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Old 12-29-2011, 01:58 PM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Meanwhile, the Dept of Corrections gets 9 Billion Dollars.

California court says state can kill redevelopment agencies | Reuters

This is a HUGE misake.
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Old 12-29-2011, 02:19 PM
 
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Problem is a lot of these agencies have been poorly managed with the funds wasted and grifted from their original purpose. Too bad some RDA's have done very good work in their communities.
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Old 12-30-2011, 10:03 AM
 
Location: Sacramento
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Pretty significant ruling, I suspect it will have substantial impact on many efforts to upgrade blighted urban areas.
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Old 12-30-2011, 10:35 AM
 
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Pretty significant ruling, I suspect it will have substantial impact on many efforts to upgrade blighted urban areas.
Huge impact. Absolutely Huge.
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Old 12-30-2011, 10:53 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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This kills much of what was planned for downtown SD the way it looks.
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Old 12-30-2011, 11:16 AM
 
Location: Sacramento
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Also looks like it might have some significant impact on the Sacramento Railyards project.
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Old 12-30-2011, 11:18 AM
 
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Our city is owed 80 million from the program and we have projects in progress. One major project already demolished existing buildings with nothing but dirt left but this ruling will stop everything in its tracks and we lose the 80 million.

A sign of 2012
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Old 12-30-2011, 12:03 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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This kills much of what was planned for downtown SD the way it looks.

Do you mind expanding on this? What is planned?

Downtown San Diego is touted as a success story for redevelopment. No question the area has been tranformed in the last 20 years.

However, at what point does a redevelopment project area become seasoned enough to rely soley on the private market?

I am not anti-redevelopment but I do wonder if an area has been turned around why should the taxpayer continue to subsidize development in that area?
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Old 12-30-2011, 06:23 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Meanwhile, the Dept of Corrections gets 9 Billion Dollars.

California court says state can kill redevelopment agencies | Reuters

This is a HUGE misake.
This is not a huge mistake. While some smaller cities use CRAs legitimately and for the purposes of improving their cities, other larger cities, especially Los Angeles and San Diego, have CRAs which are cesspools of corruption and which chiefly benefit big developers and the politicians who are their friends at the expense of all other functions of government.

I'm glad they've been cut. Now let's work on cutting the corrections budget too.
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Old 12-30-2011, 07:49 PM
 
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This is not a huge mistake. While some smaller cities use CRAs legitimately and for the purposes of improving their cities, other larger cities, especially Los Angeles and San Diego, have CRAs which are cesspools of corruption and which chiefly benefit big developers and the politicians who are their friends at the expense of all other functions of government.

I'm glad they've been cut. Now let's work on cutting the corrections budget too.
Cutting off your nose to spite your face is never good policy. Tens of thousands of jobs or more will be lost because of this idiotic way of fixing a problem. I know of several contractors that are making plans to lay off employees because of this policy and its affects on several RDA projects just in our local area.
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