Sec. 8-141. Urban renewal projects authorized.
Sec. 8-141. Urban renewal projects authorized. In addition to its authority under
other provisions of this chapter, a redevelopment agency is authorized to plan and undertake urban renewal projects. As used in this part, an urban renewal project may include
undertakings and activities for the elimination, and for the prevention of the development
or spread, of slums or substandard, insanitary, blighted, deteriorated or deteriorating
areas, and may involve any work or undertaking for such purpose constituting a redevelopment project or any rehabilitation or conservation work, or any combination of such
undertaking or work. For this purpose, rehabilitation or conservation work may include
(1) carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation
of buildings or other improvements; (2) acquisition of real property and demolition,
removal or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements thereon where the agency has
determined the same to be necessary to eliminate unhealthful, insanitary or unsafe conditions, lessen density, reduce traffic hazards, eliminate obsolete or other uses detrimental
to the public welfare, or to otherwise remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facilities; (3) installation, construction or
reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds and other improvements necessary
for carrying out the objectives of the urban renewal project; and (4) the disposition, for
uses in accordance with the objectives of the urban renewal project, of any property or
part thereof acquired in the area of such project; provided such disposition shall be in
the manner prescribed in this part for the disposition of property in a redevelopment
project area.
(1955, S. 498d; 1959, P.A. 397, S. 6.)
History: 1959 act added words "or deteriorating" in second sentence.
Cited. 158 C. 522.
Cited. 26 CS 249.