Sec. 8-143. Powers of redevelopment agency.
Sec. 8-143. Powers of redevelopment agency. A redevelopment agency shall
have all the powers necessary or convenient to undertake and carry out urban renewal
plans and urban renewal projects, including the authority to acquire and dispose of
property, to issue bonds and other obligations, to borrow and accept grants from the
federal government or other source and to exercise the other powers which this chapter
confers on a redevelopment agency with respect to redevelopment projects. In connection with the planning and undertaking of any urban renewal plan or urban renewal
project, the redevelopment agency, the municipality and all public and private officers,
agencies and bodies shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunities which
they have with respect to a redevelopment plan or redevelopment project, in the same
manner as though all of the provisions of this chapter applicable to a redevelopment
plan or redevelopment project were applicable to an urban renewal plan or urban renewal
project. In addition to the surveys and plans which a redevelopment agency is otherwise
authorized to make, an agency is hereby specifically authorized to make (1) plans for
carrying out a program of voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings and improvements and (2) plans for the enforcement of laws, codes and regulations relating to the use
of land and the use and occupancy of buildings and improvements and to the compulsory
repair, rehabilitation, demolition or removal of buildings and improvements. The redevelopment agency is authorized to develop, test and report methods and techniques, and
carry out demonstrations and other activities, for the prevention and the elimination of
slums and urban blight.
(1955, S. 500d.)
Condemnee cannot prevail in alternative plan for development of his property where commission did not act unreasonably, in bad faith or in abuse of its powers. 158 C. 522.