http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/ en-us 2006-01-16T15:29:21+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000197.php The CRR board and many of its members are feverishly working on getting The People's Initiative on the November 2006 ballot. This site will not be updated regularly in the next few months since all of our resources and energy... Coalition Webbies 2006-01-16T15:29:21+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000196.php Blue Grass Institute for Public Policy Solutions JIm Waters Introduction Eminent domain is becoming an abusive power that should be restrained to perpetuate a civil society founded on voluntary exchange. Our nation’s founding fathers believed not only in limiting the... Coalition Webbies 2005-11-30T10:33:24+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000194.php Sharon Simonson Published: November 21, 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------ Cupertino may have only 50,000 residents in a metropolitan county with nearly 1.7 million people, but an attempt there to wrest land-planning power away from local elected leaders induced laser focus from a... Coalition Webbies 2005-11-30T10:28:19+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000193.php New York Times - November 21st By WILLIAM YARDLEY NEW LONDON, Conn. - They have still not moved out. Not Susette Kelo. Not the Derys. Not Byron Athenian or Bill Von Winkle or the others. Five months after the United... Coalition Webbies 2005-11-30T10:23:04+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000192.php “Blight Makes Right” could be the title of the 50-year story of redevelopment agency abuse in California. Under the guise of ending blight, billions in tax revenues have been bled from public services and a permanent cloud of eminent domain... Coalition Webbies 2005-11-11T17:31:34+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000191.php NewsMax.com Wires Monday, Oct. 17, 2005 Union Township, N.J. -- Carol Segal has a problem: He wants to build townhouses on the six acres of land he owns in New Jersey's Union Township and has contracted with a developer to... Coalition Webbies 2005-11-06T07:55:07+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000190.php Good afternoon honorable members at this joint session. I am Larry Gilbert, Orange County Co-chairman of Californians United for Redevelopment Education. Please check out our 45 minute video on Eminent Domain on our web site. www.califcurehome.com... Coalition Webbies 2005-10-28T13:12:53+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000189.php By Laurie Bright with Pat Devaney Sept-Oct. 2005 issue of the CNA Newsletter--Council of Neighborhood Associations, Berkeley, CA A Smart Growth "how to" handbook distributed to the faithful last year and paid for by the Bank of America confided that... Coalition Webbies 2005-10-26T14:21:10+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000188.php "More than two dozen states are considering changes to eminent domain laws to prevent the taking of land for private development. In its ruling, the high court said states are free to ban that practice." October 19, 2005 - Sacramento... Coalition Webbies 2005-10-21T06:43:21+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000149.php The MORR conference is in Oakland this fall. Saturday, October 22, 2005 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Park Plaza Hotel 150 Hegenberger Road, Oakland Registration Fee; $65.00 More Information and Registration Form... Coalition Webbies 2005-10-01T18:24:20+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000186.php (Sept. 27, 2005) -- After filing a "Friend of the Court" brief that urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against property owners in a precedent-setting eminent domain case, the "U.S. Conference of Mayors," now headed by LB Mayor Beverly... Coalition Webbies 2005-10-01T12:21:11+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000184.php You may find the complete text of the September 20th hearing at http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=1612.... Coalition Webbies 2005-09-23T22:32:01+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000185.php Wednesday, September 21, 2005 Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau Washington -- Rep. Maxine Waters, a Los Angeles Democrat, warned Tuesday against using government's power of eminent domain to redevelop New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina concentrated its devastation on largely poor... Coalition Webbies 2005-09-23T12:42:07+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000183.php By Dan Walters -- Bee Columnist Published 2:15 am PDT Friday, September 16, 2005 When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this summer that governments could seize homes and other property to facilitate private development projects, it touched off a political... Coalition Webbies 2005-09-21T18:08:00+00:00 http://www.coalitionforredevelopmentreform.org/blog/archives/000182.php September 13, 2005 Dear Neighbor: Last spring, city staff brought forward a proposal to expand the North Oakland Redevelopment area to include new areas west of Telegraph Avenue. At my urging, over the last several months, staff has brought this... Coalition Webbies 2005-09-14T13:52:17+00:00