3501.08 - Necessity of slum clearance and urban renewal.
It is hereby found and determined that there exist within the city, slum and blighted areas, and deteriorated or deteriorating areas which constitute a serious and growing menace, injurious and inimical to the public health, safety, morals and general welfare of the residents thereof. It is found that the existence of such area:
(a) Contributes substantially and increasingly to the spread of disease and crime, and to 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;
(b) Substantially impairs and arrests the sound growth of the community; 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.
The elimination in whole or in part of slum or blighted areas, or deteriorated or deteriorating areas, the acquisition and preparation of land in or necessary to the redevelopment of slum or blighted, or deteriorated or deteriorating areas and its sale, lease, or other disposition for development, rehabilitation or conservation, or redevelopment in accordance with renewal and redevelopment plans of the city and any assistance which may be given in connection therewith, are public uses and purposes for which public money may be expended and private property acquired, and are governmental functions of concern to the city. The necessity, in the public interest and general welfare for the provisions of this Title 35 is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.
(Ord. 1028-56.)
