O2109
ORDINANCE NO. 2109 (CCS)
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SANTA MONICA
AMENDING THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE
DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT
TO EXTEND CERTAIN TIME LIMITS
WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Plan ("Redevelopment Plan") for the Downtown
Redevelopment Project ("Project Area") was approved and adopted by the City Council
of the City of Santa Monica ("City Council") on January 13, 1976, by Ordinance No.
1021; and
WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6 applies to every
redevelopment plan adopted on or before December 31, 1993; and
WHEREAS, the Project Area was adopted on or before December 31, 1993;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6(a), the
Redevelopment Plan contains a time limit for the effectiveness of the Redevelopment
Plan; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6(b), the
Redevelopment Plan contains a time limit for the payment of indebtedness and receipt
of property taxes; and
WHEREAS, the California State Legislature has enacted SB 1045, making
various amendments to the Community Redevelopment Law (Health and Safety Code
Section 33000 et seq.), which was chaptered as Chapter 260 and became effective on
September 2, 2003; and
WHEREAS, Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6(e)(2)(C), as amended by
SB 1045, provides that when an agency is required to make a payment pursuant to
Health and Safety Code Section 33681.9, the legislative body may amend the
redevelopment plan to extend the time limits required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and
(b) of Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6 by one year by adoption of an
ordinance, without the necessity of compliance with Health and Safety Code Section
33354.6 or Article 12 of the Community Redevelopment Law (commencing with Section
33450) or any other provision relating to amendments, including, but not limited to, the
requirement to make payments to affected taxing entities required by Health and Safety
Code Section 33607.7; and
WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Monica ("Agency")
is required to make a payment pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33681.9;
and
WHEREAS, the Agency and the City Council desire to extend by one year the
time limit on the effectiveness of the Redevelopment Plan and the time limit for paying
indebtedness and receiving property taxes for the Project Area.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Santa Monica does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1 Amendment of Time Limits. In accordance with Health and Safety
Code Section 33333.6(e)(2)(C), and notwithstanding any other provision in the
2
Redevelopment Plan, the City Council hereby amends the Redevelopment Plan as
stated herein by adoption of this Ordinance, and establishes the following limitations:
A. Plan Effectiveness. In accordance with Health and Safety Code
Section 33333.6(a), the effectiveness of the Redevelopment Plan for the Downtown
Redevelopment Project shall terminate January 13, 2017.
B. Repayment of Indebtedness: Receipt of Property Taxes. In
accordance with Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6(b), except as provided in
subdivisions (f) and (g) of Health and Safety Code Section 33333.6, the Agency shall
not pay indebtedness or receive property taxes pursuant to Health and Safety Code
Section 33670 after January 13, 2027, for the purposes of the Downtown
Redevelopment Project.
SECTION 2. Application. The limitations established in this Ordinance shall
apply to the Redevelopment Plan for the Downtown Redevelopment Project and may
only be amended in the manner required and to the extent permitted by law.
SECTION 3. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal Code or appendices
thereto inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance, to the extent of such
inconsistencies and no further, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to effect the provisions of this Ordinance,
3
SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this
Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would
have passed this Ordinance and each and every section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to wh(~ther any portion
of the ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 5 The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest to the passage
of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall cause the same to be pUblis,hed once in the
official newspaper within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective 30 days from its adoption
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
4
Approved and adopted this 13th day of January, 2004.
KWc-
Richard Bloom, Mayor
State of California )
County of Los Angeles) ss,
City of Santa Monica )
I, Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 2109 (CCS) had its introduction on December 16, 2003, and
was adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held on January 13, 2004, by
the following vote:
Ayes: Council members: Mayor Bloom, Mayor Pro Tern McKeown, O'Connor,
Katz, Feinstein, Holbrook, Genser
Noes: Council members: None
Abstain: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: None
ATTEST:
~~ .~.J-
Maria M. Stewart, City aJerk
5