Almost from the day he joined the City Commission in 2014, Curtis Richardson has insisted on the need to expand the Greater Frenchtown/Southside Community Redevelopment District to include several blighted neighborhoods.
“This is something I recognized as a need four years ago,” Richardson said today, after the Tallahassee Community Redevelopment Agency voted to expand the boundary to include three south side neighborhoods — Springhill, Orange Avenue and South City.
A finding of necessity presented by CRA staff showed those neighborhoods each met at least two of the criteria for blight.