Redevelopment Agency

The City of Sand City established a Redevelopment Agency and adopted a Redevelopment Plan in 1987 with the goal of addressing past heavy industrial activities, including sand mining along the coastline.

The Redevelopment Area encompasses all of Sand City. The Redevelopment Plan provides the Agency with powers, duties, and obligations to implement and advance redevelopment, rehabilitation, and revitalization of the “project area”. The plan does not present a specific development plan; but rather, it presents a process and basic framework, including policies and goals, within which specific project plans can and will be presented and considered on a case-by-case basis.

Since the City is a redevelopment zone, the majority of the City’s property tax revenues accrue to the Redevelopment Agency within the 40 years after the adoption of the Redevelopment Plan. The Sand Dollar Shopping Center (1989) and the Edgewater Shopping Center (1996) were the first major beneficiaries of the 1987 Redevelopment Plan. The Design Center (2007) in the West End District is another project that was made possible through the efforts of the Redevelopment Agency. Tax increment from these two developments, combined with sales tax revenues, will assist the City in implementing an estimated $40,000,000 of capital improvements (i.e. streets, sidewalks, etc.) to bring Sand City up to contemporary urban standards on the Monterey Peninsula.