BILL ANALYSIS ------------------------------------------------------------ |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SB 977| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ------------------------------------------------------------ UNFINISHED BUSINESS Bill No: SB 977 Author: Hollingsworth (R) Amended: 5/19/10 Vote: 21 SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE : 5-0, 4/19/10 AYES: Cox, Aanestad, Kehoe, DeSaulnier, Price SENATE FLOOR : 35-0, 4/26/10 (Consent) AYES: Aanestad, Alquist, Ashburn, Calderon, Cedillo, Cogdill, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Denham, DeSaulnier, Ducheny, Dutton, Florez, Hancock, Harman, Hollingsworth, Huff, Kehoe, Leno, Liu, Lowenthal, Negrete McLeod, Padilla, Pavley, Price, Romero, Runner, Simitian, Steinberg, Strickland, Wolk, Wright, Wyland, Yee NO VOTE RECORDED: Maldonado, Oropeza, Walters, Wiggins, Vacancy ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 71-0, 8/5/10 (Consent) - See last page for vote SUBJECT : Redevelopment: Redevelopment Agency of the County of Riverside SOURCE : Redevelopment Agency of the County of Riverside DIGEST : This bill allows the Redevelopment Agency of the County of Riverside to include territory that is now part of the cities of Menifee, Wildomar, or Indio if, prior to CONTINUED SB 977 Page 2 incorporation or annexation of these cities certain conditions were met. Assembly Amendments include specified territory surrounded by the city of Indio. ANALYSIS : The Community Redevelopment Law provides that a county redevelopment agency's territorial jurisdiction is the county's unincorporated area. The territorial jurisdiction of a county redevelopment agency includes all of the unincorporated territory that was in a county's redevelopment project area, even if a city subsequently annexes the territory or a new city incorporates on top of the county's redevelopment project area. There are procedures for counties to transfer control over their project areas to the annexing city or the new city. This bill allows the Redevelopment Agency of the County of Riverside (Agency) to include territory that is now part of the cities of Menifee, Wildomar, or Indio if, prior to incorporation or annexation of these cities certain conditions were met. Specifically, this bill: 1. Requires the territorial jurisdiction of the Agency to include all of the following: A. Former Agency territory within the geographic boundaries of the city of Menifee or the city of Wildomar if, prior to the incorporations, the Agency: (1) Entered into a binding agreement with a third party to produce affordable housing. (2) Acquired land or otherwise expended money from its Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Fund. B. Territory currently within an island of unincorporated territory that is surrounded or substantially surrounded by the city of Indio, after the city's annexation of that territory, if, prior to that annexation, the Agency: (1) Entered into a binding agreement with a CONTINUED SB 977 Page 3 third party to produce affordable housing. (2) Acquired land or otherwise expended money from its Low- and Moderate-Income Housing Fund. This bill allows the Agency to count the housing units that it supports within the cities of Menifee, Wildomar and Indio towards its statutory obligations to support affordable housing. This bill declares that it applies retroactively and prospectively, and it contains legislative declarations to support its special provisions. Comments The Agency has five project areas. In 2008, the new cities of Menifee and Wildomar incorporated on top of parts of the County's existing project areas. Before these incorporations, however, County redevelopment officials acquired land outside of their project areas and signed agreements with a developer to build senior low-income apartments in Menifee (Vineyards) and Wildomar (Tres Lagos). County officials approved the apartment developments before the incorporations took effect. Because the properties are inside the new cities, but outside of the County's redevelopment project areas, County redevelopment officials lack the authority to continue with the apartment developments. They want a legislative declaration that the Agency's territory still includes those properties, so that they can finish the apartments. FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local: No SUPPORT : (Verified 8/5/10) Cities of Menifee and Wildomar County of Riverside ASSEMBLY FLOOR : AYES: Adams, Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall, CONTINUED SB 977 Page 4 Bill Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, De La Torre, De Leon, DeVore, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fong, Fuentes, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick, Gatto, Gilmore, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Huber, Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen, Norby, Portantino, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva, Skinner, Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Tran, Villines, Yamada, John A. Perez NO VOTE RECORDED: Blakeslee, Davis, Fletcher, Furutani, Hill, Lieu, V. Manuel Perez, Smyth, Vacancy AGB:mw 8/6/10 Senate Floor Analyses SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE **** END **** CONTINUED