HomeMy Public PortalAboutORD11182 BILL NO. 88-163
SPONSORED BY COUNCILMAN Halsey
ORDINANCE NO. /// S ;)-
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING SECTION 23-49 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF
JEFFERSON, MISSOURI, DEFINING CERTAIN TERMS USED IN THE ORDINANCE
GOVERNING URBAN REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS, AND ENACTING A NEW
SECTION ON THE SAME SUBJECT TO BE PART OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF THE
CITY OF JEFFERSON.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSON,
MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 23-49 of the Code of the City of
Jefferson, Missouri, is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2 . A new Section 23-49 of the Code of the City of
Jefferson, Missouri, is hereby enacted, as follows:
Sec. 23-49. Definitions.
The following terms whenever used or referred to in this
article shall, unless a different intent clearly appears from the
context, be construed to have the following meanings:
Area shall mean that portion of the city which the city
council has found or shall find to be blighted, so that the
clearance, replanning, rehabilitation, or reconstruction thereof
is necessary to effectuate the purposes of this article. Any such
area may include buildings or improvements not in themselves
blighted, and any real property, whether improved or unimproved,
the inclusion of which is deemed necessary for the effective
clearance, replanning, reconstruction, or rehabilitation of the
area of which such buildings, improvements, or real property form
a part.
Authority shall mean the Housing Authority of the City of
Jefferson.
Blighted Area shall mean those portions of the city which the
council shall determine, that by reason of age, obsolescence,
inadequate or outmoded design, or physical deterioration, have
become economic and social liabilities and that the conditions in
such localities are conducive to ill health, threats to public
safety, transmission of disease, crime, or inability to pay
reasonable taxes. The term shall include vacant areas within the
city which at one time met the above criteria but which have, since
that time, been cleared of the improvements that caused the
property to be blighted.
Commission shall mean the planning and zoning commission of
the city.
Corporation shall mean an urban redevelopment corporation
organized under and pursuant to the provisions of the Urban
® Redevelopment Corporations Law.
Development cost shall mean the amount determined by the
commission or the authority to be the actual cost of redevelopment,
or of that part thereof for which such determination is made. The
term shall include, among other costs, the reasonable expenses of
planning the redevelopment, including preliminary studies and
surveys, neighborhood planning, and architectural and engineering
services; the reasonable value of the services performed in
connection with the development plan; interest during construction;
the actual cost of the real property or any part thereof where
acquired partly or wholly in exchange for securities; the actual
cost of demolition of existing structures; the actual cost of
utilities, landscaping and roadways; the actual cost of
construction, equipment and furnishings of buildings and
improvements including architectural, engineering, and builders,
fees; the actual cost of reconstruction, rehabilitation,
redevelopment, remodeling, or initial repair of existing buildings
and imProvements; reasonable management and operation costs until
the redevelopment is ready for use; and the actual cost of
improving those portions of the area which are to remain open
spaces, together with such additions to development costs as shall
equal the actual cost of additions to or changes in the
redevelopment in accordance with the original development plan or
after approved changes therein or amendments thereto.
® Development plan shall mean a plan, together with any
amendments, for the redevelopment of all or any part of a blighted
area.
Mortgage shall mean a mortgage, trust indenture, deed of
trust, building and loan contract, or other instrument creating a
lien on real property, to secure the payment of an indebtedness,
and the indebtedness secured by any of them.
Person shall mean any individual, firm partnership, joint
venture, association, corporation (except an urban redevelopment
corporation organized pursuant to the provisions of the Urban
Redevelopment Corporations Law) , whether organized for profit or
not, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, or
trustee appointed by any state or federal court, syndicate, or any
other group or combination acting as a unit, and shall include the
male as well as the female gender and the plural as well as the
singular number.
Real property shall include lands, buildings, improvements,
land under water, waterfront property, any and all easements,
franchises and hereditaments, corporeal or incorporeal, every
estate, interest, privilege, easement, franchise and right therein,
or appurtenant thereto, legal or equitable, including restrictions
• of record, created by plat, covenant, or otherwise, rights-of-way,
and terms for years.
Redevelopment shall mean the clearance, replanning,
reconstruction, or rehabilitation of any blighted area, and the
• provision for such industrial, commercial, residential, or public
structures and spaces as may be appropriate, including recreational
and other facilities incident or appurtenant thereto.
Redevelopment project shall mean a specific work or
improvement to effectuate all or any part of a development plan.
Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law shall mean Chapter 353
of the Revised Statutes of Missouri and any amendments thereto.
Urban renewal plan shall mean a plan for urban renewal
established pursuant to Chapter 99, RSMo, and filed of record,
which plan is in effect at the time the development plan is
submitted.
SECTION 3 . This ordinance shall be in force and effect from
and after its passage and approval.
Passed: -u'-L, / v Approved: /��-�-c F, /Er 1!2 _
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Off' er Mayo
ATTEST:
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City Clerk
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