Catherine A. Rodman's Legal Cases (2)

Class action

Hogar Dulce Hogar v. Community Development Commission of the City of Escondido et. al.

Jan 01, 2008

OUTCOME: Peremptory Writ of Mandate issued, 2 published opinions

Escondido made an agreement with the County of San Diego not to count tax increment passed through to the County for purposes of calculating the minimum 20 percent set-aside owed to its Low and Moderat ... e Income Housing Fund. Hogar challenged Escondido's violation of State Community Redevelopment Law's (CRL's) minimum 20 percent tax increment set-aside obligation. Pre-filing negotiations resulted in an amendment of the agreement between Escondido and the County to correct Housing Fund set-asides from 1998 on. Suit was filed to recover past underfunding. The action succeeded in recovering over $30 million for the Housing Fund from 1994-2030.

Litigation

Craig v. City of Poway

Jan 01, 2001

OUTCOME: Peremptory writ of mandate issued, published opinion

State Community Redevelopment Law (CRL) requires that redevelopment agencies set aside at least 20% of all tax increment allocated to the agency from each project area into a seperate Low and Moderate ... Income Housing Fund and spend that Fund to develop affordable housing. The Poway Redevelopment Agency violated CRL by using the Housing Fund to issue bonds and depositing net bond proceeds into its Housing Fund in lieu of, rather than in addition to, the minimum 20% tax increment mandated by CRL. Poway also misspent Housing Funds on street improvements throughout the City that were unrelated to any affordable housing development. The litigation recovered over $9 million for the Housing Fund in underfunding and misexpenditures.

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