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AGENDA REPORT Reveweid m
City Manager
Finance Director
MEETING DATE: JANUARY 5, 2010
TO: WILLIAM A. HUSTON, CITY MANAGER & AGENCY EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR
FROM: REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY STAFF
SUBJECT: FIRST AMENDMENT TO REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT FOR MCAS
TUSTIN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AFFORDABLE HOUSING
OBLIGATIONS
SUMMARY:
The proposed First Amendment to the Reimbursement Agreement will clarify funding
assistance for development of affordable housing units within the MCAS Tustin
Redevelopment Project Area.
RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended that the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency ("Agency"):
Adopt RDA Resolution No. 10-02 approving and authorizing the execution of a "First
Amendment to the Reimbursement Agreement Between the City of Tustin and the
Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency Related to Affordable Housing
Responsibilities To Be Assumed by the Agency" ("Amended Reimbursement
Agreement').
It is recommended that the Tustin City Council ("City"):
Adopt Resolution No. 10-10 approving and authorizing the execution of the Amended
Reimbursement Agreement.
FISCAL IMPACT:
As was the case with the Original Reimbursement Agreement, funding under the
Amended Reimbursement Agreement would be made from tax increment revenues
from the MCAS Tustin Project Area and from the Agency's low and moderate income
Housing Set-Aside deposits from the Town Center and South Central Project Areas
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(since there are resolutions adopted for City-wide benefit) as determined by the Agency
and Director of Finance
BACKGROUND:
On June 5, 2007, the Tustin City Council and Tustin Community Redevelopment
Agency approved and authorized the execution of a "Reimbursement Agreement
Between the City of Tustin and the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency Related
to Affordable Housing Responsibilities To Be Assumed by the Agency on June 5, 2005'
(the "Original Reimbursement Agreemeni") to assist the Agency in carrying out its
affordable housing obligations under the MCAS Tustin Redevelopment Plan.
Required Housing Obligations
The City of Tustin approved the MCAS Reuse/Specific Plan on February 3, 2003, as
subsequently amended, and the City and Agency approved the MCAS Tustin
Redevelopment Plan on June 16, 2003. The Reuse/Specific Plan and the
Redevelopment Plan specify the number of affordable housing units to be produced
within the Project Area.
Under the California Health and Safety Code, Section 33000, et.seq. (California
Community Redevelopment Law, the "CRL"), at least 15% of all new and substantially
rehabilitated dwelling units developed within a project area are required to be made
available at an affordable housing cost to and occupied by person and families of low-
or moderate-income with not less than the 40% of the total required dwelling units to be
affordable to very-low income households. Affordable dwelling units produced in a
project area must remain affordable for a period of at least 45 years for for-sale unit and
55 years for rental units. In addition, the CRL requires not less than 20% of the tax
increment revenues in a project area be deposited into aLow- and Moderate-Income
Housing Set-Aside Fund, which may only be expended for affordable housing purposes.
Both the above requirements under the CRL must be met every 10 years during the
period of the Redevelopment Plan.
The ten-year production and expenditure requirements under the CRL put a high
financial burden on redevelopment agencies such as Tustin which have new project
areas that have a high number of new dwelling units being developed during the early
years of the Plan. There is insufficient tax increment revenue in the MCAS Tustin
Project Area's early years for the Agency to make subsidies available to developers at
the levels that would permit the development of the affordable housing on an
economically feasible basis. In order to assist the Agency in meeting its affordable
housing obligations in the MCAS Tustin Project Area, the City of Tustin has or will enter
into agreements to sell property at a discount sufficient to permit developers to
economically develop the required number of affordable housing units and has already
encumbered the sale of certain properties and units with covenants, promissory notes
and deeds of trust to ensure maintaining the affordability of those units in accordance
with the CRL.
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To date, a total of 118 affordable housing units have been produced on property
originally owned by the City and sold to John Laing Homes. The affordable housing
units are located at Tustin Fields I & II and are comprised of 33 Very Low-Income, 23
Low-Income, and 62 Moderate-Income units, which are secured by promissory notes
and deeds of trusts by the City that reflect a total promissory note value associated with
production of the affordable housing units of $46,407,736. Preliminary estimates
indicate that required future affordable housing units within the remaining master
developer footprint at Tustin Legacy project could exceed this amount.
The Agency's special redevelopment attorney on the MCAS Tustin Redevelopment
Project, McDonough Holland and Allen, originally reviewed the City and Agency's
affordable housing programs at MCAS Tustin and determined that the CRL permitted
the City and Agency to enter into the Original Reimbursement Agreement permitting the
City to be reimbursed for its financial assistance to the Agency in carrying out the
Redevelopment Plan, including the production of affordable housing units. The Agency
may reimburse the City from tax increment generated by the Project Area and from its
Housing Set-Aside Funds as allowed under the CRL. Since the City and Agency have
adopted resolutions finding that the affordable housing units at MCAS Tustin benefit not
just the MCAS Tustin Project Area but also the Town Center and South Central Project
Area, reimbursement may come from the Housing Set-Aside Fund for all three project
areas as was identified in the Original Agreement staff report to City Council dated June
5, 2007. The Original Agreement also included terms of the City's assistance and the
Agency's obligations, which allows for flexibility regarding when periodic payments may
be made by the Agency to the extent that funds are available to the Agency for such
purpose. The Agreement will allow the Agency to reimburse the City to cover both
sales of properties occurring prior to approval of the Original Reimbursement
Agreement as well as those made afterward.
Conclusion
McDonough Holland and Allen have recently recommended some minor clarifying
amendments to the Original Reimbursement Agreement (the "Amended
Reimbursement Agreement") to make the more explicitly clear the Agency's original
reimbursement intentions which are attached for approval by the Agency and City
Council.
Staff will be available at the January 5th City Council meeting to answer any questions.
Christine Shingleto
Assistant City Manager
Attachments: RDA Resolution 10-02
City Council Resolution 10-10
(the above resolutions include copy of First Amendment to Reimbursement Agreement)
RESOLUTION NO. 10-02
RESOLUTION OF THE TUSTIN COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AUTHORIZING THE
EXECUTION OF A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE
REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF
TUSTIN
WHEREAS, the City of Tustin ("City") adopted a Specific Plan/Reuse Plan for
the former Marine Corps Air Station-Tustin ("Specific Plan/Reuse Plan") on February
3, 2003, by Ordinance No. 1257, which provides the policies, regulations,
implementation strategies and procedures necessary to guide the civilian reuse of
the former Marine Corps Air Station-Tustin ("MCAS");
WHEREAS, the City adopted the Redevelopment Plan ("Redevelopment
Plan") for the Marine Corps Air Station Tustin Redevelopment Project ("MCAS
Project") on June 2, 2003, by Ordinance No.1276, which authorizes the use within
the MCAS Project of the powers contained in the California Community
Redevelopment Law (Health & Safety Code §33000 et seq.), including, without
limitation, the authorization to receive an allocation of a portion of the property taxes
paid in the MCAS Project area pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section
33670(b) ("Tax Increment");
WHEREAS, the City has acquired from the Department of the Navy certain
real property within the MCAS Project for re-sale to developers for the development
of residential uses pursuant to the Specific Plan/Reuse Plan and the Redevelopment
Plan;
WHEREAS, the Community Redevelopment Law requires that not less than
twenty percent (20%) of the Tax Increment allocated to the Tustin Community
Redevelopment Agency ("Agency") must be used by the Agency for the purposes of
increasing, improving, and preserving the community's supply of affordable housing
for persons and families of low and moderate income;
WHEREAS, the Community Redevelopment Law also requires that at least
fifteen percent (15%) of all new and substantially rehabilitated dwelling units
developed within a redevelopment project area shall be available at affordable
housing cost to persons and families of low or moderate income and shall be
occupied by these persons and families (the "Inclusionary Housing Require-ment").
Not less than forty percent (40%) of these dwelling units must be available at
affordable housing cost to very low-income households and shall be occupied by
these persons and families;
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WHEREAS, the Specific Plan/Reuse Plan also requires specified numbers of
affordable housing units be developed in the MCAS Project area;
WHEREAS, in order to assist the Agency with carrying out the
Redevelopment Plan and specifically the implementation of the Inclusionary Housing
Requirement, the City has re-sold and will re-sell certain real property ("Property")
within the MCAS Project area for residential development at a price below market
rates in order to permit developers to economically develop the required number of
affordable housing units and has encumbered or will encumber such Property with
covenants and deeds of trust requiring that housing units developed on such
Property remain available at affordable housing costs to, and occupied by, persons
and families of low or moderate income for at least the periods of time prescribed by
Health and Safety Code Section 33334.3(f). The difference between the market
price of such Property (including the affordable units developed thereon) and the
discounted price received by the City is hereinafter referred to as the "City Discount;"
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 33128 of the Health and Safety Code, the
Agency is performing a public function of the City and may have access to services
and facilities of the City; and
WHEREAS, on June 5, 2007 by minute action, the City and Agency
authorized and the City and the Agency entered into an agreement
("Reimbursement Agreement") to:
1. Provide the terms and conditions under which the Agency will
reimburse the City for the City Discount;
2. Set forth activities, services and facilities that the City will render for
and make available to the Agency in furtherance of the activities and functions of the
Agency under the Community Redevelopment Law; and
3. Provide that the Agency will reimburse the City for actions undertaken
and costs and expenses incurred by it for and on behalf of the Agency; and
WHEREAS, the repayment obligation under the Reimbursement Agreement
currently applies only to the MCAS Project, the Agency desires to encumber tax
increment deposited into the low and moderate income housing fund of the City's
two other redevelopment projects, Town Center Redevelopment Project ("Town
Center Project") and South Central Redevelopment Project ("South Central Project")
to repay the City its obligation under the Reimbursement Agreement.
WHEREAS, the time limit on incurring indebtedness for both the Town Center
Project and South Central Project has seemingly expired and no ordinance
eliminating the time limit on incurring indebtedness pursuant to California Health and
Safety Code Section 33333.6(e)(2)(b) has been adopted, California Health and
Safety Code Section 33333.6(e)(4)(A) provides for a suspension of the time limit on
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incurring indebtedness as follows: "A time limit on the establishing of loans,
advances, and indebtedness to be paid with the proceeds of [tax increment] shall not
prevent an agency from incurring debt to be paid from the agency's Low and
Moderate Income Housing Fund or establishing more debt in order to fulfill the
agency's affordable housing obligations, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision
(a) of Section 33333.8." Section 33333.8(a)(1) goes on to define an agency's
affordable housing obligations as including: (a) the obligation to make deposits to
and expenditures from the low and moderate income housing fund;(b) eliminate
deficits in the housing fund; (c) expend or transfer an excess surplus; (d) provide
relocation assistance; (e) provide replacement housing; (f) provide inclusionary
housing."
WHEREAS, the Agency has previously adopted resolutions for the MCAS
Project, Town Center Project and South Central Project finding that the expenditure
of monies from the low and moderate income housing fund outside of each project
area will be of benefit to each redevelopment project. Specifically, Resolution Nos.
RDA 05-01 and RDA 05-02 adopted by the Agency on March 21, 2005, for South
Central Project and Town Center Project respectively, each state that such monies
will be used to provide low and moderate income housing at an affordable housing
cost to persons and families of low and moderate income within the territorial
jurisdiction of the Agency, and for other purposes authorized by the Community
Redevelopment Law. Additionally, the Agency on page 17 of its Mid-Term Report
for the Town Center and South Central Redevelopment Project Areas' Third Five-
Year Implementation Plan (FY 2005/06 to FY 2009/10) made specific reference to its
intention that the Agency would reimburse the City for its financial assistance to the
Agency in producing affordable housing units, said reimbursement to possibly come
from tax increment generated from the MCAS Project and from housing set aside
funds not only from the MCAS Project, but from Town Center Project and South
Central Project as well.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE TUSTIN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
1. The Agency finds and determines that: (1) the purpose of this First
Amendment to Reimbursement Agreement is to enable the Agency to sell bonds
and pledge as security therefor money from the Low and Moderate Incoming
Housing Fund of the MCAS Tustin, South Central and Town Center Redevelopment
Projects, and (2) the First Amendment to Reimbursement Agreement is therefore a
contract within the meaning of Government Code Section 53511, subject to the
validation procedures set forth in Code of Civil Procedure Section 860 et seq.
2. The "First Amendment to Reimbursement Agreement" between the
City and the Agency, in the form attached to this resolution as Exhibit A and
incorporated herein by reference, is hereby approved, and the Executive Director is
hereby directed and authorized to execute said First Amendment to Reimbursement
Agreement on behalf of the Agency.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Tustin Community
Redevelopment Agency held on the 5th day January, 2010.
JERRY AMANTE
CHAIRMAN
PAM STOKER
CITY CLERK
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF TUSTIN )
I, Pamela Stoker, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the Tustin Community
Redevelopment Agency of the City of Tustin, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of the members of the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency of the
City of Tustin is five; that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 10-02 was duly
passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Tustin Community Redevelopment
Agency, held on the 51h day of January, 2010 by the following vote:
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD MEMBER AYES:
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD MEMBER NOES:
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD MEMBER ABSTAINED:
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD MEMBER ABSENT:
PAMELA STOKER
CITY CLERK
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EXHIBIT A
FIRST AMENDMENT TO REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT
[To Be Inserted.]
1271387v1 29171/0001 Exhibit A
FIRST AMENDMENT TO REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE
CITY OF TUSTIN
AND
TUSTIN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
RELATED TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING RESPONSIBILITIES TO BE
ASSUMED
BY THE AGENCY
This First Amendment ("First Amendment") is entered into as of the 5th day of
January, 2010 ("Effective Date"), by and between the CITY OF TUSTIN, a municipal
corporation ("City") and the TUSTIN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, a
public body corporate and politic ("Agency").
RECITALS
A. The City has previously acquired from the Department of the Navy certain
real property within the Marine Corps Air Station-Tustin Redevelopment Project
("MCAS Project") for resale to developers for the development of residential uses
including specified numbers of affordable housing units pursuant to the Specific
Plan/Reuse Plan and the Redevelopment Plan.
B. On June 5, 2007, the City and the Agency entered into an agreement
("Reimbursement Agreement") pursuant to which the Agency agreed to reimburse the
City from Tax Increment received by the Agency from the MCAS Project and other
available Agency sources, including funds deposited into the Agency's low and moderate
income housing fund for the MCAS Project, the difference between the market value of
the affordable units and the affordable sale price of such affordable housing units. This
difference, represented by the gap funding assistance provided to affordable homebuyers
with promissory notes by second deeds of trust in favor of the City, was referred to in the
Reimbursement Agreement as the "Housing Affordability Subsidy."
C. While the repayment obligation under the Reimbursement Agreement
applies s to the MCAS Project and other available Agency sources and was intended to
also apply to the Town Center and South Central Project Area as identified in the
Reimbursement Agreement City Council and Agency staff reports and authorizations
dated June 5, 2009 , the Agency desires to make it explicitly clear that the Agency may
also encumber tax increment deposited into the low and moderate income housing fund
of the City's two other redevelopment projects, Town Center Redevelopment Project
("Town Center Project") and South Central Redevelopment Project ("South Central
Project"), to repay the City its obligation under the Reimbursement Agreement.
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D. Though the time limit on incurring indebtedness for both the Town Center
Project and South Central Project has seemingly expired and no ordinance eliminating the
time limit on incurring indebtedness pursuant to California Health and Safety Code
Section 33333.6(e)(2)(b) has been adopted, California Health and Safety Code Section
33333.6(e)(4)(A) provides for a suspension of the time limit on incurring indebtedness as
follows: "A time limit on the establishing of loans, advances, and indebtedness to be paid
with the proceeds of [tax increment] shall not prevent an agency from incurring debt to
be paid from the agency's Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund or establishing more
debt in order to fulfill the agency's affordable housing obligations, as defined in
paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 33333.8." Section 33333.8(a)(1) goes on to
define an agency's affordable housing obligations as including: (a) the obligation to make
deposits to and expenditures from the low and moderate income housing fund; (b)
eliminate deficits in the housing fund; (c) expend or transfer an excess surplus; (d)
provide relocation assistance; (e) provide replacement housing; (f) provide inclusionary
housing."
E. The Agency has previously adopted resolutions for all three
redevelopment projects finding that the expenditure of monies from the low and moderate
income housing fund outside of each project area will be of benefit to each
redevelopment project. Specifically, Resolution Nos. RDA OS-O1 and RDA OS-02
adopted by the Agency on March 21, 2005, for South Central Project and Town Center
Project respectively, each state that such monies will be used to provide low and
moderate income housing at an affordable housing cost to persons and families of low
and moderate income within the territorial jurisdiction of the Agency, and for other
purposes authorized by the California Community Redevelopment Law (Health & Safety
Code §§33000 et seq.). Additionally, the Agency, on page 17 of its Mid-Term Report for
the Town Center and South Central Redevelopment Project Areas' Third Five-Year
Implementation Plan (FY 2005/06 to FY 2009/10) made specific reference to its intention
that the Agency would reimburse the City for its financial assistance to the Agency in
producing affordable housing units, said reimbursement to possibly come from tax
increment generated from the MCAS Project and from housing set aside funds not only
from the MCAS Project, but from Town Center Project and South Central Project as well.
F. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning
ascribed to them in the Reimbursement Agreement.
THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:
1. Project: All references to the defined term "Project" in the
Reimbursement Agreement shall be deemed to refer to the Marine Corps Air Station-
Tustin Redevelopment Project.
2. Amendment of Recital H: Recital H of the Reimbursement Agreement is
hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
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"H. To assist the Agency in ensuring that such affordable housing units
developed on such Property are sold and remain available at affordable
housing costs to, and occupied by, persons and families of low or
moderate income at a subsidized affordable sale price for at least the
periods of time prescribed by Health and Safety Code Section 33334.3(f),
and to provide for future ongoing monitoring requirements for such
affordable units under Health and Safety Code Section 33418, the City
has encumbered or will encumber such units with covenants and deeds of
trust. The difference between the market value of such units and the
affordable sale price of such affordable housing units (which difference
includes the discounted sale price of the Property received by the City) is
represented by promissory notes and secured by second deeds of trust in
favor of City, hereinafter referred to as the "Housing Affordability
Subsidy."
3. Amendment of Recital I: Recital I of the Reimbursement Agreement is
hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
"I. As of the date of this Agreement, the City has resold to developers
for residential development Property on which a total of Five Hundred
Sixty Five (565) housing units will be constructed. Of the Five Hundred
and Sixty Five (565) housing units to be constructed, One Hundred
Eighteen (118) units are restricted consistent with the Inclusionary
Housing Requirement, pursuant to an Affordable Housing Covenant and
an Affordable Housing Deed of Trust. The City's Housing Affordability
Subsidy for the units sold as of the date of this Agreement is Forty Six
Million Four Hundred Seven and Seven Hundred and Thirty Six
DOLLARS ($46,407,736) which amount has not yet been repaid to the
City.
The City also anticipates reselling additional Property to developers for
residential development on which a total of two thousand one hundred
and five (2,105) housing units will be constructed, with two hundred
(200) additional for sale units currently to be restricted with the
Inclusionary Housing Requirement. The City's Housing Affordability
Subsidy for these additional units in the future is currently estimated at
$62,296,000."
4. Amendment of Paragraph l: Paragraph 1 of the Reimbursement
Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
"1. The Agency agrees to reimburse the City for the Affordable
Housing Subsidy from (a) Tax Increment received by the Agency from
the MCAS Project or other available Agency sources, and (b) tax
increment deposited into the low and moderate income housing fund from
the MCAS Project, Town Center Project and South Central Project for
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use within the territorial jurisdiction of the Agency. The City and the
Agency agree that as of the date of this Agreement, the amount of the
Affordable Housing Subsidy is Forty Six Million Four Hundred Seven
and Seven Hundred and Thirty Six DOLLARS ($46,407,736) which
amount has not yet been repaid to the City."
5. Incorporation of Recitals: Each recital set forth in the Reimbursement
Agreement and above in this First Amendment shall be deemed apart of the
Reimbursement Agreement as amended by this First Amendment.
6. First Amendment. This First Amendment constitutes a part of the
Reimbursement Agreement and any reference in any document to the Reimbursement
Agreement shall be deemed to include a reference to such Reimbursement Agreement as
amended hereby.
7. Full Force and Effect: Except as otherwise amended hereby, all terms,
covenants, conditions and provisions of the Reimbursement Agreement shall remain in
full force and effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this First Amendment as of
the Effective Date.
CITY OF TUSTIN, a municipal corporation
ATTEST.•
Bv:
"CITY"
By:
PAM STOKER William A. Huston
CITY CLERK City Manager
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
DOUG HOLLAND
CITY ATTORNEY
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TUSTIN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY, a public body corporate and politic
"AGENCY"
By:
William A. Huston
Executive Director
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RESOLUTION NO. 10-10
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN AUTHORIZING THE
EXECUTION OF A FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE
REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT WITH THE TUSTIN
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
WHEREAS, the City of Tustin ("City") adopted a Specific Plan/Reuse Plan for
the former Marine Corps Air Station-Tustin ("Specific Plan/Reuse Plan") on February
3, 2003 by Ordinance No. 1257, which provides the policies, regulations,
implementation strategies and procedures necessary to guide the civilian reuse of
the former Marine Corps Air Station-Tustin ("MCAS");
WHEREAS, the City adopted the Redevelopment Plan ("Redevelopment
Plan") for the Marine Corps Air Station Tustin Redevelopment Project ("MCAS
Project") on June 2, 2003, by Ordinance No.1276, which authorizes the use within
the MCAS Project of the powers contained in the California Community
Redevelopment Law (Health & Safety Code §33000 et seq.), including, without
limitation, the authorization to receive an allocation of a portion of the property taxes
paid in the MCAS Project area pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section
33670(b) ("Tax Increment");
WHEREAS, the City has acquired from the Department of the Navy certain
real property within the MCAS Project for re-sale to developers for the development
of residential uses pursuant to the Specific Plan/Reuse Plan and the Redevelopment
Plan;
WHEREAS, the Community Redevelopment Law requires that not less than
twenty percent (20%) of the Tax Increment allocated to the Tustin Community
Redevelopment Agency ("Agency") must be used by the Agency for the purposes of
increasing, improving, and preserving the community's supply of affordable housing
for persons and families of low and moderate income;
WHEREAS, the Community Redevelopment Law also requires that at least
fifteen percent (15%) of all new and substantially rehabilitated dwelling units
developed within a redevelopment project area shall be available at affordable
housing cost to persons and families of low or moderate income and shall be
occupied by these persons and families (the "Inclusionary Housing Require-ment").
Not less than forty percent (40%) of these dwelling units must be available at
affordable housing cost to very low-income households and shall be occupied by
these persons and families;
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WHEREAS, the Specific Plan/Reuse Plan also requires specified numbers of
affordable housing units be developed in the MCAS Project area;
WHEREAS, in order to assist the Agency with carrying out the
Redevelopment Plan and specifically the implementation of the Inclusionary Housing
Requirement, the City has re-sold and will re-sell certain real property ("Property")
within the MCAS Project area for residential development at a price below market
rates in order to permit developers to economically develop the required number of
affordable housing units and has encumbered or will encumber such Property with
covenants and deeds of trust requiring that housing units developed on such
Property remain available at affordable housing costs to, and occupied by, persons
and families of low- or moderate-income for at least the periods of time prescribed
by Health and Safety Code Section 33334.3(f). The difference between the market
price of such Property (including the affordable units developed thereon) and the
discounted price received by the City is hereinafter referred to as the "City Discount;"
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 33128 of the Health and Safety Code, the
Agency is performing a public function of the City and may have access to services
and facilities of the City; and
WHEREAS, on June 5, 2007, by minute action, the City and Agency
approved and the City and the Agency entered into an agreement ("Reimbursement
Agreement") to:
1. Provide the terms and conditions under which the Agency will
reimburse the City for the City Discount;
2. Set forth activities, services and facilities that the City will render for
and make available to the Agency in furtherance of the activities and functions of the
Agency under the Community Redevelopment Law; and
3. Provide that the Agency will reimburse the City for actions undertaken
and costs and expenses incurred by it for and on behalf of the Agency; and
WHEREAS, the repayment obligation under the Reimbursement Agreement
currently applies only to the MCAS Project, the Agency desires to encumber tax
increment deposited into the low and moderate income housing fund of the City's
two other redevelopment projects, Town Center Redevelopment Project ("Town
Center Project") and South Central Redevelop-ment Project ("South Central
Project") to repay the City its obligation under the Reimbursement Agreement.
WHEREAS, the time limit on incurring indebtedness for both the Town Center
Project and South Central Project has seemingly expired and no ordinance
eliminating the time limit on incurring indebtedness pursuant to California Health and
Safety Code Section 33333.6(e)(2)(b) has been adopted, California Health and
Safety Code Section 33333.6(e)(4)(A) provides for a suspension of the time limit on
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incurring indebtedness as follows: "A time limit on the establishing of loans,
advances, and indebtedness to be paid with the proceeds of [tax increment] shall not
prevent an agency from incurring debt to be paid from the agency's Low and
Moderate Income Housing Fund or establishing more debt in order to fulfill the
agency's affordable housing obligations, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision
(a) of Section 33333.8." Section 33333.8(a)(1) goes on to define an agency's
affordable housing obligations as including: (a) the obligation to make deposits to
and expenditures from the low and moderate income housing fund; (b) eliminate
deficits in the housing fund; (c) expend or transfer an excess surplus; (d) provide
relocation assistance; (e) provide replacement housing; (f) provide inclusionary
housing."
WHEREAS, the Agency has previously adopted resolutions for the MCAS
Project, Town Center Project and South Central Project finding that the expenditure
of monies from the low and moderate income housing fund outside of each project
area will be of benefit to each redevelopment project. Specifically, Resolution Nos.
RDA 05-01 and RDA 05-02 adopted by the Agency on March 21, 2005 for South
Central Project and Town Center Project respectively, each state that such monies
will be used to provide low- and moderate-income housing at an affordable housing
cost to persons and families of low and moderate income within the territorial
jurisdiction of the Agency, and for other purposes authorized by the Community
Redevelopment Law. Additionally, the Agency on page 17 of its Mid-Term Report
for the Town Center and South Central Redevelopment Project Areas' Third Five-
Year Implementation Plan (FY 2005/06 to FY 2009/10) made specific reference to its
intention that the Agency would reimburse the City for its financial assistance to the
Agency in producing affordable housing units, said reimbursement to possibly come
from tax increment generated from the MCAS Project and from housing set aside
funds not only from the MCAS Project, but from Town Center Project and South
Central Project as well.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN DOES
HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
1. The City finds and determines that: (1) the purpose of this First
Amendment to Reimbursement Agreement is to enable the Agency to sell bonds
and pledge as security therefor money from the Low and Moderate Incoming
Housing Fund of the MCAS Tustin, South Central and Town Center Redevelopment
Projects, and (2) the First Amendment to Reimbursement Agreement is therefore a
contract within the meaning of Government Code Section 53511, subject to the
validation procedures set forth in Code of Civil Procedure Section 860 et seq.
2. The "First Amendment to Reimbursement Agreement" between the
City and the Agency, in the form attached to this resolution as Exhibit A and
incorporated herein by reference, is hereby approved, and the City Manager is
hereby directed and authorized to execute said First Amendment to Reimbursement
Agreement on behalf of the City.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Tustin City Council held
on the 5th day January, 2010.
JERRY AMANTE
MAYOR
PAMELA STOKER
CITY CLERK
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF TUSTIN )
I, Pamela Stoker, City Clerk of the City of Tustin, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of the members of the Tustin City Council of the City of Tustin is five;
that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 10-10 was duly passed and adopted at a
regular meeting of the Tustin City Council, held on the 51h day of January, 2010 by the
following vote:
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AYES:
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER NOES:
CITY COUNCIL ABSTAINED:
CITY COUNCIL MEMBER ABSENT:
PAMELA STOKER
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EXHIBIT A
FIRST AMENDMENT TO REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT
[To Be Inserted.]
1271366v1 29171/0001 Exhibit A
FIRST AMENDMENT TO REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE
CITY OF TUSTIN
AND
TUSTIN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
RELATED TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING RESPONSIBILITIES TO BE
ASSUMED
BY THE AGENCY
This First Amendment ("First Amendment") is entered into as of the 5th day of
January, 2010 ("Effective Date"), by and between the CITY OF TUSTIN, a municipal
corporation ("City") and the TUSTIN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY, a
public body corporate and politic ("Agency").
RECITALS
A. The City has previously acquired from the Department of the Navy certain
real property within the Marine Corps Air Station-Tustin Redevelopment Project
("MCAS Project") for resale to developers for the development of residential uses
including specified numbers of affordable housing units pursuant to the Specific
Plan/Reuse Plan and the Redevelopment Plan.
B. On June 5, 2007, the City and the Agency entered into an agreement
("Reimbursement Agreement") pursuant to which the Agency agreed to reimburse the
City from Tax Increment received by the Agency from the MCAS Project and other
available Agency sources, including funds deposited into the Agency's low and moderate
income housing fund for the MCAS Project, the difference between the market value of
the affordable units and the affordable sale price of such affordable housing units. This
difference, represented by the gap funding assistance provided to affordable homebuyers
with promissory notes by second deeds of trust in favor of the City, was referred to in the
Reimbursement Agreement as the "Housing Affordability Subsidy."
C. While the repayment obligation under the Reimbursement Agreement
applies s to the MCAS Project and other available Agency sources and was intended to
also apply to the Town Center and South Central Project Area as identified in the
Reimbursement Agreement City Council and Agency staff reports and authorizations
dated June 5, 2009 , the Agency desires to make it explicitly clear that the Agency may
also encumber tax increment deposited into the low and moderate income housing fund
of the City's two other redevelopment projects, Town Center Redevelopment Project
("Town Center Project") and South Central Redevelopment Project ("South Central
Project"), to repay the City its obligation under the Reimbursement Agreement.
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D. Though the time limit on incurring indebtedness for both the Town Center
Project and South Central Project has seemingly expired and no ordinance eliminating the
time limit on incurring indebtedness pursuant to California Health and Safety Code
Section 33333.6(e)(2)(b) has been adopted, California Health and Safety Code Section
33333.6(e)(4)(A) provides for a suspension of the time limit on incurring indebtedness as
follows: "A time limit on the establishing of loans, advances, and indebtedness to be paid
with the proceeds of [tax increment] shall not prevent an agency from incurring debt to
be paid from the agency's Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund or establishing more
debt in order to fulfill the agency's affordable housing obligations, as defined in
paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 33333.8." Section 33333.8(a)(1) goes on to
define an agency's affordable housing obligations as including: (a) the obligation to make
deposits to and expenditures from the low and moderate income housing fund; (b)
eliminate deficits in the housing fund; (c) expend or transfer an excess surplus; (d)
provide relocation assistance; (e) provide replacement housing; (f) provide inclusionary
housing."
E. The Agency has previously adopted resolutions for all three
redevelopment projects finding that the expenditure of monies from the low and moderate
income housing fund outside of each project area will be of benefit to each
redevelopment project. Specifically, Resolution Nos. RDA OS-O1 and RDA OS-02
adopted by the Agency on March 21, 2005, for South Central Project and Town Center
Project respectively, each state that such monies will be used to provide low and
moderate income housing at an affordable housing cost to persons and families of low
and moderate income within the territorial jurisdiction of the Agency, and for other
purposes authorized by the California Community Redevelopment Law (Health & Safety
Code §§33000 et seq.). Additionally, the Agency, on page 17 of its Mid-Term Report for
the Town Center and South Central Redevelopment Project Areas' Third Five-Year
Implementation Plan (FY 2005/06 to FY 2009/10) made specific reference to its intention
that the Agency would reimburse the City for its financial assistance to the Agency in
producing affordable housing units, said reimbursement to possibly come from tax
increment generated from the MCAS Project and from housing set aside funds not only
from the MCAS Project, but from Town Center Project and South Central Project as well.
F. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meaning
ascribed to them in the Reimbursement Agreement.
THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:
1. Project: All references to the defined term "Project" in the
Reimbursement Agreement shall be deemed to refer to the Marine Corps Air Station-
Tustin Redevelopment Project.
2. Amendment of Recital H: Recital H of the Reimbursement Agreement is
hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
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"H. To assist the Agency in ensuring that such affordable housing units
developed on such Property are sold and remain available at affordable
housing costs to, and occupied by, persons and families of low or
moderate income at a subsidized affordable sale price for at least the
periods of time prescribed by Health and Safety Code Section 33334.3(f),
and to provide for future ongoing monitoring requirements for such
affordable units under Health and Safety Code Section 33418, the City
has encumbered or will encumber such units with covenants and deeds of
trust. The difference between the market value of such units and the
affordable sale price of such affordable housing units (which difference
includes the discounted sale price of the Property received by the City) is
represented by promissory notes and secured by second deeds of trust in
favor of City, hereinafter referred to as the "Housing Affordability
Subsidy."
3. Amendment of Recital I: Recital I of the Reimbursement Agreement is
hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
"I. As of the date of this Agreement, the City has resold to developers
for residential development Property on which a total of Five Hundred
Sixty Five (565) housing units will be constructed. Of the Five Hundred
and Sixty Five (565) housing units to be constructed, One Hundred
Eighteen (118) units are restricted consistent with the Inclusionary
Housing Requirement, pursuant to an Affordable Housing Covenant and
an Affordable Housing Deed of Trust. The City's Housing Affordability
Subsidy for the units sold as of the date of this Agreement is Forty Six
Million Four Hundred Seven and Seven Hundred and Thirty Six
DOLLARS ($46,407,736) which amount has not yet been repaid to the
City.
The City also anticipates reselling additional Property to developers for
residential development on which a total of two thousand one hundred
and five (2,105) housing units will be constructed, with two hundred
(200) additional for sale units currently to be restricted with the
Inclusionary Housing Requirement. The City's Housing Affordability
Subsidy for these additional units in the future is currently estimated at
$62,296,000."
4. Amendment of Para~r~ph 1: Paragraph 1 of the Reimbursement
Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:
"1. The Agency agrees to reimburse the City for the Affordable
Housing Subsidy from (a) Tax Increment received by the Agency from
the MCAS Project or other available Agency sources, and (b) tax
increment deposited into the low and moderate income housing fund from
the MCAS Project, Town Center Project and South Central Project for
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use within the territorial jurisdiction of the Agency. The City and the
Agency agree that as of the date of this Agreement, the amount of the
Affordable Housing Subsidy is Forty Six Million Four Hundred Seven
and Seven Hundred and Thirty Six DOLLARS ($46,407,736) which
amount has not yet been repaid to the City."
5. Incorporation of Recitals: Each recital set forth in the Reimbursement
Agreement and above in this First Amendment shall be deemed apart of the
Reimbursement Agreement as amended by this First Amendment.
6. First Amendment. This First Amendment constitutes a part of the
Reimbursement Agreement and any reference in any document to the Reimbursement
Agreement shall be deemed to include a reference to such Reimbursement Agreement as
amended hereby.
7. Full Force and Effect: Except as otherwise amended hereby, all terms,
covenants, conditions and provisions of the Reimbursement Agreement shall remain in
full force and effect.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this First Amendment as of
the Effective Date.
CITY OF TUSTIN, a municipal corporation
ATTEST:
Bv:
PAM STOKER
CITY CLERK
"CITY"
By:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
DOUG HOLLAND
CITY ATTORNEY
William A. Huston
City Manager
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TUSTIN COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY, a public body corporate and politic
"AGENCY"
By:
William A. Huston
Executive Director
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