17-4745. Formulation of workable program; provisions for inclusion.
17-4745
17-4745. Formulation of workable program; provisions for
inclusion.
A municipality for the purposes of this act may formulate a workable
program for utilizing appropriate private and public resources
(including those specified in K.S.A. 17-4759) to eliminate,
and prevent the development or spread of, slums and urban blight, to
encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment
of slum and blighted areas, or to undertake such of the aforesaid
activities or other feasible municipal activities as may be suitably
employed to achieve the objectives of such workable program. Such
workable program may include, without limitation, provision for: The
prevention of the spread of blight into areas of the municipality which
are free from blight through diligent enforcement of housing, zoning and
occupancy controls and standards; the rehabilitation or conservation of
slum and blighted areas or portions thereof by replanning, removing
congestion, providing parks, playgrounds and other public improvements,
by encouraging voluntary rehabilitation and by compelling the repair and
rehabilitation of deteriorated or deteriorating structure; and the
clearance and redevelopment of slum areas or portions thereof.
History: L. 1955, ch. 86, § 4; June 30.