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City Clears Way for Model Cities Redevelopment Project

Official:Approving the thirty-first amendment of the redevelopment proposal for the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, being the area beginning at the northwest corner of Front street and Spring Garden street, including the twenty-third amendment to the urban renewal plan and the twenty-second amendment to the relocation plan, which provides, inter alia, for the additional land acquisition of approximately four hundred eighty-one (481) properties for residential and related uses; the additional land acquisition of approximately thirteen (13) additional properties for commercial and related reuse; the provision of certain relocation services, as required by law and declaring that condemnation is not imminent with respect to the Project.

Sponsor: Councilmember Clarke

Introduced: May 1, 2003

Signed: June 12, 2003

: Committee on Rules

land use planning

Plain-Language Summary

This bill approves the redevelopment proposal for the Model Cities Urban Renewal Area, allowing the city to acquire more land and provide relocation services.