17-4745. Formulation of workable program; provisions for inclusion. A municipality for the purposes of this act may formulate a workable program for utilizing appropriate private and public resources (including those specified in K.S.A. 17-4759) to eliminate, and prevent the development or spread of, slums and urban blight, to encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of slum and blighted areas, or to undertake such of the aforesaid activities or other feasible municipal activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of such workable program. Such workable program may include, without limitation, provision for: The prevention of the spread of blight into areas of the municipality which are free from blight through diligent enforcement of housing, zoning and occupancy controls and standards; the rehabilitation or conservation of slum and blighted areas or portions thereof by replanning, removing congestion, providing parks, playgrounds and other public improvements, by encouraging voluntary rehabilitation and by compelling the repair and rehabilitation of deteriorated or deteriorating structure; and the clearance and redevelopment of slum areas or portions thereof.
History: L. 1955, ch. 86, ยง 4; June 30.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Article 47 - Urban Renewal Law
17-4743 Legislative findings; declarations of necessity; eminent domain.
17-4744 Rehabilitation or redevelopment of urban renewal area by private enterprise.
17-4745 Formulation of workable program; provisions for inclusion.
17-4746 Finding of necessity; resolution.
17-4748 Powers of municipality.
17-4749 Acquisition of property; eminent domain.
17-4751 Issuance of bonds to finance urban renewal project; mortgages.
17-4752 Investments in bonds issued pursuant to act; conditions.
17-4755 Instrument executed by municipality; presumption.
17-4759a Same; purpose of act.
17-4761 Invalidity of part; act supplemental to other laws.
17-4762 Township authorized to administer, receive and expend federal funds.