Redevelopment

A new example of other neighborhood improvement initiatives is the funding mechanism associated with high carbon footprint air quality urban blight.

Assembly Bill AB811 is the State of California's answer to funding renewable energy and allows cities to craft their own sustainability action plans.

Controversy usually results either from the use of eminent domain, from objections to the change in use or increases in density and intensity on the site or from disagreement on the appropriate use of taxpayer funds to pay for some element of the project.

The controversy over misuse of eminent domain for redevelopment reached a climax in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which ruled that the general benefits a community enjoyed from economic growth qualified private redevelopment plans as a permissible "public use" under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

Remedial legislation to restrict the use of eminent domain for private development has been enacted or introduced in a number of states.