PART II. URBAN RENEWAL

 

§53-51  Urban renewal projects.  Inaddition to its authority under any other section of this chapter, aredevelopment agency may plan and undertake urban renewal projects within urbanareas.  As used in this chapter, an urban renewal project may includeundertakings and activities for the elimination (and for the prevention of thedevelopment or spread) of slums, or other blighted, or deteriorated, ordeteriorating areas and may involve any work or undertaking for the purpose constitutinga redevelopment project or any rehabilitation or conservation work or a programof code enforcement, or any combination of such undertaking or work.  For thispurpose, "rehabilitation or conservation work" may include (1)carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair andrehabilitation of buildings or other improvements; (2) acquisition of realproperty and demolition, removal, or rehabilitation of buildings andimprovements thereon where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary, orunsafe conditions, lessen density, reduce traffic hazards, eliminate obsoleteor other uses detrimental to the public welfare, or to otherwise remove orprevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for neededpublic facilities; (3) installation, construction, or reconstruction ofstreets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary forcarrying out the objectives of the urban renewal project; and (4) thedisposition, for uses in accordance with the objectives of the urban renewalproject 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 chapterfor 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]