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. . , - Director Church said staff would contact Mr. Saucerman. MEMO 6/10/98 - Bruce Dodman, Irvine Apartment Communities, also representing Shea Homes and Butler Construction, developers of the Franklin Street Area Project, described their project of 500 home community on Franklin. He said, "This project will become the watermark upon which all other Master Plan residential communities on the Peninsula will be compared." Mr. Dorfinan said the project will also assist in the continued revitalization of the downtown. He said, "It would not be possible without the Redevelopment Agency's involvement." Ted Hannig, 2991 EI Camino Real, representing Lyngso Garden Materials, Inc., Peninsula Building Materials, Tanklage Construction Company, Inc., Pressure Vessel Service Inc., Granite Rock, Malibu Castle Golf and Games, and other individual property owners, used computer slides to address Area 2. Mr. Hannig addressed the issue of blight and showed blighted areas in the existing Redevelopment Area. He said, "a blighted area must constitute a serious physical and economic burden on the community. For you to find that Area 2 is subject to redevelopment", you will have to find that it constitutes a burden on the community, and.... also show that that burden cannot be reversed or alleviated by private enterprise or government action or both. And you must also show either physical blight and economic blight or the majority of lots are of irregular form and shape and inadequate size." Mr. Hannig recapped the - earlier explanations of physical and economic blight. He said Justice Hanning wrote an opinion in 1987, "To qualify and be properly subject to redevelopment you have to look at the area as a whole, and the whole area must be found to be blighted. I will submit to you tonight, that Area 2 either in its full composite or as Mr. Molony suggested the portion that might be removed, cannot be found to be blighted." Mr. Hannig said only a compelling economic need can allow the government to use what is called an extraordinary power of redevelopment. He said, "Nor can you look to the future of what speculative gain you might have by other forms of businesses" such as car dealerships. Mr. Hannig said the legislature had made clear that the finding of blight not be made on the basis of potential alternative uses but on the basis of existing use. He said, "If Area 2 does not constitute a serious physical and economic burden which the private sector or government cannot fix, it is not a blighted area. Or if it does not suffer both physical and economic conditions that cause blight and does not contain lots of irregular form and shape, it is not a blighted area." Mr. Hannig showed a slide of the map of the proposed amended area, and conducted a virtual tour of Area 2. Mr. Hannig said the proposed amendment appeared to be a gerrymandered district in spite of staff's comments to the contrary. He said consistent planning is impossible with inconsistent borders. Mr. Hannig described properties the Report identified as vacant, and advised they were in fact occupied. He said he did not - AGENDA FOR THE JOINT PUBLIC HEARING MINUTE BOOK NO.1 JUNE 8,1998 AND CONCURRENT MEETING WITH THE Page No. 488 PAGE 13 CITY COUNCIL