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99.530 Urban renewal projects.
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(2)
In addition to its authority under KRS 99.330 to 99.510, an agency is hereby
authorized to plan and undertake urban renewal projects. As used in KRS
99.520 to 99.590, an urban renewal project may include undertakings and
activities for the prevention of the development or spread of slums or blighted,
deteriorated, or deteriorating areas, or the elimination thereof, 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:
(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, relocation, historic
preservation, or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements thereon
where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary, or unsafe
conditions; lessen density; reduce traffic hazards; eliminate obsolete or
other uses detrimental to the public welfare; remove or prevent the spread
of blight or deterioration; or provide land or buildings, and improvements
thereon, for needed public facilities;
(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 thereof acquired in the area of
such project; provided that such disposition shall be in the manner
prescribed in KRS 99.450 for the disposition of property in a
redevelopment project area.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of KRS 99.330 to 99.510 and KRS
99.520 to 99.590, where the local governing body certifies that an area is in
need of redevelopment or rehabilitation as a result of a flood, fire, hurricane,
earthquake, storm, or other catastrophe respecting which the Governor of the
State has certified the need for disaster assistance under Public Law 875,
Eighty-First Congress, 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 KRS 99.330 to 99.510 and KRS
99.520 to 99.590, requiring public hearings or requiring that the urban renewal
plan conform to a general or master plan for the community as a whole, or that
the urban renewal area be 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.
Effective:July 15, 2002
History: Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 307, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2002. -Amended 1958 Ky. Acts ch. 159, sec. 8, effective June 19, 1958. -- Created
1956 Ky. Acts ch. 215, sec. 2.
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