In addition to its authority under any other section of this part, an authority is hereby authorized to plan and undertake urban renewal projects. As used in this part, an urban renewal project may include undertakings and activities for the elimination, and for the prevention of the development or spread, of slums or blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas, and may involve any work or undertaking for such purpose constituting a redevelopment project of any rehabilitation or conservation work, or any combination of such undertaking or work. For this purpose, 'rehabilitation or conservation work' may include:(1) Carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements;(2) Acquisition of real property and demolition, removal, or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements thereon where necessary to eliminate unhealthy, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, lessen density, reduce traffic hazards, eliminate obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare, or to otherwise remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facilities;(3) Installation, construction, or her uses detrimental to the public welfare, or to otherwise remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facilities;(3) Installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary for carrying out the objectives of the urban renewal project; and(4) The disposition, for uses in accordance with the objectives of the urban renewal project, of any property or part thereof acquired in the area of such project; provided, that such disposition shall be in the manner prescribed in this part for the disposition of property in a redevelopment project area.Acts 1955, ch. 181, § 1; T.C.A., § 13-822.
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