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Arkansas Code Title 14. Local Government § 14-169-703. Authority to undertake projects

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(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 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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