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PAG LIN 1 1 Amend the amendment, H-1457, to House File 686 as 1 2 follows: 1 3 #1. Page 1, by inserting after line 12, the 1 4 following: 1 5 "Sec. . Section 403.5, subsection 1, Code 2003, 1 6 is amended to read as follows: 1 7 1. A municipality shall not approve an urban 1 8 renewal project for an urban renewal area unless the 1 9 governing body has, by resolution, determined the area 1 10 to be a slum area, blighted area, economic development 1 11 area or a combination of those areas, and designated 1 12 the area as appropriate for an urban renewal project. 1 13 The local governing body shall not approve an urban 1 14 renewal plan until a general plan for the municipality 1 15 has been prepared. For this purpose and other 1 16 municipal purposes, authority is vested in every 1 17 municipality to prepare, to adopt and to revise from 1 18 time to time, a general plan for the physical 1 19 development of the municipality as a whole, giving due 1 20 regard to the environs and metropolitan surroundings. 1 21 A municipality shall not acquire real property for an 1 22 urban renewal project unless the local governing body 1 23 has approved the urban renewal project in accordance 1 24 with subsection 4. A municipality shall not approve 1 25 an urban renewal project for retail development in 1 26 excess of one million square feet and a municipality 1 27 shall not approve an urban renewal plan that contains 1 28 separate urban renewal projects for retail development 1 29 which are part of one cohesive retail development if 1 30 the total of the retail development for such related 1 31 projects is in excess of one million square feet. For 1 32 purposes of this subsection, "retail development" 1 33 means construction or reconstruction of a building or 1 34 structure which is used or intended to be used by any 1 35 person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation 1 36 who operates, maintains, or conducts, either in 1 37 person, or by any agent or employee, any place of 1 38 business from which any goods or services are sold or 1 39 offered for sale, at retail, for consumption or use, 1 40 and includes ancillary buildings or structures, such 1 41 as parking facilities and storage buildings." 1 42 #2. By renumbering as necessary. 1 43 1 44 1 45 1 46 FALLON of Polk 1 47 HF 686.207 80 1 48 sc/sh
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