63-67 Necessity of urban renewal in blighted areas

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(j) '~Genezat Neighborhood Renewal Plan" shall mean the plan and program as it exists from time to time, for the urban renewal or redevelop- ment of a General Neighborhood Renewal Area. The General Neighborhood Renewal Plan need not contain all of the required contents set forth in Section 6 hereof with respect to an Urban Renewal Plan or Urban Redevelopment Plan. Approval of the General Neighborhood Renewal Plan by the Council of the City does not create authority to carry out Project execution activities. (k) '~Urban Renewal Project~' or ~Urban Redevelopment Project~' or "Project'~ shall mean undertakings and activities of the City, with or without State aid or assistance, in a project area for the elimination and for the prevention of the development or spread of blighted, deteriorated or deterior- ating areas, and may involve clearance and redevelopment in a project area, or rehabilitation and conservation in a project area, or any combination or part thereof, in accordance with the urban renewal or urban redevelopment plan for the project area to the full extent of and in accordance with the rights, powers and authority of the City, whether derived from the applicable provi- sions of the Federal or State constitution or statutes or the City ordinances. Such undertakings and activities in a project area may include: (1) Acquisition of realty, including the acquisition of air rights. (2) Demolition and removal of buildings and improvements. (3) Installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary for carrying out the urban renewal or urban redevelopment plan. (4) Disposition of property for uses in accordance with the urban renewal or urban redevelopment plan. (5) Encouraging and assisting interested citizens in a private program of voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings or othez, improvements in accordance with the urban renewal plan, with or without aid and assistance by Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance or special support for mortgage financing through the Federal National Mortgage Association or similar organizations. <6) Acquisition of any real property wheze necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary, or unsafe conditions, lessen such lot occupancy or population density as create said conditions, eliminate uses in- compatible with the general character of a neighborhood and which are detrimental to the public welfare, or otherwise to remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facilities; and disposition of property, so acquired in accordance with this subparagraph 6, for voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements in accordance with the urban renewal plan. (7) Construction of foundations and platforms necessary for the appropriate provisions of air right sites in accordance with the urban renewal or urban redevelopment plan. (8)Acquisition and repair or rehabilitation for guidance purposes, and resale, of structures which, under the urban renewal plan, are to be repaired or rehabilitated for dwelling use or related facilities. (9) Relocating within the project area a structure which the City determines to be of historic value and which will be disposed of to a public body or a private non-profit organization which will renovate and maintain such structure for historic purposes. The urban renewal project shall not include the construction or improve- ment by the City of any building other than municpial buildings, except as provided in the next preceding subparagraphs (7) and (8) and this subparagraph (9). - 3 -