UC Berkeley Redevelopment Courses,
Fall 2008
For the 10th year, Libby Seifel will teach a one-day course on redevelopment at the University of California Berkeley Extension. The course will be held in San Francisco. After ten years of teaching, we're happy to also announce that UC Berkeley has requested that the course be retooled and become part of the University's new Sustainable Design program and be offered for academic credit starting in 2009. We will be sending out an announcement later this fall with more information about the Sustainable Design program and the new courses.
Understanding Redevelopment: Project Adoption through Implementation
Friday, September 26, 2008 -- 9am - 5pm
San Francisco: UCB Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor, Room 809, Fee: $395, including course materials.
To enroll by phone, call 510.642.4111 (reference course EDP 318840)
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 100 redevelopment project areas in California with projected new development values from $100 million to more than $4 billion.
Joining Ms. Seifel is her noted colleague, John (Jack) Nagle, J.D. Mr. Nagle is a noted redevelopment attorney with Goldfarb and Lipman.
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).
We are excited to announce that UC Berkeley Extension has launched a new sustainable design program and selected “Designing Effective California Public-Private Partnerships” for this program. This course has been expanded to a two-day course and will be eligible for academic credit and continuing education credit for planners and attorneys (AICP and MCLE).
Designing Effective California Public-Private Partnerships
Thursday and Friday, May 13-14, 2010, 9am - 5pm
Location: San Francisco UCB Extension, Room 206, Art and Design Center, 95 Third Street, San Francisco
Guest Lecturers: John (Jack) Nagle of Goldfarb & Lipman and Joseph (Joe) Coomes of McDonough, Holland & Allen
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) provide a unique way for the government and private developers to work together to create sustainable and profitable urban infill developments. This two-day course offers practical techniques for designing, evaluating and negotiating effective PPPs. It describes how to effectively utilize California's unique legal and financial tools to accomplish a broad range of projects, from the redevelopment of surplus public properties and brownfields sites to the creation of mixed use developments that incorporate green design and mixed-income housing next to public transit.
Case studies and lectures by experts in the field offer practical techniques to understand and structure effective PPPs. Students will 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 negotiating and documenting PPPs. They will also learn how to solicit, evaluate and select the right development team. The most successful PPPs effectively balance the financial objectives and needs of the public and private sector, so the course will present key fiscal and real estate concepts critical to understanding how the deal will be evaluated from both the public and private perspective. Participants will also learn how to encourage PPPs by using the unique tax increment financing tools of redevelopment, as well as other public financing techniques.
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)
