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Redevelopment Agency
Telephone: (408) 615-2210 Fax: (408) 241-6771


The Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Clara generally meets every Tuesday following the 7 p.m.City Council meeting, in Council Chambers at City Hall, 1500 Warburton Avenue.

The Redevelopment Agency of the City of Santa Clara was created through City Council ordinance in 1957. It is legally and technically a state agency existing under the Community Redevelopment Law of the State of California. The Agency exists as a public body, separate and distinct from the City, and is activated for the purpose of redevelopment of blighted areas of the state, identified by appropriate proceedings set forth in the Community Redevelopment Law. The Santa Clara City Council serves as the Agency Board of Directors and the City Manager serves as Executive Director. Agency Members and Officers are as follows:

 
Agency Members
  • Patricia M. Mahan
  • Dominic J. Caserta
  • Will Kennedy
  • Pat Kolstad
  • Joe Kornder
  • Jamie McLeod
  • Kevin Moore
  • Executive Director, Jennifer Sparacino
  • Agency General Counsel, Helene Leichter
  • Agency Secretary, Rod Diridon, Jr.
  • Agency Treasurer, Mary Ann Parrot
  • Assistant Executive Director, Ronald E. Garratt
 
Santa Clara has two Redevelopment project areas - the Bayshore North Project, and the University Project. The Redevelopment Agency also administers a Low and Moderate Income Housing Fund.
 
Bayshore North Project
Major projects in the Bayshore North area have included the Santa Clara Convention Center Complex (location of the Santa Clara Convention Center, the Westin Hotel, and the TECHMART office building) and Great America Theme Park (now Paramount's Great America). The Redevelopment project has also funded major infrastructure including the Tasman Drive Bridge over the Guadalupe River and expansion of the Convention Center by approximately 24,500 gross square feet. Capital projects remaining in the Bayshore North project area include the construction of a new parking structure to serve the Convention Center.
 
University Project
The University Project Area was established in 1961 as a traditional urban renewal of eight blocks of what was, at that time, Santa Clara's downtown. By 1988, the redevelopment of the Project area was completed. The first phase of that redevelopment, the Franklin Mall project completed in 1966, needed revitalization. The City of Santa Clara and the Redevelopment Agency, through a Cooperation Agreement, provided funding for the renovation of landscaping, signage and parking lots in the City-owned common areas of the project, re-named "Franklin Square."
 
Housing Funds
In 1989, the Redevelopment Agency established an Affordable Housing Fund to provide financing assistance for various programs and projects in the City of Santa Clara that provide affordable housing opportunities for low and moderate income households. From 1990 through 2003, the City of Santa Clara and its Redevelopment Agency budgeted nearly $73 million for affordable housing programs and services, including below-market new homes, first-time home buyer loans, residences for seniors and the disabled, transitional housing for homeless families, shelters for homeless women and their children and for homeless teens, assisted living and dementia care homes for seniors, and rehabilitation loans for existing properties.
 
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