ARTICLE 4. Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord [33492.70. - 33492.78.]

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC 4.

in effect

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33492.70. Section 33492.70.

(a) (1) This article shall govern the establishment and operation of all redevelopment project areas created within the area previously known as Fort Ord. (2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the redevelopment of the territory of Fort Ord be conducted jointly, in part by redevelopment project areas established by cities and the county with jurisdiction over parts of the territory of what was previously known as Fort Ord, and in part by the Fort Ord Reuse Authority. It is further the intent of the Legislature that this joint redevelopment include the sharing of tax increment revenues pursuant to this article. The joint division of tax increment will enable the local redevelopment agencies to finance redevelopment activities which primarily affect their own jurisdictions, and the authority will have a revenue source to assist in financing redevelopment of facilities of basewide significance. (b) The board of the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, as established by Title 7.85 (commencing with Section 67650) of the Government Code, may, by ordinance, establish in the area of Fort Ord a public body, corporate and politic, known as the Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord. This agency may transact business and exercise its powers as a redevelopment agency upon the effective date of the establishing ordinance. The provisions of the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of Division 24), as modified by Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 33492) thereof, shall apply to the Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord, and this agency shall have all powers of a redevelopment agency as provided in this part. (c) In addition to the powers of an agency, the Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord shall also act as the legislative body and the planning commission for all approvals and actions required and authorized by this part for the adoption and implementation of a redevelopment plan. However, subject to the consistency and appeal provision of Title 7.85 (commencing with Section 67650) of the Government Code and other applicable provisions of state law, all planning, zoning, and permitting decisions with regard to the land within the project area shall continue to be under the control and jurisdiction of each of the respective local legislative bodies, as applicable. (d) For purposes of this article, “board” means the governing board of the Fort Ord Reuse Authority, as defined in Title 7.85 (commencing with Section 67650) of the Government Code. “Legislative body,” as used elsewhere in this part, shall, for the purposes of this article when relating to the Redevelopment Agency of Fort Ord, also refer to the governing board of the Fort Ord Reuse Authority. (e) The board may create a project area to include all or a portion or portions of the area of Ford Ord, except that the board shall not create a project area which overlays any territory included within a project area established by the redevelopment agency of a city or the county. (f) A city or county redevelopment agency may establish a project area which includes any or all of the territory within the jurisdiction of the city or county which is also within the territory of Fort Ord, but only pursuant to the provisions of this section.

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33492.71. Section 33492.71.

(a) This section shall apply to each redevelopment project area created pursuant to this article with a redevelopment plan that contains the provisions required by Section 33670. All amounts calculated pursuant to this section shall be calculated after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund pursuant to Sections 33334.2, 33334.3, 33334.6, and 33492.76, and the amounts required to be paid by school and community college districts pursuant to Section 33492.78 have been deducted from the local tax increment funds received by the agency in the applicable fiscal year. (b) The payments made pursuant to this section shall be in addition to any amounts the affected taxing entities receive pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 33670. The agency shall reduce its payments pursuant to this section to the authority or an affected taxing entity by any amount the agency has paid, directly or indirectly, pursuant to Section 33445 and with the agreement of the authority or the affected taxing entity, or pursuant to any other provision of law other than this section for, or in connection with a public facility owned or leased by the authority or that affected taxing entity and with the agreement of the authority or that affected taxing entity. (c) Commencing in the first fiscal year in which a redevelopment agency receives tax-increment revenue from a project area created pursuant to this article, the agency shall pay the following amounts to the following entities, and the agency shall not be obligated to pay any additional sums to any taxing entities pursuant to Section 33607.5 and subdivision (b) of Section 33676: (1) (A) Thirty-five percent of the tax-increment revenue received by the agency after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund pursuant to Sections 33334.2, 33334.3, and 33334.6, as modified by Section 33492.76, has been deducted each fiscal year shall be paid to the authority to finance in whole or in part, its responsibilities in providing for the reuse of Fort Ord. (B) Thirty-five percent of the tax-increment revenue received by the agency after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund pursuant to Sections 33334.2, 33334.3, and 33334.6 of, as modified by Section 33492.76, has been deducted each fiscal year shall be paid to or retained by the redevelopment agency of the city or county in which the project area is located, to finance, in whole or in part, its responsibilities in providing for the reuse of Fort Ord. (C) Of the amount referenced in subparagraph (B), each city may elect to receive from its agency, and the agency shall pay, an amount not to exceed 25 percent of the tax-increment revenue generated from a project area established pursuant to this article, to alleviate the financial burden and detriment incurred as a result of the adoption of the redevelopment plan in each year until the sixth fiscal year after the year in which the agency is first allocated one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or more in tax-increment revenues. (D) Upon dissolution of the authority, the amount allocated pursuant to this section shall continue to be paid to the accounts of the authority insofar as needed to pay principal and interest or other amounts on debt that was incurred by the authority. Funds that would be allocated pursuant to this section that exceed the amounts necessary to pay debt service on authority debt shall be divided as follows: 54 percent shall be allocated to the city or county redevelopment agency that establishes the project area; 38 percent shall be allocated to the county; and 8 percent shall be allocated to other affected taxing entities. (2) Twenty-five percent of the tax-increment revenue received by the agency after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund pursuant to Sections 33334.2, 33334.3, and 33334.6, as modified by Section 33492.76, has been deducted each fiscal year shall be paid to the county to alleviate the financial burden and detriment to the county incurred because of the establishment of the project area. (3) Not to exceed 5 percent of the tax-increment revenue received by the agency after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund pursuant to Sections 33334.2, 33334.3, and 33334.6, as modified by Section 33492.76, has been deducted each fiscal year shall be paid to other affected taxing entities as defined in Section 33492.27, but excluding the entities specified in paragraphs (1) and (2), and excluding school and community college districts, in order to alleviate the financial burden and detriment incurred by those affected taxing entities because of the establishment of the project area. If the total payments made pursuant to this paragraph are less than 5 percent of the tax increment revenue received by the agency pursuant to this article, the remaining portion of the revenue available as a result of this paragraph shall be allocated as follows: 37 percent to the agency, 37 percent to the authority, and 26 percent to the county. (d) Notwithstanding subdivision (c), through and including the second fiscal year after the certification date established pursuant to Section 33492.9, the amount of tax increment revenue the redevelopment agencies of the Cities of Marina and Seaside or the County of Monterey are required to pay to other entities as prescribed in paragraph (1) shall be modified as follows: (1) For each of those fiscal years, the board shall determine an amount equal to 100 percent of the revenue payable to the city or county establishing the project area from all ad valorem property taxes, including allocations of property tax increment revenues pursuant to subdivision (c), sales taxes, utility users taxes, business license taxes, real property transfer taxes, franchise taxes, transient occupancy taxes, and payments received as a result of vehicle and trailer coach registration, and cigarette and gasoline taxes except for payments received as a result of vehicle registrations because of military personnel occupying Fort Ord, attributable to the property, population, and economic activity that is within the jurisdiction of each local entity that has established a redevelopment project area pursuant to this subdivision and is also within the area of Fort Ord. (2) If the amount determined pursuant to paragraph (1) for a fiscal year is less than four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), the redevelopment agency of the local entity that established the project area shall retain tax-increment revenue received because of the project area so that the sum of the retained tax-increment revenue, exclusive of required deposits to the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund and the amount of revenue determined pursuant to paragraph (1), equals four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), but in no event exceeding 100 percent of the tax-increment revenue received for the project area for that fiscal year. Any tax-increment revenue received by the redevelopment agency that established the project area which exceeds the amount necessary to bring the total of the amount calculated pursuant to paragraph (1), plus the tax increment retained by the agency pursuant to this subdivision to four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) shall be distributed pursuant to subdivision (c). (e) The board may increase or decrease the qualified minimum level of increment funding set in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) above four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), if the board determines, based on substantial evidence, that the costs of providing police and fire protection services to the area of Fort Ord within the local agency’s redevelopment agency’s project area exceed or are less than this amount. In the event that any city which does not now have jurisdiction over territory within the area of Fort Ord subsequently annexes territory within the area of Fort Ord, the board may provide for a qualified minimum level of increment funding at a level that it determines, based on substantial evidence as to the cost of providing police and fire protection services to the area of Fort Ord within the local agency’s redevelopment agency’s project area is appropriate for a period not to exceed three years, but is under no obligation to do so. (f) Because this article provides for an allocation of tax-increment revenue arising from the redevelopment of the area of Fort Ord among the affected taxing entities for the purpose of alleviating any financial burden or detriment that is caused by the redevelopment plan, the consultations with the affected taxing entities shall not include the payment of supplemental moneys, but may only include the discussion of possible modifications in the redevelopment plan, including, but not limited to, the timing of projects, selection of projects, scope of projects, and the type of financing that is being considered for the projects. (g) (1) All moneys received by the authority from a redevelopment agency shall be deposited in a separate fund from all other moneys of the authority. (2) The authority shall annually report on the total amount of moneys deposited into the fund during the year; the specific project and programs which were financed with the moneys, including amounts expended per project and program; and the beginning and ending balance of the fund. (3) The moneys in the fund shall be exclusively expended for the purpose of financing the development and redevelopment of basewide facilities as identified in the basewide public capital facilities plan adopted pursuant to Section 67675 of the Government Code. (4) The authority shall have an independent financial audit annually prepared on the fund in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and rules of governing auditing reports promulgated by the California Board of Accountancy. (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no tax increment moneys, including moneys paid from a redevelopment agency to Fort Ord Reuse Authority or any affected taxing entity, shall finance the development or redevelopment of buildings owned or operated by the California State University or the University of California.

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33492.72. Section 33492.72.

(a) Prior to incurring any loans, or other indebtedness, except loans or advances from the local agency or the authority, the agency which established the redevelopment project area, or the board, may subordinate to the loans or other indebtedness the amounts required to be paid to all other local agencies pursuant to this section, provided that the agency or the board has approved these subordinations pursuant to this subdivision. (b) At the time the agency or the board requests any other entity receiving tax-increment revenues pursuant to this section to subordinate the amount to be paid to it, the agency or the board seeking permission for subordination, shall provide the affected taxing entity with substantial evidence that sufficient funds will be available to pay both the debt service and the payments required by this section, when due. (c) Within 45 days after receipt of the agency’s or the board’s request, the entities receiving tax-increment revenues pursuant to this section shall approve or disapprove the request for subordination. An entity other than the redevelopment agency or the board may disapprove a request for subordination only if it finds, based upon substantial evidence, that after the agency or the board pays the debt payments, the agency will not have sufficient funds to pay the amounts required to be paid to other entities pursuant to this section. The agency or the board may also disapprove a request for subordination if it finds that subordination would interfere with its ability to issue debt as needed to carry out its responsibilities. If an entity, the agency, or the board does not act within 45 days after receipt of the agency’s request, the request to subordinate shall be deemed approved and shall be final and conclusive.

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33492.73. Section 33492.73.

Any redevelopment or implementation plan prepared in conjunction with establishment or operation of a project area, and any subsequent amendment, update, or other modification of that plan or those plans, shall take effect only upon certification by the board of the consistency of that plan or those plans with the Fort Ord Reuse Plan in the same manner as for the local agency’s general plan pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 67675) of Title 7.85 of the Government Code.

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33492.74. Section 33492.74.

(a) For purposes of this article, a blighted area may be a military base in which the combination of two or more of the conditions set forth in subdivision (b) or (c) of this section are so prevalent and so substantial that it causes a reduction of, or a lack of, proper utilization of the area to an extent that constitutes a serious physical and economic burden on the community that cannot reasonably be expected to be reversed or alleviated by private enterprise or governmental action, or both, without redevelopment. (b) This subdivision, for purposes of this article, describes physical conditions that cause blight. (1) Buildings in which it is unsafe or unhealthy for persons to live or work. These conditions can be caused by serious building code violations, dilapidation and deterioration, defective design or physical construction, faulty or inadequate infrastructure, or other similar factors. (2) Factors that prevent or substantially hinder the economically viable reuse or capacity of buildings or areas. This condition can be caused by a substandard design; buildings that are too large or too small given present standards and market conditions; and age, obsolescence, deterioration, dilapidation, or other physical conditions that could prevent the highest and best uses of the property. This condition can also be caused by buildings that will have to be demolished or buildings or areas that have a lack of parking. (3) Adjacent or nearby uses that are incompatible with each other and that prevent the economic development of those parcels or other portions of the project area. (4) Buildings on land that, when subdivided or when infrastructure is installed, will not comply with normal subdivision, zoning, or planning regulations. (c) This subdivision, for purposes of this article, describes economic conditions that cause blight: (1) Land that contains materials, including, but not necessarily limited to, materials for airport runways that will have to be removed to allow development. (2) Properties that contain hazardous wastes that may benefit from the use of agency authority as specified in Article 12.5 (commencing with Section 33459) of Chapter 4 in order to be developed by either the private or public sector or in order to comply with applicable federal or state standards. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all redevelopment agencies with authority under this act are specifically prohibited from accepting responsibility for, or using agency authority on behalf of, hazardous waste sites that are the responsibility of the federal government. (d) For purposes of this article, a blighted area also may be one that contains one or more of the conditions described in subdivision (c) and is, in addition, characterized by the existence of inadequate public improvements, public facilities, and utilities, where these conditions are so prevalent and so substantial that it causes a reduction of, or a lack of, proper utilization of the area to an extent that it constitutes a serious physical and economic burden on the community that cannot reasonably be expected to be reversed or alleviated by private enterprise or governmental action, or both, without redevelopment.

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33492.75. Section 33492.75.

(a) For purposes of adoption of a project area, the preliminary report prepared pursuant to Section 33344.5 is not required to contain the material identified in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 33344.5. (b) For purposes of adoption of a project area, the report prepared pursuant to Section 33352 shall be modified to require that the blight conditions specified in Section 33492.74 exist. (c) A redevelopment plan adopted for a project area shall contain the limitations set forth in Section 33492.13, and shall not be subject to the limitations set forth in Section 33333.2. (d) For purposes of redevelopment project areas within the area of Fort Ord, calculation of the amount determined pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 33670 shall be based on the assessment roll used in connection with property within the project area last equalized prior to the date on which the board of the Fort Ord Reuse Authority adopts a Fort Ord Reuse Plan pursuant to Section 67675 of the Government Code, which shall be deemed to be a redevelopment plan for the area of the base, or the effective date of the ordinance approving a redevelopment plan for a specific project area within the area of Fort Ord, whichever occurs first for any project area.

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33492.76. Section 33492.76.

(a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 33334.2 or any other provision of law, a redevelopment agency established or governed pursuant to this article may: (A) Annually waive the requirement to allocate 20 percent of the total annual tax increment revenue from any project area established pursuant to this article to the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Fund for a period of up to five years after the date on which the county auditor makes the certification pursuant to Section 33492.9. (B) Annually waive the requirement to allocate half of the 20 percent of the total annual tax increment revenue to the Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Fund for a period of five years after the fifth year after the date on which the county auditor makes the certification pursuant to Section 33492.9. (2) The agency may not waive its allocation in any year unless it first adopts a finding, based on substantial evidence, that the vacancy rate for rental housing affordable to lower income households is greater than 6 percent. (b) Notwithstanding Section 33413, the redevelopment agency shall not be required to replace removed or demolished military barracks, which are located, as of January 1, 1995, within the boundaries of Fort Ord.

Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 33492.78. Section 33492.78.

(a) Section 33607.5 does not apply to an agency created pursuant to this article. For purposes of Sections 42238.02, 84750.4, 84750.5, and 84751 of the Education Code, funds allocated pursuant to this section shall be treated as if they were allocated pursuant to Section 33607.5. (1) This section applies to each redevelopment project area created pursuant to a redevelopment plan that contains the provisions required by Section 33670 and is created pursuant to this article. All the amounts calculated pursuant to this section shall be calculated after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund pursuant to Sections 33334.2, 33334.3, and 33334.6, as modified by Section 33492.76, has been deducted from the total amount of tax-increment funds received by the agency in the applicable fiscal year. (2) The payments made pursuant to this section are in addition to any amounts the school district or districts and community college district or districts receive pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 33670. The agency shall reduce its payments pursuant to this section to an affected school or community college district by any amount the agency has paid, directly or indirectly, pursuant to Section 33445, 33445.5, or 33446, or any provision of law other than this section for, or in connection with, a public facility owned or leased by that affected school or community college district. (3) (A) Of the total amount paid each year pursuant to this section to school districts, 43.9 percent shall be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (j) of Section 42238.02 of the Education Code, and 56.1 percent shall not be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of that section, and shall be available to be used for educational facilities. (B) Of the total amount paid each year pursuant to this section to community college districts, 47.5 percent shall be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of Section 84751 of the Education Code, and 52.5 percent shall not be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of that section, and shall be available to be used for educational facilities. (C) Of the total amount paid each year pursuant to this section to county offices of education, 19 percent shall be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 2575 of the Education Code, and 81 percent shall not be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of that section, and shall be available to be used for educational facilities. (D) Of the total amount paid each year pursuant to this section to special education, 19 percent shall be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of paragraph (1) of subdivision (j) of Section 42238.02 of the Education Code, and 81 percent shall not be considered to be property taxes for the purposes of that section, and shall be available to be used for educational facilities. (4) Local educational agencies that use funds received pursuant to this section for educational facilities shall spend these funds at schools that are any one of the following: (A) Within the project area. (B) Attended by students from the project area. (C) Attended by students generated by projects that are assisted directly by the redevelopment agency. (D) Determined by a local educational agency to be of benefit to the project area. (b) Commencing with the first fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments, and continuing through the last fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments, a redevelopment agency created pursuant to this article shall pay to each affected school and community college district an amount equal to the product of 25 percent times the percentage share of total property taxes collected that are allocated to each affected school or community college district, including any amount allocated to each district pursuant to Sections 97.03 and 97.035 of the Revenue and Taxation Code times the total of the tax increments received by the agency after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund has been deducted. (c) Commencing with the 11th fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments and continuing through the last fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments, a redevelopment agency created pursuant to this article shall pay to each affected school and community college district, in addition to the amounts paid pursuant to subdivision (b), an amount equal to the product of 21 percent times the percentage share of total property taxes collected that are allocated to each affected school or community college district, including any amount allocated to each district pursuant to Sections 97.03 and 97.035 of the Revenue and Taxation Code times the total of the first adjusted tax increments received by the agency after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund has been deducted. The first adjusted tax increments received by the agency shall be calculated by applying the tax rate against the amount of assessed value by which the current year assessed value exceeds the first adjusted base year assessed value. The first adjusted base year assessed value is the assessed value of the project area in the 10th fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increment. (d) Commencing with the 31st fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments and continuing through the last fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments, a redevelopment agency shall pay to the affected school and community college districts, in addition to the amounts paid pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c), an amount equal to 14 percent times the percentage share of total property taxes collected that are allocated to each affected school or community college district, including any amount allocated to each district pursuant to Sections 97.03 and 97.035 of the Revenue and Taxation Code times the total of the second adjusted tax increments received by the agency after the amount required to be deposited in the Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund has been deducted. The second adjusted tax increments received by the agency shall be calculated by applying the tax rate against the amount of assessed value by which the current year assessed value exceeds the second adjusted base year assessed value. The second adjusted base year assessed value is the assessed value of the project area in the 30th fiscal year in which the agency receives tax increments. (e) (1) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (A) The payments made pursuant to this section are necessary in order to alleviate the financial burden and detriment that affected school and community college districts may incur as a result of the adoption of a redevelopment plan, and payments made pursuant to this section will benefit redevelopment project areas. (B) The payments made pursuant to this section are the exclusive payments that are required to be made by a redevelopment agency to affected school and community college districts during the term of a redevelopment plan. (2) Notwithstanding any other law, a redevelopment agency shall not be required, either directly or indirectly, as a measure to mitigate a significant environmental effect or as part of any settlement agreement or judgment brought in any action to contest the validity of a redevelopment plan pursuant to Section 33501, to make any other payments to affected school or community college districts, or to pay for public facilities that will be owned or leased to an affected school or community college district. (f) As used in this section, a “local educational agency” includes a school district, a community college district, or a county office of education.

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