CIC Resolution 06-148COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO.0 6 148
APPROVING THE REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE PROPOSED SIXTH
AMENDMENT TO THE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR THE BUSINESS
AND WATERFRONT IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, AUTHORIZING TRANSMITTAL OF
SAID REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ALAMEDA AND
CONSENTING TO HOLDING A JOINT PUBLIC HEARING WITH THE CITY COUNCIL
WHEREAS, on June 18, 1991, by Ordinance No. 2559, the City Council of the
City of Alameda ("City Council") approved and adopted the Community Improvement
Plan ("Plan") for the Business and Waterfront Improvement Project ("Project" or
"Project Area"); and
WHEREAS, the Plan has been amended a total of five (5) times (as amended,
the "Existing Plan"), the First Amendment established time limits in compliance with
Assembly Bill 1290 (Stets. 1993, Chap. 942), the Second, Third and Fourth
Amendments amended certain land uses, and the Fifth Amendment merged the
Project Area with the West End Community Improvement Plan, extended eminent
domain except over residential uses and added territory; and
WHEREAS, the Community Improvement Commission of the City of Alameda
("Commission") is vested with the responsibility to carry out the Existing Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Commission desires to amend the Existing Plan ("Sixth
Amendment") to update the land use provisions to conform to the City's General Plan
as it currently exists and as it may be amended from time to time; and
WHEREAS, the Commission has caused to be prepared a Report to the City
Council on the proposed Sixth Amendment pursuant to Section 33457.1 of the
Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California (Health and Safety Code
Section 33000 et seq.; "CRL"); and
WHEREAS, the Report to the City Council has been submitted to and reviewed
by the members of the governing board of the Commission; and
WHEREAS, Section 33458 of the CRL authorizes a joint public hearing on the
•proposed Sixth Amendment with the consent of the Commission and the City Council
of the City of Alameda; and
WHEREAS, the Commission has prepared the required notice of joint public
hearing for transmittal pursuant to CRL Section 33452.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION OF
THE CITY OF ALAMEDA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The Commission approves and adopts the Report to the City
Council prepared for the proposed Sixth Amendment.
Section 2. The Executive Director of the Commission is hereby authorized and
directed to transmit the Report approved in Section 1 of this Resolution to the City
Council of the City of Alameda.
Section 3. The Commission consents to and requests the convening of a joint
public hearing with the City Council on November 21, 2006, at 7:25 p.m., or as soon
thereafter as possible, in the City Council Chambers (3`d Floor), located at City Hall,
2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, California, for the purpose of considering the
proposed Sixth Amendment and other related matters.
Section 4. The Commission hereby approves the notice of joint public hearing
as written and attached to this resolution.
Section 5. Pursuant to CRL Section 33452, Commission staff is hereby
directed to work with the City Clerk and Commission advisors in the mailing of a copy
of the aforesaid notice attached herewith to the last known assessee of each parcel of
land within the Project Area as shown on the last equalized assessment roll of
Alameda County. The notice shall also be sent to all residents and businesses within
the Project Area if addresses therefore are obtainable at a reasonable cost, and to the
governing body of each of the taxing entities that receives a portion of the ad valorem
taxes levied on properties within the Project Area.
Section 6. Pursuant to CRL Section 33452, Commission staff is hereby
directed to work with the City Clerk and Commission advisors in the publishing of the
aforesaid notice in a newspaper of general circulation for a period not less than once a
week for three (3) consecutive weeks prior to the date of the joint public hearing. The
notice shall be published in the Alameda Journal on October 24 and 31, and November
7 and 14, 2006, to satisfy this requirement.
NOTICE OF JOINT PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED
SIXTH AMENDMENT TO THE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PLAN
FOR THE BUSINESS AND WATERFRONT IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Alameda ( "City Council ") and the
Community Improvement Commission of the City of Alameda ( "Commission ") will hold a joint public
hearing on November 21, 2006, at 7:25 p.m., in the City Council Chambers (3rd Floor), located at City
Hall, 2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, California, to consider and act upon the proposed Sixth
Amendment ( "Sixth Amendment ") to the Community Improvement Plan (''Community Improvement
Plan ") for the Business and Waterfront Improvement Project ( "Project" or "Project Area "), and to
consider all evidence and testimony for or against the approval and adoption of the proposed Sixth
Amendment. At any time not later than the hour set forth above for the hearing of objections to the
proposed Sixth Amendment, any person may file in writing with the City Clerk of the City of Alameda a
statement of objections to the proposed Sixth Amendment. At the day, hour and place of the hearing,
any and all persons having any objections to the proposed Sixth Amendment, or the regularity of any of
the prior proceedings, may appear before the City Council and the Commission and show cause why the
proposed Sixth Amendment should not be adopted. At the hour set forth above for the hearing of
objections, the City Council and the Commission shall proceed to hear all written and oral objections to
the proposed Sixth Amendment.
The purpose of the proposed Sixth Amendment is to amend specific land use references within
the existing Community Improvement Plan to refer to the City of Alameda's General Plan, as it
currently exists and as it may be amended from time to time, for all permitted land uses. No amendment
is proposed to the boundaries of the Project Area or the fiscal or time limits governing the Agency's
activities under the Community Improvement Plan. The fiscal and time limits stated in the existing
Community Improvement Plan, as amended, for the Project Area shall remain in force as adopted.
A map of the Project Area is attached hereto as Exhibit A and made a part hereof. The legal
description of the boundaries of the Project Area is described in Instrument #2003220741, of the Official
Records of Alameda County, California. A copy of the legal description of the boundaries of the Project
Area is available, free of .charge, at the office of the City Clerk, City Hall, 2263 Santa Clara Avenue,
Alameda, California. Interested persons may inspect and, upon the payment of the costs of
reproduction, obtain copies of the proposed Sixth Amendment, the existing Community Improvement
Plan, the Report of the Commission to the City Council on the proposed Sixth Amendment, and any
other information pertaining thereto at the offices of the Community Improvement Commission of the
City of Alameda and the City Clerk located at City Hall, 2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda, California.
Should you wish to challenge in court the approval and adoption of the proposed Sixth
Amendment or any related action or document, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or
someone else raised at the joint public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence
delivered to the City Clerk at or prior to the joint public hearing,
A Public Workshop regarding the proposed Sixth Amendment will also be held on Monday,
October 30, at 7:00 p.m., in the City Council Chambers (3rd Floor), located at City Hall, 2263 Santa
Clara Avenue, Alameda, California.
Dated: October , 2006
City Clerk, City of Alameda
Publish: October 24, 2006;
October 31, 2006;
November 7, 2006; and
November 14, 2006
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I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and
regularly adopted and passed by the Community Improvement Commission of the City of
Alameda in a Special Joint Meeting of the City Council and the Community Improvement
Commission held on the 17th day of October, 2006, by the following vote to wit:
AYES: Commissioners Daydog, deHaan, Gilmore, Matarrese,
and Chair Johnson - 5.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of said
Commission this 18th day of October, 2006.
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Lara Weisiger, Secretary
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