LEGAL NOTICE

COMMUNITY MEETING

JOINT PUBLIC HEARING

AMENDMENT TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE

CENTRAL CORE REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA

          NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Sunnyvale (the “Agency”) will hold a Community Meeting on December 3, 2003 at 7:00 p.m. and the City Council of the City of Sunnyvale (the "City Council") and the Agency will hold a joint public hearing on December 16, 2003 at 7:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, located at 456 West Olive Avenue, Sunnyvale, California.  The hearing may be continued from time to time until completed.  Any person desiring the opportunity to be heard will be afforded an opportunity to do so.

          The purpose of the hearing is to consider a certain amendment described below to the Redevelopment Plan for the Central Core Redevelopment Project Area, adopted by Ordinance No. 1796-75 on November 26, 1975, and as amended by Ordinance No. 2200-87 on January 6, 1987, as amended by Ordinance No. 2448-93 on October 5, 1993, and as amended by Ordinance No. 2493-94 on December 20, 1994 (the "Plan").  The currently proposed amendment to the Plan is incorporated in a proposed Amendment to the Redevelopment Plan for the Central Core Redevelopment Project Area (the "Plan Amendment").

          The purposes of the proposed Plan Amendment are to conform Redevelopment Plan land uses to the recently amended General Plan and Downtown Specific Plan and to reinstate the deadline for commencement of eminent domain proceedings by the Agency for non-residential property within the Central Core Redevelopment Project Area (the "Project Area") by twelve years.  The Plan has authorized eminent domain (condemnation) within the Project Area since its adoption in 1975, but has since expired.  The Plan Amendment would reinstate for an additional twelve years the Agency's power of eminent domain over non-residential properties.

          The proposed Plan Amendment will not change any of the financial provisions of the Plan (e.g. limits on allocation of tax increment revenue to the Agency, limits on times to incur debt or collect tax increment, or limits on the amount of outstanding bonded indebtedness), or the proposed activities of the Agency to promote redevelopment of the Project Area.

          The Project Area is situated in the County of Santa Clara, State of California, is more particularly described in Exhibit B.  The boundaries of the Project Area will not be changed as a result of the Plan Amendment.  A map showing the Project Area boundaries is attached as Exhibit A to this Notice.

          As part of the Downtown Improvement Program Update, the City prepared a Program Environmental Impact Report (“the Program EIR”) pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) to consider and analyze the environmental impacts related to the Project, including adoption of amendments to the Land Use and Transportation Element of the General Plan, the Downtown Specific Plan and the Zoning Code.  The Program EIR was certified by the Council at its June 17, 2003 meeting (Resolution No. 123-03), where Council found that it presented an adequate and extensive assessment of the environmental impacts of the Project, and adopted a statement of overriding considerations related to certain impacts on traffic and air quality, and adopted a mitigation monitoring program. The proposed amendments to the Redevelopment Plan are components of and consistent with the Project analyzed in the Program EIR, therefore, no additional review is required.  The Redevelopment Plan Amendment is subject to the Mitigation Monitoring Program adopted by the Council for the Project.

          Any and all persons having any comments on or objections to the proposed Plan Amendment, or the regularity of any prior proceeding, or who wish to speak on any issue raised by the Plan Amendment may appear at the hearing and show cause why the proposed Plan Amendment should not be adopted.  In addition at any time not later than the time set forth for the hearing on the Plan Amendment, any person may file in writing with the City Clerk a statement of objections to the proposed Plan Amendment.

          In accordance with the California Community Redevelopment Law, the Agency has prepared a Report on the Plan Amendment.  The Plan Amendment, the Program EIR and Report on the Plan Amendment are available for inspection in the offices of the Agency, located at 456 West Olive Avenue, Sunnyvale, California.  For further information about the Plan Amendment and related documents, please contact Brice McQueen, Redevelopment Manager for the Agency, at (408) 730-7284.

          This notice is published pursuant to order of the City Council and the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Sunnyvale.

Date:  November 13, 2003                      Redevelopment Agency of the City of Sunnyvale

For Publication on:                                 _________________________________________

                                                          Brice McQueen, Redevelopment Manager

          November 19, 2003

          November 26, 2003

          December 3, 2003

EXHIBIT A - MAP OF PROJECT AREA (pdf format)

EXHIBIT B