California "Jobs and Development" Initiative (2014)

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This measure was not put on an election ballot

A California "Jobs and Development" Initiative (#13-0065) was approved for circulation in California as a contender for the November 4, 2014, ballot as an initiated state statute.

Supporters of the initiative refer to it as the "California Jobs and Education Development Initiative Act."

Text of measure

Ballot title:

Redevelopment Agencies. Reestablishment. Initiative Statute.

Official summary:

"Repeals elimination of redevelopment agencies. Allows local governments to reestablish redevelopment agencies and resume redirection of certain local property taxes to redevelopment projects, away from other local services. Removes prior redevelopment law's requirements for redevelopment plans to have certain dollar and time limits and caps on redevelopment agency debt. Expands prior definition of blight to allow whole cities and counties as redevelopment areas if county's unemployment rate exceeds statewide or national average. Reduces and makes optional the prior law's minimum affordable housing component. Extends prior law's time limit for using eminent domain."

Fiscal impact statement:

Note: The fiscal impact statement for a California ballot initiative authorized for circulation is jointly prepared by the state's legislative analyst and its director of finance.

"Increased resources for local redevelopment activities, growing to several billion dollars more per year, resulting in decreased resources for state and other local government activities of the same amount."

Support

The measure was filed by Philip D. Kohn, a lawyer with Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Kohn's legal focus is on land use regulation, environmental law, planning and zoning law, eminent domain, inverse condemnation and civil rights. He drafted 1998's Proposition 10, 2002's Proposition 50 and 2008's Proposition 10. The first two were successful, while the latter was defeated.

Path to the ballot

See also: Signature requirements for ballot measures in California

• Philip D. Kohn submitted a letter requesting a title and summary on December 24, 2013.
• A title and summary were issued by California's attorney general's office on February 19, 2014.
• 504,760 valid signatures were required for qualification purposes.
• Supporters had until July 21, 2014, to collect and submit the required number of signatures, as petition circulators are given 150 days to circulate petitions.
• The Secretary of State’s suggested signature filing deadline for the November 4, 2014, ballot was April 18, 2014. This means that if supporters had submitted enough valid signatures by July 21 but after April 18, the measure could have been pushed back as far as the next statewide general election, in November 2016.

External links

Suggest a link

• Letter requesting a ballot title for Initiative 13-0065