The Department of Planning and Development shall implement and carry out the Land Reutilization Program and shall hold, administer and coordinate the disposition of the lands acquired by the City pursuant to this chapter and shall create, issue and publish necessary regulations for the administration of such program. The Department shall have the authority to designate lands as nonproductive in conformity with this chapter and Ohio R.C. Chapter 5722.
The Department shall also:
(a) Manage, maintain and protect, or temporarily use for a public purpose such land in such manner as it deems appropriate;
(b) Compile and maintain a written inventory of all such land. The inventory shall be available for public inspection and distribution at all times;
(c) Study, analyze and evaluate potential, present and future uses for such land which would provide for the effective reutilization of the nonproductive land;
(d) Plan for, and use its best efforts to consummate, the sale or other disposition of such land at such times and upon such terms and conditions as it deems appropriate to the fulfillment of the purposes and objectives of its land reutilization program;
(e) Establish and maintain records and accounts reflecting all transactions, expenditures and revenues relating to its land reutilization program, including separate itemizations of all transactions, expenditures and revenues concerning each individual parcel of real property acquired as part of such program.
(Ord. 14-O-07. Passed 1-21-14; Ord. 18-O-075. Passed 9-4-18.)