HomeMy WebLinkAboutURA Resolution 2009-05WHEAT RIDGE URBAN RENEWAL AUTHORITY
WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO
RESOLUTION N0.05
Series of 2009
TITLE: A RESOLUTION FINDING THE EXISTENCE OF BLIGHT
IN THE VICINITY OF THE INTERSTATE 70 CORRIDOR
BETWEEN 32ND AVENUE AND KIPLING STREET AND
THE KIPLING CORRIDOR BETWEEN INTERSTATE 70
AND 26TH AVENUE AND MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS
TO THE WHEAT RIDGE CITY COUNCIL
WHEREAS, the Urban Renewal Law of Colorado (§31-25-101 et seq C.R.S.) authorizes
the analysis and consideration of factors within the City of Wheat Ridge to determine if blight
exists within certain areas of the City to utilize the provisions of the Urban Renewal Law to
eliminate and prevent blight and to develop and/or redevelop such areas for the economic and
social well being and public health, safety and welfare of the community; and
WHEREAS, such analysis has been undertaken to determine whether factors of blight
exist within the vicinity of the Interstate 70 Corridor between 32nd Avenue and Kipling Street and
the Kipling Corridor between Interstate 70 and 26th Avenue, which is depicted on Exhibit 1
hereto (hereafter the "Study Area"); and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners has been presented with the results and
evidence of such blight analysis at a public meeting on March 3, 2009; and
WHEREAS, said study and analysis and the data and evidence presented at the public
meeting validates the existence of factors of blight in the Study Area consistent with §31-25-
103(2) C.R.S. of the Urban Renewal Law; and
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Wheat Ridge Urban Renewal
Authority of the City of Wheat Ridge, Colorado, as follows:
Section 1. The conditions survey for the Study Area and the data and evidence related
thereto is hereby accepted by the Board of Commissioners.
Section 2. Consistent with §31-25-103(2) C.R.S. of the Urban Renewal Law, the Board
of Commissioners hereby finds that the following ten factors of blight exist in the Study Area:
A. Slum, deteriorated or deteriorating structures; and
B. Predominance of defective or inadequate street layout; and
C. Faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility or usefulness; and
D. Unsanitary or unsafe conditions; and
E. Deterioration of site or other improvements; and
F. Unusual topography or inadequate public improvements; and
G. Existence of conditions that endanger life or property by fire and other causes; and
H. Buildings that are unsafe or unhealthy for persons to live or work in; and
I. Environmental contamination of buildings or property; and
J. Existence of factors requiring high levels of municipal services or substantial
physical underutilization orvacancy ofsites, buildings, or other improvements.
Section 3. The Board of Commissioners finds that the Interstate 70 and Kipling Corridor
Study Area, in its present condition and use and by reason of the presence of the foregoing ten
factors of blight, substantially impairs the sound growth of Wheat Ridge, constitutes an economic
liability and is a menace to the public health, safety and welfare.
Section 4. The Board of Commissioners respectfully recommends to the Wheat Ridge
City Council the following:
A. That, incompliance with the Urban Renewal Law, it give notice of and
hold a public hearing regarding consideration of blight factors in the
Interstate 70 and Kipling Corridors Study Area; and
B. That if the data and evidence at the public hearing is sufficient to comply
with the Urban Renewal Law, it makes findings of the existence of factors
of blight; and
C. Based upon such blight factors, it establish an urban renewal area in the
general vicinity of the Study Area, as it deems appropriate; and
D. If it makes such findings of blight and establishes the urban renewal area,
that it authorize the procedures for commencement of the preparation and
consideration of an urban renewal plan for the area.
DONE AND RESOLVED THIS 7th day of July, 2009.
WHEAT RIDGE URBAN RENEWAL
AUTHORITY
By: •
Chairman
ATTEST: ~.m.
Secretary to the Authority''
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