Kentucky Revised Statutes Title IX. Counties, Cities, and Other Local Units § 99.530.Urban renewal projects

(1) 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:

(2) 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  1, 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.