36-49.1 - Adoption of Conservation Plans.
§ 36-49.1. Adoption of Conservation Plans.
A. An authority may adopt a conservation plan for a designated conservationarea to address blight and blighting conditions, to conserve such area,prevent further deterioration and prevent such area from becoming blighted,and in particular is specifically empowered to carry out any work orundertaking in the conservation area, including any or all of the following:
1. Acquire property within such areas which is blighted, designated forpublic use in the conservation plan, or the use or condition of which isinconsistent with the purposes of the conservation plan or the provisions ofthe zoning ordinance or code of the locality;
2. Rehabilitate or clear property so acquired;
3. Provide for the installation, construction or reconstruction of streets,utilities, parks, parking facilities, playgrounds, public buildings and othersite improvements essential to the conservation or rehabilitation planned;
4. Make land or improvements so acquired available to nongovernmental personsor entities or public agencies (by sale, lease or retention of ownership bythe authority itself);
5. Assist the reconstruction of project areas by making loans or grants offunds received from any public or private source, for the purpose offacilitating the construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation or sale ofhousing or other improvements constructed or to be constructed on landsituated within the boundaries of a conservation project;
6. Encourage and assist property owners or occupants within the conservationarea to improve their respective holdings, by suggesting improved standardsfor design, construction, maintenance and use of such properties and offeringencouragement or assistance in other ways including the power to lend moneyand make grants to owners or occupants, directed toward prevention andelimination of blight;
7. Acquire, construct or rehabilitate residential housing developments foroccupancy by persons of low, moderate and middle income to be owned,operated, managed, leased, conveyed, mortgaged, encumbered or assigned by anauthority. Income limits for such persons shall be determined for eachconservation project by an authority by resolution adopted by a majority ofits appointed commissioners, shall be adjusted for household size and may berevised as an authority deems appropriate. In connection with a residentialhousing development, an authority shall have all rights, power and privilegesgranted by subdivision 4 of § 36-19; and
8. Exercise such other powers as are authorized by law.
B. No conservation plan shall be effective until notice has been sent to theproperty owner or owners of record in accordance with subsection B of § 36-27and the conservation plan has been approved by the local governing body.
(1964, c. 378; 1966, cc. 81, 418; 1968, c. 312; 1970, cc. 222, 491, 555, 596;1972, c. 174; 1973, c. 29; 1974, c. 137; 1975, c. 532; 1976, c. 510; 1980, c.133; 1988, cc. 572, 591; 2006, c. 784.)