Terms Used In Michigan Laws 125.4316

  • Authority: means a tax increment finance authority created under this part. See Michigan Laws 125.4301
  • Authority district: means that area within which an authority exercises its powers and within which 1 or more development areas may exist. See Michigan Laws 125.4301
  • Board: means the governing body of an authority. See Michigan Laws 125.4301
  • Development area: means that area to which a development plan is applicable. See Michigan Laws 125.4301
  • Development plan: means that information and those requirements for a development set forth in section 16. See Michigan Laws 125.4301
  • Development program: means the implementation of the development plan. See Michigan Laws 125.4301
  • district: means that area to which the tax increment finance plan pertains. See Michigan Laws 125.4301
  • Governing body: means the elected body of a municipality having legislative powers. See Michigan Laws 125.4301
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Municipality: means a city. See Michigan Laws 125.4301
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, as well as to individuals. See Michigan Laws 8.3l
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  (1) When a board decides to finance a project in a development area pursuant to this part, it shall prepare a development plan.
  (2) To the extent necessary to accomplish the proposed development program the development plan shall contain:
  (a) The designation of boundaries of the development area in relation to the boundaries of the authority district and any other development areas within the authority district.
  (b) The designation of boundaries of the development area in relation to highways, streets, or otherwise.
  (c) The location and extent of existing streets and other public facilities within the development area and the location, character, and extent of the categories of public and private land uses then existing and proposed for the development area, including residential, recreational, commercial, industrial, educational, and other uses and shall include a legal description of the development area.
  (d) A description of improvements to be made in the development area, a description of any repairs and alterations necessary to make those improvements, and an estimate of the time required for completion of the improvements.
  (e) The location, extent, character, and estimated cost of the improvements including rehabilitation contemplated for the development area and an estimate of the time required for completion.
  (f) A statement of the construction or stages of construction planned, and the estimated time of completion of each stage.
  (g) A description of any parts of the development area to be left as open space and the use contemplated for the space.
  (h) A description of any portions of the development area which the authority desires to sell, donate, exchange, or lease to or from the municipality and the proposed terms.
  (i) A description of desired zoning changes and changes in streets, street levels, intersections, and utilities.
  (j) An estimate of the cost of the development, a statement of the proposed method of financing the development, and the ability of the authority to arrange the financing.
  (k) Designation of the person or persons, natural or corporate, to whom all or a portion of the development is to be leased, sold, or conveyed and for whose benefit the project is being undertaken, if that information is available to the authority.
  (l) The procedures for bidding for the leasing, purchasing, or conveying of all or a portion of the development upon its completion, if there is no express or implied agreement between the authority and persons, natural or corporate, that all or a portion of the development will be leased, sold, or conveyed to those persons.
  (m) Estimates of the number of persons residing in the development area and the number of families and individuals to be displaced. If occupied residences are designated for acquisition and clearance by the authority, a development plan shall include a survey of the families and individuals to be displaced, including their income and racial composition, a statistical description of the housing supply in the community, including the number of private and public units in existence or under construction, the condition of those in existence, the number of owner-occupied and renter-occupied units, the annual rate of turnover of the various types of housing and the range of rents and sale prices, an estimate of the total demand for housing in the community, and the estimated capacity of private and public housing available to displaced families and individuals.
  (n) A plan for establishing priority for the relocation of persons displaced by the development in any new housing in the development area.
  (o) Provision for the costs of relocating persons displaced by the development, and financial assistance and reimbursement of expenses, including litigation expenses and expenses incident to the transfer of title, in accordance with the standards and provisions of the federal uniform relocation assistance and real property acquisition policies act of 1970, 42 USC 4601 to 4655.
  (p) A plan for compliance with 1972 PA 227, MCL 213.321 to 213.332.
  (q) Other material which the authority, local public agency, or governing body considers pertinent.
  (3) It shall not be necessary for the board to prepare a development plan pursuant to this section where a development plan that adequately provides for accomplishing the proposed development program has already been prepared by any of the organizations described in section 314(1)(a) to (d) and where the development plan has been approved by the board and governing body pursuant to section 317 and 318.