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Comment 4-d: Response: Comment 4-e: Response: Comment 4-f: 1) "To eliminate and prevent the spread of blight and deterioration and to redevelop the Amendment Area in accord with the General Plan, specific plans, the Redevelopment Plan and local codes and ordinances. 2) To expand and upgrade the community's supply of housing, including opportunities for low-and moderate-income households. 3) To eliminate or ameliorate certain environmental deficiencies, including substandard vehicular circulation systems and other similar public improvements, facilities and utilities deficiencies adversely affecting the Amendment Area." The estimated expenditures by the Agency in the Amended Project Area, shown in Table 111-2 of the Report to the City Council, support these Agency goals and objectives. For example almost one-third of the total estimated costs will be for public improvements, 20 percent for low-and moderate-income housing, and 5 percent for commercial and residential rehabilitation. The Second Amendment does not further the purposes of redevelopment law. The contention that the Second Amendment does not achieve the purposes of the Community Redevelopment law on the basis that the proposed Amendment "is in reali ty a master list of expensive public works projects" is refuted in the response to Comment 4-c above. In addition, the major public improvements included within the Second Amendment are proposed to eliminate blighting conditions in the Amended Project Area. It has not been demonstrated that the alleged blight cannot be eliminated by private enterprise acting and without the assistance of redevelopment. As discussed above, in Part II.C of Report to the City Council it is shown that private enterprise is not now performing in the Amendment Area. Taxable retail sales and new construction starts are lagging behind those county wide and city wide. A proj ect Area created. Committee should have been 5 11191