Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

Every redevelopment plan shall: (a) Contain adequate safeguards that the work of redevelopment will be carried out pursuant to the plan; (b) Provide for the retention of controls and the establishment of any restrictions or covenants running with land sold or leased for private u…

Every redevelopment plan shall contain a provision requiring that all deeds, leases, or contracts for the sale, lease, sublease, or other transfer of any land in a redevelopment project shall contain the nondiscrimination clauses prescribed in Section 33436.

Every redevelopment plan shall contain other covenants, conditions, and restrictions which the legislative body prescribes.

Every redevelopment plan shall provide for participation in the redevelopment of property in the project area by the owners of all or part of such property if the owners agree to participate in the redevelopment in conformity with the redevelopment plan adopted by the legislative…

Every redevelopment agency shall extend reasonable preference to persons who are engaged in business in the project area to reenter in business within the redeveloped area if they otherwise meet the requirements prescribed by the redevelopment plan. With respect to each redevelop…

Every redevelopment plan which contemplates property owner participation in the redevelopment of the project area shall contain alternative provisions for redevelopment of the property if the owners fail to participate in the redevelopment as agreed.

Redevelopment plans may provide for the agency to issue bonds and expend the proceeds from their sale in carrying out the redevelopment plan. If such an issuance is provided for, the redevelopment plan shall also contain adequate provision for the payment of principal and interes…

Redevelopment plans may provide for the agency to acquire by gift, purchase, lease, or condemnation all or part of the real property in the project area.

(a) A redevelopment plan adopted on or after January 1, 2007, shall describe the agency’s program to acquire real property by eminent domain. (b) The plan may prohibit the agency from acquiring by eminent domain specified types of real property, including, but not limited to, own…

(a) A legislative body that adopted a final redevelopment plan before January 1, 2007, shall adopt an ordinance on or before July 1, 2007, that contains a description of the agency’s program to acquire real property by eminent domain. The plan may prohibit the agency from acquiri…

Redevelopment plans may provide for the expenditure of money by the community.

Redevelopment plans may provide for the community to undertake and complete any proceedings necessary to carry out the project.

After receiving the report prepared pursuant to Section 33328, or after the time period for preparation of that report has passed, a redevelopment agency that includes a provision for the division of taxes pursuant to Section 33670 in the redevelopment plan shall prepare and send…

A redevelopment agency that is required to prepare a preliminary report pursuant to Section 33344.5 shall send the preliminary report no later than 90 days before the date set for a public hearing held pursuant to Section 33355 or 33360. However, notwithstanding this requirement,…

With respect to each redevelopment project, each agency shall, within a reasonable time before its approval of the redevelopment plan adopt and make available for public inspection rules to implement the operation of owner participation in connection with the plan.

Before the redevelopment plan of each project area is submitted to the legislative body, it shall be submitted to the planning commission for its report and recommendation concerning the redevelopment plan and its conformity to the general plan adopted by the planning commission …

Within 30 days after a redevelopment plan is submitted to it for consideration, the planning commission shall make and file its report and recommendation with the agency. If the planning commission does not report upon the redevelopment plan within 30 days after its submission by…

If there exists within the project area a project area committee, the redevelopment plan shall be submitted to such committee before it is submitted to the legislative body. The committee may, if it chooses, prepare a report and recommendation for submission to the legislative bo…

Before the approval of a redevelopment plan by the agency, the agency shall conduct a public hearing on it.

(a) The agency shall publish notice of the hearing not less than once a week for four successive weeks prior to the hearing. The notice shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the community, or if there is none, in a newspaper selected b…

Notwithstanding Sections 33349 and 33361, the notice provided for in such sections applicable to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Crescent City need be published only once, at least ten days prior to the hearing in question. The notice of the hearing by the agency on the r…

Each assessee whose property would be subject to acquisition by purchase or condemnation under the plan shall be sent a statement in nontechnical language and in a clear and coherent manner using words with common and everyday meaning, to that effect attached to his notice of the…

After publication of notice of agency public hearing and prior to approval of the redevelopment plan by the agency, an agency may exclude land from a project area after receipt of a report and recommendation from the planning commission. Within 30 days after a change is submitted…

Upon the preparation and approval of a redevelopment plan the agency shall submit it to the legislative body.

Every redevelopment plan submitted by the agency to the legislative body shall be accompanied by a report containing all of the following: (a) The reasons for the selection of the project area, a description of the specific projects then proposed by the agency, a description of h…

“Affected taxing entity” means any governmental taxing agency that levies a property tax on all or any portion of the property located in the adopted project area in the fiscal year prior to the fiscal year in which the report prepared pursuant to Section 33328 is issued or in an…

Where an agency proposes to amend a redevelopment plan which does not utilize tax increment financing to include a tax allocation provision, the agency shall follow the same procedure and the legislative body is subject to the same restrictions as provided for in this article for…

(a) When an agency proposes to amend a redevelopment plan which utilizes tax increment financing to add new territory to the project area, to increase either the limitation on the number of dollars to be allocated to the redevelopment agency or the time limit on the establishing …

(a) Before an agency or a public body forgives the repayment, wholly or partially, of a loan, advance, or indebtedness that is owed by a public body to the agency or an agency to the public body, the agency or public body forgiving the repayment shall adopt a resolution that stat…

(a) On or before February 1, 2012, an agency or public body shall adopt a resolution that declares whether or not it has forgiven, during the period of time commencing January 1, 2010, through December 31, 2011, the repayment, wholly or partially, of a loan, advance, or indebtedn…

As an alternative to the separate public hearings required by Sections 33348 and 33360 of this part, the agency and the legislative body, with the consent of both, may hold a joint public hearing on a redevelopment plan. The presiding officer of the legislative body shall preside…

Prior to such joint public hearing, the agency shall submit the plan to the planning commission by the same procedure as is provided in Section 33346, and to the legislative body. The submission of the plan to the legislative body shall be accompanied by the report required by Se…

After the close of the joint public hearing, the agency may proceed to approve the plan and submit its approval together with any recommendations for changes to the legislative body. If the agency desires to recommend any changes in the plan, such changes shall be submitted to th…

After receipt of the approval and any recommendations for changes as well as the report and recommendation of the planning commission of the recommended changes, the legislative body may proceed to act upon the plan pursuant to Sections 33363.5 to 33375, inclusive.

When a joint public hearing is held where the legislative body is also the agency, action to approve and adopt the plan need be taken only by the legislative body. At the conclusion of the joint public hearing on the plan, the legislative body may proceed to adopt the plan pursua…

The legislative body at a public hearing shall consider the redevelopment plan submitted by the agency. The legislative body may adjourn the hearing from time to time.

(a) No later than 45 days prior to the public hearing on a proposed plan adoption by an agency or the joint public hearing of the agency and the legislative body, the agency shall deliver a copy of the preliminary report and notice of the date of the public hearing to the Departm…

Notice of the public hearing shall be given by publication not less than once a week for four successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the land lies. The notice shall: (a) Describe specifically the boundaries of the proposed redevelo…

At any time not later than the hour set for hearing objections to the proposed redevelopment plan, any person may file in writing with the clerk of the legislative body a statement of his objections to the proposed plan.

At the hour set in the notice required by Section 33361 for hearing objections, the legislative body shall proceed to hear all written and oral objections. Before adopting the redevelopment plan the legislative body shall evaluate the report of the agency, the report and recommen…

After the redevelopment plan and accompanying documents have been submitted by the agency to the legislative body and at any time prior to the adoption of the plan, the legislative body upon the recommendation of the agency, without additional agency public hearings, may change s…

If no objections in writing have been delivered to the clerk of the legislative body prior to the hour set for the hearing thereon, and if no written objections are presented during the hearing thereon, the legislative body may proceed to adopt the plan at the time set for hearin…

The legislative body by ordinance may adopt the redevelopment plan as the official redevelopment plan for the project area. Except as otherwise provided in Section 33378, the ordinance adopting the redevelopment plan shall be subject to referendum as prescribed by law for the ord…

If the planning commission or the project area committee has recommended against the approval of the redevelopment plan, the legislative body may adopt such plan by a two-thirds vote of its entire membership eligible and qualified to vote on such plan. If the planning commission …

The ordinance shall contain all of the following: (a) The purposes and intent of the legislative body with respect to the project area. (b) The plan incorporated by reference. (c) A designation of the approved plan as the official redevelopment plan of the project area. (d) The f…

The decision of the legislative body shall be final and conclusive, and it shall thereafter be conclusively presumed that the project area is a blighted area as defined by Section 33031 and that all prior proceedings have been duly and regularly taken. This section shall not appl…

If the plan provides for the expenditure of any money by the community, the legislative body shall provide for such expenditure at the time of or in connection with the approval of the plan.

The legislative body at the time of, or in connection with, the adoption of the plan, shall declare its intention to undertake and complete any proceedings necessary to be carried out by the community under the provisions of the plan.

Before entering into any or certain types of contracts in connection with the redevelopment plan, the legislative body may require the agency to submit such contracts to the legislative body and obtain its approval.

Upon the filing of the ordinance adopting the redevelopment plan with the clerk or other appropriate officer of the legislative body, a copy of the ordinance shall be sent to the agency, and the agency is vested with the responsibility for carrying out the plan.