Category Archives: The 2009 4 New Zones
Who Wants to Be a Zone in 2009? Update
A November 5, 2008 City of Palm Springs City Council Staff Report states: Staff recommends the City Council approve participation in a multi-jurisdiction application to the State’s Department of Housing and Community Development for an Enterprise Zone designation for an area that would include all or part of Desert Hot Springs, a portion of Cathedral [...]
Who Wants to Be a Zone in 2009?
Along with Needles, Cathedral City, Colusa County, and Calaveras County, we can now add the City of Monrovia to the list of jurisdictions expressing an interest in becoming an Enterprise Zone next year. According to the November 18 Monrovia City Council Minutes, the City has entered into an agreement with a consultant to prepare an [...]
New Zone Designations Update: Needles
From the Mohave Daily News: NEEDLES – The Needles Economic Development Committee, meeting on Nov. 21, has begun the task of completing an enterprise zone designation application to be submitted to the state of California. Boundaries for the zone must be submitted by Dec. 1. The completed application deadline is March 27, 2009. The city [...]
New Zone Designation Round Underway
HCD has posted the final Application Guidebook for the 2008-2009 zone designation round: The 2008/2009 Designation Round. The Department announces the release of the Designation Application Guidebook for 2008/2009. For this designation round, the Department will award up to four enterprise zones. To obtain more information on the application process, plan to attend the workshops [...]
Colusa County EZ in 2009?
I am sure we will hear more from HCD later this week at the CAEZ Conference about when they intend to start the application process for the four zones set to expire next year (their website still states that they expect the application to be released Sept. 30). In the mean time, sometimes there are [...]
2008/2009 Designation Round
HCD has posted an update to their website announcing the impending launch of the next round of Enterprise Zone expirations and applications: Update on the 2008/2009 Designation Round — The Department is currently drafting the Application Guidebook for the next designation round. For this round, there will be four slots available. At this time, the [...]
Big Zone
That would be a big zone: Desert Local News sits down with former Palm Springs Police Chief Gary Jeandron, who is seeking to be elected to the 80th Assembly District seat in November…. For the Imperial and Riverside Counties, Jeandron would like to see an enterprise zone created for the whole 80th District when it [...]
Needles, NV?
Sometimes the existence of an Enterprise Zone can help a California business avoid a decision to move out of state. But can an Enterprise Zone prevent a whole city from annexing itself to Nevada? In Needles, that may just be the case.
Cathedral City EZ in 2009
One of the five jurisdictions that applied for an Enterprise Zone in the 2008 round that was not successful was the West Coachella Valley, including such areas as Desert Hot Springs, Riverside County and Cathedral City. At a meeting of the Cathedral City Council on May 28 there was a detailed discussion and debate about [...]
Kern Update
Last month I reported on an indication of interest in Kern County to participate in the upcoming 2009 zone applications. The Daily Independent is now reporting that the proposal has been rejected: The second item is a recommendation from the Community Development Committee not to participate in the Kern County Enterprise Zone pre-application analysis. The [...]
2009 Preview
The Mohave Daily News offers the following insightful preview into the next round of Enterprise Zone designations along with some valuable insights from HCD’s Chris Westlake: NEEDLES – As the Needles City Council explores options for growth in another state, there is still at least one option in California that could meet some of the [...]
Kern County Enterprise Zone
There is an early indicator of interest in the next round of Enterprise Zone designations coming from Kern County. As is usually the case at this stage of the process, there doesn’t seem to be a particularly in depth understanding of the program or how the process will work. According to The Daily Independent: All [...]
Calaveras County EZ in 2009?
It seems there is already interest in a new Enterprise Zone in Calaveras County. Apparently, there is a hot race for County Supervisor and one candidate is already making promises about creating a zone: [Gary] Tofanelli, 54, started his career as an ironworker at age 18 and worked his way up to owning his own [...]
