TITLE
Recommendation to open the hearing on the adoption of the Proposed Amendment to the North Long Beach Redevelopment Plan and the Negative Declaration related thereto, receive supporting documentation (Exhibits A-J), receive and/or hear testimony related to the adoption of said amendment and Negative Declaration, and conclude the hearing. (Districts 1,3,5,6,7,8,9)
DISCUSSION
The Redevelopment Agency (Agency) has proposed a Second Amendment to the North Long Beach Redevelopment Plan (Proposed Amendment) to extend the Agency's authority to acquire property through eminent domain in the North Long Beach Redevelopment Project Area. The California Community Redevelopment Law (Health and Safety Code Sections 33000 e1. seq.) limits a redevelopment agency's authority to acquire property by eminent domain to twelve years. A redevelopment agency may extend that authority for an additional twelve years if a redevelopment plan amendment is adopted. The Agency's authority to acquire property through eminent domain in the North Long Beach Redevelopment Project Area expired in July 2008.
The Proposed Amendment would extend the Agency's authority to use eminent domain for another twelve years throughout the North Long Beach Redevelopment Project Area with the exclusion of the majority of Sub-Area 5, which comprises the Port of Long Beach (Port). The Port has been excluded due its economic growth over the last twelve years thereby making it difficult to demonstrate that blight remains in that area (a requirement of plan amendment process). Furthermore, it is highly unlikely that the Agency would ever exercise its eminent domain authority within the Port given the Port's own authority related to its tenants and building conditions.
In June 2008, California voters passed Proposition 99. Proposition 99 prohibits public agencies from acquiring single-family residences that have been occupied by the owner for more than one year for the purpose of transferring that property t...
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