Malaki

Mandate to compel the Chairman of the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors to sign a contract with the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Sacramento and the city itself, as directed by a resolution of the board of supervisors.

The proceeding entails interpretation of certain language in article XIII, section 19, of the state Constitution. The constitutional provision was adopted in 1952 to permit a new source of financing for urban redevelopment projects. The general objectives of urban development in California were discussed in Redevelopment Agency v. Hayes, 122 Cal.App.2d 777 [ 266 P.2d 105 ] (cert. den. 348 U.S. 897 [ 75 S.Ct. 214 , 99 L.Ed. 705 ]). Elimination of blighted areas by redevelopment finds its constitutional basis in protection of public health, morals, safety and general welfare. (Redevelopment Agency v. Hayes, supra, at pp. 800-802 .) A beneficial byproduct is the upgrading of real estate values, thereby increasing assessed lvalues on public tax rolls and augmenting public tax revenues.

Article XIII, section 19, was designed to permit the pledge of future increases in property tax revenue within redeveloped areas to pay the principal and interest of bonds…