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Understanding Redevelopment: Project Adoption Through Implementation

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(0.7 ceu)

The California Community Redevelopment Law, enacted in 1945, has evolved to meet the state’s current economic development challenges. Today, redevelopment offers modern tools to encourage community revitalization, provide affordable housing, redevelop surplus military bases, and reconstruct deteriorating public infrastructure.

This course offers a practical understanding of the redevelopment planning process from plan inception through implementation. You discuss the role of redevelopment in neighborhood stabilization, commercial revitalization, brownfields reclamation, and military base conversion. The course features case studies and lectures by experts in the field.

The material is presented in three parts: redevelopment plan conceptualization and adoption, tax increment financing, and affordable housing. In the first phase, you learn how to determine where and when redevelopment can be effectively used. Included is a step-by-step process for preparing a redevelopment plan that meets legal requirements and responds to a community's goals. The tax increment financing section explores how a redevelopment agency can generate its own unique source of funding. As redevelopment stimulates new growth, the resulting increase in property taxes generated from higher property values—known as tax increment—can be reinvested locally. In the last part of the course, you explore redevelopment's role as California's most effective tool for preserving, improving, and producing affordable housing. Enrollment is limited.

Note: Course fee includes course materials and optional field tour during lunch of a downtown redevelopment project.