Current through the 2024 Budget Session
Section 15-9-105 - Workable program; formulation; objectives and provisions thereof(a) For the purposes of this chapter a municipality may formulate for itself a workable program for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to: (i) Eliminate and prevent the development or spread of slums and urban blight; (ii) Encourage needed urban rehabilitation; (iii) Provide for the redevelopment of slum and blighted areas; or (iv) Undertake any of those activities or other feasible municipal activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of a workable program. (b) A workable program may include provisions for the: (i) Prevention of the spread of blight through diligent enforcement of housing, zoning and occupancy controls and standards; (ii) Rehabilitation or conservation of slum and blighted areas or portions thereof by: (C) Providing parks, playgrounds and other public improvements; (D) Encouraging voluntary rehabilitation; and (E) Compelling the repair and rehabilitation of deteriorated or deteriorating structures. (iii) Clearance and redevelopment of slum and blighted areas or portions thereof.