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WHEREAS, the City Planning Commission of the City of Redlands
prepared a portion of a master or general community plan for said
City; and held public hearings on the seine, and the City Council
of said City likewise held public hearings on the same, and
unanimously adopted said completed portion of said plan, all in
oonfonaity with the requirements of the State Conmunity Redevelop-
ment Act; and
V' TEAS, this City has a planning commission and has a master
or general community plan adopted by the City Council, including
the general location and extent of existing and proposed future
major thoroughfares, transportation routes, terminals, and other
major public utilities aaid facilities, and a land-use plan which
designates the proposed general distribution and general location
and extent of the uses of the land for housing, business, industry,
recreation, education, public buildings and grounds, and other
categories of public and private uses of land, and
WHEIaAS, the City Council has also rude un extensive investigation
and survey, uhich discloses that blighted areas which constitute
either social or economic liabilities, or both, requiring redevelop-
ment in the interest of the health, safety, and general welfare, of
the people of the City of Redlands in particular, and the people of
the State of California generally, and the City Planning Commission
is making a further study of the matter and making formal findings
of fact on the same. Said blighted areas are characterized by one
or more of the following conditions:
(a) The existence of buildings and structures, either used or
intended to be used for living, corwiercial, industrial or other
purpose a, or any combination of such uses, which by reason of
defective design and character of physical construction, faulty
sanitation, open spaces and recreation facilities, age,
absolescence, deterioration, dilapidation, mixed character or
shifting of uses to which they are put, or tiny combination of
such factors and characteristics, are unfit or unsafe to OCCUPY
for residential, commercial, industrial or other purposes and
are conductive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant
mortality, juvenile delinquency and crime.
(b) lai economic dislocation, deterioration or disuse, as a
result of faulty planning,, the subdividing and the sale of lots
of irregular form and shape and inadequate size for proper uses'ful-
ness and development, the laying out of lots in disregard of the
contours and other physical characteristics of the ground and
surrounding conditions, or the existence of inadequate streets,
open spaces and utilities, or of lots or other areas �ahich are
subject to being submerged by water.
(c) A prevalence of depreciated values, impaired iLvestrients
and social and economic maladjustment to such an extent that there
exists a reduced Capacity to pay taxes =, d consequent inadequacy of
tax receipts in relation to the cost of public services rendered.
(d) Further, that the existence of blighted areas characterized
by any or all of such col'Iditionso separately or collectively-,
constitutes a serious and Growing menace which is hereby condemned
as injurious and inimical to the public health, safety and welfare
of the �,)eoi
- ple of the City of Redlands, in particular, and to the
people of the State of California generally; and
suoh areas preseut difflaultigis and haadicaPs 'w'-Thich
are beyond remedy and control solely by regulatory processes in
the exercise of the police power; that they contribute substantially
and increasingly to the problems of, and necessitate excessive and
disproportionate expenditures for, crime prevention, correction,
prosecution and Dunishment. the treatinant of invoniln dPIinrmPr)n-tr
of adequate police, fire rind accident protection, and other
public services and facilities, that this menace is becoming
Increasingly direct and substantial in its signific,,mce and
effect; that the benefits which will result from the remedying
of these conditions and the redevelopment of these areas of
blight will accrue to all the inhabitants and property owners
in the City of Redlands.
Further, such conditions of blight tend to further
obsolescence, deterioration and disuse because of the lack of
ince ntive to the individual landowner and his Inability to
improve, modernize or rehabilitate his oi,= particular property
while the condition of the neighboring properties remains un-
ohktaged; that as a consequence the process of deterioration of
a blighted area frequently cannot be halted or corrected except
by redeveloping the entire area, or substantial portions thereof-,
that such oonditions of blight are chiefly found In areas which
have been subdivided into small parcel;; that in most instances
the lands are held in divided and widely scattered ownerships,
frequently under defective titles, that in many such instances
the private assembly of the lands in blighted areas for purposes
of radevelopmont is so difficult and costly that it is wiecononical
and as a practical matter impossible for individual owners independ-
ently or collectively to undertake to remedy such conditions
because of lack of the legal power necessary for, and the excessive
costs involved In, the private acquisition of the real property
of the area; that the remedying of such oonditions requires public
acquisition at fair prices of adequate areas, the clearoiAce of
the areas through deraolition of existing obsolete, inadequate,
unsafe and insanitary buildings and the red-evelomaent of the
areas suffering from such conditions under proper supervision,
NOW, TIMIEFGA- Eg BE IT RN33OLVED, that for these reasons It
is hereby declared to be the poliay of -the Oity of Redlands to
protect and promote toxo sound development and redevelopment of
bli3hted areas within the City and the ganeral �rTnlfare of the
inhablte.uta of the k,,Oomunity by rwiedying such injurious coudi-
tions through the amployment of all mez,�,ns appropriate for that
purpose; that whenever the redevelopment of blighted areas cannot
be k�ceoznpliahed by private enterprise alone, without public
participation and assistance in the acquisition of land, in
Plr-,z'UiR6 and In the "in cin Of 1fMd 6- aseMlblyo iu tile work
of clearalloe au d in the makiwg of Improvements necary thero-
fare, it is in the public interest to employ the power of-erainent
domain to advance or expend public funds for these purposes ,md
to provide a means wheraby the blighted areas within the City
may be redeveloped or rehabilitated; the the ra(levalope .t of
such blighted areas and the provisiou for appropriato oontil,1111lig
land use t constrixotion policies therein, constitute public
us os and purposes for �,iihich public money should be advwaced or
expended and private property acquired, and are ,,-,,,ove=uenta1
fuLotions of state and municipal concern in tile intero.,3t of the
health* safety and welfare of the people of the State r,enarelly
and of thO POOPle Of the City of Redlands, In vihioh such areas
exist, in partioular; that it is in the public interest that
work an such projects be oomienced ca soon as possible;
NOW, 1111,11REFORE, BN IT APMIZIK that this City Council
hereby finds rwd declares thvt t1jers is need for a Rede telolment
Agency in the City of Redlands purautuit to the provii- Joils of
the "Oomunity Redevelopment Act."
BE IT FURTMI? I 1,`30.'LVSD that VU e City Clerk certify to the
adoption of this resolution and Iran w.,,,,it a copy tlaereoi" SO
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