R163 Housing and Home Finance Administrator is authorized to extend financial assistance to localities in elimination/prevention of spread of slums and urban blight through planning of urban renewal projects

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Housing to exten, spread( urban re R 163 RESOLUTION WHEREAS, under Title I of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, and the Act of 1954, the Housing and Home Finance Administrator is authorized i financial assistance to localities in the elimination and prevention of the & their slums and urban blight through the planning and undertaking of Mewal projects; and WHEREAS, it is desirable and in the public interest that the City of South B nd$ Department of Redevelopment, by and through the South Bend'Redevel•. opment ommission, prepare surveys and plans, presently estimated to cost approximately $86,937.87 (eighty-six thousand, nine hundred thirty -seven dollars and eig seven cents), in order to undertake and carry out an urban renewal project If the character contemplated by Section 110(c} of said Title I, in that certain rea, proposed as an Urban Renewal Area, situated in the City of South Bend, County St. Joseph, and State of Indiana, and described as follows: BEGINNING at the intersection of the westerly right of way line of Chapin Street w th the southerly right of way line of the New York Central Main Line right of way. THENCE, in an easterly direction along the southerly right of way line of said Ne York Central right of way for a distance I of approximately 720 feet to the irate section with the easterly right of way line of Scott Street. THENCE, in a southerly direction along said easterly right of way line of Scott Street for a distance J of 850 feet to the intersection with the easterly right of way line of Prairie Avenue. THENCE, along the easterly right of way line of Prairie Avenue for a distance 4 of approximately 1450 feet in a southwesterly direction to the point where said easterly right of way line of Prairie Avenue intersects with the southerly right of way line of Garst Street, extended. THENCE, along the southerly right of way line of Garst Street extended and Garst Street for a distance of 615 feet in a westerly direction to the end of Garst Street at the easterly property line of Wilson Brothers. THENCE, in a northerly direction for a distance 4 of 300 feet along said easterly property line of the Wilson Brothers Plant to the northerly right of way line of Kerr Street.