2017 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 31 - Housing and Redevelopment
CHAPTER 10 - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LAW
Section 31-10-100. Contents of redevelopment plan; public hearing prior to adoption of plan; approval by governing body or parent municipality; modification.

(a) A redevelopment plan must be sufficiently complete to indicate its relationship to definite local objectives such as appropriate land uses, improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities and other public improvements and the proposed land uses and building requirements in the redevelopment project area.

(b) A commission shall not acquire real property for a development project unless the governing body of its parent municipality has approved the redevelopment plan as hereinafter prescribed.

(c) The commission's redevelopment plan shall include, without being limited to, the following:

(1) the boundaries of the redevelopment area, with a map showing the existing uses of the real property therein;

(2) a land use plan of the redevelopment area showing proposed uses following redevelopment;

(3) standards of population densities, land coverage, and building intensities in the proposed redevelopment;

(4) a preliminary site plan of the redevelopment area;

(5) a statement of the proposed changes, if any, in zoning ordinances or maps;

(6) a statement of any proposed changes in street layouts or street levels;

(7) a statement of the estimated cost and method of financing redevelopment under the redevelopment plan;

(8) a statement of such continuing controls as may be deemed necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter;

(9) a statement of a feasible method proposed for the relocation of the families displaced.

(d) The commission shall hold a public hearing prior to its final adoption of a redevelopment plan. Notice of such hearing shall be given fifteen days prior thereto in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.

(e) The commission shall submit to the governing body the redevelopment plan. Prior to recommending a redevelopment plan to the governing body for approval, the commission shall utilize the local private planning, financing, and financial services to the greatest extent possible and shall consider whether the proposed land uses and building requirements in the redevelopment project area are designed with the general purpose of accomplishing, in conformance with the general plan, a coordinated, adjusted, and harmonious development of the community and its environs, that will in accordance with present and future needs promote health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity, and the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development, including, among other things, adequate provision for traffic, vehicular parking, the promotion of safety from fire and other dangers, adequate provision for light and air, the promotion of the healthful and convenient distribution of population, the provision of adequate transportation, water, sewerage, and other public utilities, schools, parks, recreational, and community facilities, and other public requirements, the promotion of sound design and arrangements, the prevention of the recurrence of unsanitary or unsafe dwelling accommodations, slums, or conditions of blight.

(f) The governing body shall approve, amend, or reject the redevelopment plan as submitted.

(g) Upon approval by the governing body of the redevelopment plan, the commission is authorized to acquire property, to execute contracts for clearance and preparation of the land for resale, and to take other actions necessary to carry out the redevelopment plan, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

(h) A redevelopment plan may be modified at any time by the commission; provided, that if modified after the sale of real property in the redevelopment area, the modification must be consented to by the redeveloper of such real property or his successor, or their successors in interest affected by the proposed modification. Where the commission determines that the proposed modification will substantially change the redevelopment plan as previously approved by the governing body, the modification must similarly be approved by the governing body as provided above.

HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 451, Section 11.