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Role of the Redevelopment Authority The City of Coatesville, a Third Class City of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, adopted Ordinance Number 1110-99 on September 27, 1999, declaring the need for a Redevelopment Authority. Thereafter, on April 18, 2000, the Redevelopment Authority of the County of Chester adopted a resolution whereby it relinquished and transferred all of the redevelopment functions within the City of Coatesville to the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Coatesville. In accordance with the Urban Redevelopment Law, 53 P.S. '1701, et seq., a Certificate of Authority for the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Coatesville was filed and recorded with the Corporation Bureau of the Pennsylvania Department of State on June 13, 2000. The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Coatesville (Authority) constitutes a public body, exercising public powers of the Commonwealth as an agency thereof, which powers include all powers necessary or appropriate to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of the Urban Redevelopment Law which includes the following powers: (a) To obtain from the City of Coatesville Planning Commission the designation of a redevelopment area or areas and its recommendations for redevelopment projects; (b) To review the recommendations of the City of Coatesville Planning Commission for the redevelopment of any area within the City and to make its own investigations and recommendations with respect to same; (c) To make and assist in implementing (1) plans for carrying out various programs of voluntary repair, rehabilitation and conservation of property, buildings and improvements, (2) plans for the enforcement of laws, codes and regulations relating to the use of land and the use and occupancy of buildings and improvements, (3) plans for the relocation of persons displaced by any government activities related to the purposes of the Urban Redevelopment Law or any activities of the Authority, (4) plans outlining redevelopment activities for neighborhoods, and (5) surveys to determine if the undertaking and carrying out of a redevelopment project are feasible; (d) To act as agent of the State or Federal Government or any of their instrumentalities or agencies for public purposes; (e) To arrange or contract with the City of Coatesville, Chester County, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or the Federal Government for the furnishing, planning, re-planning, constructing, installing, opening or closing of streets, alleys, sidewalks or other places or facilities, or for the acquisition by the City, County, State or Federal Government of property options or property rights or for the furnishing of property or services in connection with a redevelopment area; (f) To assemble, purchase, obtain options upon, acquire by gift, grant, bequest, devise or otherwise any real or personal property or any interest therein from any person, firm, corporation, municipality or government: Provided, that no real estate, located outside of a redevelopment area, which is not necessary to the corporate purposes of the Authority nor necessary to the successful redevelopment of a redevelopment area, shall be purchased by the Authority; (g) To acquire by eminent domain any real property including improvements and fixtures for public purposes except real property located outside a redevelopment area. Title to any property acquired by the Authority through eminent domain shall be an absolute or fee simple title, unless the Authority determines that a lesser title should be designated in the eminent domain proceedings. The Authority may exercise the right of eminent domain in the manner provided by law for the exercise of such right by Third Class Cities; (h) To sell, lease or otherwise transfer any real estate located outside of a redevelopment area; (i) To sell, lease or otherwise transfer any real estate located in a redevelopment area with the approval of City Council, provided that the Authority finds that the sale, lease or other transfer of the real estate will not be prejudicial to the sale or lease of other parts of the redevelopment area, nor be in any other way prejudicial to the realization of the redevelopment proposal approved by the City Council; (j) To make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers of the Authority; and any contract or instrument when signed by the chairman or vice-chairman of the Authority, or by an authorized use of their facsimile signatures, and by the secretary or treasurer or assistant treasurer of the Authority, or by an authorized use of their facsimile signatures, shall be held to have been properly executed for and on its behalf; (k) To make, directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured loans to any purchaser or owner of a residential housing or a commercial or an industrial project for the purpose of financing the purchase, construction, rehabilitation, demolition or equipping of a residential housing or a commercial and industrial redevelopment program; (l) To make loans to or deposits in order to enable a financial institution to finance the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation or equipping of a residential housing or a commercial and industrial redevelopment program. |
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