Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, November 20, 1957 to December 2, 1959, lvc000011-103

99 (2) That the rehabilitation, conservation, redevelopment, or a combination thereof of such area or areas is necessary in the interest of the public health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of the City of Las Vegas. Motion seconded by Commissioner Sharp and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Fountain, Sharp, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Absent: Commissioner Bunker. Commissioner Whipple moved the following resolution entitled: "A resolution requesting the reservation of capital grant funds, approving the undertaking of surveys and plans for an urban renewal project, and the filing of an application for Federal advance of funds," be adopted: A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE RESERVATION OF CAPITAL GRANT FUNDS APPROVING THE UNDERTAKING OF SURVEYS AND PLANS FOR AN URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT, AND THE FILING OF AN APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL ADVANCE OF FUNDS. WHEREAS, Under Title I of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, and the Housing Act of 1954, the Housing and Home Finance Administrator is authorized to extend financial assistance to localities in the elimination and prevention of the spread of their slums and urban blight through the planning and undertaking of urban renewal projects; and WHEREAS, it is desirable and in the public interest that the City of Las Vegas prepare surveys and plans, presently estimated to cost approximately $99,720.00 in order to undertake and carry out an urban renewal project of the character contemplated by Section 110(c) of said Title I, in that certain area, proposed as an Urban Renewal Area, situated in the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark and State of Nevada, and described as follows: Beginning at the intersection of the south right-of-way line of Bonanza Road (formerly Clark Avenue) and the west right-of-way line of the Union Pacific and Salt Lake Railroad Company (100 feet in width) thence northeasterly along said right-of-way line (west) and its prolongation to a point on the north line of Section 27, T 20 S, R 61 E, M.D.B. and M. said point being 509 feet east of the north quarter comer of Section 27; T 20 S, R 61 E, thence westerly along the north line of Section 27 to the common quarter comers of Section 22 and Section 27; T 20 S, R 61 E, thence northerly along the center quarter line of Section 22 a distance of 50 feet to a point of intersection with the north right-of-way line of Owens Avenue, thence westerly along said north right-of-way line of Owens Avenue to a point of intersection with the northerly prolongation of the westerly right-of-way line of "C" Street, thence southerly along the said westerly right-of-way line of "C" Street to the southwest comer of "C" Street and Harrison Avenue intersection, thence easterly along the southerly right-of-way line of Harrison Avenue and its prolongation to the southwest comer of Harrison Avenue and "B" Street intersection, thence southerly along the westerly right-of-way line of "B" Street and its prolongation to the northwest comer of "B" Street and Jefferson Avenue intersection, thence westerly along the northerly right-of-way line of Jefferson Avenue and its prolongation to the northwest corner of Jefferson Avenue and "D" Street intersection, thence southerly along the westerly right-of-way of "D" Street and its prolongation to a point on the southerly right-of-way line of Bonanza Road (formerly Clark Avenue) thence easterly along the southerly right-of-way line of Bonanza Road to the westerly right-of-way line of the Union Pacific and Salt Lake Railroad Company the point of beginning. WHEREAS, the above-cited Federal law requires as a condition to the execution of a contract for a loan and capital grant for an urban renewal project that the locality present to the Housing and Home Finance Administrator a workable program, as set forth in Section 101(c) of said Title I, for utilizing appropriate public and private resources to eliminate and prevent the development or spread of, slums and urban blight, to encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of blighted, deteriorated, or slum areas or to undertake such other feasible community activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the ob­jectives of such a program; and WHEREAS, it is recognized that contracts for loans and capital grants for urban renewal projects will require, among other things, (1) the approval of the urban renewal plan by the governing body of the locality in which the project is situated; (2) the provision of local grants-in-aid which may consist of donations of cash, land, demolition or removal work, and the installation, construction or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds or other improvements or the provision of other public buildings or facilities; and (3) the development of a feasible method for the relocation of families displaced from the urban renewal area. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of City Commissioners: Section 1. That the proposed Urban Renewal Area described above is a slum, blighted, deteriorated or deteriorating area appropriate for an urban renewal project and that the undertaking by the City of Las Vegas of surveys and plans for an urban renewal project of the character contemplated by Section 110(c) of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended and supplemented, in the proposed Urban Renewal Area described above, is hereby approved. Section 2. That the financial assistance-provided under said Title I to assist when urban renewal project if needed and that the Housing and Home Finance Administrator is hereby requested to reserve for an urban renewal project in the proposed Urban Renewal Area described above Federal capital grant funds in an amount sufficient to enable the City of Las Vegas to finance the undertaking of the project. Section 3. That it is cognizant of the conditions that are imposed in the undertaking and carrying out of urban renewal projects with Federal financial assistance under Title I, including the requirements of said Title I respecting the workable program mentioned above, and that it is the sense of this body (a) that a feasible method for the relocation of families displaced from the urban renewal area, in Conformity with said Title I, can be prepared, and (b) that local grants-in aid, 4-2-58