Housing and Urban Development (HUD);
b) Approve a Loan Agreement with Borrower and Promissory Note in the original principal
amount of $2,000,000.00 evidencing the County Loan from the County to Borrower in the amount
of $2,000,000.00, a Deed of Trust to be recorded against the Project securing the Note, and a
Regulatory Agreement setting forth restrictions governing future Project operations as a condition of
the County Loan (the “Regulatory Agreement” and together with the Loan Agreement, Note, and
Deed of Trust, collectively, the “County Loan Documents”), and direct the Chair of the Board to
execute the Loan Agreement, and the Regulatory Agreement;
c) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Project Subordination Agreement wherein the
County agrees to Subordinate its Project Loan to a Project construction loan (Banner Loan)
provided to Borrower by Banner Bank (Banner Bank Subordination Agreement);
d) Approve and authorize the Chair to execute a Project Subordination Agreement wherein the
County agrees to subordinate the County Loan to a $3,960,000.00 Project loan (the “HHC Loan”
and, together with the Banner Loan, collectively, the “Senior Loans”) provided to Borrower by the
State of California Department of Housing and Community Development (State HCD) under its
Housing for a Healthy California (HHC) Program (HHC Subordination Agreement and, together
with the Banner Bank Subordination Agreement, collectively, the “Project Subordination
Agreements”);
e) Authorize the Director of the Community Services Department (CSD) to approve and execute
future amendments to the aforementioned Project loan documents and subordination agreements
that are deemed to be minor or ministerial in nature by the CSD Director, and which do not
adversely affect the County’s rights, responsibilities or interests in connection with the County
Loan, subject to concurrence by County Counsel, Risk Management and the Auditor Controller;
and
f) Consider that a Mitigation Monitoring Program for the Oak Springs Village Specific Plan and
Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) were adopted by the City of Buellton on July 24, 2003,
and as revised on May 25, 2006, as completed in compliance with the requirements of the
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the State CEQA Guidelines, and the City of
Buellton Environmental Guidelines (Final EIR), and the subsequent June 16, 2022 City of Buellton
Planning Commission Resolution 22-06 finding that no further environmental review is required per
CEQA in that the Project, as revised, is adequately addressed in the aforementioned prior
environmental documents for the Oak Springs Village Specific Plan, and find that, pursuant to
CEQA Guidelines Section 15162, no substantial changes are proposed, and there are no
substantial changes in circumstances or new information of substantial importance regarding
significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified
significant effects, and therefore approval of the Recommended Actions are within the scope of the
aforementioned Final EIR.