§53-20  Auxiliary redevelopment area. Where a redevelopment agency finds:

(1)  That there is a shortage of decent, safe, andsanitary housing in the county;

(2)  That the provision of decent, safe, and sanitarydwelling accommodations on undeveloped vacant land, not within a blighted area,is necessary to accomplish the relocation of families to be displaced fromblighted areas which are to be redeveloped or displaced from disaster areas asdefined in this chapter; and

(3)  That the acquisition of a particularly describedarea of the undeveloped vacant land (hereinafter called an "auxiliaryredevelopment area"), suitable for development for predominantlyresidential uses and so characterized in the master plan, is essential to theproper clearance or redevelopment of blighted or disaster areas or a necessarypart of the general program for clearance or redevelopment of blighted ordisaster areas in the county;

then, subject to the conditions hereinafter stated,the acquisition, planning, preparation for development, or disposal of suchauxiliary redevelopment area shall constitute a redevelopment project which maybe undertaken by the agency in the manner provided by this part.  The procedurefor the preparation, submission, and the final approval, amendment andapproval, or disapproval, of the redevelopment project, and subsequentproceedings with respect thereto, shall be the same, as nearly as may be, as inthe case of other redevelopment projects, except that:

(1)  The council shall not approve such plan orproject unless it shall by resolution, concur in every finding of the agencyrequired by this section and also find that the auxiliary redevelopment areawill be developed for predominantly residential uses; and

(2)  The requirement of a finding that theredevelopment project is in a blighted area prescribed by section 53-6 shallnot be applicable. [L 1951, c 244, pt of §3; RL 1955, §143-20; am L Sp 1960, c5, §3; am L 1965, c 101, §1(j); HRS §53-20]