Removing blight definition code#

(g) Acquisition of any other real property in the community improvement area where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary, 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 or quasi public facilities.

(f) Acquisition of real property in the community improvement area which, under the community improvement plan, is to be repaired or rehabilitated for dwelling use or related facilities, repair or rehabilitation of the structures, and resale of the property.

Removing blight definition code#

(e) Carrying out plans for a program of code enforcement and a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements in accordance with the community improvement plan. (d) Disposition of any property acquired in the community improvement area, including sale, initial leasing, or retention by the agency itself, at its fair market value for uses in accordance with the community improvement plan. (c) Installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary for carrying out in the community improvement area the redevelopment objectives of this Chapter in accordance with the community improvement plan. (b) Demolition and removal of buildings and improvements. (a) Acquisition of a slum or blighted area or portion thereof. Such undertakings and activities may include: (4) 'Community improvement project' means undertakings and activities for the elimination and prevention of the development or spread of slums and blight and may involve slum clearance and redevelopment in a community improvement area, or rehabilitation or conservation in a community improvement area, or a program of code enforcement in a community improvement area, and may include open land which, because of its location or situation, or both, is necessary for sound community growth which is to be developed by replatting and planning, or any combination or part thereof in accordance with a community improvement plan. Detailed, particularized proposals for the implementation of all or any portion of a community improvement plan shall be deemed modification of the plan, within the meaning of R.S. It shall be sufficient for the plan, for each community improvement area, to contain a general description of those matters proposed to be carried out in the community improvement area, such as any or all of the following: land acquisitions, demolition and removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, rehabilitation, zoning and planning changes, if any, land uses, population densities, or building requirements.

33:4720.85(E) and shall delineate the community improvement area affected thereby. (3) 'Community improvement plan' means a general plan for a community improvement project, which plan shall conform to the general plan for the parish as a whole except as provided in R.S. (2) 'Community improvement area' means a slum area or a blighted area or a combination thereof which the parish governing authority designates as appropriate for a community improvement project. 33:4720.85(E), it shall constitute a 'blighted area'. (1) 'Blighted area' means an area which by reason of the presence of a substantial number of slum, deteriorated or deteriorating structures, predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, deterioration of site or other improvements, diversity of ownership, tax or special assessment delinquency exceeding the fair value of the land, defective or unusual conditions of title, or the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by fire and other causes, or any combination of such factors, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of the parish, retards the provision of housing accommodations or constitutes an economic or social liability and is a menace to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare in its present condition and use but if the area consists of any disaster area referred to in R.S. The following terms whenever used or referred to in this Chapter shall have the following meaning unless a different meaning is clearly indicated in the context: