Redevelopment Funds Ruling May Cost OC Great Park Funding
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The Great Park in the City of Irvine was supposed to rival Griffith Park in Los Angeles and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Today a judge ruled that Irvine can't have $1.4 billion. It's all about Governor Brown's abolition of redevelopment agencies to pay for public schools. Does that mean the Great Park won't be so great? What about projects in other cities? Also, does the Los Angeles Art World have a distinctive voice? We hear about the Hammer Museum's biennial, which begins tomorrow. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, Obama the Warrior in a new kind of war.
Banner image: Rendering of OC Great Park
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More Casualties in California's War over Public Money ()
Governor Brown persuaded the Legislature to abolish local redevelopment agencies, so their $5 billion in taxes could go to public schools. But redevelopment was part of ambitious plans for other public projects all over the state. Today, a judge in Sacramento upheld the Governor's decision that the City of Irvine can't have $1.4 billion in tax revenues, planned for turning the former El Toro Marine Base into the Great Park. Irvine is not alone among cities trying to keep some of the tax money that went to the now defunct redevelopment agencies.
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- Larry Agran: City of Irvine
- Josh Stephens: California Planning and Development Report
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- Annie Philbin: UCLA Hammer Museum
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