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HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem No.SA7City of Lake Elsinore REPORT TO THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY TO: REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY CHAIR AND BOARD From: RON MOLENDYK, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Date: FEBRUARY 23, 1993 Subject: EPNA - EASTLAKE COMMUNITY BUILDERS BACKGROUND The RDA & Eastlake Community Builders (ECB) entered into an exclusive Planning & Negotiation Agreement in April 1991. The agreement calls for a 50% - 50% split on the costs of the development planning, EIR and the coordination of the project. The original estimate for this processing was $1,000,000. .DISCUSSION' Due to various data, the cost to completerthis information $1,300,000.0otechnical To keep the process on schedule and fulfill our commitment to the project an additional $200,000.00 is requested. FISCAL IMPACT: An additional appropriation of $200,000 from the RDA is estimated to complete the specific plan process for all 3,000 acres. These funds excess of available ease of additional our original estimate. RECOMMENDATION• By motion, authorize an additional appropriation of $200,000.00 for processing the EPNA with ECB. PREPARED BY: APPROVED FOR AGENDA LISTING: AGENDA t e EASTLAKE COMMUNITY BUILDERS February 8, 1993 Mr. Bob Boone CITY of LAKE ELSINORE 130 South Main Street Lake Elsinore, CA 92330 Re: East Lake Budget Dear Bob: 0'ado, 650 TOWN CENTER DRIVE, SUITE 1900 COSTA MESA, CA 92626 (714) 753 -5030 FAX (714) 735 -8290 This letter is in response to your billings. As background, letter dated January 14, 1993, regarding ECB ECB and third the Agency split evenly (50% . 50 %) certain party costs, until such time project. This is done in as local entitlements are granted for the accordance with the EPNA signed in April of 1991. In the beginning, we estimated these costs to this figure be approximately $1,000,000 but was only an estimate. entitlement period (hopefully May As we move towards the completion 1993) of this original budget. of we are reasonably close to the Our estimation of final costs of this entitlement phase will be $1,300,000. However, it should be carefully noted that we have not begun the public hearings and the final processing. This last step could increase this budget again. In any event, our reconciliation indicates that we should be credited an additional $34,000 due to payments made to our attorneys for the LEA settlement issue. In our EPNA we are held harmless from costs associated with LEA. This would more than reconcile our sharing of costs. Therefore, we would ask for immediate release of the last months reimbursement. With respect to the $300,000 budget overages, they are due to direction from various people for data not originally contemplated. Examples are provided below. • Councilman Alongi expressed great concern over the quality of the soil in Eastlake. This caused us to do $44,000 worth of tests normally not required for an EIR or Specific Plan. AGENDA ITrI:," NO. Mr. Bob Boone February 8, 1993 Page 2 • The Specific Plan doubled in cost from its original estimate of $100,000, due to city direction to process all 3,000 acres at one time. In the original budget we anticipated processing only Phase I (Lehr). • Processing all 3,000 acres at one time also had the effect of increasing the cost of the Master Planning process by $80,000. • Engineering costs are $30,000 to $50,000 over the original budget estimate due to the City Council's and Water District's concern over hydrology (flooding) issues. These issues are normally dealt with in this detail during engineering process, subsequent to the Specific Plan entitlement process. These are just some examples of the areas that cause budget increases to the our current estimate. Even though the budget increased, there are tremendous efficiencies in completing analysis of all 3,000 acres at once and answering policy questions now rather than later. We will be happy to meet with you to answer any additional questions you may have, if you so desire. Sincerely yours, Z - J Daniel H. Young For EASTLAKE COMMUNITY BUILDERS, L. P. Enclosures cc: Ron Molendyk - City of Lake Elsinore AG'�IwA IT' 4V, NO. G� PA ,H' `� r /2