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Item #1 REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY FOR THE CITY OF COLTON For the Redevelopment Agency Board Meeting of March 15, 2005 TO: Honoreble Chairperson and Boardmembers FROM: Candace E. Cassel, Redevelopment Direc r. SUBJECT: Consideration and Approval of Agency Reso ution No. 839 Adopting the 2005-2009 Redevelopment Implementation Plan. DATE: March 2, 2005 BACKGROUND California Redevelopment Law (the "CRL") requires that redevelopment agencies prepare and adopt an implementation plan every five years indicating how the agency plans to proceed with its redevelopment efforts to eliminate blight in the community and report on its progress in meeting its housing obligations under the CRL. As required by law, the Redevelopment Agency for the City of Colton (the "Agency") has prepared its 2005-2009 Implementation Plan (the "Implementation Plan"). Pursuant to the CRL, multiple redevelopment project areas may be combined into one implementation plan. The following project areas are included in the Agency's 2005-2009 Implementation Plan: Downtown No. 1, Downtown No. 2, Cooley Ranch, as amended, Santa Ana River, West Valley, as amended, Mt. Vernon Corridor and Rancho/Mill. The purpose of the Agency's Implementation Plan, first and foremost, is to fulfill the Agency's legal requirement to adopt an implementation plan. Requirements of implementation plans reflect a strong legislative concern that redevelopment activities should be connected with addressing the blight that justified adoption of the redevelopment plan in the first place. The implementation plan is one of several requirements which now direct that redevelopment activities be linked to the elimination of blight. During preparation of the 2005-2009 Implementation Plan, every property owner, business owner and residential tenant in the seven redevelopment project areas was mailed an invitation to attend four community meetings. The community meetings (May 10, 2004, May 12, 2004, June 7, 2004 and June 9, 2004) were held to encourage public participation in the formulization of the Agency's RedevelopmenUcapital improvement plans. TonighYs public hearing to adopt the Implementation Plan provides another opportunity for public input. The public hearing was noticed in the Sun Newspaper on January 21, 2005, January 28, 2005 and February 4, 2005. In accordance with the CRL, the public hearing notice was also posted in four permanent locations within each redevelopment project area for a period of three weeks. All of these notice periods were completed, at least, ten (10) days prior to the date of the public hearing.