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My Take On Selling School sites

School Districts across the state deem unused school sites "surplus" and sell them off to private developers.  This practice is largely a bad idea.  Just because a community’s demographics have shifted to an older population does not mean that young families will never return.  And there is no re-capturing acreage that was once a school and becomes single-family homes.

In fact, if the school district needs a new school site in a dozen years from now, it is highly likely that they will be forced to go to the taxpayers for the money through the sale of bonds or increased property taxes like a parcel tax.

I my home town of Irvine the school district is on the verge of selling off two neighborhood schools.  This school district is always crying poor.  Even worse, they may be looking to use loopholes in state law to spend the proceeds of the sale to fund operations.

You can check out my column on the subject in today’s Orange County Register here.