CHAPTER 321 – ADMINISTRATION OF PLAN

321.01   Department of Community Development – Designated Local Public Agency

321.02   Director of Community Development to Apply for Financial Assistance

321.03   Rental of Field Offices

321.04   Appraisal, Title, Professional Services and Negotiations

321.05   Evaluation of Relocation Payments and Direct Loss Claims

321.06   Collection of Delinquent Rents

321.07   Selection and Payment of Professional Consultants

321.08   Contracts for Demolition of Existing Buildings and Structures

321.09   Demolition of Unsafe Buildings

321.10   Owner’s Consent for Demolition

321.11   Payment for Demolition

321.12   Project Agreements

321.13   Advertisement for Bids

321.14   Contents of Advertisement

321.15   Basis of Award of Bid

321.16   Rehabilitation and Relocation Housing

321.17   Contents of Project Agreement

321.18   Conveyance of Premises

321.19   Project Agreement for Sites Not Acquired

321.20   Ratification of Prior Proceedings

Cross-reference:
   Council’s approval of community development plan is authority for expenditures, CO 317.03
   Duties of Director of Community Development, CO 137.02
   Enforcement of standards and controls in plan, CO 317.04
   Neighborhood conservation area designation, CO 323.02
   Neighborhood conservation plan to prevent recurrence of substandard conditions, CO 323.06

§ 321.01 Department of Community Development – Designated Local Public Agency

   The Department of Community Development is hereby designated the local public agency, for the purpose of exercising the powers of the City relating to urban redevelopment, renewal, development, rehabilitation and conservation, not required by the Charter or these Codified Ordinances to be exercised by Council or by any other officer, office or department of the City, necessary to be exercised in the performance of any obligation assumed pursuant to an agreement with the Federal government, or any other public or private agency, for the elimination of slums and the renewal and prevention of conditions of blight or deterioration within the City.

(Ord. No. 1492-66. Passed 12-12-66, eff. 12-14-66)

§ 321.02 Director of Community Development to Apply for Financial Assistance

   The Department of Community Development shall administer the plan adopted and approved as provided in the Charter and these Codified Ordinances. If the ordinance approving the plan finds that assistance of the Federal government or other public agency is necessary to enable the project to be undertaken, including, but not limited to, the financing of the costs of acquisition, clearance and site improvement of the land within the development area in accordance with the plan, the Director of Community Development shall have authority to make application to such agency for financial assistance and to do and perform such things and acts as may be necessary for such purposes.

(Ord. No. 1492-66. Passed 12-12-66, eff. 12-14-66)

§ 321.03 Rental of Field Offices

   When the Director of Community Development determines the necessity of establishing a field office within a project area, he or she may, notwithstanding the provisions of other sections of these Codified Ordinances, and as an exception thereto, enter into a rental agreement for such purpose for a period not exceeding one hundred twenty (120) days and not subject to renewal in an amount not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for such period, the cost of which shall be charged against the community development project for the area.

(Ord. No. 1492-66. Passed 12-12-66, eff. 12-14-66)

§ 321.04 Appraisal, Title, Professional Services and Negotiations

   It is hereby determined that in the planning or execution of a community development project it is necessary to obtain appraisals of land values, title services and other professional services to ascertain ownership of land, to prepare and make sites available for redevelopment or rehabilitation and negotiations to purchase lands in community development project areas. The Director of Community Development is hereby authorized and directed to enter into one (1) or more written contracts for the employment of one (1) or more persons or firms for the purpose of furnishing professional appraisal, re-use appraisal, title services and such other professional services necessary to make sites available for redevelopment or rehabilitation not directly connected with the acquisition of land. The Director of Law is hereby authorized and directed under the same terms and conditions to enter into one (1) or more written contracts for the employment of one (1) or more persons or firms for the purpose of furnishing appraisal, title and negotiating services for the purchase of land in a community development area.

(Ord. No. 1492-66. Passed 12-12-66, eff. 12-14-66)

§ 321.05 Evaluation of Relocation Payments and Direct Loss Claims

   When in the administration of a community development project in which relocation payments are to be made and when the total of the actual moving expenses incurred or to be incurred by an eligible business concern is in excess of, or estimated to be in excess of, three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) by the Commissioner of Relocation and Property Management or when a direct loss claim is made by the business concern, the Director of Community Development may enter into one (1) or more written contracts for the employment of one (1) or more persons or firms for the purpose of furnishing professional services that cannot be supplied by the regularly employed personnel of the City, to provide competent, technical evaluation of the claim for relocation payments or of direct loss of property.

(Ord. No. 1492-66. Passed 12-12-66, eff. 12-14-66)