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2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment
Chapter 457 - Urban Renewal
Section 457.160 - Exceptions to plan requirements for disaster areas.
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OR Rev Stat § 457.160 (2025)
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Notwithstanding any other provisions of ORS chapter 455 or 456 or this chapter, where the governing body of a municipality 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 has certified the need for disaster assistance under federal law, the governing body may declare a need for an urban renewal agency, if necessary, and may approve an urban renewal plan and an urban renewal project for such area without regard to the provisions requiring:
(1) That the urban renewal plan conform to the comprehensive plan and economic development plan, if any, for the municipality as a whole.
(2) That the urban renewal area be a blighted area. [1957 c.456 §15; 1979 c.621 §18; 1993 c.18 §114; 2019 c.625 §71]
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