2013-58 APPROVING THE SOUTHSIDE TAX INCREMENT REDEVELOPMENT PLAN

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Cd co ., (13) The total equalized assessed value of the proposed redevelopme it project area has Go declined for 3 of the last 5 calendar years for which informatiol I is available or is m 15 CL increasing at an annual rate that is less than the balance of the Municipality for 3 of the last 5 calendar years for which information is available or is increasing at 94 an annual rate that is less than the Consumer Price Inde for All Urban CU M Consumers published by the United States Department of Labor or successor 4 agency for 3 of the last 5 calendar years for which information is available. on Y The statutory definition of a blighted area is as follows: 0 0 On and after November 1, 1999, "blighted area" means any improved or vacant area within the boundaries of a redevelopment project area located within th territorial limits of the municipality where: (1) If improved, industrial, commercial, and residential buildings r improvements are detrimental to the public safety, health, or welfare because of a corribination of 5 or more of the following factors, each of which is (i) present, wi h that presence documented, to a meaningful extent so that a municipality may reasonably find that the factor is clearly present within the intent of the Act and (ii) reaso iably distributed throughout the improved part of the redevelopment project area: (A) Dilapidation. An advanced state of disrepair or negl ct of necessary repairs to the primary structural components of buildings or improv ments in such a combination that a documented building condition analysis determines that major repair is required or the defects are so serious and so extensive that the buildings must be removed. (B) Obsolescence. The condition or process of falling into disuse. Structures have become ill-suited for the original use. (C) Deterioration, With respect to buildings, defects including, but not limited to, major defects in the secondary building components such as doors, w ndows, porches, gutters and downspouts, and fascia. With respect to surface improv ments, that the condition of roadways, alleys, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, off-street parking, and surface storage areas evidence deterioration, including, but not limited to, surface cracking, crumbling, potholes, depressions, loose paving material, and weeds protruding through paved surfaces, (D) Presence of structures below minimum code standards, 1 structures that do not meet the standards of zoning, subdivision, building, fire, and oth r governmental codes applicable to property, but not including housing and property maintenance codes, (E) Illegal use of individual structures. The use of structure in violation of applicable federal, State, or local laws, exclusive of those applicable to the presence of structures below minimum code standards. 7