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Supreme Court Knocks Out Redevelopment Agencies
Redevelopment money is in addition to the money local government gets from sales taxes to maintain street, etc. As for the millionaires and billionairs developing the inner city core, who would you rather have develop the blighted areas...the homeless? The poor? The unemployed? Class warfare by the left is so popular, nowadays...— January 3, 2012 6:17 p.m.
Supreme Court Knocks Out Redevelopment Agencies
Thanks, mudvillemike! Mr. Bauder seems to be only interested in centralizing control of our tax money to avoid local citizens making local decisions for what works best for us locally. He places more importance on funding teachers and prison guard retirements, than on local jobs.— January 3, 2012 6:13 p.m.
Supreme Court Knocks Out Redevelopment Agencies
The poor are beneficiaries of redevelopment because jobs are created in blighted areas. The Gaslamp was developed because of Horton Plaza. Is Horton plaza owned by the taxpayers or by Westfield. If it loses money, how do the taxpayers lose money? If the condos are empty, how do the taxpayers lose money? The biggest blight is not the nice areas but rather, the not-so-nice areas...— January 3, 2012 5:13 p.m.
Supreme Court Knocks Out Redevelopment Agencies
The money will not go to schools, it will be used to close the California budget gap, basically paying teacher pensions. It will not create jobs, build in blighted areas, or beautify the city. The downtown core will rot again, like in the 60's and 70's. Pensions are not more important than city services.— January 3, 2012 5:05 p.m.
Supreme Court Knocks Out Redevelopment Agencies
Don thank you for your opinion, too. Both you and I are old enough to remember downtown before Horton Plaza and its better now than it was then. This redevelopment money made San Diego a better place, and without it, there wont be infill and downtown development, it will go back to the 1960's model of urban blight and rotting center city cores and suburban sprawl, a model that old, old Jerry Brown is nostalgic for. The money that built dreams is now being used to fill state funding gaps so inefficient government can continue to grow rather than face the financial realities of today.— January 2, 2012 11:12 p.m.
Supreme Court Knocks Out Redevelopment Agencies
The major retailers moved out of Horton Plaza? Nordies is still there, Mervyns went belly up everywhere. What stores does say UTC have or North County Fair have that "should" be at Horton Plaza? Retailers all over are hurting in this economy. And with the overstock of downtown condos housing and crappy real estate market, housing is getting more affordable every day if we could just get some jobs. Had redevelopment not occured the city would not be receiving the sales tax from Horton Plaza nor would any of us suburbanites have any reason to go downtown...which, by the way, is absolutely beautiful! And affordable housing is being built with redevelopment money...well, not anymore.— January 2, 2012 11:05 p.m.
Supreme Court Knocks Out Redevelopment Agencies
Don, Certainly downtown San Diego is a better place since the construction of the ballpark and Horton Plaza. The redevelopment funds that built these created jobs and removed otherwise unsightly "neighborhoods". It was great that these funds could be spent locally for the beautification of our city. With the court ruling, instead of local improvements and locals jobs and local sales tax revenues, all that money would go to Sacramento for teachers salaries and prison guard salaries increasing the size of the state government that otherwise would have to have been shrunk. The Poway Business Park, the new home of General Atomics was built with redevelopment funds. Its not that those jobs would not have happened, they just would have happened in another state. California needs jobs, not more teachers and prison guards. San Marcos Creek redevelopment is transforming the small city to the north. Without the chance to keep local taxes local, we are funding Jerry Brown's revenge on proposition 13. The problem of ever increasing state government size at the expense of private sector jobs is what California has faced, and now accelerated, by this court decision. It is unsustainable.— January 2, 2012 9:57 a.m.