As I went through today’s California news clips, one thing is gradually becoming clear. Despite the resistance of cities across the state, Jerry Brown has the upper hand on the redevelopment fight at this point.<\/p>\n
In addition to a very insightful CalBuzz column on redevelopment<\/a>, George Skelton also politely hinted that it is time to usher them out the door<\/a>. Oh, and there’s also the fact that cities are shoveling as much of that money as they possibly can into projects hastily pushed through. In San Diego, they are desperately trying to get a new stadium for the Chargers with redevelopment money, and if Santa Clara can’t get money for the 49ers<\/a>, well, they just might have to stay in San Francisco.<\/p>\n This is far from any sort of hard fact, as a whole consortium of city and county organizations are continuing to fight the closure of the redevelopment agencies. But, Jerry might just have been too darn slick on this one. I mean, who can really argue that redevelopment agencies are more important than K-12? Football stadiums or schools? While the agencies can play important roles in building forward looking cities, it is just to easy to point to a boondoggle here and there to justify their termination.<\/p>\n Of course, this is the problem with our zero-sum budgeting. At some point, we need to find a way to meet the needs we have without being hemmed in by some ridiculous pledge to a guy in DC who is quite possibly insane.<\/p>\n But it will probably be too late for redevelopment agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I went through today’s California news clips, one thing is gradually becoming clear. Despite the resistance of cities across the state, Jerry Brown has the upper hand on the redevelopment fight at this point.<\/p>\n In addition to a very insightful CalBuzz column on redevelopment<\/a>, George Skelton also politely hinted that it is time to usher them out the door<\/a>. Oh, and there’s also the fact that cities are shoveling as much of that money as they possibly can into projects hastily pushed through. In San Diego, they are desperately trying to get a new stadium for the Chargers with redevelopment money, and if Santa Clara can’t get money for the 49ers<\/a>, well, they just might have to stay in San Francisco.<\/p>\n This is far from any sort of hard fact, as a whole consortium of city and county organizations are continuing to fight the closure of the redevelopment agencies. But, Jerry might just have been too darn slick on this one. I mean, who can really argue that redevelopment agencies are more important than K-12? Football stadiums or schools? While the agencies can play important roles in building forward looking cities, it is just to easy to point to a boondoggle here and there to justify their termination.<\/p>\n Of course, this is the problem with our zero-sum budgeting. At some point, we need to find a way to meet the needs we have without being hemmed in by some ridiculous pledge to a guy in DC who is quite possibly insane.<\/p>\n But it will probably be too late for redevelopment agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[3229],"class_list":["post-13168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-3229"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3qo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}