area's goals and objectives are intended to guide Agency actions toward eliminating the Project Area's physical and econoritic blight. The community and Agency first established goals in the Redevelopment Plan, and touether with zoning regulations, they will continua to direct future actions within the Project Area for the life of the Redevelopment Plan. Since the adoption of' the Redevelopment Plan; other lone term goals have become important to the Agency, as expressed in documents like the 2000 implementation Plan and ?Midterm Review. Those goals are synthesized below as Capital/Public Improvement and Colnmunity Improvement/Econonn.ic Development goals. In addition to these two sets of goals, the Agency has established particular goals and objectives for the Implementation Plan planning period, as required by the CRL. The Redevelopment Plan goals, Capital/Public improvement and Community I11)l)roven)ent%I_,conoi)lic Development goals, and Implementation Plan goals and obiectives are listed below. The Existing In)plen)entation Plan was adopted by the Agency in order to actively pursue the goals listed below. L Redevelopment Plan Coals In accordance with the CRL; the :North Richmond Redevelopment Plan was designed to achieve three major goals: Revitalize the northern portion of' the Project Area through light industrial infi-astructure improvements and land use policy changes. Strengthen the existing residential neighborhood in the southern.portion of the project area through development of .a neighborhood commercial district, park and open space Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-5 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan development; street improvement and landscaping, and expansion of community facilities, and infill residential. Upgrade the deteriorated housing stock in the project area and stimulate the construction of new affordable housing. 2. Capital/Public Improvement and Community Improvement/Economic Development Goals i- improve road. drainage; and sewer infrastructure and construct public utility facilities in the industrial section of the Project Area. (These improvements are required to provide full and safe access to industrial land made developable by the completion of the Richmond Parkway.) Encourage and support public-private partnerships that address community needs. Encourage and support citizen participation through the North Richmond Municipal Advisory Council. f Capitalize on existing and future financing resources and opportunities. Provide the framework to restore the economic. and social health throuLfli public and private actions. 3. Five Year Implementation Plan Goals and Objectives Continue to facilitate employment programs for North Richmond residents; industries and businesses. Implement marketing program to attract new businesses and generate revenue. Use this marketing program to promote infrastructure improvements in industrial lands and improve the Project Areas image. Initiate a reuse development planning process for specific sites in the Project Area. Initiate a comnercial/retail development progg-am for specific sites in the Project ,Area. D. Projected. Five Year Non-Housing :Projects and Activities The A�Llency will undertake proiects and activities in the North Richmond Project Area through FY 2008/09 in order to reduce blight and achieve the Project .Area's goals and objectives. The. projects and activities supported by the Agency will continue to expand the job base-and improve the quality of life for Project Area residents. The Agency will also partner with property owners and potential investors to implement land development projects that help achieve the Project .Area's goals and objectives. The Agency will offer land development assistance through business incentives, loans and land write down cost reductions. In addition. it will apply for grants when doing so furthers the Redevelopment Plan. Projects and activities that the Agency may help fund during the. Implementation Plan plannir.t'a period are listed below. Project and activity implementation depend on available financial resources. The anticipated expenditures listed under each project reflect expenditures through FY 2008,09. Some projects listed may not incur expenditures until after the 2004/05-2008/09 planning period; however they are included in this Amended Implementation Plan to account for administrative planning. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-6 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Capital/Public Improvement Projects The Annu has identified a number of public improvement projects which would aid current revitalization efforts and eliminate deficiencies in existing infrastructure systems in the Project Area. Paving.. reconstruction. rehabilitation and widening of streets, widening, of intersections.. grade separations, and utility realigiurient are needed in the Project Area to improve traffic flow; provide better access for emergency vehicles; enhance accessibility, increase safety for pedestrians and motorists, and'brine overall aesthetic improvements to the North Richmond community; which may help Improve surrounding property values and attract further investment from the private .sector. Additionally; utilities such as phone lines; sewer lines. and siorm drains that run along. streets and required utility and street Improvements are all necessary components of successful redevelopment. 1,urthermore. these infrastructure and utility improvements will encourage infill development of vacant lots and the redevelopment of blighted properties by property owners.. Such activity is expected to reduce blighting conditions rn the Project Area by reinovine conditions that othcr\vise hinder. the viable u e of'buildinLls or jots and improving property values. in some cases. infrastructure and utility improvements are expected to stimulate. private sector investnment. lower vacancy rates, increase lease rates. cause an increase in the availability of' necessary commercial facilities. and reduce conditions of dilapidation and deterioration. The Agency intends to maximize its investment by improving streets and utilities simultaneously wherever feasible. The A<Tency has identified street segments for these improvements. The Agency also plans to continuee to monitor the; progress of removing areas in the Project ,Area from FEMA desi�onated flood zones and improving creeks within in the Project Area to 100 year flood standards. The following is a summary of'Capital and Public.Improvenment projects that the Agency wishes to pursue to further address blight in the Project .Area: Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-7 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan . Proiectll'roaram Description Expenditures Anticipated Completion Third Street Streetscape This proiect was identified at the time the Existing, Expenditures to Date: Implementation Plan was adopted. The A��cncy 54i; �l� I X012 I I I has continued to implement road. pedestrian and IJ streetscape, improvements along Third Street from Grove Avenue to Wildcat Creek. Thegoal is to Anticipated Expenditures: simultaneously create traffic calming measures, So roadway impi-ovements, and public amenities. I These improvements will help remove infrastructure deficiencies, which hinder the public safety of residents in existing neighborhoods. Providing these improvements adds value to the neighborhood and provides incentives for private redevelopment and overall economic development activities. j I North Richmond Truck Route j This project includes the next phase of Expenditures to Date: preliminary design, predevelopment, and 5105.212 2020 acquisition of' select parcels for the North Richmond Truck Route's Preferred Alternative Route. The acquisition process, which is Anticipated Expenditures: scheduled to begin in 2005, involves coordination 54(10,0(10 Nvith the Cities of San Pablo. Richmond, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Construction of this new route entails extending, a short dead-end street I named Soto northward across Wildcat and San � Pablo Creeks to connect with Parr Boulevard. The construction of an alternative truck route will address the health and safety of Project Area residents and workers. It will specifically address pedestrian safety and improve air quality by minimizing truck access to nel-Omborhood streets. By re-routing trucks away from neiohborhood streets; it will enable the Agency to address existing blighting conditions such as high vacancy/low lease rates and remove factors that substantially hinder the economically viable use i of.nearby buildings or lots. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency I1-8 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Residential Neigliihorhood Infrastructure Programs i t Expenditures to Date: The Agency plans to implement a number of so 2020 infrasimcture imp-menlents in the residential neighborhood. The Agency will focus on the lnlprovemelll of street lights/poles, underground Anticipated Expenditures: utilities and cables. curb/gutters, road pavements Unknown at this time and street repairs but there are no specific !! locations identified at this tinge. I These infrastructure improvements will improvct the health and safety of Project Area residents by C11111111at111« infrastructure deficiencies. which currently hinder the viable use of residential zoned property. Residential Community- Facilities Program This program includes the implementation of- Expenditures to Date: improvements and upM,rades to various SO 2020 community facilities, which are located at Shields Reid Park (1410. Kelsey); 'North Richmond baseball, field (along ;" Street. adjacent to Verde Anticipated Expenditures: School): Project Pride C:ommunHy Center (Las Unknown at this time Deltas); and the Noah Richmond Senior Center ( I 515 Silver Avenue). An aspect of the North Richmond Specific Plan will identify additional community facility needs such as daycares; libraries. and conference centers. These upgrades will help eliminate bhuhl by f stirllulating the property values of stmoundinLI properties in the area. Furthennore. these j 1 upgrades will improve the Project .Area's high crime rate by prop idint_, a safe and healthy outlet j f'or local youth. ether than di-LIP-TS and cringe. so that they can participate in educational and recreational activities oulside.of school. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-9 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Industrial Area Drainage/ln('rastructure. The Agency plans to initiate a comprehensive Expenditures to Date: I nfrastructure improvement plan for the entire i S0 2027 industrial area north of Wildcat Creek. The ! Agency is also planning to fund future I miscellaneous and other unforeseen infrasuFucture I Anticipated Expenditures: improvements throughout the area, iricluding. but Unknown at this time not limited to: improvements north of' Parr ! Boulevard. roadway overlays; drainage. widenint and reconstruction improvements, market avenue i pedestrian over crossing, 7th Street extension; and the Goodrick realignment. Agency funds will be leveraged, and/or combined with funds from property business owners, inner federal at encies, and the Citv of Richmond. These improvements will remove infrastructure deficiencies. which currently hinder the viable use of all industrial zoned property located north of Wildcat Geek. Infrastructure improvements will i ! also help stimulate stagnant property values and I create economic development opportunities in the area. The Improvements will also specifically address vehicle and pedestrian safety and circulation, and inadequate drainage. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-10 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan North Richmond Specific Plan/ Nove Subdivision Infrastructure This project will address major infrastructure Expenditures to Date: improvements within the North Richmond so 2027 Specific Plan Area. Nove Subdivision infrastructure improvements will be coordinated with the lamer specific plan program to create a 1 Anticipated Expenditures: comprehensive plan that includes road widening, Unknown at this time dramai-Te, sewer. storm water, curb and <outters, and circulation improvements. Improvements in the Specific Plan Area will result in better vehicle and pedestrian circulation and safety, increased property values, which encourages private redevelopment and community-wide economic development. These jimprovementsEvill also address infrastructure. deficiencies that currently hinder the safety and welfare of Project Area residents. Expenditures to Date: I, S 8,82 5 TOTAL Anticipated Expenditures: 5400;000 i Some projects listed may incur additional expenditures whose fundinE is scheduled for FY 008/09 but exact cost scheduling is not complete at this time. I � I Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-11 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Community Improvement/Economic Development Programs The Comilumly improvement Program directly addresses the appearance of the neighborhood, the health and safety aspects of community life, and indirectly the overall value of the properties located in the Project Area. This increased property value impacts not only the specific property. but has significant impact on surrounding p-operties as \yell. The .Agency has established beautification programs to assist residents and businesses upgrade and maintain the appearance of buildings and property, a garbage remediation program that helps address illegal dumping. code enforcement support that adds valuable human power to the suenuous task of daily code review in the Project Area, marketing pieces to assist with business attraction thus lowering vacancy rates and increasing lease rates. and other invaluable programs that address the improved appearance of the entire .community. The Agency also intends to implement neighborhood safety and crime prevention activities, which include tarLIeted code enforcement, grraffiti removal. Abatement Attorney, Resident Deputy, and equipment such as security cameras. Neighborhood safety and crime prevention activities are directly tied to the collaborative effort of County officials to improve the health; safety, and welfare of Project Area residents and workers. The A2cncy also plans to engage in a wide variety of' economic development initiatives ranging. front site assembly and acquisition to construction and site development. F:nvlronnlental contamination and remediation can often times pose a financial challenge in the successful development of properties and may not be financially feasible for the private sector alone. The Agency intends to utilize redevelopment funds to offset the cost of' mitigating en-iromi-cental impacts and helping identifv which sites need further environmental studies. The following is a summary of the Community Improvement and Fconomic Development programs. the Agency wishes to pursue to further address blight in the Project Area. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-12 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan [North Richmond Retail Initiative I The North Richmond Retail. Initiative is an Expenditures to Date: ongoing project that involves the design and %.16,202 2010. construction of a storefront retail space for the NorthShore Cafc. Establishing this market fulfills one of the final components of the Project Area Anticipated Expenditures: goals and provides much needed retail that has 582.500 been requested by community residents. The . NorthShore Cafe will .offer basic amenities. SLnldl'y items, deli products. and fresh fruits & ve«etables. The .Agency . will help eliminate blighting conditions such as substandard structures. a lack 1 of commercial facilities; and stagnant property values. Providin_gr these improvements stimulates property values in the neighborhood and j encourages private and economic redevelopment in the Prole.ct Area. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-13 Amended l=ive Year Implementation Plan � I Community Improvement Program Expenditures to Date: 'The projects in the C om.munity Improvement S 194.5 i 202(1 Proaram all directly address the appearance of the neighborhood, and Indirectly the overall value of' the properties located in the Project .Area. The Anticipated Expenditures: Agency has established beautification prograttti to $607.012 assist residents and businesses upgrade and maintain the appearance of buildings and property, a garbage remediation program that � helps address illegal dumping, code enforcement support that adds valuable human power to the strenuous task of daily code review in the Project Area, and other invaluable progratlts Thai address the in.iproved appearance of the entire.con,tmunity. I C Mi onent-Program_.Neighborhood Safety Amount currently ProLram unknown or included in Anticipated Expenditures Provides required funding. for on site or site listed above specific services, equipment and facilities aimed at addressing problems that address criminal activity cflectinE! the health, welfare and safety- of the North Richmintd Project Area. Such activities j include targeted code enforcement, graffiti removal. Abatement Attorney. Resident Deputy; and equipment such as security cameras. + The Community Improvement Prosram will j eliminate existing blighting conditions by improving severely deteriorated and dilapidated I buildings and stagnant property values. which can have an adverse affect on surrounding property values as well. "The Pro-ram will increase the safety of the area and reduce both property and crimes a(ainst persons. The elimination of these existing blighting conditions and safety issues will encourage private and economic development in the Project Area. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-14 Amended Five Yeat Implementation Plan 'town Center "Grove Point" The Agency is facilitating the predeveloprncnt. Expenditures to Date: environmental review, and land acquisition of so .2017 seven amtiguous sites along,the eastern side of Third Street in the Nonh Richmond Town Center. This project is scheduled to begin in 2008 and is Anticipated Expenditures: located on the opposite side of the street from the 51.810,100 i Senior Heritage Apartments, Convnunity Housing j Development Corporation and the North Richmond Center for Health; between Chesley and Grove Avenues. With the acquisition of these seven sites. the Agency will help facilitate retail and commercial development in the Project Arca. j This project xvill also address and remove existing blighting conditions, such as deteriorated and dilapidated structures. Agency investment will also help improve stagnant property values; addinL, value to the area and encouraging general economic.development. In-Fill Development & Acquisition j The Agency has planned to initiate various site Expenditures to Date: 2020 acquisitions to facilitate new affordable housing S(1 projects. mixed use developments, and retail/commercial projects. The project. which \ ill begin in Fiscal Year 2008/09, involves Anticipated Expenditures: numerous scattered sites (single family and 5450,224 duplexes), vacant land, and abandoned buildings throughout the commtniity that are in need of substantial rehabilitation and upgrades. These projects would help eliminate blight by improving severely deteriorated and dilapidated buildings. eliminating factors that hinder the viable use of properties, and the remediation of hazardous waste sites in the Project Arca. i Contra Costa County Redcveloptnent Agency 11-15 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Economic Development Program This program involves Agency participation in Expenditures to Date: future site assistance and job development to help SO 1 202? interested businesses relocate into North Richmond. The intent is to use these funds. beginning in 2009.. to lure new businesses and 'Anticipated Expenditures: jobs into the employment generating areas. Most 5500.000 i of these firms will be permitted in the Industrial area north of Parr and along NVest Gertrude. The. Agency will help eliminate blighting conditions such as infrastructure deficiencies, substandard structures. a lack of conimercial facilities. and stagnant property values. Providing these improvements stimulates property values in the neighborhood and encourages private and economic redevelopment in the Project Area. Light Industrial Developments ! The Agency will use business development funds Expenditures to Date: to assist with a variety of business related S(1 2027 obstacles like relocation costs, predevelopment. and ultimately to induce private investment dollars within the Project ,Area. which will help .Anticipated Expenditures: i attract employers and jobs into the employment 5250,000 generating areas. ! These funds will also help eliminate blighting conditions such as.a lack of commercial facilities, and stagnant property values. Providing these improvements stimulates property values in the neighborhood and encourages private and economic redevelopment in the Project Area. j Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-16 Amended Five Year implementation Plan "I'oxic Remediation The Agency's Toxic. Remediation Program is Expenditures to Date: intended to assess community hazmat of various So Ongoing properties that have historically used or handled hazardous materials. 11 is anticipated that "Hot" locations are located in the residential and .Anticipated Expenditures: Specific Plan areas (847 Brookside Drive d. Unknown at this time Meyers Drun-1 near Brookside and Soto Street). However, other locations are within the Industrial I area north of Parr Boulevard and aloe, Nest Gertrude, and also alon, the wesiern side of the Richmond Parkway. The Agency plans to initiate this program in Fiscal Year 2008-0 . The Agency's Toxic Remediation Program will help address existing economic blighting conditions such as the presence of hazardous I waste and high vacancies/low lease rates. Such li1NEStmelll will improve the overall economic developi-nent opportunities in the Project .Arca. I Expenditures to Date: j I 5210.737 i Anticipated Expenditures: S3.6I9.836 TOTAL Some projects listed may incur additional expenditures whose funding is scheduled for FY 2008/09 but exact cost scheduling is not t complete at this time. � t Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-17 Ammended five Year Implementation Plan E. Revenues Available to Implement Non-Housing Improvements The primary source of'revenue available to the Agency for improvement projects and }programs has been and will continue to be property tax increment, as it is used both to directly fund projects and to secure bond revenues and pay debt service. As shown in Table I1-1, the Redevelopment Plan was adopted in 1987; and the Agency will be able to undertake project activities through 2027. The Agency can collect a maximum of S60 million in tax increment revenue over the life of the Redevelopment Plan and has the legal authority to have up to S30 million in outstanding debt at any one time. The Agency is undergoing a Redevelopment Plan amendment to increase the amount of tax increment the Agency can collect and the amount of outstanding debt. 'Cable I1-1 Summary of Project :Areas Time and Fiscal Limit 'Forth R.ichrnond Project .Area Acres -- 900 Adopted July 14, 1981 Eminent Domain July 14. 2011 Time I..imit for Incurring Debt July 14, 2026 I Time. Lfinit for Project Activities i July 14; 2027 Time Litnit for Tax Increment.Receipt luly 14 2027 Fiscal Limit for Tax Increment Collection* S60,000.000 �.Outstanding Indebtedness 530.000,(100 The ALYencv is undei-Loins an amendment to increase the tax increment collection limit to S71 2) million and the outstanding indebtedness limit to S222.9 million. Source: Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency. Since FY 2004/05 the Agency has expended S769-162 on non housing redevelopment projects and programs eliminatino bliglhting conditions within the Project :Area. The Agency received more revenue than prcijected since the Implementation Plan was adopted on January 17. 2006. The increased revenue is primarily due to assessed values in the Project Area increasing at a rate greater than projected. The Agency is projected to collect S10.8 million in total revenue that can be used to fund non-housing projects thr01,1211 FY 2008/09. The four sources of revenues that the Agency can spend and reinvest in the Project Area are net tax increment proceeds fi-om the sale of bonds secured by tax increment, interest earned on non-housing funds and other revenue sources, each of which is displayed in Table .11-2. Projections in Table Il-2 have been updated to reflect futurefiscal years remaining in the Implementation Plan planning period. More information about each Source of revenue is provided below. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency I1-18 Amended Five Year hnplente.ntation Plan I'd• v r• �' v v! 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The Agency is also projected to.earn 5964,463 of net tax increment revenues over the next two fiscal years (2007108-2008'09) in the North Richmond Project Area. Property tax increment is that portion of the total amount of property tax revenues collected annually from all the properties in the. Project Area abo%ie the amount collected at the time the Project Area was adopted. Per Proposition 13. increases in property taxes can result only from increases in assessed value; which in turn can only come from reassessment upon property sale or improvement or the maximum; annual inflationary increase of'2 percent.. Net tax increment revenue is the amount of tax increment remaining to the Aaencv for non- housing projects and activities after it has met its other financial obligations. These financial obligations typically include liousing Fund deposits; debt services payments; County property tax administration fees; Administration costs; and pass.-through payments to other taxing entities. The Agency must reinvest a portion of property tax increment revenues back into non-110tlSill21 projects that will help reduce and eliminate blight. By encouraging and expanding local commercial. retail. industrial and residential opportunities, the Agenev shall achieve the greatest return on its investment While. creatine local jobs. enhancing. sales tax Leneration and increasing property values. Increased property values translate to increased tax increment revenues to the Agency. which can then be reinvested in the Project Area. 2. Proceeds from the Sale of.Bonds "I he Agency is able to issue bonds and invest the proceeds of those bond sales in Project Area improvements. The bond sale proceeds are forms of borrowing against projected tax increment revenues. The Agency meets annually to discuss and prioritize projects and activities to be funded each year from bond sales, as well as to coordinate expenditures of bond proceeds with the County's Capital Improvement Program. The Agency has a maximum bonded indebtedness of S30 million for the.Project Area: this limit will be increased to 5222.9 million dollars if the 2008 North Richmond Amendment is adopted. Approximately 55.2 million of a bond sale was reserved as a capital fund for the Agency to reinvest in the Project .Area through FY 2008/09. According to the official statement fin' the 2007 Tax Allocation Revenue Bonds, a portion of the proceeds from the 2007 Tax Allocation Revenue Bonds were initially deposited into the North Richmond Escrow Fund; 57.6 million will become available for use in fiscal year 2007;08 after the 2008 :North Richmond Amendment is adopted. Eighty percent of the escrowed bond proceeds, or 56.1 million, is allocated to the non-housing fund. The Agency projects to expend 58.6 million of the bond sale proceeds before the completion of the implementation Plan planning period. 3. Other Agency and Non-Agency Financial Resources Wberever possible, the Agency will continue to leverage other sources of funding to achieve the Project Area's goals and objectives. The Agency has already demonstrated an ability to acquire Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-20 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan additional funding in the form of grants and loans from Contra Costa County and other . government entities. The Agency also earns interest and revenue from the lease of Agency owned property, and it can collect fees from developers. Accordin`sl�, the ,Agency projects to collect S).1 million in additionalfunding over the next two fiscal years (2007/08-2008/09) fi-om grants; loans; impact fees; the sale or lease of Agency-owned property and other sources of revenues. The other revenue sources will be supplemented by 586,109 of interest earned on the lion-l-Iousing Fund. F. Projected Five Year Non-Mlousi;ng Expenditures The Agency will implement projects within its financial capabilities and will look for opportunities to create additiona) capital such as grants or bonds. As shown in Table 11-3, The. A=.encu is projected to spend S4.1 million on improvement projects through l'Y 2(.)08/09. The projects will focus on the follow,in(r: Capital/Public improvement Projects---Projects and activities within this category include ill I- road and other infrastructure. improvement projects, urban design and sucetscape improvements; property acquisition and site improvements particularly related to public.private real estate development partnerships; transit and mixed-use facilities, and other physical development projects. Community Improvement .Activities/Economic Development Promotion--Projects and activities within this category include beautification programs. hazardous waste and other ,arbage remediation programs. code enforcement support. and other initiatives that enhance the appearance of- the Project Area as well as the quality of life for residents. Projects and activities within this category include job creation and retention initiatives, policies or programs that enhance the competitiveness of local residents including job training. and skills development, rnarketine programs; and other promotional projects; events; or activities. Table 11-3 Projected Five Year Non-Housing Expenditures North Richmond Project Area FY 2004/05 to FY 2008/09 Projects and Activities 2004/05 to Projected t Current Expenditures i Expenditures Capital/,Public improvement I x;558.525 5400.000 Projects _ Community Improvement/ I c c j 52107737 i S .69),836 Economic Development Activities 7 ota] i:xpenditures %769.262 54,099;836 Source: Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agencv, The Agency will also continue to meet its Housing Fund obligations. make debt service payments, pay pass-through payments to.other agencies; and cover administration and technical assistance costs. Contra Costa County Redevelopment .Agency IJ-21 .Amended Five Year Implementation Plan G. Linkage Between Project Area Improvements and Elimination of Remaining Blight The Agency's actions since the adoption of the North Richmond Project Area have eliminated a sienificant arnount of blight. However, the lack of'public. infrastructure; an economic base and community improvements continues to thwart the eradication of remaining blight. Remaining economic blii*ht in North Richmond includes a lack of necessary commercial facilities (�(,rocery stores. banks and other lenders; etc.). a high crime rate, and abnormally high business vacancies and uu-rtover rates. Peasist.cnt physical blight includes unsafe and unhealthy buildings; incompatible adjacent and/or nearby land uses. and inadequate. public improvements; namely the lack of sufficient flood and drainarae infrastructure. The Agency's proposed programs and expenditures will help eliminate this remaining blight in the Project ,Area..Community jmprovemcnt activities. such as support for neighborhood-serving. businesses. the efforts to reducc illegal dumping; cooperation with the CDBG program, and work with non-profit and other developers, xvill help attract and retain necessary commercial facilities. as well as lower business vacancies and turnover rates. Streamlining the perimiting process and the Community Preservation-Abatement and Revolving Loan Program will address unsafe and unhealthy buildings by encouraging new construction and rehabl. Neighborhood safety and crime prevention activities. such as targeted code enforcement. eraffiti removal. Abaternent Attorney. Resident Deputy, and equipment such as security cameras will help improve the health, safety;and general welfare of Project Area residents and workers. Economic development promotion programs that encourage job creation and increase local economic activity Mill provide alternatives to critne for the unemployed and more generally stren`Lythen the local economy. Finally, the myriad of capital projects underway in the North Richmond Project Area will help eliminate blight caused by incompatible land uses; deteriorated buildinlos, poor circulation and access, inadequate drainage, and poor design. .H. Affordable Housing Obligations The Agency is required by the CRL to meet certain obligations with respect to the provision of ,ordable housing and the expenditure of tax increment funds on affordable housing. In summary. there are three basic legal requirements that the Agency iilust meet: Housing Production — For certain project areas; the Agency must make available specified minimuiI percentages of new or substantially rehabilitated housing units available to very low. low and moderate income households ata lerially defined affordable housing cost..' Replacement Housing — The Agency must replace housing units removed fi-onl the 11ous1110 stock in a project area as a result of redevelopment activities within four _years at a le<gally defined affordable housin-cost. Housing Fund .Expenditures — The .Agency roust set-aside and spend it least 20 percent of tax increment revenue (Housing Fund) to improve, preserve, and/or produce affordable housing for targeted segments of the project area residents, with various conditions on their use. The housing production obligation applies to redevelopment plans adopted on or after.laniary I, 1976.and ten story added to project areas by amendment adopted rnt or after January I. 1976.The Agency must include a plan for hot{ it intends to meet its housing production obligations in its implementation plan. Contra Costa Courtly Redevelopment Agency 1]-22 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan The follow'no sections of'this implementation plan describe the Agency's Affordable Housing Program and specifically outline hove the Agency will meet its legal obligations. The Agency's Affordable Housing Program. is guided by the most recent adopted and certified Housing Element, as well as the Countv's regional fair share housing needs allocation and various County policies and programs to promote affordable housing. I. Overview of Agency's Affordable Housing Program During the five year implementation plan period, the Agency will concentrate on affordable housing activities that are most applicable to the Agency's goals and objectives. The ALency recognizes the important role of the Affordable HOLIS mg Progran. and its activities in its overall Redevelopment Program. Consequently. the proposed Affordable Housing= Program should be viewed not simply as the means of implementing the Agency's stated goals and objectives related to affordable housing, but as a key element in its overall blight alleviation and revitalization efforts. The Agency's Affordable Housing Program is focused on workin, with appropriate cnganizatIons to facilitate development of a variety of affordable housing activities in the North Richmond Project Area. In developinit its, Affordable Housing. Program. the Agency Mas been guided by the `goals and objectives of the County's Housing L:lement of the. General Plan, incorporated into this Implementation Plan by this reference. ThrouLil its affordable housing activities_ the Agencv will support and advance the overall Housing Element programs as well as' contribute to the implementation of the policies and straie-ies identified in the.County's General Plan. The Agency is committed to assisting the County in achieving the goals presented in the Housing Element; incl udino: Improve housing.affordability for both renters and homeowners. Preserve the existing affordable housing stock in Contra Costa County. Increase the supply of'housing,with a priority on the development of affordable housinz. Increase the supply of appropriate and supportive housing for special needs populations. -litigate potential governmental constraints to housing development and affordability. Promote equal opportunity for all residents to reside in the housingof their choice. Promote infill development.. The Agency- will make every effort to encourage the preservation. rehabilitation and development of' housing affordable to a variety of income levels combining various fundinfy Sources. Leveraging other funding sources devoted to the provision of affordable housings will maximize the number of affordable units that can be developed or substantially rehabilitated. By parutcring and collaborating with other entities dedicated to the preservation and development of affordable housing, the .Agency is confident that it will be able to meet its affordable housing. production obligations and Housino Fund expenditure requirements within the compliance period ending in 2014. as well as over the life of the Redevelopment Plan. The Affordable Housing Program promotes residential and mixed-use development on vacant and underutilized sites in the North Richmond Project .Area. The Agency's ]-lousing Fund revenues will be used in a flexible manner to respond to favorable development; substantial rehabilitation and grant opportunities. in carving out its purpose to preserve. improve and increase the affordable housing supply, the Agency may use the following methods: Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency i1-23 Amended Five Year.Implementation Plan The Housine Authority and the .Auency are continuinL* to work towards improving Housing Authority sites. including the 224-unit Las Deltas Housing Development and numerous scattered sites and vacant public housing units. The HOU.Sing Authority and .Agency hope to receive a ]-LUPE VI type allocation in the near future to do nlaior rehabilitation. The goals for HOPE V1 are physical improvements, management improvements, and social and community services to address the needs of Housing Authority residents. The Agency .will continue to work with appropriate private, public and non-profit organizations and, when feasible, actively participate in the development of affordable housing. This participation includes. but is not limited to, pursuing lease-to-own or mutual housing projects and the implementation of the Agency's inclusionary housing requirement for neve home subdivisions. Facilitation of affordable homeownership opportLlnities through the resale of the Parkway Estates, rehabilitated homes completed by Youth Build hones, the Bella Flora homes (KB Hoine), the County's First--time Homebuyer Program and the newly created Individual Deposit ACCOUIit (IDA) Program. Additional new home development is also under consideration. The.Agency will support the ongoing development Of the COmmLllllt\' HOUSillt Developlilent Corporation of North Richmond by providing project based capacity building financial assistance. Iniiilenlent.ation Of a multi-year Memorandum of'.Understanding with Community Housing Development Corporation of North Richmond, Local Initiative Support Coq)oration. the City oi'Richmond and the Contra Costa County]-lousing Authority. the Agency expects to take advantage of various opportunities as the,\ are presented and to initiate actions as necessary, consistent with the CRI, and the County's Housinp, Element. to preserve and facilitate the development of housing affordable to households whose basic needs are not met by the private housing market. The Agency expects to meet its legal housing production obligations under CRL. The Agency will use the Housing Fund in a strategic approach to assist residential developments and preserve affordable housing within the community and meet the Agency's housill2. production requirement. It should be noted. however, that several factors may result in estimated expenditures and unit production being either less than or treater than what is projected for any given year. These factors include the timing of the development process, the levels of Housing Fund revenue and other public assistance. the.need to amass sufficient funds for an efficiently sired development, and development opportunities. J. Housing Fund Revenues The primary funding source for the Agency's affordable housing activities is 20 percent of the annual tax increment revenue, which is set-aside into the A(Yenc)/'s Housing Fund. The Housing. Fund resources are then used by the Agency to facilitate the expansion, improvement and preservation of the affordable housing supply within the Project Area. The HOLISII12 Fund balance for the Project Area was S421,016 at the beginning of the implementation Plan period. The }-lousing Fund balance at the end of Fiscal Year 2006%07 was approximately S1.3 million dollars. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-24 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan The. Agency is also projected to have accumulated approximately S4.4 million of net tax increment revenues available to fund affordable housin(' through FY 20131")4. The tax increrrient revenues will be supplemented by approximately S4.1 million of bond proceeds, S.156.725 of interest earned on the. Housing Fund. and S866.000 from other and non-a'ency sources(see Table 11-4). Thus. there will be approximately S9.6 million of total revenue available to fund aff6rdable housing projects and programs through FY 2013/14. The Agency intends to use the Housing Fund revenue to leverage other federal and state funds to develop. rehabilitate or preserve more affordable housing. The available fundin�i, sources that can be leveraged include the Cornmumty Development Block G1"anis (C.DBC3). I-ION11E Investment Partnership funds. U.S. Department of Housing.and Urban Development funds MUD), California Housin,.; Finance A�,ency ('Ca1HFA), and Department of Housing•. and Community Development (JACD) low income housin2.tax credit equity funds. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency II-25 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan i V! Ff�I I Y• d-', Y: 65; -- V.• i v:i ry N Y_� of C I r' •S :f C •I Y_� C� C — O, r i N •f J � � I � � � � N — � — y — _ .� -.OG ..N•'r�' - :�:..:�rr.� ;t�;:4x: N .I x r; •a• .r 1�. '.?.. ��`.f'j.'V: �::�W:.:,:.ifa•rfR.�::`1" C'I — fJ O+ — J: ' r l^C.'' P..}::.000:.V':•: ':Ifd�'.yi}'::1,�4'''R•:'':fi!-I'1'�:i'i N :l. f'�! x �'J r — — v.1 y — r G ,� - ..:�� ''fr'4; .`E/}.',N: ,K.,1't-a:t.:•�.:;:'fi;.•s r':7�Carl":�rA. _ �. v: v. - 41, ;� Ci �C:�:'� ':'f..•".� .:X"''%T•;i;ci..^3'.,�y.�;:».'7G'.'::•�.. = i: N %.�.� :'�r,!��• ::x..�'�:%'��?CRS :6%'.. ,n; _ .. _ �:..' rJ _ Do — r I Ji u - v w UI ML t La] c L 71 `' °� c •n is =' < La: e. r. C •" -fes _ _ _ "• = U v f:. 1.� l K dousing Production Plan The Project Area is Subject to the CRL affordable housing production requirements since the Project .Area was established atter '1975. In simple terms. the CRL requires that ] percent of all non-A<.;ency developed housing- units in the Project Area be affordable to moderate. low. and very low income households of which 40 percent must be restricted to very love income households. The legislation requires the Agency to comply with the production requirements throughout a series often year periods, and through t.11e life of the Plan. If the Agency has fallen behind in its legal requirements to produce affordable housillL. then the Agency must assure that all 110v non-Agencv housing( developments built in the project area individually meet-the production requirement until the Agency has fully met its production requirement. Conversely. if the Agency has produced more housing than is legally required. then the future number of affordable housing, units that are required to be developed within the Project Area will be less. Accordingly; the information below describes the Avencv's 110LISinL production requirements artd l,resentS a plan for how- the Agency will meet its affordable 110us1112 product.joit obligations. 4. Aistorical Housing Production and .Affordable lousing Obligations The Agency reported that 309 housing units were either developed or substantially rehabilitated within the Project Area between 1976 and FY 2003%04. The Agency also reports that 97 affordable units were produced since Project ,Area inception to FY 2003/04, of which _54 units were produced for very low-income households. Since the adoption of the implementation Plan. all additional 185 units have been produced in the Project Area. No units have been substantially rehabilitated in the Project .Area since the Implementation Plan was adopted. (See Table 11-5.) The .Agency is currently exceeding its legal requirements to produce affordable housing in the North Richmond Project Area. Given the historical production of housing in the Project Area throuch FY 2003/04.. the CRI.. obligates the Agency to produce only 46 affordable units. of which 1.9 units must be for very low income households. Due to its excellent past perforniance. the Agency has produced a surplus of 51 affordable housing units including a surplus of 35 units Willi occupancy restricted to the very low income households. Since the Implementation Plan was adopted. the Agency has incurred an additional inclusionary obligation of 28 affordable housing units of which 1 1 units must be affordable to very low income households. Due to the Agency's surplus in units. the affordable unit requirement has been satisfied and a 24 unit very low and 23 unit low and moderate income surplus remains. If the Agency incurs any additional incluSionan The 20oo Impicmentation Plan identified 55 news housirt.v units and 17 substantially rehabilitated units were developed in the Proiect Area. The Midterm Review-identified an additional 169 new units and 6 substantially rehabilitated units were developed.Since that time;there were 51 new units constructed and i I units substantial]\, rehabilitated in the Prtiject.Area.The CRL currently defines st.tbstantialiy rehabilitated units as all units substantially rehabilitated with Agency assistance.'Substantial rehabilitation means rehabilitation.the value of which constitutes at least 25 percent of the afier rehabilitation Value of the dwelling,inclusive of land value.(343416(l?)(?)(A)(iii)l. Prior to lanuarl' I,2002.also included ntultifanlily units without Agency assistance. Occupancy of affordable housing for very logy income residents is restricted occupancy to households with incomes LIP to 50 percent of area median.Affordable housing for moderate income residents is restricted to occupancy by households\vith incomes up to 110 percent ofihc area median. Contra Costa County Redevelopment .Agency 11-27 Amended Five Year finplemerimtion Plan obligation in the future. then it will work toward satisfying that obligation prior to the end of the planning period in FY 2013/14. 2. Future Housing; Production and Affordable Housing Obligations The Agency has evaluated the potential for future housing production in the North Richmond Project .Area through the end of the Redevelopment Plan. Based on the Agency's analysis of the potential for new development on existing vacant residential parcels, the opportunity for substantial rehabilitation with Agency assistance, the possibility for federal and state funding and the anticipated date of development, the Agency has developed a projection for the number of' units likely to be produced in the Project Area over the next ten years and through tile life of the Redevelopment Plan. A total of 580 units are estimated to be produced over the course of the ten year compliance period." It is also projected that 95-units of affordable housing will be produced;of-which 35 units will be affordable to very low income households. Takjn<cu into consideration the surplus from the previous Implementation Plan period as described above; the Ai,_ency has currently met its legal requirements to produce affordable housing.during= the ten vear compliance period. Based upon the ten year forecast of housing production in the Project .Area; the CRL obligates the Agency to produce 88 affordable units, of which 35 units must be for very low income households. Based on the Agency's past performance and anticipated production of affordable units, the Agency will produce a surplus of 7 units. which will fulfill its affordable unit requirement and offset any projected shortfall for the ten year period. Based on historical production and an analysis of remaining developable residential land. the potential for substantial rehabilitation with Agency assistance, and other opportunities. the Agency projects that a total of 959 units could potentially be produced in the Project Area prior to the end of the Redevelopment Plan activities. The Agency also anticipates that over the life of the Redevelopment Plan, 21.221 housing units affordable to very low, low and moderate income households will be produced, and 104 units will be affordable to very low income households. The CAL obligates the Agency to produce 145 affordable units. of which 59 units must be for very low income households thus. the Agency expects that it will exceed its affordable housing }production oblilgations over the life of the Redevelopment flan. Murine the first five years CA tile Implementation plan period.the Agency produced 185 housing units in the Project Arca. During the ibllowing five year period.the Agency estimates 395 housing units\rill be produced in the Project Area. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency I1-28 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan U U w U V) N T: N tf, C N r t to In U t: s 00 03 �, f•i [" r 7 4 U C N00 r*TA. 00 c G i = r U G V! f•1 u _ c ^.r 4► Vy pp in go J U 10 a , 4 ^ G tL j U i Lr- �Y 'S^y rr: •+ <y °5 K N o G Q' � a_ c= �_' N ,''� cJ n u J Z 5 o02 ° •- o c u o . V n o d Z o L. L. Replacement Housing Requirements The Agency is required to replace any Project Area housing that has been removed within four years after the removal has occurred. Previous redevelopment activities resulted in the removal of 9 housing units (seven low income and two moderate income units), totaling 29 low income bedrooms in 1995. The surplus affordable units produced by the Parkway Estates and the North .Richmond Senior Housing are more than sufficient to fulfill the replacement-housing obligation. This means that the .42ency does not have a replacement housing obligation, as all housing units that were removed from the Proiect Area have been replaced as required by law (See Table 11-6). 'The Agency may undertake additional projects that could result in the displacement of households in the next ten vears. In the event that the removal of housing occurs; the.Agency will plan for and undertake replacement of any units and will follow all, state requirements for replacement housing and relocation.` Table 11-6 Replacement Housing Obligation North Richmond Project Area Units i Units Years Removed Replaced Historical through FY 2003/04 (Actual) 1 9 , 9 FY 2004/05-FY 2008/09 (Estimated) None planned N/A Total 9 9 Source: Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency. N4. Income and Age Targeting Requirements for Housing Fund Expenditures The Implementation Plan must provide annual estimates of the units to be assisted and the expenditures anticipated to be made during the next five years."Accordingly, the Agency platls to spend S3.1 million to support the development of more affordable housing over the next five year period. (See Table 11-7.) The .Agency also plans to allocate Housing bund expenditures on at least 35 percent very low income and 20 percent on low income households; and no more than 45 percent on moderate income households in accordance with Section 65584 of the Government Code In addition; the .Agency is .required to target its Housing Fund expenditures based on housing need by income level and ague.' Thus, the. Housing Fund should be expended to assist households in the same proportion to the housing need by income, as indicated by the regional fair share allocation; and by age level in.the community; as indicated by the most recent L.S. Census. Table 11-7 Estimated Affordable Housing to be Produced with Agency Assistance/ As of.laniary 1.2002.AB 637 requires an agency to maintain a list of displaced households who are to be given priority.The agency may establish rules to determine priority on this list. t'Compliance with targeting requirements is measured based on dollars expended over the current compliance period, which ends in 2014. Assembly Bill 637 became effective on.lanuanl I.2002. Contra Costa County Redevelopment .Agency 11-30 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Housing Fund Expenditures North Richmond .Project Area FY 2004/05 to FY 2008/09 A(lenc1' r FY 2004/05 Housing h .Assisted through FY FY 2007/(18 FY 2008/09 Total "„Notal PI-0ol-IiIIII, Housing 2006/07 Units YOUt11bU'ild I(1 S938 s9 7 $$737570 5402.700 1 52.21.5.207 PI'(r_'1-roll I I Ian• lnflll 1 20 SO 5700.000 5121.900 5821,900 I'ro�rale 111/d Las Deltas i Public I N/A 520.000 530.000 55.300 i 555.300 �Housin<g 1 1 Total j 30 $958.937 $11603,570 S529.900 $3,092.407 HousingFY FY FY F1' it FY _y ” T � 1'�rant 2(I(ly/10 2(Il0/]1 2(Il 1!12 1 i otal iu�l o t a I _2012/]3 20]3!14. •. i I I ! i Youtltbuild 5300.000 5300:000 5300.000 S300.000 5300.000 i 51,500.000 79�; ProL,ranl Infill 5100.000 5100.000 5100.000 S100.000 5100.000 5400.000 2101'i, 1'rogranl i Las Deltas 7 Public S0 SO S0 SO S0 SO j 04 Housing i I otal i $400,000 W0,000 $400,000 $400.000 $400.000 $1;90(1,(100 .The CRL requires the ALIency to allocate its Housing Fund in a inanner that is consistent with the. housing need allocationbyhousehold income distribution in the Contra Costa County's Fair Share Allocation.h Based on the Association of Bay Area Governments (AB.AG) determination for the 199.9-2006 COUt11.V'e Fair Share Allocation, the Agency should target at least 35 percent of its housing funds to very low income households; 20 percent on low income households. and not more than 45 percent to moderate income households. The remainder of the housing fund should be spent on projects and activities for very low. low or moderate income households`' 'The Agency met its household income tameting requirements from January 1; 2002 through .lune. 30, 2004 and should be able to meet future income targeting obligations. Total Housing Fund expenditures during tln'ough FY 1-003/04 amounted to approximately S35,600. Approximately 86 percent of the Housing fund was expended on very low income households and 14 percent The Agency plans to meet its income targeting requirernents based on its fair share of regional housing need,,as determined by AI3.AG.from January I.2002 through the end of the ten year compliance period in 2014. The Agency has the option of spending a disproportionate amount of its Housin!.Funds for very Iota income households and to subtract a commensurate amount from the loNN and/or moderate income thresholds.The Aeency can also prodidc a disproportionate amount of funding for low income housing by reducing,the amount of funds allocated to housing affbi-dable to modetale income households.do no eVeDI cat;the expenditures tanueted to housing affordable to moderate income households exceed the threshold amount(45.percent). Conu-a Costa County Redevelopment Agency 11-31 ,Atnended Five Year Implementation Plan was expended on low income households. The percentage of Housing Fund monies spent on each of the targeted income levels was more than adequate to satisfy the requirements of AB 637.10 Based on input from Agency staff and review of its housing fund expenditures from Fiscal Year 2004%05 through 2006/07. the Agency is currently satisfying tarp=.etinc, requirements and will continue to do So throt.lghoul the duration of' the Implementation Plan period. ABAG has determined the County's Fair Share Allocation for 2007-2014, adiusting the Agency's targeting requirements during the next lmplementation Plan covering FY2009/10 through 2013/14. The Agency's new targeting requirements require that housing fund expenditures are spent on at least 39 percent very low income and 28 percent on low income households, and no more than 33 Percent on moderate income households. The Agency will focus on continuing to meet targeting requirements detennined by ABAG for 1999-2006 until the next implementation plan period. Table I1-8 shows the Agency's expenditures by income level to date and projected expenditures for each year from 2007/08 to 2013/14. Table 11-8 Projected Dousing Fund Targeting Expenditures North Richmond Project Area FY 2004/05 to FY 2013/14 Minimum Maximum Affordable Targeted to Minimum Targeted to Ilousin;; I'm Jects Very Lois hargcted to Low Moderate Total and Pro-rains Income income Families income. Families Families County's Fair Share Allocation 35^.0 ')0016 45`5, 100 4, 2006-2014 F1' 2004/05- 2006(07 5;335.628 S 191,78% S41 1.522 595 .937 FY 2007-08 5561.250 5320,714 S"21.607 S 1,60-31.570. FY 2008-09 S185.465 S 1()5.980 5238.455 5529,900 FY 2(109-10 5140.000 580,000 5180.000 $400,000 FY 20](1-11 5;14(1,(1(10 58(1(10() S150.000 5400.000 17l`2011-12 5140.000 SM000 5180.000 5400.000 FY 2012-13 5140;000 580,000 5180.(100 5400.000 FY 2013-14 S140.000 `';80.000 S 180.000 5400.000 Total 51.782,342 $1,018,481 52.291.583 55,092.40"i Total 35`;0 20% 1 45100% Source: Contra Costa Counn-Redevelopment Agency a. Housin;L,Program costs do not include Agency adminisuation costs. b. The ACencv must not exceed spending this percentage on moderate income housiriL. unlike very log+ and loNk,that are minimum percentage requirements. V Source: Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency and Association of Bay Area Governments. The CRL also requires the Agency to allocate its housing funds in a way that is consistent with the population.by age distribution present in the community. In 2006. the CR.L's formula .for determining the amount of expenditures for households with a member under age 65 changed to :0 Household income targeting expenditure data was provided by the Agency. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency I1-32 Amended Five Year lmplementation Plan .,low income households with a member under age 65". The Census Bureau does not provide data in this format; the Agency does not need to address this until the next Implementation Plan is completed and will continue to work with the preexisting age targeting goals. That is, the Agency should spend no more than l l percent of its Housing Fund to support age restricted affordable housinl(y.' The Agency has not expended funds on age restricted housing.'' Thus. tine percentage of Housing Funds spent on non-a«e restricted housing is more than adequate to satisfy the CRL requirement of a minimum expenditure of funds oil non-age restricted housing for the first two years of-the current compliance period. The Agency will .continue to monitor Housing Fund expenditures in order to comply with the requirement for minimum expenditures on non-age restricted housine. N. Projected 10 Year lion-housing Projects and Activities The Agency will undertake affordable housing projects and programs in the North Richmond Project Area during a ten-year planning period from 2004/05 to 2013/14 in order to comply with affordable housine production requirements mandated by the CRL. The Agency will work to expand the Project Area's supply housing affordable to very low. love and moderate income persons. A minimum portion of housin<g will he non-age restricted and a Inaxinutm pori.ion housini. will be restricted to seniors age 65 and over. The anticipated expenditures listed under each project reflect expenditures through FY 20.13%14. Project/Program Descrit.)tion Cxnenditures I Anticipated Completion l`outhbulild Program Expenditures to Date: Anticipated Completion: Tile Agency will fund the Youth Build program. which 5938937 OIng.011gg helps young participants .wvork year round, with ! licensed contractors to apply their newly acquired .Anticipated skills to rehabilitating blighted properties in the North Expenditures: Richmond arca. 52;776.270 i I The program provides local youth with an outlet, other j than dru(,s and cringe. to learn the necessary job skills; i ! which they, as a result, can use for future employment opportunities. Once homes are rehabilitated, they are sold to qualified; low-income; first-time homebuyers. The determination of the targeting by age is based or 2000 Censu;data,which indicates that 89 percent of the Counly's population is under 65 years of ag.e.This requirement must be achieved over the period between.lanuary 1. 2002 and the current compliance period ending in 2014. Data on aec restricted affordable housine expenditure was provided b%'the Agency. Contra Costa County Redevelopment .Agency 11-33 .Amended Five Year Implementation Plan In-Fill .Acquisition/Predevelopment Expenditures to Date: The Agency has planned to initiate various site so 2020 acquisitions and form various partnerships to facilitate new affordable housing projects. mixed use i Anticipated developments, and retail/commercial projects. The I Expenditures: project, Xvhich will be<oin in Fiscal Year 2008/09, S1,221,900involves numerous scattered sites (single family and duplexes), vacant land, and abandoned buildings throughout the community that are in need of substantial rehabilitation and upgrades. These projects would help eliminate blight by improving severely deteriorated and dilapidated buildings. eliminatina factors that hinder the viable use of properties, and the remediation of hazardous + waste sites in the Project Area. I Las Deltas Public Housing Reuse Prourarn i Expenditures to Date: The Agenc.v. in collaboration with the Housin`L. i 520,000 2015 .Authority of Contra -Costa County ("Housing .Authority"), Bunds the Las Deltas Reuse program, .Anticipated which aiins to revitalize 224 units of Public Housing I Expenditures: jthat are in clusters and scattered throughout the S55.300 Project .Area. The program will enable the Agency to remediate a i number of physical and economic blighting conditions, thereby, improving the health; safety and welfare of Project Mea residents. More specifically. , the Auency will be better suited to address blighting, conditions such as the aL*e. obsolescence, deterioration and dilapidation, and absentee ownership that these housing units exhibit as well as surrounding properties In the neichborhood. Expenditures to Date: 5;9;8,937 i TOTAL Anticipated l Expenditures: S4.053.470 Contra Costa Count;- Redevelopment Agency 11-34 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan O. Completion of Housing Obligations The Agency is required to comply with and fulfill its affordable housing responsibilities. including ttouSing fund, replacement housing. and affordable housing production responsibilitieS, prior to the expiration of'the time limit on redevelopment plan effectiveness.'' The law further requires that for a Redevelopment Project that is within six years of reaching its limit on plan effectiveness; an implementation plan needs to address the ability of the agency to comply with its housing responsibilities. The Project Area will not 'reach its time limit on plan effectiveness prior to the expiration of this implementation plan and is not within six years of I-cachinL. this time limit, thus this intplenientation plan does not need to address how the Agency .will complete its housing.obligations. CRL Sccdon 33333.8.as amended by SB 2-11. COMM Costa County Redevelopment Agency 1.1-1.5 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan V1a 2004/05 to 2008/09 Implementation Plan Amendment and Mid-term Review Prepared to Support the 2008 Amendment to the Bay Point Redevelopment Flan The Bay Point Project Area ("Project Area') consists of' approximately 1 55 acres of' land in eastern Contra Costa County (see Fia.ure VI-1 i. The Project Area is a mix of residential, comnreacial, and Industrial land uses. Which are located near the PittsburL* BAR')- Station. Bay :Point also has an underutilized waterfront. Access to the Project Area is limited to the Highway 4 transportation corridor. The Naval Weapons Station separates Bay Point from the City of Concord. The freeway separates the Project Area from the Cite of Plttshur'.2 to the souill. Redevelopment of the Project Area is intended to reniovc blight by revitalizinlo the existing cornntercial spaCeS.. restorin2. the waterfront for public purposes. redeveloping properties for new husmcss establishments that will create jobs for local residents. and revitalizin—) the residential nei0iborhoods. The 20041"05 to 2008/09 Implementation Plan adopted on January 17; 2006 ("Existin, Implementation Plan") identified the Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency's, ("Ag.ency) goals and objectives during the 2004!05 to 2008/09 planning period. and documented the accomplishments for Bay Point cluring the 1999/00 through 2006/07 planning period. The Existing hnplementation Pian also identified available resources and anticipated, expenditures on identified proposed projects during the planning period. .['he Existing .Implementation Plan also described how the Ag-ency would expand the supply of housing, spend its low and moderate income housing, set-aside funds ("l lousing Funds") and meet its affordable housing obligatk)ns. MIDTERM REViENA' REQUIREMENTS Section ?490 (c) of the Community Redevelopment Law, ("CRL") requires that at least once within the five-year term of an implementation plan, a redevelopment agency shall conduct a public hearing and hear testimony of' all interested parties for the purpose of reviewing the redevelopment plan and the corresponding implementation plan for each redevelopment project in the jurisdiction and evaluating the progess of the redevelopment project. The mid-term review must occur no earlier than two years and no later than three years following.the adoption of the implementation plan. PURPOSE FOR AMENDING 2004/05-2008/09 BAY POINT IMPLEMENTATION I'I..AN The Agency has initiated the redevelopment plan amendment process to amend the Bav Point Redevelopment Plan The proposed amendment to the Redevelopment Plan ("2008 Bay Point Amendment") will, if adopted, accomplish the following: 1. Increase the total dollar limit on the amount of tax increment revenues the Project Area may receive:and 2. Increase the limit on bonded indebtedness that can be outstanding at arty one time. The proposed 2008 Bay Point Amendment will enable the Agency to more effectively implement redevelopment projects and activities eliminating blighting, conditions within the Project Area. 'File Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-1 Five Year Implementation Plan Mid-term Review PJ i Redevelopment Plan's current cumulative tax increment cap is S 116 million and the bonded indebtedness limit is S60 million. 'The 2005 Bay Point Amendment proposes to increase these caps to 5689 and 5220 million, respectively. Section 33451.5 of the CRL sets forth the required elements of the report on blight that must be presented by the Agency at the public hearing to consider the proposed 200£ Bay Point Amendment inc-easing the tax increment and outstanding indebtedness limits. Under item (7) of this code section the Agency is required to amend the Existing. Implementation Plan to address any changes the 2008 Bay Point Amendment may have on the Auency's implementation activities. Such amendment to an implementation plan must comply with the requirements of:Section 33490 of the CRL. SUBJECT OF THIS DOCUMENT This document summarizes the actions and activities of the Aaencv in 1'evitall"Zlnu, Bad Point that have taken place since the Existing Implementation Plan x as adopted in 2006 in compliance with the requirements to conduct a midterm review of the Existing Implementation Plan. Serving as the 2004%05- 2008/09 Amended Implementation Plan ("Amended implementation Plan"). it identifies programs and projects listed in Existing Implementation Plan as well as presents new proposed prograutiS and protects that Agency staff recommends be added as a result of the proposed 2008 Bay Point Amendment. Fibure VI-1 Bay Point Project Arca Redevelopment Project.Area mm Fi�tS:l;lfV N� !•.nlioch N Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-2 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan A. Legislative Changes to Implementation flans Anlon<7 the changes to CRL to be addressed in this Mid-terns Review is the requirement that implenlent.atiorl plans must include.a detailed description of the Redevelopment Plan's regulatory i1nihs. as well as chanues to limitations on proportional expenditures (Section 33334.4(b). The Existing.; linplenlentation Plan currently reflects the detailed description of the Redevelopment Plan's regulatory limits in Table VM. Changes to Section 3 3 334.4(b), serve to modify the previous limitation that each agency expend over the dt.n-ation of each implementation plan; the monies in its Low and :Nloderate Income Housine Fund "ill at least the same proportion as the low-income population under ag.e. 65 bears to the total low-income population of the community as reflected in the most recent census''. The new language provides a higher level of specificity as follows: "in at least the same proportion as the number of low-income households with a member under aee 65 years bears to the total number of low-income households of the comrnutiilN as reported in the most recent census". The potential impact of the change is difficult to assess in that the census bureau does not provide a data set that reflects the new requirement leaving the burden on local Iurisdicllolls to determine. As a practical matter. the prior language may continue to be used since the available data set for seniors iage. 6� aild over could arguably reflect only households comprised of such seniors. This le_islative change does not apply to the Mid-term Review and will be addressed durin`u.the preparation of the FY2009/10 through FYI-013114 implementation Plan. in addition; AB 98/ expanded the monitoring and notification requirements in CRL Section 33418(c) to require that agencies compile and maintain annually a database of all existing new and substantially rehabilitated units assisted b.y the Agency or otherwise counted toward fulfilling the ALency's affordable housing production obligatlons. Accordli-ILOv, the AMncy Will ellSllre comPliance with the provisions of AB 987 no later than December 31. 2008. B. Agency Accomplishments, FY 1999/00-FY 2006/07 The Agency has fielded a number of housing, public safety. health, infrastructure. urban desi..zn. and economic and community development Projects; which are a continuation of the efforts to attract jobs. remove bli(—)ht. and improve access to affordable housing. The Ag.ency's accomplishments since. FY 1999%00 are listed below: Sponsored a Plttsbur /Bav Point BART Stadol Specific. Plan and General Plan'amendment in collaboration ith the City of Pittsburg.and the BART District. The Specific Plan was adopted by the County in 2002 and was part of a larger joint effort to plan the area around the BART Station for transit-oriented development. Acquired several parcels near the BART station, which .will be used for cornmercialilnixed use development that is consistent with the Specific Plan. Funded the Waterfront Strategic Plan. which planned for the revitalization of the Marina and urban design improvements to better pedestrian and bicycle access to the waterfront. Funded a C011lllltallltY planning process to create a conceptual plan for the development of an . eight-acre site in the North Broadwav Neighborhood. The plan followed new urbanist concepts, allowing I,or a mix of residential and commercial development along Willow Pass Road. Facilitated the development of 69 single family, and 49 multi family units; which were part of a residential and commercial mixed use project in the;North Broadway Area. An additional 9-unit project is pending. Contra Costa Count-Redevelopment Agency VI-3 Anitnded Five:Year Inlplememation Plan Completed the infrastrricture and traffic circulation improvements for the North Broadway Neighborhood. The improvements were implemented for North Broadway; Solaro. Pullman, Poinsettia, Bella Monte, Crivello and Siino Avenues and Highway 4. Secured approval from the County hoard of" Supervisors to adopt a Planned-Unit District Zoning (P-1) Program for the Project Area and adjacent waterfront property. Funded a retail capacity study_ to identify. and prioritize areas in Bay Point best suited for retail development. Funded the creation of a website that identifies available sites within Bay Point that could accommodate new residential or commercial development. Funded economic development promotion in Bay Point by creatine. marketing materials for business attraction and retention. Secured approval from the County Board of Supervisors; on July 13, 2004. for the Bay Harbor Commerce Center Project, which' allow-ed Bay Point Venture One to develop a light industriaUbusiness park at the northeast intersection of'Port Chicago Highways and Pacifica Avenue. Created the Community Group l"unding Program to support neighborhood beautifiication projects that eliminate bli(-,lit in the Bay Point Redevelopment Project area and foster a sense of conuriunity and pride arion!g the local residents. Assisted the Mt. Diablo Unified School District to secure a portable building for after school programs at Riverview Middle School. Established the Coririuuriity Preservation-Abatement and Revolving Loan Fund. Provided financial .assistance to Habitat for Humanity in .lune 200 to acquire real property to expand the suppl-y of affordable housing in the Project Al-ea. Created a Housing Development Fund to be used for sire acquisition and/or predevelopment costs to expand the supply of affordable housing. - Funded the construction of" curb. �-,uirer. and sidewlall:s on Willow Pass Road and Port Chicago Hi�Thway. Funded median and landscape installation at the intersection of Willow Pass Road and Port Chicago Highway. f=unded flood control improvements along Bailey Road, north of State Route 4. installed frontage improvements, including,curbs. gutters. and sidewalks along Alves Lane. Partnered with a non-profit housing developer to construct the Elaine Null Apartment Complex, a 14-unit affordable housing complex Provided loans to numerous first time homebuyers. Partnered with the Ambrose Recreation and Park.District to fund numerous improvements to various park and community center improvements. N orked with the Code Enforcement Division of the Building Inspection Department to implement a dumpstcr program for low income property owners. Sponsored the Avenue Banner Program for Willow Pass Road and Bailey Road. C. Project Area Goals and Objectives The Project Area's goals and objectives are intended to guide Agency actions toward eliminating the Proiect Areas physical and economic blight. The community and Agency first established goals in the Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-4 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Redevelopment Plan; and the General Plan, which will continue to direct future actions within the Project Area. Since the adoption of the R.edevelopmeni Plan; other long term goals have become important to the. Agency. Those goals are synthesized below as Capital/Public In7proveii7e17t and L-conornic Deve]opn7cnt/Con1nnIli ty Arnprovernent goals. In addition to these two sets of goals, the Agency has established particular goals and objectives for the hnplenlentation Plan plarining period; as required by the CRL. The Redevelopment Plan goals; Capital/Public improvement and .Economic Development/Communily improvement goals. and the Implementation .Plan goals and objectives are listed below. The Existing lmplemenlation Plan was adopted by the Agency in order to actively pursue the goals listed below. V 1. Redeveiopment Plan Goals In accordance with the CRL. the Bay Point Redevelopment Plan was designed to achieve five major goals: Stimulate new industrial development in the Project Area in order that it may become a productive and attractive economic center; providing jobs for community residents and enhancing the local tax base. Revitalize and expand commercial development in the area. F Provide major infrastructure improvements in the Project.Area in order to serve the existing area residents and businesses, as well as to accommodate new residential; commercial.. and indusu'ial development. Upgrade the existing. residential neighborhoods through rehabilitation of a,substantial number of existing housing units, the facilitation of infill housing construction, and development of neighborhood parks and infrastructure improvements. Stimulatee the construction of new affordable housing in the Project .Area. 2. Capital/Public Improvement and Economic .Development/Community Improvement Goals Attract industrial and other job creating businesses to the Project Area; which may create jobs for C0171117LIIlII)' 1'eS]deillS and enhance the local tax base. implement road, drainage, water and sewer ir77provernents in the Project Area. Encourage and support public-private partnerships that address community needs. Encourage and support community participation. Leverage the Agency's resources With grants, loans and other funding opportunities. improve and expand the type and quality of community facilities available within the Project Area. Expand and improve the con-Irnercial/econornic development opportunities in the Project Area and create:focal points to the existing corrmiercial strips.. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-5 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan 3. Five Year Implementation Plan Goals and Objectives Implement the Pittsburg/Bay Point DART Station Specific Plan. Implement marketing program to attract new-businesses; improve Jobs/housing balance and expand the tax base. Continue efforts to improve the attractiveness of Bay .Point at the conununity entrances and at the waterfront. Continue efforts to improve the Willow Pass Road; Bailey Road. and Port Chicago Hi *Invay corridors. Continue to promote residential.in{ill development. D. Projected Five Year Non-Housing Projects and Activities The Agency will undertake projects and activities in the Bay Point Project Area during the Implementation Plan planning period in order.to reduce blight and achieve the Project'.Area's goals and objectives. The Agency will continue to CI1COurage projects and activities that expand the job hale and improve thee quality of life for Project .Area residents. The Agency will also partner with property owners and potential investors to implement land development projects that help achieve the Proicct Area's goals and objectives. Land development assistance will be provided through business incentives; loans; land write downs; and other tools that can reduce the cost of business operations. In addition, the Agency will apply for grants when doing so furthers the Redevelopment Plan. Projects and activities that the .Agency may help fund during the implementation Plan planning period are listed below. Project and activity implementation depend on available financial resources. The anticipated expenditures listed under each project reflect expenditures through FY 2008/09. Some projects listed may not incur expenditures until. after the 2004/05-2008/09 planning period; however are included in this Amended Implementation Plan to account for administrative planning. CapitaUPublic Improvement Projects The ALency has identified a number of public improvement projects which would aid current revitalization efforts and eliminate deficiencies in existing infrastructure systems in the Project .Area. Paving. reconstruction. rehabilitation and.widening of streets. widening of intersections, grade separations, and utility realignment are needed in the Project Area to improve traffic {low; provide better access for erner<tyencv vehicles, enhance accessibility. increase safety for pedestrians and motorists, and bring. overall aesthetic improvements to the Bay Point community which may help improve surrounding property values and attract further investment from the private sector. Additionally, utilities such as phone lines, sewer lines. and storm drains that run along streets and required utility and street improvements are all necessary components of successful redevelopment. Furthermore; these infrastructure and utility improvements will encourage infill development of vacant lots and the redevelopment of blighted properties by property owners. Such activity is expected to reduce blighting conditions in the Project Area by removing conditions that otherwise hinder the viable use of' buildings or lots and improving property values. In some cases, infrastructure and utility improvements are expected to stimulate.private sector investment, lower vacancy rates, increase lease rates; cause an increase in the availability of necessary commercial facilities; and reduce conditions of dilapidation and deterioration. The Agency intends to maximize improving streets and utilities simultaneously wherever feasible. The :Agency has its investment by identified street segments for these improvements. Projects where funds have been expended since the Existing Implementation Plan was adopted have been identified. Contra Costa Couniy Redevelopment Agency V1-6 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Project/Program Description Expenditures Anticipated Through Completion FY 2008/09 Port Chicago Highway/Pacifica Ave intersection Improvements Tlie commercial and industrial zoned Expenditures to Date: 2008 properties surrounding this intersection have so the potential to attract private. investment. ' Improvements to the Port Chicago Highway and Pacifica Highway intersection would Anticipated include upgrading the existing 3-way traffic Expenditures: signal into a 4-way signal. These 5323.000 improvements will provide access to the entrance of' the proposed Bay Harbor Commerce Center (business park). This project is slated to begin in 2009. This project will stimulate economic growth by providing . circulation Improvements necessary to accommodate commercial and industrial development. Pacifica Avenue Frontage Improvements Improvements are needed to drainage and Expenditures to Date: 2009 infrastructure deficiencies that create hiehly SO unsafe conditions for pedestrians in and around an elementary school; middle school; the Shore .Acres neiehborhood. and the Anticipated nearby shopping center. The Agency would Expenditures: assist on frontage improvements (curb. gutter 52,500,000 and sidewalks) along Pacifica Avenue, i between Port Chicago Avenue and Driftwood Drive. This project is slated to begin 2008. This project will stimulate economic gromi.h by providing circulation and infi-astructure improvements. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-7 Amended i=ivc Year Implementation Plan Pacifica Avenue Extension/Bay Harbor Industrial Area Infrastructure The Agency is facilitating the development Expenditures to Date: 2010 of the Bay Harbor Industrial Park. This area SO is currently underutilized and has the potential to become a tit-wing industrial area within the Coni.nnmity. infrastructure Anticipated improvements would include participation in Expenditures: the Construction of' the Pacifica Avenue 53,000,000 extension eastward to the proposed Intersection with the Alves .Lane extension road. This project is slated to begnl In 2008 This project would providc the necessary infrastructure to develop the proposed Bay Harbor Industrial Park. CunTently. there is insufficient access. and illfrasuucrtrre 10 adequateIV utilize the properties. I Pacifica Avenue Drainage — -- Pacifica Avenue area drainage includes Expenditures to Date: 2010 Agency participation in construction of' SO drainage improvements in the industrial area east of Port Chicago Highway and along the Pacifica Avenue extension. This pro.ject is Anticipated anticipated to begin in 2006. Expenditures: S(00.000 This project would provide the necessary infrastructure to develop the proposed Bay Harbor Industrial .Park; stimulating economic growth. _ Clearland Avenue- Assemblage/I nfrastructure The Agency will participate in the Expenditures to Date: 2010 development of three vacant parcels on the so south side of Willow Pass Road, east of' Clearland Avenue. The Agency would facilitate the assenibla-e of� vacant and Anticipated blighted properties enabling the community Expenditures: to fulfill the desired tlei`gliborliood retail S2,500.000 development. This project is anticipated to begin in 2009. This project would address the lack of commercial facilities in tile. Project Area and stimulate economic growth. Contra Costa County Redevelopment .Agency VI-8 Amended Five Year lnlplenlentation Plan Contra Costa f i►•e District Station 86 1 7 The Agency identified this project when the Existing Implementation Plan was adopted. Expenditures to Date: 2010 The Agency sponsored a General Plan SO amendment to relocate the fire station from its current location on Willow Pass Road to a location west of the existing site. Anticipated Expenditures: This project will improve public safety. SO i Bailee Road/Orbisonia Heights Upgrades to the existing infrastructure system are necessary For the future Expenditures to Dale: 2010 development of' the Orbisonia Heights area. I SO The Agency would assist with improvements along the corridor, where there are nurrterous vacant lots, vacant buildings, and Anticipated substandard structures. This project is I Expenditures: anticipated to begin in 2008. S 1,082.5 56 This project will improve vehicle and pedemrian circulation. encourage private investment; and stimulate economic groNvth. Bailey Road (north of SR 4) This project is related to the implementation Expenditures to Date: 201 1 of the BART Specific Plan and includes S0 upgrades to Bailey Road, north of State Route 4. improvements consist of widening sidewalks; constructing mid-block crossings, Anticipated creating bike lanes; landscaped medians; and Expenditures: sweet trees. These improvements will S1,666,667 provide better pedestrian and vehicular access to the BART station. This project is slated to begin in 2008. This project will improve vehicle and pedestrian circulation; encourage private investment, and stimulate economic growth. These improvements .will positively affect surrounding property values and will encourage private partnerships to assist in implementation of the Specific Plan. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-9 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Willow Pass Road Expenditures to Date: 2011 Improvements to existing. infrastructure are SO necessary to implement portions of the Bayshore Specific Plan. Tlie Agency would assist with several upgrades to Willow Pass ,Anticipated Road within the Neighhoncoiod Commercial Expenditures: Mixed-Use Area, including widening S 1,666..667 sidewalks, mid-block crossin«s, hike lanes, landscaped medians, and street ,-ees. This project is anticipated to begin in 2008. This prgject will improve vehicle and pedestrian circulation; encourage private investment, and stimulate economic uro\�th. Hertz Property Infrastructure The Agency would participate in the Expenditures to Date: I 2011 development of' three vacant parcels on the SO southwest corner of' Willow Pass Road and i Alberts Avenue. The A(enc) would assist with infrastructure improvements hindering ' Anticipated development. This project is slated to begin Expenditures: in 2009. 56661667 This project will stimulate economic growth ` b1providing, infrastructure improvements necessary to accommodate convnercial !. development. fDelta De Anza Trail The Agency identified this project when the Existing Implementation Plan Was adopted. Expenditures to Date: 201 1 Tills project includes the design of the trail 50 gal.) closure and identifying potential funding sources. This project is slated to begin in 2009-10. Anticipated Expenditures: S0 Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-10 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan BART Specific Plan implementation- Development Zone 2 (Orhisonia Heights Development) Expenditures to Date` 2012 The Agency has been actively implementittg. 5(,.152.351 the BART Specific Plan activities in Development Zone 2 since. the Existing implementation Plan was adopted in January Anticipated of 2006. Activities include completing land Expenditures: assemblage; upgrading. infrastructure, , S TBD streetscape improvements; and participating in publicprivatc partnership to develop the ' site. The Aency wants to create initiatives to attract a" land developer to plan and implement a residential mixed-use. transit oriented project at the OrbisonIa eIghts. The Agency is in the process of preparing a , Request for Proposals to solicit a qualified ! developer. The final cost is to be determined. ' Site acquisition could. cost up to 526.5 million, however the properties would be resold to replenish Agency revenues. This ` proiect began in 2005. This project would eliminate physical blighting conditions that currently exist in the area and stimulate economic grownh by ' providing circulation and infrastructure improvements. BART Specific Plan Implementation- Development Zone 3 The Agency will further implement the Expenditures to Date: 2012 BART Specific Plan by will .participating in so Development Zone 3. Activities will include land assembla�ige (If necessary); upgrades to infrastructure, and participation in Anticipated public/private partnerships to develop several Expenditures: sites. 'this project is slated to begin in 2008: 5] 125,000 This project will stimulate economic gro",I]i by providing circulation deficiencies and I inf-asu-ucture improvements. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-1 1 Amended Five Year implementation Plan Last Willow Pass Road Improvements This project includes widening of Willow Expenditures to Date: 2012 Pass Road. from the current 2-lane SO configuration to a 4-lane configuration. Median islands would also be created to improve aesthetics and improve traffic Anticipated circulation. This project is slated to begin in Expenditures: 2008. S 1.200.000 This project will stimulate economic gromll I by providing circulation in-tprovements necessary to accommodate commercial and industrial development. Bike Lanes The Agency identified this project when the Existing Implementation Plan was adopted. I=xpenditures to Date: 2012 The .Agency will implement the design and �(t construction of bike lanes along Port of Chicago Highway between Pacifica Avenue and Mc Avoy Road/Harris Yacht Harbor Anticipated area. This project is slated to begin in 2009- Expenditures: 10. SO Alves Lane Extension/Criterion Industrial Area Infrastructure 1-hese improvements include,the construction Expenditures to Date: 2013 of the northern extension of Alves Lane, SO from Willow Pass Road to the Pacifica Avenue Extension and north to the railroad crossing over to the waterfront area. These Anticipated infi-astructw-e improvements would enable Expenditures: the development of a lartac vacant property S 1.200.000 designated for industrial uses as well as provide better circulation within , the industrial zoned area and to the waterfront. This project is slated to begin in 2009. This project would provide the necessary infrastructure to develop the closed marina and the industrial park, encourage private investnent, and stimulate economic growth. Contra Cosra County Redevelopment Agency V1-12 Amended Five Year implementation Plan Alves Lane Drainage The Agency will participate in the Expenditures to Date: 2013 construction of a series of drainage SO improvements in the Criterian Industrial Area north of Willow Pass Road, alongthe. Alves Lane extension. These infrastructure Anticipated improvements would enable the development Expenditures: of a large vacant property designated for 5240;000 industrial uses. This project is slated to begin in 2009. This project would provide the necessary infrastructure to develop the proposed Bay, Harbor industrial Park, stinutlating economic *rowtll. Railroad Overcrossing to \Waterfront Expenditures to Date: 2015 This project addresses implementation of the V1laterfi'ont StrateLic flan identified in the SO iImplementation Plan. The Waterfront Specific Plan was adopted to address the Anticipated vacant closed marina within the Project Area. Expenditures: The Agency .will assist in completion of a 53.428.571 grade separation crossing from the Pacifica .Avenue extension and Alves Lane extension to the waterfront. A secondary crossuig to the waterfront will provide access to the closed marina area. The project is anticipated to begin in 2009. This project would provide the necessary infrastructure to develop the closed marina. encourage private investment;_and stimulate economic gro«nh. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency . VI-13 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Waterfront Infrastructure This project addresses implementation of the Expenditures to Date: 2015 F Waterfront Strategic Plan identified in the W implementation Plan. The closed marina is lacking sufficient infrastructure to accommodate development. The Agen6l Anticipated would assist in fac•ilitatim-, improvements Expenditures: such as drainage; circulation; and water and 5857,143 sewer services. This project is slated to beL,in in 2009. This project would provide the necessary ' infi-ast'ucture to develop the closed marina; encourage private investment. and stimulate economic grov+nh. South Willow. Pass Road Neighborhood Infrastructure This project includes upgrades and Expenditures to Date: 2015 construction of curbs; gutters and sidewalks; S() drairta2e improvements. and improved lighting in the older neighborhood south of Willow Pass Road. between I-ofius and Anticipated Madison. These improvements will address Expenditures: infrastructure deficiencies that hinder S 1.719 393 pedestrian safety in existing neighborhoods. This project is slated to begin in 2009. This project would provide the necessary infrastructure to increase the safety of residents and visitors in this neighborhood, encourage private investment, and stimulate economic growth. Expenditures to Date: S6.152,351 TOTAL Anticipated Expenditures: 523;777,664 Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-14 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Community Improvement Activities/Economic Development Promotion Pro iects in the Community Improvement Prop**rani directly address the appearance of the nei«hborhood; the health and safety aspects of community life and indirectly the overall value of the properties located in the Project Area. Increased property value impacts not only the specific improved property; .but has s10111ficant impact on surrounding properties as well.- The .Agency has established beautification programs to assist residents and businesses upgrade and maintain the appearance of buildings and property; a garbage.remediation program that helps address illegal dumping. code enforcement support that adds valuable human power to the strenuous task of daily code review in the Project Area. marketing pieces to assist with business attraction thus lower1112 vacancy rates and increasing lease rates, and other Invaluable prourams that address the improved appearance of the entire community. Ne.i *hborhood safety and crime prevention activities are directly tied to the collaborative effort of County officials to improve the health and welfare of Project Area residents and workers. The Agency also intends to Implement new.hborhood safety and crime prevention activities; which include targeted code enforcement; graffiti removal; Abatement Attorney, Resident Deputy, and equipment such as security cameras. Newliborhood safety and crime prevention activities are directly tied to the collaborative effort Of County officials to improve the health; safety, and welfare of Project Area residents and workers. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-I5 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Community Improvement Program Expenditures to Date: Ongoing The Agency provides financial assistance to S36.674 support neighborhood "beautification" projects. such as 1111-tafftti removal and vacant lot/yard cleanup. ;Many projects addressed Anticipated by this program are initiated by volunteer Expenditures: groups in Bay Point. The projects in the S36.000 Community Improvement Program directly address the appearance of the neig.liborhood. and indirectly the overall value of the properties located in the Project Area. Component Program: Neighborhood Safety Program Amount currently unknown or included This program provides funding required for in Anticipated site-specific services; equipment and Expenditures above facilities aimed at addressing problems related to criminal activity affecting the health; welfare and safety of the Project Area. Such activities include tat-L eted code enforcement. illegal dumping remediation prograntis, Abatement Attorney (see below); Resident Deputy, and equipment such as security cameras. The Community Improvement Program will eliminate existing blighting conditions by improving. severely deteriorated and dilapidated buildings and stagnant property values, which can have an adverse affect on surrounding property values as well. The Prouram will increase the safety of the area andy reduce crimes against properiv and persons. The elimination of these existing blighting conditions and safety issues will encourage private investment and economic development in the Project Area. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-16 .Amended Five Year implementation Plan Abatement Attorney-Countv Counsel The Project Area is significantly affected by Expenditures to Date: Ongoing a lack of private mvestment.resultim-, in the 530,688 deterioration and dilapidation of properties. A pro-rata share of County Counsel expenses for an attornev is devoted solely to code Anticipated enforcement activities. Expenditures: Included Under This project would address the. lack of private Community investment and improve physically blighted Improvement properties in the Project .Area. y Program Conununity Group Funding Program This project was identified in the Existim, Expenditures to Date: Ongoing Implementation Plan. The A`*encs provides S5;986 Financial assistance to support neighborhood I "beautification". projects, such as Ln-affiti removal and vacant lot/yard cleanup. The Anticipated projects addressed by this prograrn are Expenditures: initiated by volunteer groups in Bay Point. Lncluded Under Community This project would address the lack of private improvement investment and improve physically blighted Program properties in the Project Area. Property Holding Costs This fund is for property maintenance costs Expenditures to Date: On�_oin2,. such as weed abat:etnent, clean up, taxes; and 533.148 other expenses related to holding property for redevelopment prv_jects. Anticipated This project will improve physically bliglited Expenditures: properties. S10.694 Willow Pass Road Urban Design Improvement Banners The .Agency will provide funds for the Expenditures to Date: Ongoing installation and rotation of banners and other S16.215 enhancements. This project will stimulate economic f_-roAnh. Anticipated Expenditures: 53.233 Contra Costa County itedevelopment Agency VI-17 Amended Five Year implementation Plan Marketing This program was identified at the time of Expenditures to Date: Ongoing the Existing. Implementation Plan adoption. 55.112 Involves updates and reproduction of- marketing material for Bay Point and Agency participation in Economic Development Anticlpat.ed forums. Expenditures: S15-888 This project will stimulate economic Irowttt. Newsletter The Agency shares the cost for the Expendflures to Date: Ongoin0. publication and mail-out of a quarterly 55,775 newsletter. This project Xa%ill stimulatemC ��r ��-thAnticipated eCO110Io . � Expenditures: 54;000 f Dumpster Grants This project \Nas identified in I.he. ExistinL, I Expenditwes to Date: Ongoin<< Implementation Plan. The Agency works S0 with the Building Inspection Department to identify properties which may benefit from the use of a dumpstea. The program is is desi,ned as a revolvinLi loan but may be. a Expenditures: grant for those meetingincome requirements. 51;200 This project would address the lack of private investment and improve physically blighted i properties in the Project Area. t _ Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-18 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Business Assistance/Enterprise Zone Administration Expenditures to Date: 2016 This project was identified when the Existing S0 Implementation Plan was. adopted. The Agency wishes to provide referrals to new . and existing businesses on program Anticipated opportunities that would provide revenue to Expenditures: the businesses. Programs include the County 5150;000 CB.DG Small Business and Micro-Enterprise Loan and Grant, Small Business Administration, and the Recycling Market Development Revolving Program: Since the Existing Implementation Plan was adopted the Agency has effectively implemented this program. The Agency will provide funds to cover the costs associated with the application to California Department of Housing and Community Development for the . Pittsburg/Bav Point Enterprise Zone Designation, in partnership with the City of Pittsburg. This prgject will stimulate economic growth. Pittsburg Pre-School Coordinating Council's Famih• Preservation and Support Program Expenditures to Date: 2009 S0 The Agency identified this project when the Existing Implementation Plan was adopted. The Agency anticipated the provision of- Anticipated office space for this program in the North Expenditures: Broadway area. S0 This project.will stimulate economic growth by encouraging new private investment. Expenditures to Date.: 596,924 TOTAL Anticipated Expenditures: 5221.015 Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-19 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan E. Revenues Available to Implement bion-Mousing Improvements The primary source of revenue available to the Agency for improvement projects and programs has been and will continue to tie property tax increment, as it is used both directly for proiecis and to secure bond revenues and pay debt service. Table V1-1 shows that the .Agency will be able to undertake project activities through 2027. The. Redevelopment Plan's current cumulative tax increment cap is Sl 16 million and the bonded indebtedness limit is S60 million. The 2008 Bay Point Amendment proposes to increase these caps to 5689 and 5220 million, respectively. Table VIA Summary of Time and Fiscal Limits for the Bay Point Project Arca Ac 1.550. Adopted December 29, 1987 j Eminent Domain December 29, 2011 Time Limit for Incurnna Debt December 29,2026 Time Limit for Project Activities December 29, 2027 Time Limit for Tax increment Receipt December 29. 2027 Fiscal Limit for Tax Increment Collection* 51 16.000,000 Outstanding= Indebtedness': I 560,000.000 The Agency is undergoing an amendment to increase the tax increment collection limit to 5689 million and the outstanding indehtedness limit to 5220 million. Source. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency. Since FY 2004/05 the Agency has expended S62 million on non housing-redevelopment projects and programs eliminating blighting conditions within the Proiect Area. The Agency received more revenue than projected since the Lxisting Implementation Plan was adopted in January of 2006. The increased revenue is primarily due to assessed values in the. Project Area increasing at a rale greater than projected. The Agency is projected to collect 512.9 million in revenue. from FY 2007/08 through 1W 2008/09. The four sources of'revenues that the Agency can spend and reinvest in the Project Area are net tax increment; proceeds fi-om the sale of` bonds secured by tax increment, interest earned on non-housing funds; and other revenue sources, each of which is displayed in Table Vi-2. Proiections in Table V.I-2 have been updated to reflect future fiscal years remaining in the Amended Implementation Plan planning period. More information about each source of revenue is provided below. Contra Costa County Redevelopment ALYencv \11-20 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Table VI-2 Summary of Projected Non-Housing Revenues Bay Point Project Area FY 2004/05-FY 2008/09 rZ c a. :i r c. r G r_iI r n c y r ;- .. a v. C. •1 ' I Vi ? G Y � Gr UVJ 17va N c• Vi .7 y+. . N r`. Js: _ Y: ✓J I 1 vl — — y " ,z - _ _ _ - _ a — I - _ p C CL' CLI G G -7, L " I _ Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-21 Amended Five Yew- Implementation Plan 1. Tax Increment Revenues 7-he .lgency is projected to have a balance of S6.1 million in capital funds in fiscal year 2007/08. The Agency is projected to earn 51.2 million of net tax increment revenues over the next two fiscal years (2007/08 and 2008!09) in the Bay Point Project Area. The projected tax increment revenues set a limit on the amount of expenditures that the Agency can reinvest in the Project Area through FY 2008/09. Property tax increment is that portion of the total amount of property tax revenues collected annually fi-om all the properties in the Project .Area above the amount collected at the•time the Project Area was adopted. Per Proposition 1.3, increases in property taxes can result only from increases in assessed value, which in turn can only come frorn reassessment upon property sale or improvement or the maximum annual inflationary increase of.' percent. Net tax increment revenue is the amount of tax increment remaining, to the Agency for non-housing. projects and activities after it has met its other financial obligations. These financial obligations typically include Housing Fund deposits; debt services payments; County property tax. administration fees. Administration costs; and pass thorough payments to other taxon_ enttUeS. The Agency must reinvest a portion of property tax increment revenues back into non-housing, projects that will help reduce and eliminate blight. By encouraging and expanding local commercial, retail, I ndustrial and residential opportunities. the Agency shall achieve the greatest return on its invesunent while creating local jobs. enhancing sales tax generation and increasing property values. Increased property values translate to increased tax increment revenues to the.Agency, which can then be reinvested in the Project Area. 2. Proceeds from the. Sales of Bonds The Agency can also generate revenue by issuing bonds and investing the proceeds of those bonds in Project Area improvements. The bond sale proceeds are forms of borrowing against projected tax increment revenues. The Agency meets annually to discuss and prioritize. projects and activities to be funded from bond sales, as well as to coordinate expenditures of bond proceeds with the County's Capital Improvement Program. 'I lie Agency has a maximum bond�-.d indebtedness of S60 million for the Proiect Area; this hillit will be increased to 5220 million if the 2008 Bay Point Amendment is adopted. Approximately 53.9 million of a bond sale was reserved as a capital fund for the Agency to reinvest in the Project /Area through FY 2008/09. A portion of the 2007 Tax Allocation Revenue Bond proceeds was initially deposited into the Bay Point Escrow Fund; 512.1 million will become available for use in fiscal year 2007/08 after the 2008 Ray Point Amendment is adopted. 57.2 million is allocated to the capital projects fund. The Agency projects to expend S10.8 million of the total bond sale proceeds before the completion of the Implementation Plan planning period. 3. Other Agency and Non-Agency Financial Resources Wherever possible, the Agency will continue to leverage other sources of funding to achieve. the Project .Area's long. term goals and objectives. The Agency has already demonstrated an ability to acquire additional funding in the form of grants and loans from Contra Costa County and the state and federal governments. The Agency also earns interest and revenue fi-om the lease of Agency owned property, and it can also collect fees fi-om developers. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-22 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Accordingly, the Agency also projects to collect approximately S767.000 of additional funding from grants; Idans, impact fees; the sale or lease of Agency-owned property and other sources of-revenues that can be invested in the Project Area through FY 2008/09. These revenue sources will be combined with approximately 578,000 of' interest earned on the Non-Housing Fund and 510.8 million of bond proceed expenditures. F. Projected Five Year Non-.Housinb Expenditures The Agency will implement projects within its financial capabilities and will look for opportunities to create additional capital such as grantsor bonds. As shown in Table V1-3, the Agency has projected to spend S24 million on improvement projects through FY 2008/09. The projects will focus on the following: f Capital/Public .improvement Projects---Projects and activities within this category include utility. road and other infrastructure improvement projects, urban design and sti-eetscape improvements; property acquisition and site improvements particularly related to public/private real estate development pannerships, transit and mixed-use facilities; and other physical development projects. Comm unity improvement Activities/Economic Development Promotion -- Projects and activities within this category include beautification programs, hazardous waste and other garbage remediation programs. code enfoi-cement support, and other initiatives that enhance the appearance of the Project Area as well as the quality of- life for residents. Projects and activities within this cateLory include job creation and retention initiatives, policies or programs that enhance the local economy,nlarket.in21 programs, and other promotional projects, events, or activities. Projects and activities within this category include those that modify or enforce zoning and land use policies; design future capital improvement projects, strategize economic development and community improvement programs; and plan for urban design and streetscape improvements. Table NII-3 Projected Five Year Non-Housing Expenditures Bay Point Project Area FY 2004/0;-F1' 2008/09 Projects and Activities 2004/05 to i Projected Current Expenditures Expenditures I CapitaLIPublic :Improvement Projects S6,152,351 S23,7 77.664 Community Improvement Activities/ 596,924 5221,015 Economic Development Promotion Total Expenditures $6,249,275 5;23,998,679 Source: Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency. The Agency will also continue to ineet its Housing Fund obligations, snake debt sei-vice payments, pay pass-through payments to other agencies. and cover adminisn-ation and technical assistance costs. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-23 Amended Five Year linplementation Plan C. Linkage Between Project Area. Improvements and Elimination of Remaining Blight The Agency's actions since the Bay Point Project Area was established have eliminated a significant amount of bliadit in the Project Area. Hovvever. blighting. conditions continue to exist along Willow Pass Road; along Port Chicago Flighway, within the unincorporated sites located near the Pittsburci/Bay Point BART Station, along Bailey Road, along the waterfront, and elsewhere in the Project Area. ]'hose blighting conditions include incompatible adjacent land uses; buildings that are vacant, obsolete; and/or dilapidated beyond the point of rehabilitation; and inadequate public improvements and infi-astructure. The Project Area is also significantly impacted by a high crime rate, which poses a serious tlu-eat to the health and safety of Project Arca residents and workers. In addition; the Bay Point Project Area has underutilized and bh .hied sites that can be more intensively redeveloped for retail commercial and h-lit industrial uses. The Agency-s capital projects will facilitate the redevelopment of blighted. underutilized, and vacant properties by investing resources. in property acquisition demolition; and site preparation; as well as public infrastructure projects. Cominunitv improvement activities will improve the supply and quality of community services, beautify the neighborhoods, rehabilitate the housin_ stock, and remove hazardous materials and <uarbage. Neil-hborhood safety and crime prevention activities such as targeted code enforcelllelll, Illegal dumping remediation programs, Abatement Attorney, Resident Deputy, and equipment such as security cameras will help improvee the health; safety. and general welfare of Project Area residents and workers.Economic development promotion activities will help attract more private investment to the Project Area; which will help create new jobs and increase the local tax base and economy; all of which will counteract blighting conditions remaining in the Bay Point Project Area. Accordingly, the projects and activities described in this Amended Implementation Plan] will ilei]) redLlCe and eliminate Project Area blight, consistent with the Redevelopment Plan. H. Affordable Housing Obligations for the Project Area The Agency is required by the CRL to meet certain obligations with respect to the provision of affordable housing and the expenditure of tax increment funds on affordable housing. In sunlnlary, there are three basic legal requirements that the Agency must meet: Housing Production--For certain project areas; the Agency must make available specified nlininlum percentages of new or substantially rehabilitated housing units available to very low; low and moderate income households at a legally defined affordable housing cost.' Replacement Housing—The Agency must replace housin, units removed from the housine, stock in a project area as a result of redevelopment activities within four years at a legally defined affordable housing cost. Housing Fund Expenditures—The Agency must set-aside and spend at least 20 percent of tax increment revenue (Housing Fund) to improve; preserve, and/or produce affordable housing for tar-leted seLm)ents of the project area residents; with various conditions on their use. The following sections of this Amended implementation Plan describe the Agency's Affordable Housing Program and specifically outline how the Agency will meet its legal obligations. The A,�,.ency's I-Ile housing production obligation applies to redevelopment plans adopted on or after.lanuary 1. 1976.and tetTiton,added to proiect areas by amendment adopted on or after.lanuary I, 1976. The Agency must include a plan fbi ho, it intends to elect its housing production obligations in its implementation plan. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-24 Amended Five Year Implementation Plall Affordable.Housing Program is guided by the most recent adopted and certified Housing Element; as well as the County's regional fair share housin, needs allocation and various County policies and programs to promote affordable housing. I. Overview of Agency's Affordable housing Program During the five year implementation plan period. the Agency will concentrate on affordable housing activities that are most applicable to the Agency's goals and objectives. The .Agency recognizes the important role of' the .Affordable Housing Program and its activities lit its overall Redevelopment Program. Consequently, the proposed Affordable Housing Program should be viewed not simply as the means of implemcming the A<vency',s stated goals and objectives related to.affordable ltou,Sma. but as a key element in its overall blig.lit alleviation and revitalization efforts. The Agency's Affordable Housing Program is focused on working with appropriate organizations to facilitate development of a variety of'. affordable housing activities in the Bay Point Project Area. In developing its Affordable Housing Program, the Agency has been guided by the goals and objectives of the County's liousing Element of'the Generil Plan, incorporated into this Amended Implementation Plan by this reference. Through its affordable housine activities, the A`,cncy will support and advance the overall Housing. [dement grog,*rams as well as cont-ibute to the. implementation of- the policies and strategies identified in the COMM',, General Plan. The Agency is committed to assisting the County in achievine the ,oals presented in the Housing Element, including,: Improve housing affordability for both renters and homeowners. Preserve the existing affordable housing stock in Contra Costa County. Increase the stipply of housing, with a priority on the development of affordable housing. Increase the supply of apps-opriate and supportive housing for special needs populations. Mitigate potential governmental constraints to housing development and affordability. Promote equal opportunity for all residents to reside in the housing of their choice. The Agency will make every effort to encourage the preservation. rehabilitation and development. of housing affordable to a variety of income levels combininc, various funding, sources. Leveraging other funding sources devoted to the provision of affordable housing will maximize the number of aff-ordable units that can be developed or substantially rehabilitated. By partnering and collaborating with other entities dedicated to the preservation and development of affordable housing.. the Agency is confident that it will be able to meet its affordable housing production obligations and Housing Fund expenditure requirements within the compliance period ending, in 2014, as well as over the life of the Redevelopment Plan. The Affordable Housing Program promotes residential and mixed-use development on vacant and underutilized sites in the Bay Point Project Area. The Agency's Housing Fund revenues will be used in a flexible manner to respond to favorable development, substantial rehabilitation and grant opportunities. In carrying out its purpose to preserve. improve and increase the affordable housing supply, the Agency may use the following methods: Work with appropriate non-profit and for-profit organizations in developing affordable housing. and actively participate in development activities \mhere that is feasible. l- Facilitate the final stages of the North Broadway Area Revitalization Strategy. Agency funds may be required for predevelopment, construction; and/or land acquisition. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-25 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Provide funding or other assistance to Habitat for Humanity for the acquisition of property and entitlements for single-family residences on infill sites. Assist with additional site acquisition and/or predevelopment costs for previously_ funded projects or assist news scattered site property acquisition and/or housing rehabilitation. The .Agency expects to take advantage of various opportunities as they are presented and to itnitiate actions as necessary; consistent with the. CRL and the County's Housing Element; to preserve and facilitate the development of housing affordable to households whose.basic needs are not met by the private housing market. 7 he Agency expects to meet its leual housing production obligations under CRL. The Agency will usethe Housing Fund-in a strategic. approach to assist residential developments to create and preserve affordable housing within the community; and meet the Agency's housing production requirement. it should be noted; however, that several factors may result in estimated expenditures and unit production being either less than or greater than what is projected for any given year. These factors include the timing) oi-the development process; the levels of Housing Fund revenue and other public assistance; the need to amass sufficient funds for an efficiently sized development; and development opportunities. J. Housing Fund Revenues The primary funding, source for the A2encv's affordable lousing activities is 20 percent of the annual tax increment revenue. which is set-aside into the. A`?encv s Housing Fund. The Housin(j Fund resources are then used by the Agency to facilitate the expansion, improvement and preservation of' the affordable housing supply withiin the Project Area. The Housing Fund balance for the Project Area was 5373,039 at the be:otmntng of'the implementation Plan period. The Housing Fund balance at the end of FY 2006/07 was S 1.1 17.727. The A0 ency is projected to have.accumulated 56.7 million of net tax increment revenues available to fund affordable housing through P1' 2013/14. The tax increment revenues will be supplemented by approximately S744,000 of' bond proceeds and 560;000 of interest earned on the tlousin'. Fund. (See 'fable V1-4.) Thus, there will be approximately 57.6 million of revenue available to support affordable housing projects and programs. The AL)ency intends to use the i-lousin-, Fund revenue to leverage other federal and state funds to develop, rehabilitate or preserve more affordable housing. The available funding sources that can be leveraged include the Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), HOME investment Partnership finds, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development funds (.HUD), California Housing Finance Agency (Cal1IFA), Department of Housing and Connnnunity Development (11CD),.and low income housinc, tax credit equity funds. K. Dousing Production .Plan The Project Area is subject to the CRL.affordable housing production requirements since the Project Area was established after 1975. In simple terms, the CRL requires that 15 percent of all non-Agency developed lousing units in the Project Area be affordable to moderate, low; and very low income households. The CRL also requires that 40 percent of the total supply of affordable.housing be restricted to very low income households. The legislation requires the .Agency to comply with the production requirements throughout a series of ten year periods, as well as through the life of the.Plan. if the Agency has fallen behind in its legal requirements to produce affordable housing; then the Agency must assure that all new non-Agency housing developments built in the project area individually meet the Contra Costa County-Redevelopment Agency N/1-26 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan production requirement until the Agency has fully met its production requirement. Conversely; if the Agency has produced more housing than is legally required. then the future number of affordable housing units that are required to be developed within the Project Area will be less. Accordingly, the information below describes the Agency's housing production requirements; and presents a plan for how,the Agency will meet its of ordablc housing,.production obligations. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-27 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Table V1-4 Projected Revenues Available for Affordable Housing in the Bad- Point Project Area FY 2004/05 to FY 2013/14 V: Vi: VJ VJ b5 C; Y 1 ^I r _I _ ?I " — "� v _ .-I i/r! :^ C� li V:I V;�Y I y. Y• Y.I I� ✓ r•J z 12 r. x vi rJJ- I VI — _ f -� fJ vi xz tj I C .0 r — L < < �I - y ^ 'L <� � � O� = S G _ C. _I= _ :/.• _ = J: Ll Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency vl-2)£i Amended Five Year Implementation Plan The .Agency is projected to have a balance of S2.1 million in housing funds in fiscal year 2007!08. A portion of the 2007 Tax Allocation Revenue bond proceeds are initially deposited into the Bay Point Escrow Fund: S12.1 million will become available for use in fiscal year 2007/08 after the 2008 Bay Point Amendment is adopted. S4.4 million is allocated to the housing fund Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-29 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Historical Housing Production and Affordable }lousing Obligations The Agency reported that 196 new units have been produced in the Project Area after the Redevelopment Plan was adopted in 1987; until the starting point for this Amended Implementation Plan. Since the adoption of the Existing Implementation Plan; an additional 272 units have been produced in the Project .Area. The. Agency has determined that 33 housing traits were substantially rehabilitated in the Project Area from Plan Adoption to 1/]/02.- Since. 1/]/02;the Agency has assisted the substantial rehabilitation of four housing units and the .Agency itself has substantially rehabilitated 160 units.'' No units have been substantially rehabilitated in the Project Area since the Existing Implementation Plan was adopted. The Agency also reported that 186 affordable units were produced since Project .Area inception to FY 2003/04. of which 41 units Were Produced for very low income households (See Table V1 The Agency is currently exceeding its legal requirements to produce affordable housing. in the .Bay Point Project Area. Given housing production in the Project Arca through FY 2003/04; the CRL obligated the Agency to produce only 83 affordable units, of'which 38 units must be for very low income households.' Due to its excellent past performance, the Agency produced a surplus of' 103 affordable housing units including a surplus of'3 units with occupancy restricted to very low-income households during this time. Since the Existing Implementation Plan was adopted the AEency has incurred an additional inclusiOnary obligation of' 41 affordable housing units of which 17 units must be affordable to very low income households. Due to the Agency's in units; the affordable unit requirement has been satisfied and 63 unit surplus remains. The Agency's 3 unit surplus in very low .income restricted units was not enouLh to fully satisfy the 17 unit obliaation. 'Rhus; the Agency is working towards satisfying the 14 very low income restricted unit deficit prior to the end of the planning period in FY 2013/14. '['Ile 2000 Implcntcntaticnt Plan identified that 190 new unrts were developed and 33 units were substantially rehabilitated in the Project Area. Since that time there were six new infill units constructed. Tlx piev ous Micitem Review identified that the County/Agency facilitated the acquisition and rehabilitation of the 72 unit AArilloxvbrook Apartments and the 88 unit Hidden Cove.Aparimcnts by private parties Ihrough the issuance of tax e..xcmpi bonds. a Prior to i/1/02. inclusionary housin I requirements applied to all new and rehabilitated units in the project area. As of 1/1/02. tingle f+tnih'chuellinc units(with one Or IWO units)that are substantially rehabilitated with'agency assistance and multifamily rented dwelling units that are substantially rehabbed.with of without Agency assistance are subject to inclusionary housing requirements. Occupancy of affordable housing fiir eery lo\+ income residents is restricted occupancy to households with incomes up to 50 percent of area median. Affordable housing for moderate income residents is restricted to occupancy by households with ntcorncs up to i 10 percent of the arca median. When units are produced or substantially rehabilitated by the Agency;30 percent of units must be made affordable;of which 50 percent of the affordable uniis must be allocalcd for very loNA income households.Therefore.the.Auency has::housinL, production obligation for 83 affordable units(15 percent of 233 units plus 30 percent of 160 units),of which 38 units (40 percent o135 units plus 50 percent of 48 units)must be affordable to very logy income households. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-30 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Table 871-5 Housing Production and Affordable Housing Obligation Bair Point Project Area FV 2004/05 to F1' 2008/09 .Agcncc Directly "IOT.AL '1'(1"1'.�1. Aaaicuxl I'rottuccd• I'ruduced F\'2u0rnr:-FY 211019116_rY 211(14/o5=FY zulan5 Total over 'I•hruugh Fl` Percent Through Fbiough I'1' 20(13/114 FV 20041/115- FY 20118/09 FY 21113/14 Il'21113/19' End of I'Lln Lifc of lijan° FY 2003/041 20(13/114 1;N.x1116/07 I Housing Pi oductiou in Project.Arco No,l,nils 1 196 0 196 ?72 115 547 1.134 3291 1.654 Sub,mmitd Rehainlitalinn 37 160 147 U U 0 0 01 197 1 Total 233 1601 393 272 315 547 1.134 329 1.856 CRI-Affmclahle Housing Obligotinn" ve:.v l_m1 141 24 iS I% 19 tial 'f. 17'; ; \ren•Lor,-.Lm,or Modentic _ 48 1 S3 1 481. S3 172 5011 Oi�—mixed:151,;. I Peoit-cled P-duclion of Affordable Housing t'ervU S 33 41 01 162 25 187 151 24; Ven,I mv.I rn Moderate 16 16U 186 11 311 821 394 .5(Ij 630 Affoidahle Production Surplus(Deficit)' \'r:vIo. 1 (6) 9 (1711 IIS (5)1 116 Vcry Loc.Low or Moderate (9) II'_ lo? 1401 263 (1) 221 Il ;?5 K-nc0d .-:l ly dm 1- R I.,N.dahk 11o;,sing plpducunn raquunm:ms:uc lnundd un 111 the n.;—sl,,,Hole uuu. a.A,mjumzel M•C R.L 11,;01 unit:o—lor .n11gr11an;c 11C111111 ISuclinn?,491nn 1('-nH)) 11.A,rcip i,cd b,the CRL. oud unit-mil the 181 of Inc Rcdndupr•.1cn11'Im1(S.min 3u90001,fill. ,.l'nal onil,ploth—d in 111^Proi.I.Arra burin.th,spn ifled time pol iod. . d Mild-of Mlurmlbl:units-11-111d 1--1 un gni!:prou—d At;! hh.1c N—iug P".du.lion fill n„11-Arculy d-1.1 ad hnusne ir,piirr. I Y;�ill mlal amts to h:avid h:blc at affoulablc cos;Of muse units.o:least 411",o nnsl ho af:inda1h]e w vcrc 11111 income iwlr.dloldI(n'a 11111.1 ued units) A;rnee derel(.pcd).,it ,o has a 30'11•mciusunary r,uuiremtmi.of which W( ..uu,e.he affordable ru vcly Ime income huusehulds 114%if total ulrit) Dwiue the pilar 11nplreuvuaion Plan Ptnind.til,A_:ues dirae11v nc,ckil-I thr-uh'wntial rchabdicuine of the 77 unit Willow Mnol:Apal anent,and til, XX alit Htdd,:u(,,,Apartment- ,.Kuml-cf inns s;nisfyim_CRL aIfor dahlc housing producii,m ot+ligat tun.AHiudahlc unns I (ILecd nutsidc P,UJccI Arca ulwvui nn a rinc flit 111 u hnsi-. t Rr1,.n al Go d:161;ho•.cmg suq>laa ur u111i"a0on;u iilc 111,1 of ihu pc Ind. inulm t oitr,, (.'puny Rod,-,clnpmcnt Agro,.. . Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-31 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan I. Future Housing Production and Affordable Housing Obligations The Agency has evaluated the potential for future housing production in the Bay Point Project Area through the end of the Redevelopment Plan. Based on the .Agency's analysis of"the potential for new development on existjng vacant residential parcels; the opportunity.for substantial rehabilitation with Agency assistance; the possibility for federal and state funding. and the anticipated date of development. the A(,-enc,, has developed a projection for the number of units likely to be produced in the Project Area over the next ten vears and throu«h the life of the.Redevelopment Plan. A total of- 1;134 units are estimated to be produced in the next ten year compliance period.' It is also projected that 394 units of affordable housing will be produced; of which 187 units will be affordable to very low income households. It is proiected that the Agency will meet its legal requirements to produce affordable housing during the ten year compliance period. Based upon the ten year forecast of housing production in the Project Area. the CRL obligates the Agency to produce 173 affordable units. of which 69 units must be for very ]ow income households. The Agency is anticipating creating 394 affordable units of which 187 will be very low income.restricted. leaving the Agency will have a surplus at the end of the planning period. Based on historical production and an analysis of remaining developable residential land. the potential for. substantial rehabilitation with Agency assistance. acid other opportunities; the Agency proiects that a total of 1.856 units could potentially be produced in the Project Arca prior to the end of the Redevelopment Plan activities. The Agency also anticipates that over the life of the Redevelopment Plan, 630 housing units affordable to very low•, low and moderate income households will be produced, and of these 243 wi If be affordable to ver\; low income households. Based upon this projection. the .Agency expects that it will meet its affordable housing production obligation over the life of' the Redevelopment Plan. The CRL obligates the Agency to produce 305 affordable units. of which 127 units must be for very low income households. ' Durine the neat five veers.the Aeency estimates 219 housing units would be produced in the Project Area. Durine the follom me five year period.the Agency estimates 587 housine units will be produced in the Project Arca. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-32 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan 1 L. Replacement Housing Requirements The Agency is required to replace any Project Area housing that has been removed within four years after the removal has occurred. Previous redevelopment activities resulted in the removal of 12 dilapidated low and moderate income units in 1993 (See Table VI-6). The 14 unit Elaine Null Apartments were built to replace these units in 1996 with six very low-income and eight low to moderate-income units. This means that the. Agency does not have a remaining replacement housing obligation; as all housing units that were removed from the Project Area have been replaced as required by law. The Existing Implementation Plan anticipated that approximately ten units may be destroved to accommodate the North Broadway Mixed Use Development. The Agency planned to replace these units with affordable new development or substantial rehabilitation. The 84 unit DeAnza Gardens public housing project was also anticipated to be demolished and replaced with 180 new units; 84 of' which would be counted as replacement units. No replacement housings obligation resulted from tine North Broadway Mixed Use Development; however an adjacent road project removed some structures that were replaced with units built on-site in 2002. No Replacement 110LISIn2 obligation remains. The Agency is facllltatln`g, the. Orbisonia Heights Redevelopment Project to create a mixed-use transit- oriented development: Implementation of this project will result in the permanent displacement of up to 26 residential units. The Agency must replace the Same number of units at the same income levels within four rears from the date of acquisition of the displaced properties. The Agency will replace the units on- site within the Orbisonia Heights project. y The A(j.ency may undertake additional projects that could result in the displacement of households in the next ten years. In the event that the removal of housing occurs, the Agency will plan for and undertake replacement of any units and will follow all state requu-errlents for replacement housing and relocation.' Table Vl-6 Replacement Housing Obligation Bad- Point Project Area _ Years _ Units Removed Units Replaced Historical through I'1' 2(103/04 (Actual) 12 I2 FY 2004/05-FY 2006/07 (,Actual) 94 94 FY 2007/08-FY2013/14 (E-stimated 26 26 Total 106 __ 106 Source:Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency. N1. Income and Age "Targeting Requirements for Dousing Fund Expenditures The.Amended Implementation Plan must provide annual estimates of the units to be assisted and the expenditures anticipated to be made during.the next ,five years.' Accordingly, the Agency plans to expend S2.3 million to Support the development of more affordable housing over the next five year period. (See As of,lanuary I,2002,AB 637 requires an agency to maintain a list of'displaced households who are to be OVC11 priority.The agency may establish rules to determine priority on this list. 'Compliance\a,ith targeting requirements is measured based on dollars expended over the cutTent compliance period. which ends in 2014. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-33 ,.Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Table VI-7.) The Agency plans to allocate housing fund expenditures on at least 35 percent very low income and 20 percent on low income households, and no more than 45 percent on moderate income households in accordance tvith Section 65554 of the Government Code. in addition, the .Agency is required to target its Housing Fund expenditures based on housing need by income level and age." Thus; the Housing Fund should be expended to assist households in the same proportion to the housing. need by income; as indicated by the regional fair share allocation; and by a«.e level in the community- as indicated by the most recent U.S. Census. Table Vl-7 Housing Fund Targeting Expenditures Bay .Point Project Area FY 2004/05 to FY 20(16/07 Housing Fund Expenditures County's Affordable Fair Share Housing Projects Allocation FY FY FY "/, j and Pro rams" 1999-2006 2004/05 2005/116 2006/07 Total Total . Minimum Targeted ! to Very 1..ow Income Families 35% i S1351 ( S 181,400 15145,800 5462,900 27%, I Mininntm Tar`*eted to Low and Families 20`%, 542.(167 5224.223 S105.462 5371,752 22`%, Maximum Tari_=eted to Moderate income Famtlles' 451%, 593.946 5499;077 5234;738 5827,761 50`Yo Total $271,400 $904,700 Si486,(10[i 51,662,413 a. Housll]g Program costs do not include Agency administration costs. b. The Agency may expend 4511, of their housing fiords on housing for very low, low or moderate income residents,however must not exceed spending this percentage on moderate income.housing. Source: Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency and .Association of Bay Area Governments. The CRL requires tite Agency to allocate its Housing Fund in a manner that is consistent with the household income distribution requirements imbedded in the Contra Costa County's Fair Share .Allocation. That is, the. Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) determination for the 1999- 2006 Countv's Fair Share Allocation indicates that the Agency should target at least 35 percent of its housing funds to very low-income households, 20 percent on low income households, and not more than 45 percent to moderate income households. The remainder of the housing fund should be spent on prglects and activities for very low, low or moderate income households.' Assembly Bill 637 becomes effective on.lanuary I. 2002. 12"1-I,e Agency plans to meet its income targeting requirements based on its fair share of regional housing needs as determined by. ABAG, from.lanuary i,2002 through the end of the ten year compliance period in 2014. The determination of the targeting by age is teased on 2000 Census data.which indicates that 89 percent of the County's popuiation.is under 65 years of age.The Agency has the option of spending a disproportionate amount of its Housing f=unds for very low-income households and to subtract a commensurate amount fi-om the low and/or moderato-income thresholds.The .A_uLney can also provide a disproportionate amount of funding for low income housing by reducirte the amount of funds Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VI-34 Amended Five Year Iml)lementation Plan The Agency met its household income targeting requirements from January 1, 2002 through ,lune 30, 2004. vReview of this Amended Implementation Plan indicates that currently the Agency is partially satisfying targeting requirements. The Agency has met targeting requirements for low income households by spending at least 20 percent of housing fund expenditures on this income group. The Agency needed to increase expenditures on very low Income households by 8 percent and reduce expenditures on moderate income households by 5 percent to satisfy targeting limits for theses income gtroups. ABAG has determined the County's Fair Share Allocation for 2007-2014; adjusting. the Agency's targeting requirements during the next Implementation Plan covering, FY2009/10 through 2013/14. The Agency's new targeting requirements require housing fund expenditures are spent on at least 39 percent very low income and 28 percent on low income households, and no more than 33 percent on moderate income households. The Agency will focus on continuing. to meet targeting requirements determined by ABAG for 1999-2006 until the next implementation plan period. Table VI-8 shows the Agency's projected expenditures by income level for each year from 2007/08 to 2013/14. y Table NII-8 Projected Housing Fund Targeting Expenditures Bay Point Project Area FY 2007/08 to FY 2013/14 Affordable Housing Minimum Minimum Maximum Total Projects and Targeted o Targeted to Targeted to Programs" Vere Low Income Low income Moderate income Families Families Families" County s Fair Share Allocation 2006-2014 35% 200/b 45% FY 2007-08 987,655 336,321 2 59,7 14 1,583;690 FY 2008-09 11487,655 336.321 259,714 2,083;690 FY 2009-10 1,487,655 336,321 259,714 2,083;690 FY 2010-11 1;184,321 296.321 169;714 1.650,357 FY 2011-12 880;571 262;571 169,714 1.312;857 FY 2012-13 164.571 208,571 169;714 542,857 FY 2013-14 164,571 208,571 169,714 542,857 Total 6.357;000 1.985,000 1.458,000 9.800.000 `%o Total 65% 20% 15`yo I(10`5b a. Housing Program costs do not include Agency administration costs. b. The Agency may expend 45%of their housing funds on housing for very lo,,v, low or moderate income residents.however must not exceed spending this percentage on moderate income housing. Source: Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency and Association of Bay Area Governments The CRL also requires the Agency to allocate its housing funds in a way that is consistent with the population by age distribution present. in the community. In 2006; the CRL's formula for determinina, the. amount of expenditures for households with a member under age 65 changed to "low income households with a member under age 65". The Census Bureau does not provide data in this format: the Agency does allocated to housing affordable to moderate income households. In no event can the expenditures tareeted to housim-,affordable to moderate inconic households exceed the threshold amount W percent). This requirement must be achieved over the period between.lanuary 1; 2002 and the cun-ent compliance period ending in 2014. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency VJ-35 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan not need to address this until the next Implementation Plan is completed and will continue to work with the preexisting. age target ng goals. That is, the Agency should spend no more than 11 percent of its Housing Fund to support age restricted affordable housing." The Agency has not expended funds on age restricted housing."' Thus, the percentage of"Housing. Funds spent on non-age restricted housing is more than adequate to satisfy the CRL requirement of a minimum expenditure of funds. The .Agency will continue to monitor Housing Fund expenditures in order to comply with the requirement for minimum expenditures on non-age.restricted housing. N. Projected 10 Year Housing Projects and Activities The Agency will undertake affordable housing projects and programs in the Bay Point Proiect .Area during a tett-year planning period from 2004/05 to 2013/14 in order to comply with affordable housing. production requirements mandated by the CRL. The Agency will work to expand the Project Area's supply housing affordable to very low, low and moderate income persons..A minimum portion of housing will be non-age,restricted and a maximum portion housing. will be restricted to seniors age 65 and over. The anticipated expenditures listed under each project reflect expenditures through FY 2013/14. Project/Program Description Expenditures Anticipated Through Completion FY 2013-14 Low to Moderate Housing Program Agency funds will be used for preserving and Expenditures to Date: Ongoing increasing the Project Area's supply of SO affordable units. Activities may include, but are not limited to; site acquisition, developer subsidies for constructing. affordable units; Anticipated infill housing; rehabilitation of existing Expenditures: housing. for moderate income households, s 1,000,000 and purchasing affordability covenants. Habitat. for Humanity The. Agency will assist with the land acquisition and development of nine newly Expenditures to Date: 2010 constructed units as part of a 9-unit infill s0 affordable housing development in the Bella Vista neighborhood of Bay Point. Anticipated Expenditures: 5700,000 Data on aoe restricted housmu expenditures have been provided by the Agency. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-36 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan BiBett Predevelopment Financial assistance will be given to facilitate the relocation of .an alcohol and drug Expenditures to Date: 2010 rehabilitation group home from the Orbisonia SO Heigltt.s area to an.alternative location in :Bay Point. The group home is being relocated to implement a residential mixed-use; transit "Anticipated oriented pro ject in Orbisonia Heights. Expenditures: 5600,000 BART Specific Plan I implementation— Development Zone 2 A transit-oriented development is being, Expenditures to Date: 2011 implemented in the vicinity of the So Pittsburu!Bav Point BART Station. The Agency may participate in land assemblage, predevelopment assistance; infi-astruciure Anticipated assistance; or construction financing for Expenditures: affordable, higher density residential and/or S 1.3 0.000 �. mixed-use projects. Land assembly activity is currently underway in the Orbisonia 1-leights area, which is just east of the BART Station. BART Specific Plan Implementation— Developmenl Zone 3 7-lie Agency may provide future assistance Expenditures to Date: 2012 with the. Far Hills site and the Canal SO Road./Bailey Road area sites in relation to the transit-oriented development described under BART Specific Plan Implementation I Anticipated Development Zone 2. Expenditures: S 1.3 50.000 Youth Homes Financial assistance will be provided to facilitate the relocation of this group home Expenditures to Date: 2010 for homeless youth from the Orbisonia SO Heielits area. Considerin1,, is being given to relocating to a site owned by the Agency on Bel Air lane. Anticipated Expenditures: 5300.000 Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency .VF-37 Amended Five Year Implementation Plan Hertz Property The. Agency is considering acquiring a nntltifamilY site at Alberts and Willow Pass Expenditures to Date: 2012 Road to maintain as affordable housing,. The SO current owner, the Hertz Family Trust; has completed the removal of an underground gasoline storage tank and is marketing the Anticipated property for development. Expenditures: 52.000.000 Housing Rehabilitation Program The Agency has funds available for loans to low and moderate income homeowners to Expenditures to Date: 2016 repair and modernize single family loans. SO . Loans are also available to investor OWrIers who wish to upgrade their rental properties. Anticipated Expenditures: S 1.000.000 Homebuyer Resale Transaction Costs The Agency has provided financial assistance to homebuyers in the. past. These deed- Expenditures to Date: 2016 restricted units have a right-to-first-refusal s0 for the Agency to acquire in order to maintain the affordability. Funds are required to purchase, hold, and resell these .Anticipated properties. Expenditures: 5640.000 Housing Development Fund --- i The Agency holds a reserve fund to act as a catalyst for additional affordable housinvg Expenditures to Date: 2016 development project-s and programs. so . Anticipated Expenditures: $860.000 Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-38 Amended Five Year implementation Plan Expenditures to Date: TOTAL Anticipated Expenditures: 59.800.000 0. Completion of Housing Qbiigations The .Agency is required to comply with and fulfill its affordable housing responsibilities, including housin2. fund, replacement housing; and affordable housin,11 production .responsibilities; prior to the expiration of the time limit on redevelopment plan effectiveness."The law further requires that for a Redevelopment Project that is within six years of reaching, its limit on plan effectiveness. an implementation plan needs to address the ability of the agency to comply with its housing responsibilities. The Project .Area will not reach its time limit on plan effecaiveness prior to the expiration of this Amended ]mplementation.Plan and is not within six years of reaching this time limit; thus this Amended Implementation Plan does not need to address how the Agency will compicte its.housinLy obligtions. 'CRL Section 33333.5.as amended by SB 211. Contra Costa County Redevelopment Agency V1-39 Amended Fivc Year implementation Plan rt_1=, U-5 .:J r:,.. ' p� �,,� APR 0.fy 1•+.4' / �IViI ftCCIP �O 20 08 L[u : gf � '-Nq'IC CLERK.B •.w , .:'�4 COO•ARU p(- :�1nC(3VfSOr�S N"FRA COSTA Co. CIIR ITN ;=t.)R. IMMEDIATE TRA.h_NfS'1'1TTTAL April 7, ':00 Contra Costa Couzi.ty Board of Supervisors 651 Pine Street _Martinez, CA. 9435 -1 22 2y Dear Chair Glover and Members of. the 13oard: icunt`'r 2)00 +-Q7 n:ties thrr n_i-,llout tfie Stale l nt:ri;uiri� Cc:th ri. C-c is C_ ,i,) began n 1F v. , coi uicludirt.� Sales and 1 ',e Tax (Reve'nue and Taxation Code ecrivn 97.68) i::n,-1 Vehick License Fee (Revenue arid TaXation Cocke section C7.70) <,cliustrrtent AOLUIIS in their computation of property I:ax admiYustration cost sllarc Thi inri_l. i.c�rl leas led to significant increAses in property tax administration co is for cities thrOu hou.t I.he State. The. City of Pittsburg has been hit exceptionally hard by tii-ds change, 1-ta,ving c rtGared a. massive 3175% increaw in FY 2006-07. kv!-tile cl.t). staff did riot agree with the Cotu Wi; that the, Sa1,es and I.:se T x and Vehicle License .Fee adiu-strnent amounts sl.-tc,uic1. be :i.nciuded. h7l Ei.e ci.ticullaticm for . administration chargcs, staff was z) 'vire that !:ht SI-FTEtra_ilxolle.r's, 1ij:1Ce (1) y.,ad- bE'f2n asked to weigh in on the i;Suo and elected. to ltii3li: zc7': their opinion 1:�:r.:�l'c filr'm�clly protesting the Count'y}'s interpretation. The SCO legal office offered. their opinion in a let+.e._ .:bated �'�lualy i, 2r(1:�. iri. fl.1-. letter, Jeffrey V. Farcnvnfield, Chi.ell- of the Division. o; ! ucwits fc r the `tate Coialrillcrr ; Office sto ted ,'ate I'it' L.!7Ur 5 cr Fes SJ1_ 1P!4,1 .11Ci1:`.. 1 Phi-,Zo.'ll'.71H:'7 'Rei?t'F;.7.f tC-mtq fi .17 -OC1'_' �i'• ')+.:_ 7 1,; 're-Id. ��. 1), `.'•1::. lt'V: l:f7117e: fh.,7r S171.t!; !!7iil 17,?7d 6'E:1?.':IC T.'- _, .r[':. pis t[:„1' ,;() ti 7 17:,,d Ti1Xf11-Ior t_oiIc!'erfrV7: 96,j . order :D ! e"er"nine 1117?-r,;?57ri z,:e CC+.f A[71';.-3 SiG f:!i•.'..- t.'t'l,"':�t7 1aft,. ch2R` 7.•.' rt"i�>777:' :�i7('7'li . »:'_ ii7'17111• ei:i F0 adr77it7.istrtz+i rl' :ic'7i.77C_'S I7:.^.i L':�:Ci ii;= �I.ir':i.t-XL[C:i C:[I:i C•1:1"•Pi!1lil:'.I�.. ,1.iC�:'_`'C�'"L+iC� arab us,- Tax rild Vcl7 irie Lice}:;e Fe[' ci7art7:'s. [,4 e r.77.1s': be h._,ed Cul;u"r7.Cnl Cos- Glid i(!C Rchial C•J-r:s PCl:lfl77,- %:-i nlT:'i. C!;'L7 of chi!';E: inii"11 411;`.0 tl"0771 L:7I; ii7'!oi(7 Contra Costa County Board of 5upevisors April 7,20DS Page 2 .Staff recently received Contra Costa Count 's ororus{_d FY 2Ci07/i)8, I:=ropc3r.ty Tax Adn,i.zlistrative Cast Rec-every fees and ,�rere extremely disappointed that the recommendations of the SCO have not been folicjvved. The revenues collected for S,.a.Zes and Use Tax and Vehicle License Fee adjustments have once main, been. i aldudetd. the calculation of net revenue per jiirisdi.ction. In a direct cont-rast to what t:he SCO opined, this net revenue, inclusive of the additional, adjustments, is thc-,n used to calculate the property tax adrninlstra tion.charges. In addition, no sL>p,arate documentati.anfair Sales and Use Tax and Vehicle T...icense ice char-es"( as offerecl as recommended b,r the SCO_ We are therefore forn:ially protesting the Uetej nination of Property 'Tax Aclsr nistrative Cost Peccovery for FY 2007/08 as scheduled to L)e heard at a public hearing by the Contra . Costa County Board of Supertrisors at%Tour m(?e!ing F.d-iedc.,%ed. for Tuesday, ,4-prill S, 2008. Sincereh,�, r ter( Will Casey I4;Ta j'or cc: City Council 14Tezr�bexs .]"(-,rL Cullen, Chief Adtrdnist-rative Officer CITY OF" SAN PABLO 0.A`4D AA One Alvarado Square 13831 San Pablo Avenue * San Pablo, CA 94806 www.ci.san-pablo.ca.us Phone 510.215.3000, Fax 510.620.0204 Office of the Mayor April 8, 2008 __._......_..............._..__._.___.i APR 1 Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors 651 Pine Street Martinez,.CA 94553-1229 Dear Chair Glover and Members'of the Board: In fiscal year 2006-07, counties throughout the State (including Contra Costa County) began including Sales and Use Tax (Revenue and Taxation Code section 97.68) and Vehicle License Fee (Revenue and Taxation Code section 97.70) adjustment. amounts in their computation of property tax administration cost shares. This inclusion has led to significant increases in property tax administration costs for cities throughout the State. The City of San Pablo has been hit exceptionally hard by this change, having endured. a massive 63% increase in fiscal year 2006-07. While City staff did not agree with the County's interpretation that the Sales and Use Tax and Vehicle.License Fee adjustment amounts should be included in the calculation for administration charges, staff was aware that the State Controller's Office (SCO) had been asked to weigh in on the issue and elected to wait for their opinion before formally protesting the County's interpretation. The SCO legal office offered their opinion in a letter dated January 7, 2008. In this letter, Jeffrey V. Brownfield, Chief of the Division of Audits for the State Controller's Office stated "As the counties' assessors and treasurer-tax collectors incur no additional costs in implementing Revenue and Taxation code sections 97.68 and 97.70, SCO legal counsel opined that Sales and Use Tax and Vehicle License Fee adjustment amounts cannot be added to Revenue and Taxation Code section 96.1 and section 100 computed property tax shares in order to determine administrative cost shares. Statutes clearly state that no amount should be charged for administrative services that exceeds the actual cost of providing such services. Legal.counsel further opined that counties must maintain separate documentation ,for Sales and Use Tax and Vehicle License Fee charges, as fees must be C� e �C Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors Page 2 April 8,2008 based on actual costs and the actual costs relating to each type of charge might differ from one another." Staff recently received Contra Costa County's proposed. 2007/08 Property Tax Administrative Cost Recovery fees and . were extremely disappointed that the recommendations of the SCO have not been followed..The revenues collected for Sales and Use Tax and Vehicle-License Fee adjustments have once again been included the calculation of net revenue per jurisdiction. In a. direct contrast to what the SCO opined, this net revenue, inclusive of the additional adjustments, is then used to calculate the property tax administration charges. In addition, no separate documentation for Sales and Use Tax and Vehicle License Fee charges was offered as recommended by the SCO. We are therefore formally protesting the Determination of Property Tax Administrative Cost Recovery for 2007/08 as scheduled to be heard at a public hearing by the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors at your meeting scheduled for April 8, 2008. Sincerely, wvx Sharon J. Brown Mayor