PART II. 
URBAN RENEWAL



 



§53-51  Urban renewal projects.  In
addition to its authority under any other section of this chapter, a
redevelopment agency may plan and undertake urban renewal projects within urban
areas.  As used in this chapter, an urban renewal project may include
undertakings and activities for the elimination (and for the prevention of the
development or spread) of slums, or other blighted, or deteriorated, or
deteriorating areas and may involve any work or undertaking for the purpose constituting
a redevelopment project or any rehabilitation or conservation work or a program
of code enforcement, or any combination of such undertaking or work.  For this
purpose, "rehabilitation or conservation work" may include (1)
carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and
rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements; (2) acquisition of real
property and demolition, removal, or rehabilitation of buildings and
improvements thereon where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary, or
unsafe conditions, lessen density, reduce traffic hazards, eliminate obsolete
or other uses detrimental to the public welfare, or to otherwise remove or
prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed
public facilities; (3) installation, construction, or reconstruction of
streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary for
carrying out the objectives of the urban renewal project; and (4) the
disposition, for uses in accordance with the objectives of the urban renewal
project of any property or part thereof acquired in the area of the project;
provided that the disposition shall be in the manner prescribed in this chapter
for the disposition of property in a redevelopment project area under part I.
[L 1955, c 271, pt of §1; RL 1955, §143-51; am L 1965, c 101, §1(m); HRS
§53-51]