Local News in Brief : Redevelopment Expanded
The Whittier City Council voted Tuesday to nearly double the size of the redevelopment project around the Uptown business district, a move that will provide additional property tax revenue for rebuilding the area devastated by the Oct. 1 earthquake and its aftershocks.
City officials selected the project area after plotting on a map all structures declared unsafe after the earthquakes. About half of Whittier’s estimated $70 million in earthquake damage would be included in the new project area, where 56% of the structures were built before 1930, a city report said.
The city sought the expansion under a provision of state redevelopment law intended to benefit disaster-stricken areas.
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