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Dept/ Agency: Economic & Housing Development
Action: ( ) Ratifying (X) Authorizing (X) Amending
Type of Service: Resolution Endorsing Relocation Plan for Blanchard Street Redevelopment Area
Purpose: Accept the Workable Relocation Assistance Plan for the Blanchard Street Redevelopment Area for the relocation of certain leaseholds in the Blanchard Street Redevelopment Area and authorizes it to be submitted to the Department of Community Affairs ("DCA") and to be implemented after approval by the DCA.
Additional Information:
Workable Relocation Assistance Plan for the Blanchard Street Redevelopment Area prepared by Phillips Preiss Grygiel, LLC, 33 Newark Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030.
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WHEREAS, on December 17, 2008, by Resolution No. 7R3-D, the City of Newark ("City") Municipal Council authorized the City's Central Planning Board to undertake a preliminary investigation to determine whether Block 5001, Lots 93, 50, 50.01, 49, 48, 46, 42, and 40; and Block 2438, Lots 74, 76, 78, 82, 84, 85, and 92 (the "Blanchard Street Redevelopment Area") (Collectively referred to as the "Study Area") should remain designated as in need of redevelopment; and
WHEREAS, on May 2, 2011, the City's Central Planning Board adopted a resolution that recommended to the City's Municipal Council the Designation of the Study Area as an area in need of redevelopment pursuant to the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law ("LRHL"), N.J.S.A. 40A:12A-1 et seq.; and
WHEREAS, by Resolution No. 7R3-B, adopted on August 3, 2011, the City's Municipal Council determined that the Study Area qualified as an "area in need of redevelopment" under the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law, N.J.S.A. 40A:12A-1 et seq.; and
WHEREAS, the Blanchard Street Redevelopment Area is subject to the 13th Amendment to the Urban Renewal Plan Industrial River Project ("Redevelopment Plan"), which was adopted on September 21, 2005 by the City's Mun...
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