2009/06/16 Community Development Commission Agenda PacketCITY OF ROHNERT PARK
130 Avram Avenue ♦ Rohnert Park, California 94928
Phone: (707) 588-2227 ♦ FAX: (707) 792-1876 ♦ WEB: www.rpcity.org
OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
NOTICE OF CANCELLATION
OF THE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
SPECIAL MEETING
TUESDAY, JUNE 169 2009
DUE TO LACK OF A QUORUM
THE JUNE 169 2009
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Dated: June 16, 2009 —x
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City of Rohnert Park♦ 130 Avram Avenue*Rohnert Park, California 94928
Phone: (707) 588-2225 ♦ FAX: (707) 792-1876 ♦ WEB: www.rpcity.org
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMISSION
OF THE CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
SPECIAL MEETING
NOTICE AND AGENDA
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a SPECIAL MEETING of the
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION of the CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
will be held on
Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at 6:00 p.m.
at the Rohnert Park City Hall - Council Chamber
130 Avram Avenue, Rohnert Park, California
Said special meeting shall be for the purpose of the following:
6:00 p.m.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION SPECIAL MEETING - Call to Order
Roll Call (Belforte_ Callinan_ Mackenzie Stafford_ Breeze—)
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2. CDC BUDGET SESSION ITEM FOR REVIEW:
FIVE YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN for FISCAL YEAR 2009/10 — 2013/14
• Commission discussion/direction/action
ADJOURNMENT of CDC Special Meeting
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JH -061609 SPECIAL AGENDA-RPCDC
Redevelopment Framework Setting
Rohnert Park CDC
June 16, 2009
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PURPOSE OF TONIGHT'S MEETING
• Have an understanding of redevelopment's role in
solving current revenue issues
• Give staff guidance to complete new implementation.
plan
• Set schedule for September adoption
FIVE YEAR IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
• Planning tool and legal requirement
• Redevelopment Component
— Project Area goals & objectives
— Potential projects & programs
— How they eliminate blight in Project Area
• Affordable Housing Component
— Production requirements
— Housing fund expenditure requirements
— Basis for potential penalties for noncompliance
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COUNCIL GOALS
• Raise Revenues
• Infrastructure: Maintain/Increase
• Increase Safety: "Safest City on the 101 "
• Sustainability.
• Partnerships/Cooperation
CURRENT SITUATION
• General Fund structural deficit
— 26% revenue shortfall ($8 million)
— Service level restructuring may yield savings
— $4.5 million still needed
CURRENT SITUATION
• Undertaken independent internal audit
• Adopted Economic Development Action Plan
• Studied potential for commercial district revitalization
• Reaffirmed important goals and direction
• Face mandates for affordable housing
Redevelopment Law
— Regional Housing Needs
CURRENT SITUATION
• Project Area Facts
— 39% of the City area
— 44% of City population
• CDC's Mission
— Eliminate blight
— Create environment for
economic development
— Low and moderate income
housing
REDEVELOPMENT'S ROLE
• Primary purpose is to eliminate blight in the Project Area
— Funds may be used outside project area when benefit is
established
— Subject to legal challenges now
• Capital projects, not operations or maintenance
• Projects must be consistent with implementation plan
• Affordable housing requirements inherent, including:
— Expenditure of funds in proportion to legal thresholds
— Creation of new housing
— Preservation of existing housing.
COUNCIL GOALS
• Raise Revenues
• Infrastructure:.Maintain/Increase
• Increase Safety: "Safest City on the 101
• Sustainability
• Partnerships/Cooperation
• Direction to Staff from Commission
— Discuss how redevelopment and new implementation plan assist
with reaching Council goals
— What additional information does the Commission need?
NEXT STEPS
COUNTY OF SONOMA
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
575 ADMINISTRATION DRIVE, RM. 100A
SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA 95403
(707) 565-2241
FAX (707) 565-3778
June 15, 2009
Rohnert Park City Council
130 Avram Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Re: CDC 5 -year implementation plan for FY 2009/2010 - FY 2013/2014
Dear Councilmembers:
SHIRLEE ZANE
THIRD DISTRICT SUPERVISOR
szane@sonoma-county.org
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(understand you will be discussing your Community Development Commission five=year-
implementation plan tomorrow evening. First of all, I want to. express `my. -gratitude for the
important work you undertake in your capacity as Community Development Commission
members. Particularly in times like these, redevelopment is a key tool to protecting our most
vulnerable residents from the impacts of economic downturn while fueling continued job
creation and growth for local businesses.
As the Board of Directors for Sonoma County's Community Development Commission, we
recently heard a report on the current profile of homelessness in our community. The point -in -
time street and shelter census identified 3,247 homeless people in Sonoma County., and also
revealed that 37% of these individuals had become homeless as a result of a recent job loss:
During,these economic times, we cannot afford to ease up on producing affordable housing.
It is for this reason that I urge you to make affordable housing production a key priority in
creating.your Community Development Commission implementation plan. The plan for FY
2004-05 through 2008-09 mentions reuse of the former City Hall/Avram Avenue sites as
elements of the redevelopment program, and I hope the City continues to pursue these types of
opportunities to provide housing for low-income, elderly and/or special needs populations.
Vida Nueva represented a wonderful accomplishment for the City of Rohnert Park, not only by
providing much-needed housing for special needs residents but also by creating jobs for local
construction workers. I recently had the pleasure of receiving a letter about a constituent with
mental illness who has been placed in their care. I don't have to tell you how important it is to
proliferate success stories like these.
I appreciate the opportunity to weigh in. on this plan, and thank you for your attention to
affordable housing issues. Please don't hesitate to contact my office any time.
Sincerely,
SHIRLEE ZANE
Third District Supervisor
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COMMISSIONER INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS
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Rosenow Spevacek Group, Inc. is a California-based redevelopment consulting firm who has been
retained by the CDC to prepare the upcoming Five Year Implementation Plan for the Rohnert Park .
Redevelopment Project Area. The Five Year Implementation Plan is a planning tool required for all
redevelopment project areas that addresses the goals, objectives, projects and expenditures for the next
five years. Also, they include a housing component that primarily focuses on compliance with various
legal requirements on redevelopment's affordable housing activities.
Although a legal requirement from the State Legislature, Five Year Implementation Plans can serve a
very useful purpose in that they bridge the planning gap between the broad authorities in a
redevelopment plan and the single -year perspective of an operating budget. They provide context and
purpose for future projects, and give the Commission the opportunity to be strategic.
More importantly - based on the current issues.facing the City today, the Implementation Plan needs
criteria to develop priorities, so this opportunity to focus on the long term goals of the City and CDC is not
missed.
HOW WE CAN USE IMPLEMENTATION PLANS
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Current Setting
■ City General Fund in structural deficit - 2009-10 projected expenditures exceed revenues by $8
million (26%)
■ Reserves could be depleted in less than 12 months
■ Historic reliance on short-term/one-time revenues not sustainable today
■ Compensation and benefit costs increasing
■ City re-evaluating service levels by department for possible restructuring and savings
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COMMISSIONER INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS
ROHNERT PARK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMMISSION
What the City Has Done
1. Established an Economic Development Action Plan (July 2007)
2. Adopted the Corridor Concept Plans and Implementation Strategy (2008)
3. Reviewed and Assessed the CDC's Mission Statement and Activities (January 2009)
4. Established Council Goals, Tactics and Strategies (May 2009)
5. Operational Audit of General. Fund and Service Levels (May 2009)
What Can Redevelopment Do?
From CDC's Mission Statement
(Winter 2008)
"To eliminate blighting conditions in the Rohnert Park Redevelopment Area and create an environment
appropriate for economic development and to preserve, improve and increase the community's supply of
low and moderate income housing, in accordance with the Community Redevelopment Law of the State
of California"
From the Economic Development Action Plan:
(July 2007)
"Hire a marketing consultant and working with state and regional marketing efforts is an appropriate
strategy for... Rohnert Park."
"One of the findings of [the Urban Design Plan prepared by RBF Consultants] is that creating at least two
new retail core areas would improve the quality of life"
"With the help of the City of Rohnert Park, the [Sonoma Mountain Village] developer has ... begun a
business incubator..."
"...the City of Rohnert Park can target zoning on available [industrial] sites to encourage job -generating
use and discourage the loss of these uses."
"Developable sites include the former Agilent and Motorola campuses, the former Yarbird's site on
Cascade Court, and the Ballpark lands site off Labath Avenue"
"The widening of Wilfred Avenue would improve access and add industrial and office development
potential to additional sites... if job creation is a high priority, the City might consider zoning more of this
area for industrial or office use only rather than the current residential [zoning]..."
Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Mandates
(January 2009)
"...an additional 322 very -low income [and] 205 very low income... units still need to be provided by 2014."
Jim Simon, Principal 2 6/10/2009
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COMMISSIONER INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS
ROHNERT PARK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMMISSION
From Corridor Concept Plans and Implementation Strategy
(2008)
"...the City should support the redevelopment or enhancement of shoppinc center and underutilized
propoerties along the [Commerce Boulevard, Southwest Boulevard and State Farm Drive] corridors"
"Several property owners have expressed and interest in developing mixed-use projects on properties
north of and adjacent to Hinebaugh Creek"
"The former public safety building, located between the Southwest Neighborhood Business District and
Mountain Shadows Middle School, should be redeveloped. This site could include mixed-use buildings or
higher -density housing."
City Council Goals. Tactics and Strategies
(May 1, 2009)
Perceived Redevelopment Role(s)?
Raise Revenues
Infrastructure: Maintain/Increase
Increase Safety: "Safest City on the 101"
Sustainability
Partnerships/Cooperation
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Continuing economic development goals
through existing partnership with Chamber of
Commerce and Council liaison to the
Chamber
Direct staff to explore ways of streamlining
planning processes to better enable leases
and sales of commercial property
Encouraging business retention through use
of signage and, through the Education
Committee, begin dialogue with Rancho
Cotati High School and Sonoma State
University regarding potential partnerships to
develop signage.
Utilizing information contained in the corridor
study toward achievement of economic
development tactics.
Considering Future strategies toward
consolidations and amalgamations under
partnerships and cooperation
Jim Simon, Principal 3 6/10/2009
COMMISSIONER INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS
ROHNERT PARK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMMISSION
Tactics and Strategies Perceived Redevelopment Role(s)?
Exploring first-time homebuyer and/or
partnerships with non -profits and the real
estate market to address residential
vacancies.
Redevelopment Fund Breakdown
(June 2009)
Fund Amount Permitted Use(s)
Redevelopment Tax Increment
$5,700,000
Blight mitigation, nonoperational costs, public
or private use
Redevelopment Bond Proceeds
$18,100,000
Blight mitigation, nonoperational costs, public
use
Housing Set Aside Funds
$3,600,000
Affordable housing, private or public use
Housing Bond Proceeds
$12,200,000
Affordable housing, public use
Total $39,600,000
Other Key Questions
1. What redevelopment/blight mitigation goals are most important today?
a. What makes them important to Rohnert Park?
2. What affordable housing goals are most important today?
a. What makes them important to Rohnert Park?
3. How in your opinion should redevelopment projects be evaluated? What are the right measures
of a "return on investment" for redevelopment projects and affordable housing project?
Jim Simon, Principal 4 6/10/2009