Chapter 2.60
URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY
Sections:
2.60.030 Agency’s rights, powers, duties, privileges and immunities granted and vested.
2.60.050 Members’ terms of office.
2.60.010 Definitions.
There are hereby declared to be blighted areas existent in the city of Brookings. There is further declared to be a need for an urban renewal agency to function in the city of Brookings, which urban renewal agency shall be deemed to have all powers provided by ORS Chapter 457. For purposes of this declaration, blighted areas are deemed to be areas which by reason of deterioration, faulty planning, inadequate or improper facilities, deleterious land use or the existence of unsafe structures, or any combination of these factors, are detrimental to the safety, health, or welfare of the city of Brookings. The term “blighted areas” is more particularly defined in ORS 457.010 and those definitions are incorporated herein by reference. [Ord. 18-O-772 § 2 (Exh. A); Ord. 02-O-547 § 1.]
2.60.020 Declaration of need.
The city council declares and recognizes that there is a need for an urban renewal agency to function within the city of Brookings. [Ord. 18-O-772 § 2 (Exh. A); Ord. 02-O-547 § 2.]
2.60.030 Agency’s rights, powers, duties, privileges and immunities granted and vested.
The city council further declares, pursuant to ORS 457.045(3), that all of the rights, powers, duties, privileges and immunities granted to and vested in an urban renewal agency by the laws of the state of Oregon shall be exercised by and vested in the city council of the city of Brookings; provided, however, that any act of the governing body acting as the urban renewal agency shall be and shall be considered, the act of the urban renewal agency only and not of the city council. [Ord. 18-O-772 § 2 (Exh. A); Ord. 02-O-547 § 3.]
2.60.040 Name of agency.
The corporate name of the agency provided by this chapter shall be, and said agency shall be known as, the urban renewal agency of the city of Brookings. [Ord. 18-O-772 § 2 (Exh. A); Ord. 02-O-547 § 4.]
2.60.050 Members’ terms of office.
The term of office of each member of the urban renewal agency shall be concurrent with each member’s individual term of office as a member of the city council. [Ord. 18-O-772 § 2 (Exh. A); Ord. 02-O-547 § 5.]
2.60.060 Urban renewal plan.
A. Findings.
1. That the area described in the Brookings urban renewal plan is blighted.
2. That rehabilitation and redevelopment is necessary to protect the public health, safety, or welfare of the city of Brookings.
3. That the Brookings urban renewal plan conforms to the city’s comprehensive plan as a whole, and provides an outline for accomplishing the projects that the Brookings urban renewal plan proposes.
4. That provisions have been made to house displaced persons within their financial means and in accordance with ORS 281.045 through 281.105 and, except in the relocation of elderly or handicapped individuals, without displacing on priority lists persons already waiting for existing federally subsidized housing.
5. That no real property has been identified for acquisition at this time, and therefore, that no findings of necessity have been made at this time.
6. That the adoption and carrying out of the urban renewal plan is economically sound and feasible.
7. That the city shall assume and complete any activities prescribed it by the urban renewal plan.
8. That the Brookings city council hereby incorporates by reference the Brookings urban renewal plan, attached to the ordinance codified in this section as Exhibit “A,” as support for its above-mentioned findings.
9. That the Brookings city council further relies on the report on the Brookings urban renewal plan, attached to the ordinance codified in this section as Exhibit “B,” which is incorporated by reference, the report of the planning commission, the public hearing and the entire record before the city council in this matter.
B. Conclusions.
1. The Brookings city council hereby adopts and approves the Brookings urban renewal plan, pursuant to the provision of ORS Chapter 457, and directs the city recorder to publish notice of the adoption of the ordinance codified in this section in accordance with the requirements of ORS 457.115.
2. The Brookings city council directs the city recorder to record a copy of the ordinance codified in this section approving the Brookings urban renewal plan with the recording officer of Curry County, Oregon, pursuant to ORS 457.125, and directs the city recorder to send a copy of the ordinance codified in this section to the urban renewal agency for the city of Brookings, Oregon. [Ord. 18-O-772 § 2 (Exh. A); Ord. 02-O-551 §§ 1, 2.]