For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AGENCY or URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY or LOCAL PUBLIC AGENCY or CITY. The City of Barberton, Ohio.
DETERIORATING AREA.
(1) An area, whether predominantly built up or open, which is not a slum, blighted or deteriorated area but which, because of incompatible land uses, non-conforming uses, lack of adequate parking facilities, faulty street arrangement, obsolete platting, inadequate community and public utilities, diversity of ownership, tax delinquency, increased density of population without commensurate increases in new residential buildings and community facilities, high turnover in residential or commercial occupancy, lack of maintenance and repair of buildings, or any combination thereof, is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals and general welfare, and which will deteriorate, or is in danger of deteriorating, into a slum, blighted or deteriorated area; or
(2) An area consisting principally of land in highways, railway or subway tracks, bridge or tunnel entrances, or other similar facilities which have a blighting influence on the surrounding area and over which air right sites can be developed thereby eliminating such blighting influence.
GENERAL NEIGHBORHOOD RENEWAL PLAN. A plan and program for the urban renewal or redevelopment of a general neighborhood renewal area. The GENERAL NEIGHBORHOOD RENEWAL PLAN need not contain all of the required contents set forth in § 252.07 of this chapter with respect to an urban renewal plan or urban redevelopment plan. Approval of the GENERAL NEIGHBORHOOD RENEWAL PLAN by Council does not create authority to carry out project execution activities.
GENERAL NEIGHBORHOOD RENEWAL AREA. An urban renewal area of such scope that urban renewal activities therein have to be carried out in more than one separate urban renewal project, over an estimated period of up to ten years.
GENERAL PLAN or MASTER PLAN. A broad and general guide and pattern for the future growth and development of the city including maps, plats, charts and descriptive, interpretive and analytical narratives, as may be appropriate; and specifically means the Comprehensive Plan adopted by the City Planning Commission pursuant to Ohio R.C. 713.02, and any subsequent amendments thereto.
OPEN SPACE LAND. Land which has not been developed by the construction or installation of streets, utilities, buildings (except sporadic or incidental structures) or other site improvements. Whether or not such an area has been platted in whole or in part does not prevent its being classified as OPEN SPACE LAND.
PROJECT AREA or URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AREA or URBAN RENEWAL AREA. A slum, blighted, deteriorated or deteriorating area or any combination or part thereof which Council designates as of a character and size appropriate for urban renewal activities and for which an urban redevelopment plan or urban renewal plan is proposed or prepared.
REDEVELOPER. Any person purchasing property from the city within a project area or owning property located within such area and entering into a conforming agreement with the city in consideration of being permitted by the city to retain title to such property.
REHABILITATION or CONSERVATION or RECONDITIONING. Includes those undertakings and activities identified herein.
SLUM, BLIGHTED OR DETERIORATED AREA. An area within the corporate limits of the city in which there is a majority of structures or other improvements which, by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age or obsolescence, inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation or open spaces, high density of population and overcrowding, unsafe and unsanitary conditions or the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by fire or other hazards and causes, or any combination of such factors, is conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency and crime and is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals and general welfare. The term also means an area with overcrowding or improper location of structures on the land, excessive dwelling unit density, detrimental land uses or conditions, unsafe, congested or poorly designed streets or inadequate public facilities or utilities, all of which substantially impair the sound growth and planning of the community, are conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency and crime, and are detrimental to the public health, safety, morals and general welfare.
SLUM CLEARANCE or CLEARANCE or URBAN REDEVELOPMENT. Includes those undertakings and activities identified herein.
URBAN RENEWAL or URBAN REDEVELOPMENT. Those activities of the city, with or without federal or state aid or assistance, for developing, undertaking and carrying out of urban renewal or redevelopment programs and projects, including all planning and other related activities of the city in connection therewith, or any part of such activities.
URBAN RENEWAL PLAN or URBAN REDEVELOPMENT PLAN. A plan, as it exists from time to time, for the urban renewal or redevelopment of a project area or part thereof.
URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT or URBAN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT or PROJECT. Undertakings and activities of the city, with or without federal or state aid or assistance, in a project area for the elimination and prevention of the development or spread of slum, blighted, deteriorated or deteriorating areas, and may involve clearance and redevelopment in a project area, or rehabilitation and conservation in a project area, or any combination or part thereof, in accordance with the urban renewal or urban redevelopment plan for such project area to the full extent of and in accordance with the rights, powers and authority of the city, whether derived from the applicable provisions of the Federal or State Constitution or statutes, or from the city ordinances. Such undertakings and activities in a project area may include:
(1) Acquisition of realty, including the acquisition of air rights;
(2) Demolition and removal of buildings and improvements;
(3) Installation, construction or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds and other improvements necessary for carrying out the urban renewal or urban redevelopment plan;
(4) Disposition of property for uses in accordance with the urban renewal or urban redevelopment plan;
(5) Encouragement and assistance to interested residents in a private program of voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements in accordance with the urban renewal plan, with or without aid and assistance by Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance or special support for mortgage financing through the Federal National Mortgage Association or similar organizations;
(6) Acquisition of any real property where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, to reduce the lot occupancy or population density that creates such conditions, to eliminate uses incompatible with the general character of a neighborhood, which are detrimental to the public welfare, or otherwise to remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration or to provide land for needed public facilities; and disposition of property, acquired in accordance with this subparagraph, for voluntary repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements in accordance with the urban renewal plan;
(7) Construction of foundations and platforms necessary for the appropriate provision of air right sites in accordance with the urban renewal or urban redevelopment plan; and
(8) Acquisition and repair or rehabilitation for guidance purposes and resale, of structures which, under the urban renewal plan, are to be repaired or rehabilitated for dwelling use or related facilities; provided, however, that, there shall not be acquired for such purposes, in any project area, buildings which contain or will contain more than 100 dwelling units, or 5% of the total number of dwelling units in such area which, under the urban renewal plan, are to be repaired or rehabilitated, whichever is the lesser. The
URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT shall not include the construction or improvement by the city of any building other than municipal buildings, except as provided herein.
(Prior Code, § 252.04) (Ord. 242-1967, passed 11-27-1967)