A City Council committee that seemed bent on adding government oversight to San Diego’s former redevelopment agency has made an about-face.
The Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee voted Wednesday to give Civic San Diego the benefit of the doubt – at least until March.
At issue is a lack of recourse for residents in the disenfranchised neighborhoods Civic San Diego plans to revitalize.
In 2012 the state ended its redevelopment program that helped cities fund improvements in neglected parts of town. So San Diego’s agencies that handled redevelopment merged and were reborn as Civic San Diego.