COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
MISSION
To eliminate blighting conditions in the Rohnert Park Redevelopment Project 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.
DISSOLUTION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
In connection with approval and adoption of the State Budget for Fiscal Year 2011-12, the California Legislature approved and the Governor signed (i) AB 1X 26 (Stats. 2011, chap. 5, “AB 1X 26”), which immediately, and purportedly retroactively, suspended all otherwise legal redevelopment activities and incurrence of indebtedness, and provided for dissolution of California’s redevelopment agencies effective October 1, 2011 (the “Dissolution Act”); and (ii) AB 1X 27 (Stats. 2011, chap. 6, “AB 1X 27”), which allowed a local community to avoid the consequences of the Dissolution Act and continue its redevelopment agency if the community enacted an ordinance agreeing to comply with the alternative voluntary redevelopment program described in Section 2 of AB 1X 27 adding Part 1.9 (commencing with section 34192) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code.
A Petition for Writ of Mandate was filed in the Supreme Court of the State of California on July 18, 2011 (California Redevelopment Association, et al. v. Ana Matosantos, et al., Case No. 5194861), challenging the constitutionality of AB 1X 26 and AB 1X 27 on behalf of cities, counties and redevelopment agencies and requesting a stay of enforcement.
In a decision filed on December 29, 2011, the Supreme Court found the dissolution of redevelopment agencies effected by AB 1X 26 to be a proper exercise of the legislative power vested in the Legislature by the State Constitution and the provisions of AB 1X 27 allowing communities to save their redevelopment agencies if they made the “voluntary” remittance payments under AB 1X 27 to violate Proposition 22, thus upholding the constitutionality of AB 1X 26 and holding AB 1X 27 unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court extended the timeframes set forth in AB 1X 26 for, among other things, determining whether a city desires to serve as a successor entity to the former redevelopment agency. Health and Safety Code Section 34177 tasks each successor agency with the responsibility for winding down the dissolved redevelopment agency's affairs, continuing to meet the former redevelopment agency's enforceable obligations, overseeing completion of redevelopment projects and disposing of assets and properties of the former redevelopment agency, all as directed by an oversight board.
The City Council of the City of Rohnert Park elected to serve as successor agency to the former Community Development Commission on January 10, 2012.
Each successor agency has an oversight board that supervises it. The oversight board is comprised of representatives of the local agencies that serve the redevelopment project area: the city, the county, special districts, and K-14 educational agencies. Oversight board members have a fiduciary responsibility to holders of enforceable obligations, as well as to the local agencies that would benefit from property tax distributions from the former redevelopment project area. (CLICK HERE to take you to the Successor Agency Oversight Board webpage.)
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