What is the Community Improvement Commission?
The Community Improvement Commission (CIC) was created as a separate body from the City in 1982, and acts as the City s redevelopment agency to administer State of California Redevelopment Law. Redevelopment Law requires that 15 percent of all new housing developed in redevelopment areas by anyone other than the CIC be made affordable to very low, low, and moderate income households, and that 40 percent of the 15 percent be affordable to very low income households (or 6 percent of the total). As of June 1, 2004, the affordability requirement for new housing in redevelopment areas was raised to 25%. In addition, 20 percent of tax increments generated in these project areas must be used towards the development of housing affordable to low and moderate income households. The three CIC project areas in the City of Alameda are the West End Community Improvement Project (WECIP), the Business & Waterfront Improvement Project (BWIP), and the Alameda Point Improvement Project (APIP).
