UC Berkeley Redevelopment Courses,
Fall 2007
For the 9th year, Libby Seifel will teach two one-day
courses on redevelopment at the University of California
Berkeley Extension. The courses will be held in San
Francisco.
Understanding Redevelopment: Project Adoption through Implementation
Friday, September 28, 2007 -- 9 am-5 pm
Location: UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor, San Francisco Fee: $395, including course materials.
To enroll by phone, call 510.642.4111 (reference course EDP 321596
or call 510.642.4151 for more information.
The California Community Redevelopment Law, enacted in 1945, has evolved to meet the state's current economic development challenges. Today, redevelopment offers modern tools to encourage community revitalization, provide affordable housing, redevelop surplus military bases, and reconstruct deteriorating public infrastructure.
This course offers a practical understanding of the redevelopment planning process from plan inception through implementation. We will discuss the role of redevelopment in neighborhood stabilization, commercial revitalization, Brownfields reclamation, and military base conversion. The course features case studies and lectures by experts in the field. The material is presented in three parts: redevelopment plan conceptualization and adoption, tax increment financing, and affordable housing.
In the first phase of the course, you learn how to determine where and when redevelopment can be effectively used. Included is a step-by-step process for preparing a redevelopment plan that meets legal requirements and responds to a community's goals. The tax increment financing section explores how a redevelopment agency can generate its own unique source of funding. As redevelopment stimulates new growth, the resulting increase in property taxes generated from higher property values-known as tax increment-can be reinvested locally. In the last part of the course, you explore redevelopment's role as California's most effective tool for preserving, improving, and producing affordable housing.
Note: Enrollment is limited. Course fee includes course materials and optional field tour during lunch of a downtown redevelopment project.
Instructors: Elizabeth (Libby) Seifel, M.C.P., AICP, is president of Seifel Consulting Inc., an economic consulting firm, located in San Francisco, CA. She helps public and private sector clients resolve complex urban growth issues, maximize real estate assets, and achieve fiscal goals. She has advised on more than 90 redevelopment project areas in California with projected new development values from $100 million to more than $4 billion. Joining Ms. Seifel is her colleague, John (Jack) Nagle, J.D. Mr. Nagle is a noted redevelopment attorney with Goldfarb and Lipman.
Advanced Techniques for Redevelopment and Affordable Housing Project Implementation
Friday, November 2, 2007 -- 9 am-5 pm
Location: UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor, San Francisco Floor (enter on Fremont Street). Fee: $395, including course materials.
UCB course identification number: EDP 321778
In this course, participants learn advanced techniques for redevelopment implementation.
Redevelopment Plan Implementation: Learn how a redevelopment plan can be amended to add more territory, increase fiscal limits, or merge with other project areas. Examine the processes for implementing an effective redevelopment program.
Public/Private Partnerships: Discuss the utilization of redevelopment to stimulate public/private partnerships. Review techniques for soliciting, selecting and negotiating with developers and for projecting tax increment from proposed development.
Affordable Housing: Learn how to meet affordable housing obligations, including Implementation Plan and production requirements. Review economic analyses used to evaluate developments, such as affordability and feasibility gap analysis, cash flow pro forma projections, and capitalization rates.
This course will feature noted redevelopment attorney and guest lecturer, Joe Coomes of McDonough, Holland & Allen. An optional field tour of affordable housing and mixed-use redevelopment projects will be conducted during lunch.
For more information on the Fall Redevelopment classes, please visit the UC Berkeley Extension website, www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat, and/or 510.642.4111 this summer.
The Community Guide to Redevelopment The
Guide includes an overview of the redevelopment process
written in "layperson's language" and
addresses questions that often arise during the redevelopment
process. Libby Seifel is a contributing editor.
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Out of stock. Revised edition expected in the Fall of 2007.
Bloomingdales Redevelopment Project
Upheld
In September, 2002, the Court of Appeal upheld the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency’s plan to redevelop the Emporium Department, including the blight analysis undertaken by the Agency. Seifel Consulting prepared the technical documents required for the Plan Amendment and performed the economic blight analysis and tax increment projections. Bloomingdales began construction in 2003. Download the opinion > Download San Franciscans Upholding the Downtown Plan v. City and County of San Francisco (PDF)
SB 211 Ordinance
In December 2001, Libby Seifel made a web cast presentation
for CRA, "What are the Financial Implications
of Eliminating an Agency’s Time Limit for Incurring
Debt per SB 211?" Along with financial implications,
the presentation includes factors to consider in deciding
whether to adopt an SB 211 ordinance. > Download
the Power Point presentation on SB
211 Ordinance (PDF)
Redevelopment Storytelling At the 2005 Annual California
Redevelopment Association Conference, Libby Seifel
lead an interactive workshop, “How
to Tell Your Redevelopment Story Powerfully.” Created
in collaboration with writer Susan Sharpe, the presentation
offers a fail-proof guide to developing and communicating
a redevelopment narrative that is compelling, inspiring
and concise. > Download
the Power Point Presentation on Redevelopment Storytelling
(PDF).
RDA Issues
In February 2004, Libby Seifel presented
to CSMFO, “Emerging
Trends II: RDA Issues—Should We Amend our Redevelopment
Plan?” Answering such questions as, “What
is a merger amendment?” and “What would
different types of Amendments do?” the presentation
simplifies and facilitates informed decisions about
existing redevelopment plans in light of redevelopment
legislation, including AB 1290, SB 211, SB 1045, and
SB 1096. > Download
the Power Point Presentation on RDA Issues (PDF).
Intro to Redevelopment At the 2005 Annual
California Redevelopment Association Conference,
Marie Munson presented “Plan Adoption,
Amendment, and Merger.” In clear language and simple
terms, this presentation begins by explaining what redevelopment
is and goes on to explore a variety of redevelopment
concepts, CRL definitions, and the ten basic steps to
plan adoption. > Download the Power Point Presentation
on Redevelopment (PDF).
Guest Lecturers: John (Jack) Nagle of Goldfarb & Lipman and Joseph (Joe) Coomes of McDonough Holland & Allen
Communities throughout the United States are successfully stimulating private real estate development with public-private partnerships (PPPs). These PPPs provide a unique way for the government and private developers to work together to create sustainable and profitable urban infill developments. California's redevelopment program provides unique tools to help create effective PPPs for the reuse of surplus military bases, revitalization of brownfields sites, and development of transit villages, mixed-income housing, and mixed-use projects.
Case studies and lectures by experts in the field offer practical techniques to better understand, structure, and negotiate effective PPPs. You learn about the unique objectives and contributions of the public and private sectors in a PPP, the laws governing redevelopment-sponsored PPPs, and best legal practices in structuring and negotiating PPPs. You also learn how to encourage PPPs by using the unique tools of redevelopment and tax increment financing; to evaluate key financial aspects of PPPs and make a PPP financially feasible for both the public and private sector; to analyze the fiscal impact of a proposed development on a municipality; and to solicit, select, and negotiate with developers.
Tools for Designing Effective Public-Private Partnerships
(Friday, April 6, 2007)
Course details will be available at http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat
Communities throughout the U.S. are successfully stimulating private real
estate development with public-private partnerships (PPPs). This course
offers practical techniques for structuring and negotiating effective
PPPs. We will discuss the reasons for creating PPPs, the roles of the
public and private sectors, and legal and financial issues. Attorneys Jack
Nagle and Joe Coomes will present lessons learned and recommendations for structuring
and documenting partnership agreements.
ELIZABETH "LIBBY" SEIFEL, M.C.P., AICP, is president of Seifel Consulting, an economic consulting firm. She helps private and public sector clients resolve complex urban growth issues, maximize real estate assets, and achieve fiscal goals. She has advised on more than 100 redevelopment project areas in California with projected new development values from $100 million to more than $4 billion.
How to Make the Most of $12 Billion in New Market Tax Credits
In October 2006, Libby Seifel coordinated a panel on how to use new market tax credits to stimulate new commercial, industrial and residential development in inner-cities at the Urban Land Institute Fall Conference. She orchestrated panel presentations by Linda Davenport of the CDFI Fund, Charles Werhane of Enterprise Community Investment, Gwen Knight of The DESCO Group and Charles Loveman of Heritage Housing Partners.
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Download the presentation “How to Make the Most of $12 Billion in New Market Tax Credits.” (PDF)
Capital Markets: How do Developers
(and Agencies) Raise equity?
In a July, 2003, Community Redevelopment Agency seminar, Libby Seifel led a panel
presentation on how developers and redevelopment agencies raise capital, using
the Hunters Point Shipyard as a case study. > Download
the presentation Capital Markets (PDF)
Housing Program Implementation
Libby Seifel’s presentation on "Housing Program
Implementation under AB 637" at
CRA’s October 2002 Housing Conference includes
suggestions on how to develop action plans to meet
a community’s housing needs and redevelopment
agency’s obligations. > Download
the Power Point presentation Housing Program Implementation
( PDF)
CRA Affordable
Housing Handbook
The “California Affordable Housing Handbook”,
edited by Libby Seifel, introduces the reader to the
redevelopment housing law, policy choices and strategies,
program types, program administration and cases studies
of numerous residential projects. >
View a description/order the publication from the CRA website
City and Agency Inclusionary Housing In
this 2005 Annual California Redevelopment Association
Conference presentation, “Inclusionary Housing:
How to Make City and Agency Inclusionary Housing Programs
Work Together Effectively,” Libby Seifel examines Inclusionary
Housing policy and implementation from the perspective
of cities, redevelopment Agencies, and developers. > Download
the Power Point Presentation on Inclusionary Housing
(PDF).
CRA Housing Set-Aside Article
Marie Munson wrote “Agencies Spend 80% Funds
on Affordable Housing in Addition to 20% Low and Moderate
Income Housing Fund Deposits” published in the
November 2004 issue of CRA Journal. The article
observes that many communities, such as San Jose and
Santa Monica, have found the mandated 20% housing set
aside is not sufficient to meet their affordable housing
needs. Munson identifies one solution. > Download
the CRA
Journal Article on Set Asides (PDF).
CRA Inclusionary Housing Article “How to Design a Successful Inclusionary
Housing Program to Help Your Agency Meet its Affordable
Housing Requirements,” by Elizabeth Seifel was
published in the January 2005 issue of CRA Journal.
The article outlines key policy considerations and
economic principles to be explored, including alternative
methods of compliance. > Download
the CRA Journal Article on Inclusionary Housing (PDF).
Economic Development Techniques
Libby Seifel presented an overview of economic development
techniques at the April 2004 League of California Cities
Planner’s Institute. She discussed how planners
can encourage economic development in their communities
using various economic development tools. > Download
the the Power Point presentation - Economic
Development (PDF)
Property Rights Initiatives in Oregon and California
In response to recent property rights ballot initiatives in Oregon and California, Jessica Zenk and Libby Seifel wrote an article for Northern News of the California chapter of the American Planning Association. The article highlights the complex fiscal and planning consequences of compensating property owners for changes in land use regulations, as required by the Napa County Measure A, Nevada County Measure D, and California Proposition 90. Although all of these California ballot measures were defeated, Oregon’s Ballot Measure 37 passed and has created a significant fiscal liability for cities and counties from pending compensations lawsuits. The article was informed by the economic analysis that Seifel Consulting conducted for the Election Code Section 9111 reports in both Napa and Nevada Counties. > Download the article on property rights initiatives from Northern News (PDF)
Public Incentives Without Using
Tax Increments
At a an October, 2003 California Association of Local
Economic Development seminar, Libby Seifel presented
federal, State, and local funding programs and tools
to promote economic development. > Download
the presentation Public Incentives Without Using Tax
Increments (PDF)
Urban Form and Design
In March, 2001, Libby Seifel presented a witty musical
interpretation on current urban design and form at
the American Planning Association conference. Download
the notes notes
> Aesthetics,
Banality and Style, A Musical Interpretation (PDF)
