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REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
MEETING DATE: August 7, 2024 FROM: Steve Bade, Assistant City
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SUBJECT: 4.2(a)--Resolution for the Completion of Lowden Lane Senior Apartments
Pro'ect
Recommendation
Authorize the following actions relative to the Community Development B1ock Grant-Disaster
Recovery Mu1ti-Family Housing Program guidelines:
(1) Adopt Resolution acknowledging Lowden Lane Senior Apartments is complete pursuant
to City of Redding requirements and the Community Development B1ock Grant-Disaster
Recovery Multi-Fainily I�ousing Program Guidelines;
(2} Find that adopting a completion resolution is not considered a project under the
California Environmental Quality Act; and
(3) Find that adopting a completion resolution is exempt under the N�ational Environmental
Policy Act under Tit1e 24 CFR 58.34(a)(3).
Fiscal Impact
There is no fiscal impact related to this report.
Alte�native Action
The City Council (Council) could choose not to adopt the resolution acknowledging that the
project is complete. Under this alternative, the City of Redding (City) would not be following the
Community Development Block Grant—Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Multi-Family Housing
Program (MHP) grant requirements and the ramifications of not providing the requested
resolution are unknown.
Background/Analysis
As a result of the wildfires that affected California in 2018, a Presidentially-Declared Disaster
was assigned to five counties, including Shasta County for the Carr Fire. In recognition of the
unmet recovery needs, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development allocated
CDBG-DR Program funds to the State of California Housing and Community Development
Report to Redding City Council Ju1y 29,2024
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Department (HCD). HCD is the agency responsible for administering the CDBG-DR funds and
approving any resulting Inulti-family projects.
HCD undertook an extensive needs assessment to determine the specific priorities of the affected
counties with significant community outreach and analysis that resulted in four CDBG-DR
program categories: housing, infrastructure, economic revitalization, and planning. The majority
of funds are allocated to the unmet rental housing needs in affected counties. To meet the unmet
rental housing needs, HCD created the CDBG�-DR MHP. The City was allocated $16,660,145 in
CDBG-DR MHP funds to support the development of income-eligible multifamily projects.
Lowden Lane Senior Apartments consists of 59 income-eligible apartment units for seniors, and
one manager's unit, and is located at 2775 Lowden Lane. On 1Vlarch 17, 2022, the Council
approved a $5.5 million CDBG-DR MHP loan to assist Redding Lowden Lane, LP, to develop
and construct the project. The project was completed on Ju1y 15, 2024. CDBG-DR MHP
regulations require that once the funded project is completed, the local jurisdiction must adopt a
resolution that acknowledges it is satisfactorily completed.
Environmental Review
Adopting a completion resolution is not considered a project under the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). The actual construction of the project was previously reviewed for CEQA
compliance.
Under the N�ational Environmental Policy Act (N�EPA), administrative and management
activities such as adopting a resolution are considered exempt activities and no further action is
required. The actual construction project was reviewed far NEPA requirements before the
project started.
Council P�^io�ity/City ManageN Goals
• This agenda item is a routine operational item.
Attachments
^Resolution
RESOLUTION NO. 2024-
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDDING
AUTHORIZING THE ACCEPTANCE OF COMPLETION OF THE
LOWDEN LANE SENIOR APARTIVIENTS PROJECT FUNDED BY
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT DISASTER
RECOVERY MULTI-FAMILI'HOUSING PROGRAM FUNDS
WHEREAS, the City Council previously approved the use of Community Development
B1ock Grant Disaster Recovery Mu1ti-Family Housing Program funds in the Lowden Lane Senior
Apartments development; and
WHEREAS, the Lowden Lane Senior Apartments development has been satisfactorily
completed according to City of Redding and California State Housing and Community
Development Guidelines;
NOW, TT-IEREFORE, TT IS RESOLVED by the City Council that the Lowden Lane
Senior Apartments development has been satisfactorily completed.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was introduced at a special meeting
of the City Council of the City of Redding on the 7th day of August, 2024, and was duly adopted
at said meeting by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
TENESSA AUDETTE, Mayor
ATTEST: FORM APPROVED:
SHARLENE TIPTON, City Clerk CHRISTIAN M. CURTIS, City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
City of Redding
I, Sharlene Tipton, City Clerk of the City of Redding, State of California,hereby certify the above
and foregoing to be a full, true and correct copy of a resolution adopted at a duly noticed and
convened meeting of said City Council on August 7, 2024, and that such resolution has not been
amended, modified, repealed or rescinded since its date of adoption and is in full force and effect
as of the date hereof.
Sharlene Tipton, City Clerk of the City of Redding,
State of California
By:
Sharlene Tipton, City Clerk