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Government

Apr. 6, 2013

Legal questions brew over what constitutes a redevelopment agency

Since the state's redevelopment agencies began to dissolve last year, California has faced a torrent of litigation over specific projects nixed in the aftermath. But a couple of cases beg a different question: what constitutes an RDA?


By Katie Lucia


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Since the state began to dissolve its redevelopment agencies last year amid the financial crisis, California has faced a torrent of litigation in the messy wind-down of the 60-year-old program that helped subsidize construction in rundown areas. Most of the cases entail disputes over specific projects nixed in the aftermath, but a couple are begging a different question: what constitutes a redevelopment agency?...

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