Official Summary Text
AB 2385, as amended, Petrie-Norris.
Local reconstruction agencies.
The Community Redevelopment Law established redevelopment agencies in each community and granted specified powers to those redevelopment agencies for the purpose of promoting redevelopment in blighted areas. Existing law dissolved those community redevelopment agencies in 2012.
Other existing law, the Disaster Recovery Reconstruction Act of 1986, authorizes each city, county, or other local subdivision, as provided, to prepare, prior to a disaster, plans and ordinances facilitating the expeditious and orderly recovery and reconstruction of the area in case of a disaster. Existing law authorizes the plans and ordinances to include, among other things, a contingency plan of action and organization for short-term and long-term recovery and reconstruction to be instituted after a disaster. Existing law authorizes the plans and ordinances to
include the authority and proposed organization for establishment of a local reconstruction authority with powers parallel to those of a community redevelopment agency, except as specified.
This bill would refer to those plans as a disaster recovery plan and would require a city or county that prepares a disaster recovery plan to amend its general plan, if necessary, as provided, to ensure consistency between both plans. The bill would revise the contingency plan of action and organization to include intermediate recovery and reconstruction, in addition to the short-term and long-term recovery and reconstruction, and would specify elements that may be included in the contingency plan of action and organization. The bill would require the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, in consultation with other specified state and local entities, to assess the recovery and rebuilding needs of jurisdictions across the state and develop model ordinance language, as
provided. The bill would also require the Office of Emergency Services, in consultation with the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, to prepare guidance on disaster recovery plans, as provided.
This bill would authorize a city, county, or
other local subdivision of the state
city and county that takes certain actions pursuant to the bill
to adopt an ordinance establishing a local reconstruction
agency, rather than a reconstruction authority,
agency
to coordinate disaster recovery efforts in the areas impacted by a
disaster and
disaster. The bill
would require the ordinance to include procedures for determining the boundaries of a local reconstruction area, as defined. The bill would authorize the ordinance to grant the
local
reconstruction agency specified powers, including, among other powers, to sue and be sued, to make and execute contracts, to issue or sell bonds, and to accept financial assistance from any public or private source. The bill would also authorize a
local
reconstruction agency to accept certain tax revenues derived from specified taxes levied upon taxable property within the local reconstruction area each year,
to be divided
as provided.
The bill would require the ordinance to state that incremental property tax revenue from the city or county and all affected taxing entities, as defined, within the local reconstruction area, may be used to finance certain activities of the local reconstruction agency if
approved by a resolution, as specified.
This bill would require the local reconstruction agency to have a board with a membership consisting of members of the legislative bodies of participating affected taxing
entities, as defined,
entities
and members of the public, as prescribed. The bill would deem the board a local public agency and make it subject to the Ralph M. Brown Act, the California Public Records Act, and the Political Reform Act of 1974.
This bill would require a city, county, or other local subdivision of the state to ensure that it specifies a date on which the local recovery agency will cease to exist, and would prohibit that date from being more than 45 years from the date on which a bond is
issued
issued,
or the issuance of a loan is approved, as provided.