BILL NUMBER: AB 264	CHAPTERED  06/28/99

	CHAPTER   38
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JUNE 28, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JUNE 28, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   JUNE 14, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   JUNE 10, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 12, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MARCH 16, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mazzoni
   (Coauthor:  Senator Burton)

                        FEBRUARY 3, 1999

   An act to add Article 9 (commencing with Section 33492.140) to
Chapter 4.5 of Part 1 of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to redevelopment.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 264, Mazzoni.  Redevelopment:  Hamilton Army Airfield.
   The existing Community Redevelopment Law requires redevelopment
agencies that receive tax-increment revenues and that have adopted
redevelopment plans or amended redevelopment plans to include new
territory, after January 1, 1994, to make specified payments to local
taxing entities that are affected by activities of the redevelopment
agencies.  Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature that
these payments are necessary to alleviate the financial burden and
detriment that affected taxing entities may incur as a result of the
adoption of a redevelopment plan, that the payments will benefit
redevelopment project areas, and that the payments are the exclusive
payments that are required to be made by a redevelopment agency to
affected taxing entities during the term of a redevelopment plan.
   Existing law, until January 1, 2001, recognizes the City of Novato
as the single local base reuse entity for purposes relating to reuse
planning for the Hamilton Army Base, which is also known as the
former Hamilton Air Force Base for purposes of existing law that
authorizes a local agency, by ordinance, to allow graduated
compliance of buildings on former military bases with building
regulations or standards.
   This bill would authorize the redevelopment agency of the City of
Novato to pay to other specified agencies any amounts of money that
in the redevelopment agency's determination are appropriate to
alleviate any financial burden or detriment caused to those other
agencies by the Hamilton Field Redevelopment Project.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Article 9 (commencing with Section 33492.140) is added
to Chapter 4.5 of Part 1 of Division 24 of the Health and Safety
Code, to read:

      Article 9.  Hamilton Army Airfield

   33492.140.  Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) of
Section 33607.5, the redevelopment agency of the City of Novato may
pay to the County of Marin, the Novato Fire Protection District, and
the Marin Community College District any amounts of money that in the
agency's determination are appropriate to alleviate any financial
burden or detriment caused to the County of Marin, the Novato Fire
Protection District, or the Marin Community College District by the
Hamilton Field Redevelopment Project.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that with regard to
Section 1, a special law is necessary and that a general law cannot
be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of
the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances of
former Hamilton Army Airfield.  The facts constituting these unique
circumstances are as follows:
   Unlike other military base closures in California, Hamilton Army
Airfield was not closed at one time, but has, since 1974, undergone a
series of partial closures and dispositions by various branches of
the military.  This has imposed severe economic burdens on the City
of Novato and has deprived other local jurisdictions, including the
City of Novato, the County of Marin, the Novato Fire Protection
District, and the Marin Community College District, of the ability to
effectively adapt their planning and economic resources in a
coordinated manner to alleviate the economic and social burdens on
the community caused by the fragmented closure and disposition
process affecting the base.  The Hamilton Field Redevelopment Project
that has been adopted by the City of Novato has as its primary
purpose the achievement of the goals of the Hamilton Field Reuse Plan
for significant rehabilitated housing at Hamilton Army Airfield that
is deed-restricted for persons of very low, low, and moderate
income.  This special act is necessary in order to promote the
effective use of redevelopment to promote the achievement of the
affordable housing goals of the reuse plan that will add a
significant number of deed-restricted housing units in the City of
Novato and the County of Marin and to address the problems referred
to that are unique to Hamilton Army Airfield, the City of Novato, the
County of Marin, the Novato Fire Protection District, and the Marin
Community College District.