No. 2456 expanding the boundaries of the Airport Economic Development Area, expanding the allocation area for purposes of tax increment financing and amending the Airport Economic Development Area Development Plan (Portage Prairie)

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decline. This strategy will seek to improve an area through major acquisition, relocation, clearance, site assemblage, public works, and new development activities. The revitalization strategy is aimed at sub-areas that have suffered significant deterioration and decline, but still have both a physical and social foundation on which to build and revitalize the sub-area. Revitalization activities will include code enforcement, housing rehabilitation, small scale public works, organization-building and human, public and social service, crime and public safety programs. The improvement strategy and activities will be much like the revitalization strategy and activities. The major difference will be in the amount of public resources required in an area improvement areas will be less severely deteriorated and blighted than the revitalization areas. Finally, certain areas will be targets for a preservation strategy. These sub-areas will be, for the most part, stable areas that are adjacent to deteriorating or declining areas. Activities in the preservation areas will include spot code enforcement and rehab activities and minor public works. Protection through an aggressive enforcement of zoning will also be part of the strategy. In essence, the criteria determining whether revitalization, improvement, or preservation strategies will be brought to bear on a sub-area are twofold: one, the severity of the deterioration and decline in the target area; and, two, the concomitant amount and application of public resources, regulations and incentives required to meet the goals and objectives established for the area. The four strategies highlighted above focus heavily on the physical and economic redevelopment and revitalization of the Sample-Ewing Development Area. However, the importance of incorporating a broader, more comprehensive effort to focus on social and human service needs, neighborhood organizational needs, and capacity-building must be emphasized. B. ACTIVITIES The economic development and redevelopment activities in the Sample-Ewing Development Area plan, as adopted by the Redevelopment Commission, will include: 1. Pre-development activities, including, but not limited to, engineering, architectural, planning, program development, title, survey, appraisal, legal, and environmental assessment and testing; 2. Acquisition of private and publicly-owned real estate; 3. Relocation of individuals, households and businesses; 4. Clearance of structures and other improvements; vacation of some streets and other public right-of--way; 5. Assemblage of development sites; 6. Rehabilitation of industrial, commercial and residential structures; 7. Disposition of assembled cleared sites, rehabilitated structures, and other properties; 19