The Golden State this week created new, limited redevelopment agencies to fight blight.
What limited powers do the blight fighting redevelopment agencies have?
- limit the applicable projects to affordable housing, hazardous waste cleanup and other projects in disadvantaged communities
- Only permit less tax money to be used
- Limit the use only in economically distressed areas
What does opposition say?
- The new, limited redevelopment system is a land grab by local governments
- Oppose allowing the use of eminent domain
- punish property owners for “things they are powerless to change: unemployment, crime and poor infrastructure.” -Institute for Justice [The Kelo liitigators]
Isn’t this version 2.0 of these? Yes, a previous redevelopment agency system was repealed in 2011 due to:
- waste & corrpution
- the diverted tax money removed money from public education & social service programs
Governing Los Angeles Times: Gov. Brown approves new plan to target blight in California
OC Register Editorial:Redevelopment agencies return, in new guise, to California
Reason: Redevelopment Authorities (and Their Eminent Domain Abuses) Resurrected in California