The appellate court rejected this argument because, under the Missouri Constitution, the legislature must enact laws expressly granting or necessarily implying that non-charter cities have the authority to "utilize eminent domain to eliminate
blighted areas" for such authority to exist.
The incident has raised concerns that illegal off-roading is being pushed westwards as police clamp down on
blighted areas such as the Berwyn mountains.
Another is focused on revitalizing vacant lots in some of Baltimore's most
blighted areas.
This time, they must have the full authority of the Scottish Government and wholehearted support from local business leaders - and the financial teeth to draw new investment to the
blighted areas.
In a few short years, Ogden has brought new life into a formerly decaying downtown area with a series of redevelopment projects in designated
blighted areas.
THE North's largest local authority is to support a bid for cash from a national pot to help tackle the number of longterm empty homes and transform
blighted areas.
redevelopment of
blighted areas. Under the
Blighted Areas Clause of the
Tax increment financing is a tool used to attract developers in order to restore
blighted areas through private development.
According to researchers, the results were just as true in impoverished neighborhoods as they were in more affluent areas, offering one possible way of improving
blighted areas.
And apart from magnificent facilities this Olympics should deliver the regeneration of one of the most run-down,
blighted areas of the capital.
The lack of available finance and of profit-orientated developers gives the council the chance to promote a new wave of community enterprise and engagement by trialling pilot housing trusts in
blighted areas.
Part environmental study, part social history, Anacostia is particularly fascinating in its stinging analysis of how programs promoting eminent domain and "urban renewal" meant to raze and replace alleged "slums" and "
blighted areas" actually created slums by forcing people out of stable neighborhoods, then quickly assembling shoddy public housing east of the river, concentrating the displaced poor in an area that inevitably gave rise to crime and drug markets.