KRS 99.530: Urban renewal projects.

(1) In addition to its authority under KRS 99.330 to 99.510, an agency is hereby

authorized to plan and undertake urban renewal projects. As used in KRS 99.520 to

99.590, an urban renewal project may include undertakings and activities for the

prevention of th e development or spread of slums or blighted, deteriorated, or

deteriorating areas, or the elimination thereof, and may involve any work or

undertaking for such purpose constituting a redevelopment project or any

rehabilitation or conservation work, or any combination of such undertaking or

work. For this purpose, "rehabilitation or conservation work" may include:

(a) Carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and

rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements;

(b) Acquisition of real property and demolition, removal, relocation, historic

preservation, or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements thereon where

necessary to eliminate unhealthful, unsanitary, or unsafe conditions; lessen

density; reduce traffic hazards; eliminate obsolete or other uses detrimental to

the public welfare; remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration; or

provide land or buildings, and improvements thereon, for needed public

facilities;

(c) Installation, construction, or reconstruction of st reets, utilities, parks,

playgrounds, and other improvements necessary for carrying out the objectives

of the urban renewal project; and

(d) The disposition, for uses in accordance with the objectives of the urban

renewal project, of any property or part t hereof acquired in the area of such

project; provided that such disposition shall be in the manner prescribed in

KRS 99.450 for the disposition of property in a redevelopment project area.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provisions of KRS 99.330 to 99.510 an d KRS 99.520 to

99.590, where the local governing body certifies that an area is in need of

redevelopment or rehabilitation as a result of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake,

storm, or other catastrophe respecting which the Governor of the State has cert ified

the need for disaster assistance under Public Law 875, Eighty -First Congress, or

other federal law, the local governing body may approve an urban renewal plan and

an urban renewal project with respect to such area without regard to any provisions

of KRS 99.330 to 99.510 and KRS 99.520 to 99.590, requiring public hearings or

requiring that the urban renewal plan conform to a general or master plan for the

community as a whole, or that the urban renewal area be a slum area, or a blighted,

deteriorated, or deteriorating area, or that the urban renewal area be predominantly

residential in character or be developed or redeveloped for residential uses.