RDA Resolution 2003-17~ ....... RESOLUTION NO. RA 2003-17
A RESOLUTION OF THE. LA QUINTA REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY APPROVING THE PURCHASE AND
IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN PROPERTY TO BE USED AS
A COACHELLA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT WELL SITE
WHEREAS, the La Ouinta Redevelopment Agency ("Agency") is a
public body, corporate and politic organized and existing under the Community
Redevelopment Law (California Health and Safety Code § 33000, et seq.) to carry
out the purposes of redevelopment in the City of La Quinta ("City"); and
WHEREAS, the Agency is engaged in activities necessary to execute
and implement the Redevelopment Plan for the La Quinta Redevelopment Project
No. 1 ("Redevelopment Plan" or "Project Area," as applicable); and
WHEREAS, the Agency has entered into, or is about to enter into, an
Agreement for Purchase and Sale of Real Property ("Agreement") located at the
southeast corner of Westward Ho Drive and Dune Palms Road (APN 640-040-001),
City of La Quinta, California ("Property"), with John T. Slater, Jr., Trustee
("Seller"), for the purchase price of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) (the
"Purchase Price"). The Agency intends to develop the Property as a well site
("Well site") and transfer the Property to the Coachella ValleY Water District
("CVWD") as part of the requirements .to construct certain public improvements at
Silver Rock Ranch; and /
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 518 of the Re evelopment Plan the
Agency may pay all or part of the value of the land for and the cost of the
installation and construction of public improvements and utilities necessary to carry
out the purposes of the Redevelopment Plan; 'and
WHEREAS, the lack of recreational facilities was documented as one
of the conditions of blight that justified the formation of the Project Area' as cited
in the October 1983 Report to the La Quinta City Council on the Proposed
Redevelopment Plan for the Project Area; and ·
WHEREAS, purchasing the Property would afford the Agency the
opportunity to address some of the aforementioned conditions of blight; and
WHEREAS, there is inadequate funding within the City's General Fund
or from other sources to acquire and improve the Property per CVWD requirements;
and
Resolution No. RA 2003-17
Westward Ho Well Site Purchase
Adopted: October 7, 2003
Page 2
WHEREAS, the Agency's purchase of the Property is in accordance
with the Redevelopment Plan and is of benefit to the Project Area.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LA QUINTA
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That the above recitals are true and correct and incorporated
herein.
Section 2. That the Agency does hereby find and determine as follows:
a. That the Agency's funding of the purchase of the Property is of
benefit to the Project Area and to the immediate neighborhood of the Property in
that it will facilitate the development of recreation facilities at SilverRock Ranch and
promote economic development activity in the Project Area by facilitating one of
the CVWD requirements for providing water and sewer service to the SilverRock
Ranch development.
b. That no other reasonable means of financing the purchase of
the Property, which will be publicly owned, is available to the community for the
following reasons: (i) City monies are dedicated to critical police, fire, and other
necessary expenditures, including other capital improvement projects; (ii) the only
practical means of paying for the Property is to use Agency funding; (iii) without
Agency funding the City would be unable to purchase the Property and thereafter
develop the SilverRock Ranch, all to the detriment of the redevelopment of the
Project Area.
c. That the Agency's payment identified herein will assist in the
elimination of blighting conditions in the Project Area in that deficient recreational
facilities is a blighting condition addressed by the Agency's payment.
d. That the Agency's payment identified herein is consistent with
Agency's adopted Implementation Plan, in that improving public facilities in and
benefiting the Project Area is a priority identified in the Implementation Plan.
e. That the Agency's payment for the Property is necessary to
effectuate the purposes of the Redevelopment Plan.
Section 3. The Agency's payment to purchase and improve the Property is
hereby approved, and'the funding is authorized for these purposes.
Resolution No. RA 2003-17
Westward Ho Well Site Purchase
Adopted: October 7, 2003
Page 3
Section 4. The Executive Director is authorized and direCted to take such
other and further actions as may be necessary and proper to affect the purchase of
this Property and to accept the grant deed for the Property.
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the La Quinta
Redevelopment Agency held on this 7th day of October, 2003, by the following
vote:
AYES: Members Adolph, Perkins, Sniff, Chair Henderson
NOES: None
ABSENT: Member Osborne
ABSTAIN: None
~IDERSON, Agency Chair
La Ouinta Redevelopment Agency
ATTEST:
JUN CMC, Agenc~e'cretary
La Ouinta Redevelopment Agency
(Agency Seal)
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
~-- M. KA-T~ERINE JENSON,-A~ionc~'C°uhsel
La Quinta Redevelopment Agency