(A) This subchapter is to be known as the Anti-Blight Ordinance and is enacted pursuant to the authority granted to the town under Conn. Gen. Stat., § 7-148(c)(7)(H)(xv).
(B) It is hereby found and declared that there exist within the town a number of real properties which are vacant and/or in blighted condition, and that the continued existence of such properties contributes to the decline of neighborhoods.
(C) It is further found that the existence of such properties adversely affects the economic well being of the town and is adverse to the health, safety and welfare of its residents.
(D) It is further found that many of the properties can be rehabilitated, reconstructed, demolished and/or reused so as to provide decent, safe and sanitary housing and ancillary commercial facilities, and that such rehabilitation, reconstruction, demolition and/or reuse would eliminate, remedy and prevent the adverse conditions described above.
(Ord. 424, passed 10-2-00)