Brown to release budget; Enterprise zones at risk

Just last spring, San Fernando Valley leaders toasted millions of dollars in tax incentives expected to mean thousands of jobs for the area's top business centers, while northeast Valley residents celebrated completion of the $60 million Plaza Pacoima commercial complex on the once-contaminated site of a shuttered foundry. Kevin Modesti in the Daily News.

Those bits of happy economic news were products of enterprise-zone and community-redevelopment programs, seen by many as examples of the good that government seed money can do.

Thus the same leaders were stung last week when a report from Sacramento touched off speculation that California's enterprise zones and redevelopment agencies would be eliminated under the state budget to be proposed Monday by new Gov. Jerry Brown.