Editor,
Your Oct. 23 story “Law offers redevelopment agency replacement” expounds a new law replacing redevelopment by enabling cities to extract property tax revenue for so-called affordable housing.
Editor,
Your Oct. 23 story “Law offers redevelopment agency replacement” expounds a new law replacing redevelopment by enabling cities to extract property tax revenue for so-called affordable housing.
That law previously began during the Depression era with typically good intentions, namely, removal of “blight” in particular neighborhoods and replacement with housing, then commercial buildings. Gov. Jerry Brown in 2012 ended a corrupted system which enabled eminent domain by cities to evict property owners and then resell the same property at bargain prices to developers favored by City Hall. By the 1970s, it also enabled private property to be seized by local government as “blighted,” then sold to developers, “auto row,” other sales tax-producing uses, and even golf courses. That was all in the name of urban renewal.
Let’s watch how this sly rebirth of redevelopment agencies performs in lieu of private enterprise.
Quentin Kopp
San Francisco
The letter writer is a former state senator, San Francisco supervisor and San Mateo County judge.
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(3) comments
When former politicians question the octopus tentacles that reach out of the Plan Bay Area development beast, you'd better start worrying.
The only thing I have against Quentin Kopp is he doesn't write nearly enough.
So wise. Thank you Quentin Kopp.
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