Do
we want to see Redevelopment
Areas
increased in size?
| Erik Crockett
objected to my interpretation of this slide as the areas to which he wished
to see redevelopment expanded. The fact is he has talked about the need to
expand the area of redevelopment. He has expressed the opinion the areas are
too small to be successful. He did participate in the 2004 expansion with the
added areas when he first came to work in Chula Vista. We need to be very
alert to keep our homes out of redevelopment areas. It makes me personally
mad and worried that the southwest project area actually takes a narrow
detour to include the block on which I live. Our block is all single family
homes built in the late 60’s. if redevelopment were to expand through the
entire project area the city would loose a great deal of money through the
diversion of tax increment created by the normal buying and selling of homes
in residential areas. Residential requires a lot of services from
cities-about 14% more than what the entire amount of property tax pays for.
If all this residential were put in redevelopment the city would be in even
deeper financial difficulty and have even more trouble providing
services-maintenance, fire, police, libraries. Some of the gray area isn’t
even in Chula Vista. When Chula Vista was studying adding the “added areas”
to redevelopment they actually included some of these areas that are in San
Diego. There was enough protest that they backed off from that. |
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