As can be gleaned from this first formal public unveiling, Culver City’s under-siege Redevelopment Agency thought up nearly every conceivable improvement they could undertake in the next 30 years when members met in an emergency mode last Saturday.
With hatchet-bearing Gov. Brown threatening to make California’s thousands of municipal redevelopment agencies extinct later in the spring in a cost-cutting tactic, Culver City, like many other towns, has moved with alacrity in recent days.
Just as in pioneer days when settlers circled their wagons to fend off attackers, big and small cities alike — planning swiftly, almost desperately, for their immediate and long-range future — are marshalling and shifting their financial resources to prevent such funds from being drained off by the state in case Mr. Brown prevails.
The list was provided by City Manager John Nachbar.
Cost (Listed in millions)
1. Seismic Rehabilitation…$2
2. Public Works Street Improvement (citywide)…$20
3. Redevelopment Agency Cardiff Parking Structure Purchase…$14
4. Town Hall Plaza Expansion…$3.30
5. Adams Boulevard Improvement…$3.50
6. Washington/National Cooperation Agreement…$2
7. General Plan and Redevelopment Studies…$3
8. Smiley Blackwelder Street and Infrastructure Improvements…$5
9. Ongoing Maintenance of Agency Assets…$67.30
10. Affordable Housing Projects (Globe, Irving, Pleasantview, Bridge)…$27.60
11. West Washington Parking at Centinela Boulevard…$6.80
12. West Downtown Park at Hughes (Public, Retail, Jazz Bakery, Brotman, Jewish Home for the Aging)…$13
13. Downtown Parking at Town Plaza …$2
14. Washington/National Infrastructure…$4
15. Hayden Tract Parking…$14.80
16. AIP Citywide (Washington/Centinela)…$15
17. Other Parking Development (Surface parking lots associated with AIP)…$10
18. Washington/National Property Acquisition and Associated Relocation…$20
19. Washington/National LRT/TRD Parking (Includes easement)…$60.10
20. Improvements to Veterans Memorial Complex, The Plunge, Associated and Adjacent Facilities…$60
Total (Cooperation Agreement)…$353.40
21. New Public Safety Headquarters Facility…$48
22. Park Improvements…$0.50
23. New Public Works Lay Down Facility…$5.40
24. Overland Avenue Bridge Replacement…$2
25. East Washington Medians…$1.56
26. Improvements to Public Facilities…$2.60
27. Street Light Replacement…$8.74
28. Washington Boulevard Repavement …$7.80
29. Expansion of Transfer Plant…$3.12
30. New Fire Training Yard…$2.70
Total (Implementing Agreement)…$82.42
Grand Total…$435.82
Mr. Nachbar may be contacted at john.nachbar@culvercity.org
