Category: Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)
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White property owners get full refunds for streetcar snafu, black community’s CRA takes hit
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org Fort Lauderdale killed the controversial Wave streetcar in May and earlier this month the city announced that about $10 million in tax refund checks will go out on Feb. 1 to downtown property owners who paid a special tax to help build it. But a local agency created to clean up…
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Broward’s Inspector General probes Hallandale Beach CRA – again
By William Gjebre FloridaBulldog.org The Broward County Inspector General’s Office has launched another inquiry into Hallandale Beach’s Community Redevelopment Agency, three years after finding the city “grossly mismanaged” millions of dollars in CRA funds.
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A plan takes shape to fix Miami-Dade’s CRAs
By William Gjebre FloridaBulldog.org Miami-Dade commissioners would take greater control of community redevelopment agencies under a proposal that would tighten oversight and reduce funding, yet also require many CRAs to set aside dollars for much-needed affordable housing they have yet to provide.
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Fort Lauderdale to use “poor people’s money” to subsidize transit for affluent?
By William Gjebre FloridaBulldog.org Fort Lauderdale’s recent approval of a no-bid contract to update the plan for the troubled Northwest-Progresso-Flagler Heights Community Redevelopment Agency has raised concerns about a lack of public input amid a rush to add projects not in the current plan at the expense of community needs.
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Hollywood Beach CRA the target of moves to cut its funding, or kill it
By William Gjebre FloridaBulldog.org Hollywood City Commissioner Peter Hernandez says the Beach Community Redevelopment Agency should be abolished because it has had increasing property tax funds for its use — at times exceeding its needs — while the “rest of the city is starving” to pay for operations and needed improvements.