36-51.1 - Requirements for "conservation plan" generally.
§ 36-51.1. Requirements for "conservation plan" generally.
An authority shall not implement any conservation plan under this law untilthe governing body of the locality has approved a conservation plan, whichprovides an outline for the conservation, development or redevelopment of theconservation area, affording maximum opportunity for conservation,rehabilitation or redevelopment by nongovernmental persons or entitiesconsistent with the ends to be achieved, and is sufficiently complete toindicate (i) its relationship to definite local objectives as to appropriateland uses and improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities,recreational and community facilities and other public improvements; (ii) anyconditions and limitations on acquisition of property; (iii) proposed landuses for the properties to be acquired; (iv) any conditions and limitations,including time limitation, under which property shall be made available forrehabilitation or redevelopment by public enterprise or nongovernmentalpersons or entities (by sale, lease or retention by the authority itself);(v) standards of design, construction, maintenance, and use of property andother measures to be taken or recommended toward elimination and preventionof blight and deterioration; (vi) the method for the temporary relocation ofany persons living in the conservation area who will be displaced inaccordance with the plan, as well as the method of providing (unless alreadyavailable) decent, safe and sanitary dwellings in such city or countysubstantially equal in number to the number of substandard dwellings to becleared from the conservation area, at rents within the financial reach ofthe income groups displaced from such substandard dwellings; (vii) anylimitation on the length of time within which project activities can beundertaken; (viii) a procedure for administrative review of the determinationat staff level and prior to a final determination by the authority under §36-50.1 that an individual property is in violation of project standards and,therefore, subject to condemnation; and (ix) the procedure by which suchconservation plan may be amended.
(1964, c. 378; 1966, c. 81; 2006, c. 784.)