At its May 5 meeting, The Fullerton City Council will consider expanding the city’s redevelopment area by 1,165 acres. This would place nearly 25 % of the entire city under the redevelopment agency, with its expanded powers to use eminent domain, divert property taxes and subsidize development.
State law allows the creation or expansion of redevelopment areas for only one reason—blight.
Click here to read the rest of this story written by Orange County Supervisor Chris Norby.
That would just spark even more corruption and only allow independently wealthy people to run and win.
SB 249? It got killed via suspense file in assembly appropriations. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB249
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Joe has always been an eccentric dude.
Norby’s piece is well written and should be convincing to anyone reading it with an open mind. Just like the City of Irvine and its Great Park scheme, this proposal seems most likely a plan to cabbage on to revenues that otherwise would be shared with other taxing entities, not the least of which is the public school system. Perhaps the “education community” can focus the public’s attention on this rip-off of education dollars?
Well this is good news for subsidized developers.
Note: 20% of any property tax increment taken by an RDA MUST be spent on “affordable housing.” It may be a while before the increment is positive, but sooner or later it will happen. If they take the increment Fullerton is agreeing to a huge housing obligation.
David, I have noted that when cities try to provide affordable housing they concentrate on housing for senior citizens as compared to housing for families. Senior citizen housing is an easier sell in most communities, it seems. Your comment makes me wonder if the Fullerton fathers are envisioning turinng most new housing in Fullerton into geriatric residences, thereby not providing affordable family housing. Perhaps the median age of Fullerton residents is slated to rise considerably over time, leaving low income families out in the cold.
#3 you are correct. Senior housing has been used by cities to dodge their Redevelopment housing obligations (not to mention RENA quotas) for years. But the development of this stuff can only go so far.
Sooner or later cities are going to have to develop real low-income housing – whether the ctizens like it or not.
At the very least the creation of new housing obligations and municipal debt should go to people in a referendum. This is a very big deal.
What is “Real Low-Income Housing”?
There is some “Real-Crap” here in Santa Ana that was billed as “Low-Income Housing”.
Large amounts of dollars were given to developers to build large box housing for human storage. Then after all those dollars were spent, these large boxes have created a greater blight than what was there before.
Creating a cycle of increasing blight that rolls over communities, enriches certain developers who build low quality crap at the highest possible costs. But there is a silver lining, these very same developers now have massive taxpayer funded profits that can, and are used for astronomical political donations.
cook, you have discovered the perpetual motion machine that is Redevelopment.
“real low income housing” is for people who fall below a certain % of median income – I don’t recall the exact figure. Those projects are going to be built by heavily subsidized non-profits, and because of our wonderful legislature will be built “by-right,” i.e. minimal administrative review and no public hearings.
The only “blight” in Fullerton is those who favor stealing others’ property using Eminent Domain for private uses. Any politicians who vote for such “renewal” should be kicked from office and exiled.
By the way, don’t forget to read Steven Greenhut’s great “Abuse of Power,” still the best book on eminent domain. Here’s an Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931643377?ie=UTF8&tag=johseiblo-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=1931643377