WHEREAS...Community Redevelopment Law had good intentions, it has become a vehicle for substantial and significant abuse and

WHEREAS...the Community Redevelopment Law's intent was to remove urban "blight, the definition of blight has been substantially abused, allowing parkland, open desert and vacant fields, proposed sports arenas, thus giving tremendous land use powers to unchecked agencies and

WHEREAS...Agencies can take property by eminent domain from one person and transfer it to another private owner using property taxes to subsidize the private developer and

WHEREAS...Redevelopment agencies undermine the ability of school districts to finance new schools and

WHEREAS...Redevelopment agencies fix their timelines in decades and their budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars, borrowing against unrealized tax revenues and function primarily upon speculations, now

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED...M.O.R.R. and C.U.R.E. urge the passage of AB 923 and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED...Chairman Torlakson and Housing and Community Development Committee to do their sworn duty to protect the people of California against these egregious abuses by Redevelopment agencies and abolish the Community Redevelopment Law.

M.O.R.R.
Municipal Officials for Redevelopment Reform
Chris Norby
214 N. Yale Ave., Fullerton, CA 92831
(714) 871-9756 - FAX (714) 992-6627

C.U.R.E.
Californians United for Redevelopment Education
Jean Heinl
8917 Alexander Ave., South Gate, CA 90280
(213) 567-6737 - FAX (213) 567-7545

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