Don’t Subsidize R.P.V. Development Plans
Why is the county Board of Supervisors giving up to $180 million of our tax money over the next 40 years to the affluent city of Rancho Palos Verdes in the form of community redevelopment tax money? Let the developers pay to develop all that open, rural land in the Portuguese Bend area.
Redevelopment is for the slum areas of the county, not for use in areas where houses sell for over $600,000. Spending tax dollars so developers can profit is not the way I want my tax dollars spent. What happened to all of the health-care projects, helping the homeless and filling those potholes in the roadway?
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors should be sent a loud message that they should stop spending our money to help developers get rich in affluent neighborhoods and start repairing our streets and helping those truly in need. If they don’t get the message, the board should be replaced.
On July 27, 1991, the Court of Appeal will decide if the Rancho Palos Verdes Redevelopment Agency was formed properly under the law and has the right to remain in existence. Hopefully, the Court of Appeal will not allow the transfer of up to $180 million of our tax money to a Redevelopment Agency in a well-to-do area.
KATHY SNELL
Rancho Palos Verdes
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