State settles redevelopment payback, Belmont

The Daily Journal/Samantha Weigel, 9/26/14.  "City to settle case over redevelopment agency:  Belmont's lawsuit reduces payment to state from $1.33 million to $256,000.

A redevelopment agency existed here too.
What did Pacifica payback to the State,
while not developing anything?

After years of negotiations and a lawsuit against the state, the city of Belmont agreed to settle its dispute on how much it owed for the 2012 dissolution of its redevelopment agency that helped fund the Highway 101 pedestrian overpass, street improvements, the acquisition of its City Hall site and other projects. 

Belmont’s lawsuit, filed in August 2013 against state’s Department of Finance, the San Mateo County Controller’s Office and others, ultimately reduced the city’s payment to $256,000, Belmont City Attorney Scott Rennie said.  It was an arduous but successful process starting in May 2013 when the state initially ordered Belmont turn over $2.4 million its redevelopment agency had collected, Rennie said.

The city was able to reduce that to $1.33 million through a statutory process and through its lawsuit ultimately will turn over $256,000, Rennie said. The struggle is the funds the state is demanding had already been spent on contractors, supplies, employee compensation and expenses related to redevelopment projects; meaning, the city will have to reach into its general fund to pay the state back, Rennie said. The city anticipates making the $256,000 payment Monday, Rennie said.  Read article.

Note photograph from Coastsider, 8/17/06. "Backgrounder:  the quarry vote in Pacifica."  This article includes a quarry property transition timeline from 1983 though August, 2006. 

Posted by Kathy Meeh