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Frequently Asked Questions |
1. What is Redevelopment?
Redevelopment is a process created to assist city and county government in eliminating blight from a designated area, and to achieve desired development, reconstruction and rehabilitation including but not limited to: residential, commercial, industrial, and retail.
2. What is a Redevelopment Agency?
In most cities, the city council members are also the governing board for the redevelopment agency; however, the council and the agency are two separate, distinct legal entities. The agency members hire staff to carry out the day-to-day operations and its redevelopment plans. In most counties, the board of supervisors is the governing board.
3. Of what benefit to a citizen is being in a Redevelopment Project Area?
Redevelopment is one of the most effective ways to breathe new life into deteriorating areas plagued by social, physical, environmental or economic conditions which act as a barrier to new investment by private enterprise. Through redevelopment, a project area will receive focused attention and financial investment to reverse deteriorating trends, create jobs, revitalize the business climate, rehabilitate and add to the housing stock, and gain active participation and investment by citizens which would not otherwise occur.
4. What is a Redevelopment Plan?
A redevelopment plan represents a process and a basic framework within which specific projects will be undertaken. The plan provides the agency with powers to take certain actions such as buy and sell land within the area covered by the plan (project area), improving dilapidated facilities and to use tax increment financing.
5. What is a Project Area?
A project area is the area within which actual redevelopment will take place. The project area must first go to public hearing (giving citizens who will be included in the project area a chance to express their views) after which the redevelopment agency acts on the adoption of the project area and becomes primarily responsible for future projects.
Glossary:
Blight - areas and/or structures of a community which constitute either physical, social, or economic liabilities requiring redevelopment in the interest of the health, safety, and general welfare of the people of the community and the state.
Project Area - the area which is designated in the redevelopment plan for redevelopment and revitalization.
Redevelopment - planning, development, re-planning, redesign, clearance, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of all or part of a project area.
Redevelopment Agency - the governing body created to designate redevelopment project areas, supervise and coordinate planning for a project area, and implement the development program.
Redevelopment Plan - Plan for revitalization and redevelopment of land within the project area in order to eliminate blight and remedy the conditions which caused it. The Redevelopment Agency is currently working on the following proposed projects:
Last modified: Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:47:01 AM
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Community Development
633 E. Broadway, Room 201
Glendale, CA 91206
Redevelopment Agency - (818) 548-2005
Economic Development - (818) 548-3155
Business Assistance - (818) 548-3155
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