Housing Act of 1949 APPROVAL this title shall require local grants-in-aid Local Determinations SEC. 105. Contracts for loans or capital grants1 shall be made only with a duly authorized local public agency and shall require that - (a)2 The urban renewal plan3 for the urban renewal area be approved by the governing body of the locality in which the project is situated, 1sec. 307(1), Housing Act of 1954, Public Law 560, 83rd Congress, approved Aug. 2, 1954, 68 Stat. 590, 625, substituted "loans or capital grants" for "financial aid". 2As originally enacted subsection (a) read as follows: "(a) The redevelopment plan for the project area be approved by the governing body of the locality in which the project is situated, and that such approval include findings by the governing body that (i) the financial aid to be provided in the contract is necessary to enable the land in the project area to be redeveloped in accordance with the redevelopment plan; (ii) the redevelopment plans for the redevelopment areas in the locality will afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the sound needs of the locality as a whole for the redevelopment of such areas by private enterprise; and (iii) the redevelopment plan conforms to a general plan for the development of the locality as a whole; ". Subsec. (a) was amended to read as set forth in the text by sec. 307(2), Housing Act of 1954, Public Law 560, 83rd Congress, approved Aug. 2, 1954, 68 Stat. 590, 625, except as indicated by subsequent footnotes. 3Sec. 302(a), Housing Act of 1956, Public Law 1020, 84th Congress, approved Aug. 7, 1956, 70 Stat. 1091, 1097, deleted "(including any redevelopment plan constituting a part thereof)". Housing Act of 1949 OBLIGATIONS OF and that such approval include findings by the governing body that (i) the financial (b)2 When real property acquired or held by Sec. 315, Housing Act of 1961, Public Law 87-70, approved June 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 149, 172, added clause (iv). 2Subsec. (b) down through the first proviso, was amended to read as set forth in the text by sec. 307, Housing Act of 1954, Public Law 560, 83rd Congress, approved Aug. 2, 1954, 68 Stat. 590, 625. The second proviso was added by sec. 406, Housing Act of 1959, Public Law 86-372, approved Sept. 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 654, 673. As originally enacted subsection (b) read as follows: "(b) When land acquired or held by the local public agency in connection with the project is sold or leased, the purchasers or lessees shall be obligated (1) to devote such land to the uses specified in the redevelopment plan for the project area; (11) to begin the building of their improvements on such land within a reasonable time; and (iii) to comply with such other conditions as the Administrator finds, prior to the execution of the contract for loan or capital grant pursuant to this title, are necessary to carry out the purposes of this title; ". Housing Act of 1949 RELOCATION such other conditions as the Secretary finds, (c) (1)1 There shall be a feasible method for 1As originally enacted subsection (c) read as follows: "(c) There by a feasible method for the temporary relocation of families displaced from the project area, and that there are or are being provided, in the project area or in other areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families displaced from the project area, decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings equal in number to the number of and available to such displaced families and reasonably accessible to their places of employment: PROVIDED, That in view of the existing acute housing shortage, each such contract entered into prior to July 1, 1951, shall further provide that there shall be no demolition of residential structures in connection with the project assisted under the contract prior to July 1, 1951, if the local governing body determines that the demolition thereof would reasonably be expected to create undue housing hardship in the locality. Sec. 307(3), Housing Act of 1954, Public Law 560, 83rd Congress, approved Aug. 2, 1954, 68 Stat. 590, 625, substituted "urban renewal" for "project" wherever the latter word appeared. Sec. 307(4), Housing Act of 1954, Public Law 560, 83rd Congress, approved Aug. 2, 1954, 68 Stat. 590, 625, deleted the proviso from the end of the subsection. (Footnote continued) Housing Act of 1949 and there are or are being provided, in (Footnote continued from previous page) Sec. 305(a) (1), Housing Act of 1964, Public Law 88-560, approved Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 769, 786, substituted "individuals and families" for "families" wherever the latter word appeared. Sec. 305(a)(2), Housing Act of 1964, Public Law 88-560, approved Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 769, 786, provided that: "The requirement imposed by the amendments made by paragraph (1) shall not be applicable to any project receiving Federal recognition prior to the date of the enactment of this Act. Sec. 305(b), Housing Act of 1964, Public Law 88-560, approved Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 769, 786, inserted the following proviso before the period at the end of the subsection: "PROVIDED, That the Administrator shall issue rules and regulations to aid in implementing the requirements of this subsection and in otherwise achieving the objectives of this title which shall require that there be established, at the earliest practicable time, for each urban renewal project involving the displacement of families, individuals, or business concerns occupying property in an urban renewal area, a relocation assistance program which shall include such measures, facilities, and services as may be necessary or appropriate in order (1) to determine the needs of such families, individuals, and business concerns for relocation assistance, (2) to provide information and assistance to aid in relocation and otherwise minimize the hardships of displacement, and (3) to assure the necessary coordination of relocation activities with other project activities and other planned or proposed governmental actions in the community which may affect the carrying out of the relocation program' Sec. 305(a), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved Aug. 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 475, amended subsection (b) to read as set forth in the text. Sec. 305(c), Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965, Public Law 89-117, approved Aug. 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 451, 476, provided that: "The requirements imposed by the amendment made by subsection (a) of this section shall not be applicable to any project which received Federal recognition prior to the date of the enactment of this Act." Housing Act of 1949 PUBLIC accessible to their places of employment. (2) As a condition to further assistance after (d) No land for any project to be assisted under this title shall be acquired by the local public agency except after public hearing following notice of the date, time, place, and purpose of |