Tax Abatement Information - Land Clearance Redevelopment Authority

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(a) Carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements; (b) Acquisition of real property and demolition, removal or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements thereon where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, insanitary or unsafe conditions, lessen density, eliminate uneconomic, 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; (c) To develop, construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate, repair or improve residences, houses, buildings, structures and other facilities; (d) Installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary for carrying out the objectives of the urban renewal project; and (e) 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 the project; but such disposition shall be in the manner prescribed in this law for the disposition of property in a land clearance project area; (23) "Workable program", an official plan of action, as it exists from time to time, for effectively dealing with the problem in insanitary, blighted, deteriorated or deteriorating areas within the community and for the establishment and preservation of a well-planned community with well- organized residential neighborhoods of decent homes and suitable living environment for adequate family life, for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate and prevent the development or spread of insanitary, blighted, deteriorated or deteriorating areas, to encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of blighted, insanitary, deteriorated and deteriorating areas, or to undertake such of the aforesaid activities or other feasible community activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of such a program. (L. 1951 p. 300 § 3, A.L. 1955 p. 279, A.L. 1965 p. 220, A.L. 1972 S.B. 586) *Word "on" appears in original rolls. **Word "and" appears in original rolls. Authority may be created, when. 99.330. There is hereby created in each community (as herein defined) a public body corporate and politic, to be known as the "Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority" of the community; provided, however: (1) That such authority shall not transact any business or exercise its powers hereunder until or unless the governing body shall approve (by resolution or ordinance as herein provided) the exercise in such community of the powers, functions and duties of an authority under this law; and provided further that, if it deems such action to be in the public interest, the governing body may, instead of such resolution or ordinance adopt a resolution or ordinance approving the