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Community Redevelopment Agency
A redevelopment agency (RDA) is a government body dedicated to urban renewal. Typically it is a municipal level city department focused on a particular district or corridor that has become neglected or blighted (a community redevelopment agency or CRA). In many cases this is the city's original downtown that has been supplanted in importance by a regional shopping center. Redevelopment efforts often focus on reducing crime, destroying unsuitable buildings and dwellings, restoring historic features and structures, and creating new landscaping, housing and business opportunities mixed with expanded government services and transportation infrastructure. At one time, California had as many as 400 redevelopment agencies supported by tax increment financing. The 2008–2012 California budget crisis led to the dissolution of all redevelopment agencies in the state by February 1, 2012. Each redevelopment agency was replaced by a "successor agency to the redevelopment agency" that manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Reinvestment Act
The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA, P.L. 95-128, 91 Stat. 1147, title VIII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, ''et seq.'') is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.Text of Housing and Community Development Act of 1977 — Title VIII (Community Reinvestment) Congress passed the Act in 1977 to reduce discriminatory credit practices against low-income neighborhoods, a practice known as |
Transit Village
A transit village is a pedestrian-friendly mixed-use district or neighborhood oriented around the station of a high-quality transit system, such as rail or B.R.T. Often a civic square of public space abuts the train station, functioning as the hub or centerpiece of the surrounding community and encouraging social interaction. While mainly residential in nature, many transit villages offer convenience retail and services to residents heading to and from train stations. The term "transit villages" was popularized in the 1997 book by Michael Bernick and Robert Cervero, ''Transit Villages for the 21st Century'', whose cover shows a mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly community infilling what then was a surface park-and-ride lot of the Pleasant Hill BART station area, and what is now the Contra Costa Centre Transit Village. In their book, the authors distinguished transit villages from transit-oriented development (TOD) as more residential-oriented in land-use composition, with neighb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downtown San Jose
Downtown San Jose is the central business district of San Jose, California, San Jose, California, United States. Downtown is one of the largest tech Business cluster, clusters in Silicon Valley, as well as the cultural and political center of San Jose. History The town was first settled in 1777. The area that now makes up downtown was first settled twenty years later, when the town of San Jose moved somewhat inland from its original location on the banks of the Guadalupe River. In 1850, San Jose incorporated to become California's first city and the location of California's first state capitol. Despite widespread destruction caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a number of neighborhoods around Downtown San Jose still retain their original, pre-1906 housing stock. These neighborhoods include the South University, Naglee Park, Hensley Historic District, Reed Historic District and Vendome neighborhoods. Contemporary era The downtown area was typical of a small, agricult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Jose Redevelopment Agency
The San Jose Redevelopment Agency (SJRA, officially the Redevelopment Agency for the City of San José) was a redevelopment agency in the government of San Jose, California. It was created in 1956 and grew into the second-largest tax increment financing agency in the state. The agency's 21 development project areas covered about 16% of the city's area and accounted for a third of the jobs in the city. It led the redevelopment of Downtown San Jose. It also cofounded the US Market Access Center and San Jose BioCenter as joint ventures with San Jose State University. During the 1990s and 2000s, the tightened real estate market impaired the agency's efforts to relocate businesses that were in the way of development projects such as San Jose City Hall. The agency was dissolved along with the state's other redevelopment agencies on February 1, 2012. In its place, the Successor Agency to the San José Redevelopment Agency (SARA) managed the wind-down of the agency's affairs. See also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transit Oriented Development
In urban planning, transit-oriented development (TOD) is a type of urban development that maximizes the amount of residential, business and leisure space within walking distance of public transport. It promotes a symbiotic relationship between dense, compact urban form and public transport use. In doing so, TOD aims to increase public transport ridership by reducing the use of private cars and by promoting sustainable urban growth. TOD typically includes a central transit stop (such as a train station, or light rail or bus stop) surrounded by a high-density mixed-use area, with lower-density areas spreading out from this center, serving as part of an integrated transport network. TOD is also typically designed to be more walkable than other built-up areas, by using smaller block sizes and reducing the land area dedicated to automobiles. In some areas, it may include ferries. Areas that center a transit station as a hub while building residential-focused TOD development in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irvington (BART Station)
Irvington is a planned Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) infill station in the Irvington District of Fremont, California. , estimates from the city anticipated construction to begin in mid-2026, with the station opening for service in 2031. History The station has been planned since it was studied as part of the Warm Springs extension in 1979, and its construction was approved by the BART board in 1992. The Warm Springs extension began construction through the Irvington District in 2009, to connect Fremont and Warm Springs. The proposed station at the center of Irvington, once considered optional, was part of the extension. However funding for construction of the station fell through. The station had been envisioned for completion in 2015. Provisions for personnel access and preliminary foundation work were included when track was laid through the site. The city of Fremont had planned to finance the $140 million station through redevelopment agency bonds in 2009, but the bonds w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fremont, California
Fremont () is a city in Alameda County, California, United States. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Bay Area, Fremont has a population of 230,504 as of 2020, making it the fourth List of cities and towns in the San Francisco Bay Area, most populous city in the Bay Area, behind San Jose, California, San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland, California, Oakland. It is the closest East Bay city to the high-tech Silicon Valley network of businesses, and has a strong tech industry presence. The city's origins lie in the community that arose around Mission San José (California), Mission San José, founded in 1797 by the Spanish under Padre Fermín Lasuén. Fremont was incorporated on January 23, 1956, when the former towns of Mission San José, Centerville, Niles, Irvington, and Warm Springs unified into one city. Fremont is named after John C. Frémont, a general who helped lead the American Conquest of California from Mexico and later served as Military Gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Greenway
The Richmond Greenway is a pedestrian and bicycle path in Richmond, California.Residents Cleanup Greenway Vanessa Carr. Richmond Confidential. 18-01-2011. Retrieved 21-01-2011. Route It runs along what was formerly the right-of-way of the parallel to Ohio Avenue, between the end of the Ohlone Greenway adjacent to the intersection of Macdonald and San Pablo A ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Station (California)
Richmond station (officially the Richmond Transit Center) is an Amtrak intercity rail and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located in downtown Richmond, California. Richmond is the north terminus of BART service on the and ; it is a stop for Amtrak's ''Capitol Corridor'', ''San Joaquin (train), San Joaquins'', and ''California Zephyr'' routes. The accessible station has one island platform for the two BART tracks, with a second island platform serving two of the three tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad Martinez Subdivision for Amtrak trains. It is one of two transfer points between BART and Amtrak, along with Oakland Coliseum station. The Southern Pacific Railroad, Southern Pacific (SP)-controlled Northern Railway (California), Northern Railway opened through what is now Richmond in 1878. A flag stop at Barrett's Station was established by the mid-1880s; it was renamed Richmond in 1902 during the town's rapid growth. The SP constructed a new station at Richmond in 1904 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macdonald 80 Shopping Center
Macdonald 80 Shopping Center, or Macdonald 80, is a 200,000 sq. ft. (18,580m³) regional shopping mall in the North & East neighborhoodNorth & East Neighborhood Council page City of Richmond website in , anchored by a Target store. The center was largely demolished and rebuilt after suffering from and blight. It is the only entirely |
Urban Renewal
Urban renewal (sometimes called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom and urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment often used to address real or perceived urban decay. Urban renewal involves the clearing out of areas deemed blighted, often in inner cities, in favour of new housing, businesses, and other developments. 19th Century The concept of urban renewal as a method for social reform emerged in England as a reaction to the increasingly cramped and unsanitary conditions of the urban poor in the rapidly industrializing cities of the 19th century. The agenda that emerged was a progressive doctrine that assumed better housing conditions would reform its residents morally and economically. Modern attempts at renewal began in the late 19th century in developed nations. However, urban reform imposed by the state for reasons of aesthetics and efficiency had already begun in 1853, with Haussmann's renovation of Paris ordered by Napoleon III. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macdonald Avenue
Macdonald Avenue is the main east-to-west artery in Richmond, California.Point Molate Casino EIR, Volume I, 2009, accessed May 25, 2010 History Macdonald Avenue runs in a straight line from the Richmond Parkway through to San Pablo Avenue, after which it continues as a minor street for a few blocks, ending at Ludwig Avenue ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
