168.02-R3 REHABILITATION.

   "Rehabilitation" means the restoration, rehabilitation, or conservation of a deteriorating or blighted area by one or more of the following:

   (a)    Formulating and carrying out a plan for a program of voluntary improvement, modernization, repair or rehabilitation of privately owned structures;

    (b)    The acquisition of real property by a private redeveloper under contract to the City through open market acquisition or by the City through negotiation or the exercise of the power of eminent domain, and the demolition or removal of buildings thereon, if any, where necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, lessen density, or eliminate conditions of blight or deterioration or incompatible land uses detrimental to the public health and welfare;

   (c)    Constructing or reconstructing necessary streets, playgrounds, utilities, parks and other public improvements;

   (d)    Acquiring and clearing land for development of privately owned community facilities;

   (e)    Disposing, for uses in accordance with the urban renewal plan, of property acquired;

   (f)    Purchasing, repairing and rehabilitating for guidance purposes and disposition of buildings which are located in the urban renewal area;

   (g)    Use of federal or state funding programs for rehabilitation of properties and elimination of blight; or

   (h)    Otherwise removing or preventing the spread of blight or deterioration;

      (Ord. 195-99. Passed 10-25-99; Ord. 217-99. Passed 12-13-99.)