HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 2271 N.C.S. 06/18/2007 EFFECTIVE DATE ORDINANCE NO. 2271 N.C.S.
OF ORDINANCE
July 18, 2007
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11 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA
1.2 ACKNOWLEDGING THE LACK OF A PROGRAM TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY
13 USING EMINENT DOMAIN WITHIN THE
14 PETALUMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA
15 BY THE PETALUMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
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18 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA AS FOLLOWS:
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20 WHEREAS, the Petaluma Community Development Commission, a public body
21 corporate and politic (the "PCDC") is a redevelopment agency duly organized pursuant to
22 Community Redevelopment Law (California Health and Safety Code Section 33000 et seq.), and
23 pursuant thereto has responsibility to carry out the Redevelopment Plan for the Petaluma
24 Community Development Project Area (the "Project Area"); and,
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26 WHEREAS, the redevelopment plan for the Project Area was adopted by the City Council
27 of the City of Petaluma (the "City Council") by Ordinance No. 1725 N.C.S. on July 18, 1988 (as
28 subsequently amended by Ordinance No. 1972 N.C.S. adopted on November 21, 1994, by
29 Ordinance No. 2100 N.C.S. adopted on April 3, 2000, by Ordinance No. 2.183 N.C.S. on June 7,
30 2004, and by Ordinance No. 2252 N.C.S. on September 1 1, 2006, the "Redevelopment Plan");
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33 WHEREAS, effective January 1, 2007, Senate Bill ("SB") 53 added Section 33342.7 to the
34 Health and Safety Code, pursuant to which legislative bodies that adopted a final
35 redevelopment plan prior to January 1, 2007 are required to adopt on or before July 1, 2007, an
36 ordinance that describes the redevelopment agency's program to acquire real property by
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39 WHEREAS, SB 53 provides that following adoption of an ordinance describing a
40 redevelopment agency's program to acquire real property by eminent domain, such program
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1 WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Plan originally provided the PCDC with the authority to
2 use eminent domain to acquire property in certain limited circumstances following compliance
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5 WHEREAS, the PCDC's authority fo exercise the use eminent domain within the Project
6 Area has expired and the Redevelopment Plan does not currently provide to the PCDC the
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9 NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
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11 SECTION 1. The following is hereby adopted as the PCDC's program to acquire real
12 property by eminent domain within the Petaluma Community Development Project Area
13 pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 33342.7:
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15 The Redevelopment Plan for the Petaluma Community Development Project
16 Area does not authorize the PCDC to acquire real property by eminent domain
17 within the Project Area and therefore the PCDC currently has no program to
18 acquire real property by eminent domain in the Project Area.
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20 SECTION 2. Severability
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22 If any section, subsection, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid, such
23 invalidity shgll not affect other provisions or applications of the Ordinance which can be given
24 effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this
25 Ordinance are severable. This City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this
26 Ordinance irrespective of the invalidity of any particular portion thereof and intends that the
27 invalid portions should be severed and the balance of the Ordinance be enforced.
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29 SECTION 3. California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA")
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31 The City Council finds that this Ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality
32 Act ("CEQA") pursuant to Sections 15060(c) (2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably
33 foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) and 15060(c) (3) (the activity is not a
34 project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines (Title 14, Chapter 3 of the California
35 Code of Regulations) because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the
36 environment, either directly or indirectly.
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38 SECTION 4. Effective Date and Publication
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40 Within fifteen (15) days from and after adoption, this Ordinance shall be published once in a
41 newspaper of general circulation printed and published in Sonoma County and circulated in
42 the City of Petaluma, in accordance with the City Charter. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty
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46 INTRODUCED AND ORDERED POSTED/p"R',-
'moo THIS 4'h day of June, 2007.
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48 ADOPTED THIS 18'h day of June, 2007; by the following vote:
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51 AYES: Barrett, Freitas, Harris, Vice Mayor Nau, O'Brien, Babbitt, Mayor Torliatt
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