CA: Analyst questions cost of selling Calif properties

AP-Business Week ^ | November 11, 2010 | DON THOMPSON

[calcowgirl]

"Infill" was back in Arnie's original environmental plan that you so ably dissected and exposed.

And here's where the 43 billion infrastructure bond money went (among other places). I wonder how much Mr. Mayo & Co. might have received.

 

      (n) Six hundred fifty million dollars ($650,000,000) shall be
    deposited in the Regional Planning, Housing, and Infill Incentive
    Account, which is hereby created in the fund. Funds in the account
    shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, and
    subject to such other conditions and criteria as the Legislature may
    provide in statute, for the following purposes:
       (1) For grants for preservation of open space, acquisition of
    wildlife habitat, and easements on agricultural land consistent with
    mitigation and growth policies contained in a regional growth plan.
       (2) For infill incentive grants for capital outlay related to
    infill development, including, but not limited to, all of the
    following:
       (A) Urban park creation, development, or rehabilitation.
       (B) Water, sewer, or other public infrastructure costs associated
    with infill development.
       (C) Transportation improvements related to infill development
    projects.
       (D) Traffic mitigation.
       (3) For brownfield cleanup that promotes infill development
    consistent with regional and local plans.

[calcowgirl]

Can you imagine the property taxes the tenets (us) will be paying as part of the lease?

Hundreds of millions would be my guess. They might as well sell the Capitol building to China, at this rate.

[Carry_Okie]

"Infill" was back in Arnie's original environmental plan that you so ably dissected and exposed.

It was in the Agenda21 in 1992, the President's Council on Sustainable Development came soon after.

[Carry_Okie]

One of the first such redevelopment and planning efforts in the Bay Area was SPUR, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Agency, started shortly after the "Telesis" exhibition of the San Francisco World's Fair. It was populated by a horde of newly graduated New Deal architects from Berkeley and such, IOW people trained by the faculty recently implanted (or infested) with Marxist Frankfurt School refugees from Germany. Believe it or not, my dad was just such a planner for the City of Richmond in the late 1950s.

I believe it wasn't until the mid-70s that LAFCO started allowing formation of redevelopment agencies with powers of eminent domain pursuant to a change in State law, but I haven't found it yet. Sounds like a Gerry Brown deal, doesn't it?

[calcowgirl]

Yep, I realized that.

I was just recalling that Arnold was touting it during his campaign and quietly implementing it thereafter.

[calcowgirl]

I believe it wasn't until the mid-70s that LAFCO started allowing formation of redevelopment agencies with powers of eminent domain pursuant to a change in State law, but I haven't found it yet. Sounds like a Gerry Brown deal, doesn't it?

LOL. Do you do that on purpose?

FYI - my first reaction was "well, let me go see if I can find out!" But I'm tired tonight. ;-)

[dragnet2]

Sell the house and rent it back for more than you received

Put what's left of the bureaucrats in double wide offices just outside Fresno....Rent the state building in Sacramento to private sector producers.

Emergency measures...Eliminate 60 percent of everyone working of the state in Sacramento, LA and SF...

Pay what's left pay them minimum wage for the privilege of serving the people..

Like those in the private sector, tell them their lucky to have jobs.

[calcowgirl]

I believe it wasn't until the mid-70s that LAFCO started allowing formation of redevelopment agencies with powers of eminent domain pursuant to a change in State law, but I haven't found it yet. Sounds like a Gerry Brown deal, doesn't it?

I think I found a case in Los Angeles in 1951.

groundcover has email.

[calcowgirl]

Will you be on the ballot in 2014?

Ya got my vote!

[Carry_Okie]

LOL. Do you do that on purpose?

Look at it this way, when people ask me, "Why do things go this way?" what do you think I do? Don't you think that's like waving a red flag in front of me? If you think I'm not intentionally fed such stuff from time to time, well... sometimes they even have the decency to call me first to see if I have the time.

So, yes, from time, I do the same with you, but only when I think it might truly interest you and I thought this might be such a case in that the gambits with which a Brown administration of the past instituted such massively corrupt and far-reaching institutions helps us project what his recent reelection might portend. We need only identify the players as you have so neatly done with B'rer Wilson and crew. N'est ce pas?

[Carry_Okie]

LOL. Do you do that on purpose?

Look at it this way, when people ask me, "Why do things go this way?" what do you think I do? Don't you think that's like waving a red flag in front of me? If you think I'm not intentionally fed such stuff from time to time, well... sometimes they even have the decency to call me first to see if I have the time.

So, yes, from time, I do the same with you, but only when I think it might truly interest you and I thought this might be such a case in that the gambits with which a Brown administration of the past instituted such massively corrupt and far-reaching institutions helps us project what his recent reelection might portend. We need only identify the players as you have so neatly done with B'rer Wilson and crew. N'est ce pas?