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Recommendation to adopt resolution making certain findings regarding the construction of certain public improvements with Central Long Beach Redevelopment Project Area Funds. (Districts 1,6,7)
DISCUSSION
The City Council approved the Redevelopment Agency Budget for Fiscal Year 2005-
2006 on September 13, 2005. Several important public projects are planned in the
Central Long Beach, North Long Beach, and West Long Beach Industrial
Redevelopment Project Areas including public parks and recreation facilities, libraries,
and street and storm drain improvements.
California Redevelopment Law provides that the Redevelopment Agency may, with the
consent of the City Council, pay for public improvements, which are publicly owned
either within or outside of a Redevelopment Project Area, if the City Council determines
all of the following:
That the construction of such public improvements are of benefit to the
redevelopment project area or the immediate neighborhood in which the public
improvement project is located;
That no other reasonable means of financing the public improvements are
available to the community; and
That the payment of Redevelopment Agency funds for the construction of the
public improvements will assist in the elimination of one or more blighting
conditions within the Project Area.The Redevelopment Agency Board approved its Fiscal Year 2005-2006 budget on June 27,2005 that includes many public projects. These are listed as follows:
Central Long Beach Redevelopment Project Area
Burnett Library Expansion
Seaside Park Expansion
Armory Park Development
Orizaba Park Expansion
California Recreation Senior Center
Martin Luther King Medians
Daryle Black Park Expansion
Alamitos Avenue and 1 5ith Street
Wrigley Village Public Improvements
East Village Public Improvements
Wilmore City Public Improvements
Pacific Coast Highway at Atlantic Avenue Public Improvements
Gateway Signage in Redevelopment Areas
North Long Beach Redevelopment Project Area
Village Ce...
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