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I fully support Governor Brown’s plan to shut down the recent flurry of redevelopment project activity.
He should begin with CRA/LA in the city of Los Angeles where they conducted a special meeting to bury $930 Million dollars if redevelopment agencies are shut down.
The San Francisco Chronicle report link follows this edited version:
Looks like Gov. Jerry Brown’s office has a contingency plan for all those cities around California that have been rushing to approve redevelopment money before the state can kill the program. (Eliminating redevelopment is a key part of Brown’s plan to solve the state’s $26 billion budget deficit.)
Included in a bill proposed by Brown’s office that would eliminate redevelopment is language which would let the state “review the validity of the adoption or amendment of a redevelopment plan at any time within three years after the date of the adoption of the ordinance adopting or amending the plan, if the adoption of the ordinance occurred after January 1, 2011.”
Redevelopment is one of the most controversial elements of the governor’s budget proposal. Another interesting twist to the whole debate came during today’s first conference committee meeting between the Assembly and Senate. Officials from the governor’s office, when asked about a potential alternative plan being floated by big city mayors that would spare redevelopment by letting the state borrow or take some redevelopment money, said it could violate Prop. 58, which prevents the state from borrowing to balance its budget.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=83694#ixzz1F1Oag5dV
Yes redevelopment as it is done in this state is to much to the advantage of the developers and does little but chase sales tax dollars back and forth between the various cities. I support it help with some campaign contributions and at times has resulted in improvements that help all the people, often by accident probably not by design.
Once this proposal goes through we can come back and look at more effective ways to address real blighted areas and re-establish a tax base that is sustainable
You’re a good man Charlie Brown.
*We love Downtown Jerry Brown. He knows all the right buttons to push……great choice
over the dreaded Meg…who would have done nothing with Redevelopment or the process.
Congratulations to Chris Norby, Bruce Whitaker, Steve Greenhut and of course the great Larry Gilbert….for supporting Jerry now that they know – he was always on their side.
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“of course the great Larry Gilbert….for supporting Jerry now”…….. sure!
Now we will have no funds to buy bulldozers and bulldoze Larry Gilbert’s beloved HOA bolshevistic enclaves and replace them with the freedom housing.
Stan/
We have a special for you.
Lennar is building some affordable housing right next to a Target on Jeronimo and Los Alisos. Therefore you can get a job selling homes or work at Target where you can shop for your food and clothing and walk across the parking lot to your new ghetto. Sorry to burst your bubble but they surely will have a HOA. Welcome to Mission Viejo. Do you want an upper or lower unit?
And?
You have just admitted that HOA is a ghetto.
So why the HOA?
Stan. I knew that would catch your attention.
As we have debated before, HOA’s are a two edged sword.
On one hand it is mutual acceptance by those who move into HOA housing with agreement to live within some reasonable rules to protect both yours and your neighbors investment.
Over a year ago I blogged about a friend whose request to install a 30 feet flag pole in front of his lake front house was denied by his HOA. I appealed with him at one of their association meetings but we lost that argument due to his CC&R’s.
I’ve also driven through neighborhoods with cars up on blocks that really add to the beauty of neighborhoods. Take your pick!
“On one hand it is mutual acceptance by those who move into HOA housing with agreement to live within some reasonable rules to protect both yours and your neighbors investment.”……. Hmmmm
1) There is no mutual acceptance in the HOA’s servitude. It is take it or leave it but if everlasting is HOA you must take it.
2) “reasonable rules?”….. what is reasonable rule? What is reasonable to you is not reasonable to me.
3) “to protect both yours and your neighbors investment”….. How did HOA protect me against my investment during this real estate fraud?….. Huh?
4) “with cars up on blocks”…… stupid argument.
The HOA exist only for two reasons:
1) The local government can collect taxes without maintaining them;
2) The people are no longer land owners which is the main objective of the Federal government HUD to land grab.
All that is done based on evil side of 5 busybody clique of assholes who would in absence of HOA run a gulag or concentrak, and that is all possible because of so called conservatives who are actually communists like you.
Here is latest lawsuit in my HOA http://woodsidevillage.ocsatire.com/
and when you are there click on “Video clip of the HOA Bolsheviks” bottom right corner.
This is my disciplinary hearing.
This seems to be something that all the liberals and conservatives I know agree with.
Everybody except folks like Pringle and Pulido – RINOs and DINOs.
Yes, RINOs and DINOs, indeed. All the muckers in the middle: the liberals who conspire to confiscate the dough and pass on the tax burden; and the fake conservatives who love the idea of government “economic development” (i.e. corporate subsidy and theft of sales tax revenue) so long as their campaign contributors get their beaks wet.
Pringle. Pulido. The repulsive Lucy Dunn. The list goes on and on.
If you get to say “fake conservatives” then I want you to also say “fake liberals.” Like I said all the liberals I know think Jerry’s doing the exact right thing here. Not to mention Jerry’s a good liberal. It does NOT mean being wasteful and corrupt.
Oh I can think of a few “Fake Democrats”, self serving, malicious types, who care less about the party and doing the right thing than getting a headline or thier picture taken.
One thing we can all agree upon. fakers come in every shape SIZE and color.
How long must I see his finger poking my eye?……. Huh?