Recommendation to adopt Specifications No. RFP EP16-129 for the purchase and development opportunity at Pine Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway (1814 Pine Avenue/101 East Pacific Coast Highway), Assessor Parcel Numbers 7209-016-900 -901 (Subject Property); Declare the City-owned Subject Property as surplus; Authorize City Manager, or designee, to execute any and all necessary documents, including a Purchase and Sale Agreement with Mkott Pich, LLC, a California limited liability company, for the sale of the Subject Property in the amount of $370,000; and Accept Categorical Exemption CE 16-177. (District 6)
Motion carries. Thank you. Item 17. A report from Economic and Property Development and Development Services recommendation to adopt specifications for the purchase and development opportunity at Pine Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway. Declare the city on property as surplus and execute all necessary documents with any court pick for the sale of the property in the amount of $370,000. District six. Mr. Kent Do you want to do that report first? Mr. WEST Because I'm hearing a few things from the audience, and please, we got to refrain from that. So, Mr. West, Mike Conway. Mayor Garcia, members of the City Council, this item relates to a future development. Property located at the northeast corner of Pine and PCH, formerly containing the recycling center known as Cache for cans. An RFP was released seeking proposals for the development of the property. Two proposals were received. Of the two proposals, the. Selection panel unanimously preferred the proposal submitted by Scott. Pitch, which proposal provides for the development of. A retail center containing. 5500 square feet. With that, staff stands ready to answer your questions. Councilman Austin Certainly I stand in support of this. Councilmember Andrews was wasn't able to be here. He had a he could be here. So he asked me to stand in support. Obviously, PCH is a critical area for economic development and this property has been vacant for a long time. And so this is progress for the sixth District right there, PCH and Pine. And so I'd ask for your support. There's a second by Vice Mayor Richardson. Is there any public comment? Once again, we have a sale of another of public land that's not necessarily being used here for a public good and it's not being used for affordable housing. We again questioning the Surplus Land Act by the state of California, which requires municipalities to, in good faith, provide opportunities for affordable housing developers to make bids on these properties and to develop them a priority for affordable housing. And again, we're just not sure that that's happening and it hasn't been happening with a large number of sales or redevelopment lots. And given the affordable housing crisis that we're facing in the city, with vacancy rates hovering at 2% and lower rents that are going up over 10%, the largest rent increases in the state of California, the second largest rent increases in the entire country. That with the shrinking housing stock, perhaps we should be looking at using these lots for affordable housing, or at least looking at if the Surplus Land Act would benefit us in using and using that to develop these properties for affordable housing . I just want to go on record as housing lobby, questioning whether or not we're following the Surplus Land Act. Thank you very. Much. And may or may be a. Direct response to that. Sure. If Josh would like. To look at the towards the bottom of. Page three on both staff reports and compliance with government government code section. 54220. Chapter 621 Statutes of 1968. On June 1st. And December 8th, staff notified the state of California. That the. Successor. Agency was declaring all future development and sale. Properties as surplus. Yes. And it's a it's my question is, is what are our requirements with regards to how we go about selling the surplus property? Are we prioritizing affordable housing? Because that's my understanding of the Surplus Land Act. Surplus land requires a notification to the state, which we complied with. What about to the affordable housing developers that these sites are for? So, so. So. Thank you. So obviously this is not option for the back and forth. But what we are clearly there's some questions, Josh, that you might have about our process. So, Mr. Conaway, can you just make sure you connect with Mr. Butler offline and just tell him the process so what we do? My pleasure. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Sure thing. Okay. There's a motion to say and the other public comment saying non, please cast your votes.