Oregon Statutes 457.095 – Approval of plan by ordinance; required contents of ordinance; notice
(1) The governing body of a municipality, upon receipt of a proposed urban renewal plan and report from the municipality’s urban renewal agency and after public notice and hearing and consideration of public testimony and planning commission and taxing district recommendations, if any, may approve the urban renewal plan. The approval shall be by nonemergency ordinance that incorporates the plan by reference. Notice of adoption of the ordinance approving the urban renewal plan, and the provisions of ORS § 457.135, shall be published by the governing body of the municipality in accordance with ORS § 457.115 no later than four days following the ordinance adoption.
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 457.095
- agency: means an urban renewal agency created under ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
- Municipality: means any county or any city in this state. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
- plan: means a plan, as it exists or is changed or modified from time to time for one or more urban renewal areas, as provided in ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
- public notice: means any legal publication which requires an affidavit of publication as required in ORS § 193. See Oregon Statutes 174.104
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Taxing district: means the state, city, county or any other unit of government that has the power to levy a tax. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
- Urban renewal area: means a blighted area included in an urban renewal plan or an area included in an urban renewal plan under ORS § 457. See Oregon Statutes 457.010
(2) The ordinance shall include determinations and findings by the governing body of the municipality that:
(a) Each urban renewal area is blighted;
(b) The rehabilitation and redevelopment is necessary to protect the public health, safety or welfare of the municipality;
(c) The urban renewal plan conforms to the comprehensive plan and economic development plan, if any, of the municipality as a whole and provides an outline for accomplishing the urban renewal projects the urban renewal plan proposes;
(d) Provision has been made to house displaced persons within their financial means in accordance with ORS § 35.500 to 35.530 and, except in the relocation of elderly individuals or individuals with disabilities, without displacing on priority lists persons already waiting for existing federally subsidized housing;
(e) If acquisition of real property is provided for, it is necessary;
(f) Adoption and carrying out of the urban renewal plan is economically sound and feasible; and
(g) The municipality shall assume and complete any activities prescribed it by the urban renewal plan. [1979 c.621 § 3; 1989 c.224 § 121; 2007 c.70 § 263; 2019 c.580 § 6]
[Amended by 1979 c.621 § 12; renumbered 457.065]