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)SERIES OF 1990
A RESOLUTION OPPOSING H.B. 1007, CONCERNING URBAN RENEWAL AUTHORITIES ,
WHEREAS, Urban Renewal Authorities have been a mechanism for
municipal governments to develop creative and practical tools for
economic development within Colorado municipalities, and
WHEREAS, the Englewood Urban Renewal Authority has developed
property in downtown Englewood that has benefited its citizens as
as its business community by providing greater retail options and
upgrading property values, and
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WHEREAS, Col,rado Revised Statute currently requires approval of
redevelopment plans by the representative City Council or Town Board
of Trustees, and
WHEREAS, redevelopment plans must identify and include any
property that may be subject to eminent domain procedures within the
Urban Renewal Authority area, and
WHEREAS, the general public affected by an Urban Renew al
uthority represented are also represented by elected municipa _
officials and are, therefore, not without representation, and 0 WHErtEAS, the public currently may voice their approval or
disapproval of an urban renewal authority's creation through the
municipal public hearing p~ocess, and
WHEREAS, H.B. 1007 would fragment the citizen input process
through a complicated approval process involving a multitude of
geographically-~verlapping local entities, and
WHEREAS, H.B. 1007 will make it substantially more difficult for
local officials to plan and implement locally-developed economic
development plans, and ·
WHEREAS, Urban Renewal Authorities are currently required to
obtain formal municipal approval of redevelopment pl ans including
proposed takings by eminent domain, and
WHEREAS, H.B. 1007 provisions on eminent domain conflict with
existing statutes and could effectively eliminate th e use of eminent
domain for Urban Renewal Authority purposes,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF ENGLEWOOD CITY
COUNCIL, THAT :
section 1. The Englewood city Council believes H.B. 1007 would
effectively destroy the Urban Renewal Authority process.
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At 1:est:
I, Patricia H. Crow, City Clerk for the City of Englewood, Colorado,
hereby certify the aboy e and foregoing is a true c opy of Resolution
No. _jz_, Series of 1990.