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14-169-704. Urban renewal plan — Definition.
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14-169-704. Urban renewal plan — Definition.
(a) Any urban renewal project undertaken pursuant to § 14-169-703 shall be undertaken in accordance with an urban renewal plan for the area of the project.
(b) As used in this subchapter, “urban renewal plan” means a plan as it exists from time to time for an urban renewal project. This plan shall:
(1) Conform to the general plan for the municipality as a whole; and
(2) Be sufficiently complete to indicate such land acquisition, demolition, and removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilitation as may be proposed to be carried out in the area of the urban renewal project, zoning, and planning changes, if any, land uses, maximum densities, building requirements, and the plan's relationship to definite local objectives respecting appropriate land uses, improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities, and other public improvements.
(c) An urban renewal plan shall be prepared and approved pursuant to the same procedure as provided in § 14-169-601 et seq. with respect to a redevelopment plan.
(d) If real property acquired by a municipality is to be transferred under an urban renewal plan, or such parts of the contract or plan as the housing authority or urban renewal agency may determine, the transfer may be recorded in the land records of the county in such manner as to afford actual or constructive notice of it.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-169-704
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14-169-704. Urban renewal plan — Definition.
(a) Any urban renewal project undertaken pursuant to § 14-169-703 shall be undertaken in accordance with an urban renewal plan for the area of the project.
(b) As used in this subchapter, “urban renewal plan” means a plan as it exists from time to time for an urban renewal project. This plan shall:
(1) Conform to the general plan for the municipality as a whole; and
(2) Be sufficiently complete to indicate such land acquisition, demolition, and removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilitation as may be proposed to be carried out in the area of the urban renewal project, zoning, and planning changes, if any, land uses, maximum densities, building requirements, and the plan's relationship to definite local objectives respecting appropriate land uses, improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities, and other public improvements.
(c) An urban renewal plan shall be prepared and approved pursuant to the same procedure as provided in § 14-169-601 et seq. with respect to a redevelopment plan.
(d) If real property acquired by a municipality is to be transferred under an urban renewal plan, or such parts of the contract or plan as the housing authority or urban renewal agency may determine, the transfer may be recorded in the land records of the county in such manner as to afford actual or constructive notice of it.
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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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14-169-703. 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
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 14-169-703. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.