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Redevelopment
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California Land Use & Development Law Report
Redevelopment Assets Ordered Returned by State Controller
Last year’s bill eliminating redevelopment agencies, AB x1-26, has created massive headaches for successor agencies as they attempt to unwind years of complex financial transactions. For many of them, the…
Land Use Prof Blog
California’s Dissolution of Its Redevelopment Agencies Lands Back in Court
On May 22, 2012, a coalition of California cities filed a writ of mandate against the State of California challenging the way the State has directed redevelopment agencies to wind…
Federal Eminent Domain Blog
Financial Stability Agreement Holds Promise for Detroit’s Redevelopment
The Financial Stability Agreement is more than simply the ceding of control of power from the City of Detroit to the State of Michigan To the contrary, it is recognition…
Land Use Prof Blog
Forefront: New Online Planning Magazine (and more on Redevelopment)
Next American City, a planning website with a primarily "New Urbanist" bent, recently launched a new online magazine called "Forefront," which will publish long-form articles on planning issues. The first…
Federal Eminent Domain Blog
Nothing But the Truth
North Bergen is passing a resolution to initiate a process whereby an area will be designated for redevelopment, yet denying that there is a likelihood of eminent domain seems to…
inversecondemnation.com
Amicus Brief In Willets Point Case: Condemnation For Redevelopment Needs A Plan
After the New York Court of Appeals' decisions in the Goldstein (Atlantic Yards) and Kaur (Columbia) cases, we opined that there were not many limits remaining on the government's exercise…
Land Use Prof Blog
The Sunny Side of Redevelopment
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/nyregion/apartments-gain-vistas-but-not-for-long.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion
inversecondemnation.com
Tuesday Round Up: Cal Redevelopment Drawdown To Hurt Animals, Children; Thank You Public Workers For Saving Hawaii
Here's what we're reading today:Oakland budget cuts his zoo, Children's Fairyland - from the San Francisco Chronicle: "In all, more than $28 million will be sliced from the budget, mostly…
Environment, Land & Resources
California Supreme Court Decision Terminating Redevelopment Agencies Leaves Many Questions and Challenges
By Ursula Hyman and Daniel Van Fleet On December 29, 2011, in California Redevelopment Association v. Matosantos, the California Supreme Court (“Court”) upheld the constitutionality of AB 1X 26, a statute ending redevelopment…
inversecondemnation.com
Redevelopment Developments
Here's what we're reading today:Blight barons of redevelopment plot comeback - Steven Greenhut (O.C. Register): "As of February, anyway, redevelopment is dead in California, the victim of an absurdly arrogant…