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14-169-703. Urban renewal projects.
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14-169-703. Urban renewal projects.
(a)(1) An urban renewal agency under § 14-169-709 or a housing authority under § 14-169-601 et seq. is authorized to plan and undertake urban renewal projects.
(2) As used in this subchapter, an urban renewal project may include undertakings and activities for the elimination and for the prevention of the development or spread of slums or blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas and may involve any work or undertaking for such purposes constituting a redevelopment project or any rehabilitation or conservation work, or any combination of such undertaking or work. Such undertaking and work may include:
(A) Carrying out plans for a program of voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements;
(B) Acquisition of:
(i) A slum area or a deteriorated or deteriorating area;
(ii) Land which is predominantly open and which, because of obsolete platting, diversity of ownership, deterioration of structures or of site improvements, or otherwise, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of the community;
(iii) Open land necessary for sound community growth. The requirement of this subchapter that the area be a slum area or a blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating area shall not be applicable in the case of an open land project; or
(iv) Acquisition of any other real property in the urban renewal project area where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, insanitary, or unsafe conditions, lessen density, eliminate obsolete or other uses 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 demolition, removal, or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements;
(C) Installation, construction, or rec
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-703
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14-169-703. Urban renewal projects.
(a)(1) An urban renewal agency under § 14-169-709 or a housing authority under § 14-169-601 et seq. is authorized to plan and undertake urban renewal projects.
(2) As used in this subchapter, an urban renewal project may include undertakings and activities for the elimination and for the prevention of the development or spread of slums or blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas and may involve any work or undertaking for such purposes constituting a redevelopment project or any rehabilitation or conservation work, or any combination of such undertaking or work. Such undertaking and work may include:
(A) Carrying out plans for a program of voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements;
(B) Acquisition of:
(i) A slum area or a deteriorated or deteriorating area;
(ii) Land which is predominantly open and which, because of obsolete platting, diversity of ownership, deterioration of structures or of site improvements, or otherwise, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of the community;
(iii) Open land necessary for sound community growth. The requirement of this subchapter that the area be a slum area or a blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating area shall not be applicable in the case of an open land project; or
(iv) Acquisition of any other real property in the urban renewal project area where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, insanitary, or unsafe conditions, lessen density, eliminate obsolete or other uses 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 demolition, removal, or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements;
(C) Installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary for carrying out the objectives of the urban renewal project; and
(D) The disposition, for uses in accordance with the objectives of the urban renewal project, of any property, or part of it, acquired in the area of such project. Disposition shall be in the manner prescribed in this subchapter for the disposition of property in a redevelopment project area.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subchapter, where the local governing body certifies that an area is in need of redevelopment or rehabilitation as a result of tornado, flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe respecting which the Governor has certified the need for disaster assistance under Public Law 81-875 [repealed] or other federal law, the local governing body may approve an urban renewal plan and an urban renewal project with respect to such area without regard to any provisions of this subchapter requiring that the urban renewal area is a slum area, or a blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating area, or that the urban renewal area be predominantly residential in character or be developed or redeveloped for residential uses.
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14-169-601. Legislative declarations.
It is found and declared that:
(1) There exists in many communities within this state blighted areas, as defined in § 14-169-604, or areas in the process of becoming blighted;
(2)(A) Such areas impair economic values and tax revenues;
(B) Such areas cause an increase in and spread of disease and crime and constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals, and welfare of the residents of the state; and
(C) These conditions necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for crime prevention and punishment, public health and safety, and accident protection, and other public services and facilities;
(3) The clearance, replanning, and preparation for rebuilding of these areas and the prevention or the reduction of blight and its causes are public uses and purposes for which public money may be spent and private property acquired and are governmental functions of state concern;
(4)(A) Redevelopment activities will stimulate residential construction which is closely correlated with general economic activity; and
(B) Such undertakings authorized by this subchapter will aid the production of better housing and more desirable neighborhood and community development at lower costs and will make possible a more stable and larger volume of residential construction, which will assist materially in achieving and maintaining full employment; and
(5)(A) It is in the public interest that advance preparation for such projects and activities be made; and
(B) The necessity in the public interest for the provisions enacted in this subchapter is declared as a matter of legislative determination.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-601
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-169-601. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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14-169-709. Urban renewal agency created.
(a)(1) There is created in each municipality in this state, where on January 10, 1961, a housing authority has not been established or a housing authority is established but the housing authority has not undertaken an urban renewal project, a public body politic and corporate to be known as the “urban renewal agency” of the municipality for the purpose of planning and undertaking urban renewal projects.
(2) A municipality in which the urban renewal agency has ceased operation and become dormant may by resolution of the governing body revive the urban renewal agency, and upon adoption of the resolution under subsection (b) of this section, the mayor shall appoint a board of commissioners under § 14-169-710.
(b) The agency shall not transact any business or exercise any powers under this subchapter unless and until the local governing body shall have adopted a resolution finding that:
(1) One (1) or more slum, blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas exist in the municipality; and
(2) The rehabilitation, conservation, redevelopment, or a combination thereof, of such areas is necessary in the interest of the public health, safety, morals, or welfare of the residents of the municipality.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-709
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-169-709. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.