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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09 AMEND MCAS SURVEY 11-04-96Inter-Com NO. 9 11-4-96 DATE: NOVEMBER 4, 1996 TO: FROM: SUBJECT: WILLIAM A. HUSTON, CITY MANAGER REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY STAFF AMENDMENT TO MCAS, TUSTIN, REDEVELOPMENT SURVEY AREA RECOMMENDATION It is recommended the City Council adopt Resolution No. 96-91 mending the Redevelopment Survey Area for redevelopment study purposes by adding the area of the Marine Corps Air Stat/on, Tustirg within the City of Itvine. FISCAL IMPACT This action xa411 have no fiscal impact on the City or the Redevelopment Agency. If, after future action, the portion of the Base in In~e is included in the Redevelopment Project Area, any potential fiscal impact will be identified in an Agreement with the City of Irvine and in the Redevelopment Plan for the Project Area. BACKGROUND Marine Corps Ak Statiorg Tustin, is expected to close by 1999. The City of Tustin is the designated reuse authority for the Base and is required to develop and adopt a reuse plan. The reuse plan has been approved by the Base Task Force and City Council and is being forwarded to the Federal Government for review and approval. Included in the reuse plan will be provisions for financing the extensive infi'astructure which will be required for development of the Base, including arterial, connector and local streets, sewer lines, storm drains, and a variety of utilities. The cost for the development of this infi-astmcture is a cost the City and potential developers must bear. The City is proposing to utilize State Redevelopment Law to generate tax increment as the primary source to finance the City's portion of the costs for William A. Huston November 4, 1996 Page 2 infrastructure. Without redevelopment tax increment, there will be little or no possibility for the community to meet its obligations. On July 15, 1996, Governor Wilson signed into law special legislation to make it easier for the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency to create a Project Area for MCAS, Tustin. Consultant work has begun on the various legal documents and processes require for the creation of the project Area. Current projections are that the City Council and Redevelopment Agency could consider the creation of the project area as early as Spring of 1997. DISCUSSION The creation of a redevelopment project area is a lengthy legal proceSs. The Agency has begun the preliminary work and expects to have the project area established during Fiscal Year 1996-97. As one of the first, steps in creating this Redevelopment Project Area, the City Council, after receiving a recommendation from the Planning Commission, adopted a resolution creating the Survey Area. This survey area included the portion of the Base in the City of Tustin and limited property adjacent to the Base. A map of the original Survey Area is attached as Attachment 1. The purpose of establishing a survey area is to formally identify the area the Agency is studying for the potential Project Area. The ultimate Project Area may include any portion, or all, of the SurveY Area. Designation of the Survey Area does NOT constitute any formal statement that the property in the survey area will be included in a Redevelopment Project Area. Nor does the designation of a survey area require the creation of a Project Area and Redevelopment Plan. There are approximately 80 acres ofMCAS, Tustin, within the City oflrvine. Like TUstin, the City of Irvine will benefit from the tax increment and financing mechanisms of a redevelopment project area in meeting its obligations for reuse of its portion of the Base. However, the City of Irvine does not have an active Redevdopment Agency and is not planning on establishing one. An agreement has been reached between the City of Irvine, the City of Tustin and the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency to include the Irvine portion of the Base in the Redevelopment Project Area. Under the Agreement, the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency will have full redevelopment authority for these 80 acres within the City of In4ne. The City oflrvine, however, will maintain full land use authority'and provide all other municipal services to this area. The City oflrvine will obtain the tax increment which is generated from its portion of the proposed Redevelopment Area, but will William A. Huston November 4, 1996 Page 3 reimburse the Tustin Community Redevelopmem Agency for its administration and rnanagemem of the redevelopment process within this portion of Irvine. The Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency will be responsible for all redevelopment activities within Irvine, subject to certain parameters reached between the City and the City oflrvine, State Law and the Agreement. The amended survey area will include all portions of the Base in both the City of Tustin and the City of Irvine as well as approximately 52 acres of property immediately to the north of the Base. Properties adjacent to the Base to be included in the Survey Area are located on both sides of Edinger Avenue and include the proposed commuter rail site. Including a limited number of properties immediately abutting the Base will allow the Agency to coordinate improvements in the vicinity of Edinger Avenue. A map of the proposed revisions to the survey area are shown in Resolution No. 96-91. Christine Shingleton Assistant City Manager Attachments: Map of Existing Redevelopmem Survey Area Resolution No. 96-91 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2O 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 RESOLUTION NO. 96-91 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN AMENDING A SURVEY AREA FOR REDEVELOPMENT PURPOSES WHEREAS, on March 6, 1995, the City Council of the City of Tustin designated a survey area for redevelopment purposes for that area of the City including Marine Corps Air Station, Tustin, and certain surrounding areas to be studied to determine if a redevelopment project within the area is feasible; and WHEREAS, subsequent, to that action, the City of Tustin and the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency reached an. agreement with the City of Irvine designating the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency to be the redevelopment authority for that portion of Marine Corps Air Station, Tustin, located within the City of Irvine; and WHEREAS, on February 26, 1996, the City of Tustin Planning Commission recommended the City Council amend the previously approved survey area to include the portion of MCAS, Tustin, within the City of Irvine; and WHEREAS, California Health and Safety Code Section 33310 provides that a survey area for redevelopment purposes may be designated by resolution of the City Council. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City Council hereby desiqnates as a redevelopment survey area that area shown an~ described on the map attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit 1. Section 2. The City Council hereby finds that the designated survey area requires study to determine if a redevelopment project or projects within said area are feasible. Section 3. The Planning Commission is hereby requested to carry out such study and, in cooperation with the Tustin Community Redevelopment Agency, to select a redevelopment project area, or project areas, from said survey area, and to formulate and adopt a preliminary plan for each project area selected. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regula~ meeting of the Tustin City Council, held on the 16th day of September,. 1996. TRACY WILLS WORLEY MAYOR PAMELA STOKER CITY CLERK STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) CITY OF TUSTIN ) SS I, Pamela Stoker, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Tustin, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of the members of the City Council of the City of Tustin is five; that the above and foregoing Resolution No. 96-91 was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the Tustin City Council, held on the 16th day of September, 1996, by the following vote: COUNCILMEMBER AYES: COUNCILMEMBER NOES: COUNCILMEMBER ABSTAINED: COUNCILMEMBERABSENT: PAMELA STOKER CITY CLERK