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Consider recommendations regarding a Quitclaim Deed to the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara for Parkside Garden Apartments affordable housing project (Project) in Lompoc, Fourth District, as follows:
a) Determine, in accordance with California Government Code Section 26227, that the Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara, a public body, corporate and politic and related financing entity, Parkside Garden Apartments, L.P., operate an affordable housing program for persons of very low, low, and moderate income including elderly and handicapped persons at the Parkside Garden Apartments located at 240 West Pine Avenue in the City of Lompoc, APN 089-110-007, that serves public purposes and that it is in the best interests of the County and the public to assist the Housing Authority finance the previously completed rehabilitation and improvement of the Project by releasing the County’s reversionary interest therein;
b) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute the Quitclaim Deed that releases the County’s reversionary interest in the Parkside Garden Apartments property, which is set forth in that certain September 29, 1980 Grant Deed; and
c) Determine that the recommended actions are exempt from environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines 15601(b)(3) as it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment and pursuant to CEQA Guidelines 15301 as it consists of the operation repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing or minor alteration of existing public or private structures or facilities involving negligible or no expansion of existing or former use.