Posted by Duffy, a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Jan 4, 2012 at 9:12 am

" The town will no longer be able to take on redevelopment projects and, instead, will focus on paying off outstanding debts." Sounds like a good plan to me!

Posted by miSFit, a resident of the Diablo neighborhood, on Jan 4, 2012 at 12:32 pm

The town already saw this coming and appeared to set up projects accordingly during last year.

Posted by guynextdoor, a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Jan 4, 2012 at 2:00 pm

Yes, the town is much better managed than others thanks to our manager, staff, council and volunteers. I have just one question. If the funds being seized have already been appropriated by the state, where in our property tax did they come from? I see no line item for a state assessment or RDA. I certainly hope they're not seizing our future property taxes. The state has its own tax revenues.

Posted by [removed], a resident of another community, on Jan 4, 2012 at 5:44 pm

Dear Editor,

Looking at Danville's need for economic development in the face of heritage considerations seems to be the full reality of redevelopment. There are global funds available to rejuvenate the business district and its infrastucture without government funding. That process would bring affordable senior housing to downtown over quality retail facilities fully ready for anchor retail and commercial service important to drawing regional shoppers.

There truly needs to be a new perspective to allow Danville's business district to be a regional, inviting location for hospitality, retail, commercial and institutional attraction.

There are funds available to create high-density housing in the business district and in appropriate areas that needs more than a heritage viewpoint to achieve such redevelopment.

All Danville's government must do is join the neighborhoods of Danville and its region in creating such results.

Posted by Paul, a resident of the Danville neighborhood, on Jan 9, 2012 at 12:36 pm

So Joe, you should level with the citizens of Danville by telling us all that the RDA took property tax monies on the "blighted properties" that you bought which resulted in an overall increase in the property tax burden on all of us. The RDA was just a convenient way to get the property taxpaying members of our community to unwittingly pay for "community improvements" that largely benefitted the business owners down town. No thorny issues of getting the voters to approve what you did, just buy what you like and let us all pay for it. Personally, I am glad to see the RDAs all go. Maybe now some of the non-downtown streets will get some sorely needed repairs because you can't steal the money that might otherwise be used for that purpose.