850 acres targeted for redevelopment in Henderson

Jeffrey Libby

Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2001 | 10:55 a.m.

The Henderson City Council accepted a plan Tuesday to redevelop with city assistance 850 acres in northeast Henderson.

But directors of both the community development agency and the redevelopment agency assured the council and a concerned resident that no low- to moderate-income housing was planned for the redevelopment area.

The Tuscany Hills Redevelopment Area, north of Sunset Road and west of Calico Ridge residential neighborhood, includes a defunct gravel mine, part of a former city landfill and several existing industrial businesses.

Tuscany is the third redevelopment area designated as blighted by the city. Developers there will be eligible to earn a cut of tax revenues generated by successful projects.

The other two redevelopment areas include Cornerstone, a 310-acre parcel north of Interstate 215 and west of Stephanie Street, and 1,307 acres in the old downtown.

In the Tuscany Hills area, the city plans to expand public recreational facilities, build both a public and a private golf course, a public school and a regional flood control channel.

But the city does not plan to build any affordable housing there.

With the city's population now exceeding 200,000, the redevelopment agency is mandated to spend 18 percent of its redevelopment funds on low- to moderate-income housing.

But unlike all other redevelopment projects, that money does not have to be spent in the area in which it was generated.

"We want to look at things on a citywide basis," Mary Kay Peck, director of community development, said.