It is hereby found and determined that there exist within the City slum, blighted, deteriorated and deteriorating areas of the nature defined in this chapter which constitute a serious and growing menace injurious and inimicable to the public health, safety, morals and general welfare of the residents thereof; that the existence of such areas:
(a) Substantially impairs and arrests the sound growth of the community; retards the provision of housing accommodations, aggravates traffic problems, and substantially impairs or arrests the elimination of traffic hazards and the improvement of traffic facilities; and that this menace is beyond remedy and control solely by regulatory processes and exercise of the police power, and cannot be dealt with effectively by the ordinary operation of private enterprise without the aids herein provided; that the elimination in whole or in part of slum, blighted, deteriorated and deteriorating areas, and the conservation, rehabilitation and reconditioning, to the extent feasible, of the salvageable portions thereof by urban renewal as defined herein, are public uses and purposes for which public money may be expended and private property acquired by purchase, by donation and by eminent domain and are governmental functions of concern to the City, and require the exercise of the powers of government granted to the City by the provisions of Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution and that the necessity in the public interest and general welfare, for the provisions of this chapter is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.
(b) Constitutes an economic and social liability; and
(c) Substantially increases the risk of the spread of disease, economic decay and crime; and of losses by fire and accident, necessitating excessive and disproportionate expenditures of public funds for the preservation of the public health and safety, for crime prevention, correction, prosecution and punishment, for the treatment of juvenile delinquency, for the maintenance of adequate police, fire and accident protection and for other public services and facilities.
(Ord. 45-08. Passed 12-15-08.)