Redevelopment is big business in California. Four out of five California cities and more than half of the counties have redevelopment agencies, and those agencies pulled in $10.6 billion in total revenue during the 2006-07 fiscal year, according to the state controller's office. That was a 22% revenue increase from the previous year. Agencies reported $26.1 billion worth of long-term debt.

Any enterprise involving that much money is controversial. So it shouldn't be surprising that California's redevelopment wars have raged since the long-ago era when "urban renewal" displaced poor and disenfranchised people for their own good. Urban renewal failed in most places, but ...

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