POWER TO ACQUIRE AND ASSEMBLE REAL PROPERTY

SEC. 5. (a) Subject to and in accordance with the procedures, conditions, and other provisions of this Act, the Agency is hereby granted the power to further the redevelopment of blighted territory in the District of Columbia and the prevention, reduction, or elimination of blighting factors or causes of blight and for that purpose to acquire and assemble real property by purchase, exchange, gift, dedication, or eminent domain, and including the power to rent, maintain, manage, operate, repair, clear, transfer, lease, and sell such real property, but excluding the power to build new structures thereon (other than the improvements mentioned in section 7 (i) or the power to enlarge, extend, or make major structural improvements of existing buildings).

(b) Condemnation proceedings for the acquisition of real property for said purposes shall be conducted in accordance with the procedural provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the acquisition of land in the District of Columbia for the use of the United States", approved March 1, 1929 (45 Stat. 1415), or Acts which may amend or supplement said Act. The title to properties acquired under this present Act shall be taken by and in the name of the Agency and proceedings for condemnation or other acquisition of property shall be brought by and in the name of the Agency.

GENERAL AND PROJECT AREA REDEVELOPMENT PLANS

SEC. 6. (a) The Planning Commission is hereby directed to make and, from time to time, develop a comprehensive or general plan of the District of Columbia, including the appropriate maps, charts, tables, and descriptive, interpretative, and analytical matter, which plan is intended to serve as a general framework or guide of development within which the various project areas may be more precisely planned and calculated, and which comprehensive or general plan shall include at least a land-use plan which designates the proposed general distribution and general locations and extents of the uses of the land for housing, business, industry, recreation, education, public buildings, public reservations, and other general categories of public and private uses of the land.

(b) For the exercise of the powers granted to the Agency by this Act for the acquisition and disposition of real property for the redevelopment of a project area, the following steps and plans shall be requisite, namely:

(1) Adoption by the Planning Commission of the boundaries of the project area proposed by it, submission of such boundaries to the District Commissioners, and approval thereof by said Commissioners.

(2) Adoption by the Planning Commission and submission to, and, after a public hearing thereon, approval by the District Commissioners, of the redevelopment plan of the project area which shall contain a site and use plan for the redevelopment of the area, including the approximate locations and extents of the land uses proposed for and within the area, such as public buildings, streets, and other public works and utilities, housing, recreation, business, industry, schools, public and private open spaces, and other categories of public and private uses. Such

plan shall also contain specifications of standards of population density and building intensity. Any such plan may also specify, by means of specification of maximum rentals or other basis, the amount or character or class of any low-rent housing for which the area or part thereof is proposed to be redeveloped.

(c) In relation to the location and extent of public works and utilities, public buildings, and other public uses in the general plan or in a project area plan, the Planning Commission is directed to confer with the Federal and District public officials, boards, authorities, and agencies under whose administrative jurisdictions such uses respectively fall. In the project area planning, the Planning Commission is directed to consult from time to time with the Agency, and the Agency shall be free at all times to submit to the Planning Commission suggestions regarding both the location and extent of project areas and the use and site plans of project areas.

(d) After a project area redevelopment plan shall have been adopted by the Planning Commission and approved by the District Commissioners, the Planning Commission shall forthwith certify said plan to the Agency, whereupon said Agency shall proceed to the exercise of the powers granted to it in this Act for the acquisition and assembly of the real property of the area. Following such certification, no new construction shall be authorized by the District Commissioners in such area, including substantial remodeling or conversion or rebuilding, enlargement or extension or major structural improvements on existing buildings, but not including ordinary maintenance or remodeling or changes necessary to continue the occupancy.

TRANSFER, LEASE, OR SALE OF REAL PROPERTY IN PROJECT AREA FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE USES

SEC. 7. (a) After the real property in the project area shall have been assembled by the Agency, the Agency shall have the power to transfer to and shall at a practicable time or times transfer by deeds to the United States or to the District of Columbia, or to the appropriate Federal or District public body, department, or agency, those pieces of real property which, in accordance with the approved project area redevelopment plan, are to be devoted to public uses (other than public housing) falling within the construction or administrative jurisdiction of Federal or District agencies, such as streets and other utilities and works, Federal and District public buildings, public recreational spaces, and schools. The Federal agencies and the public agencies of the District of Columbia are hereby empowered, respectively, to acquire real property from the Agency for the uses respectively specified in the project area plan and to pay for same out of their funds duly appropriated for such acquisition. Excepting for such property as may be transferred by dedication, gift, or exchange, the transferee agency shall pay to the Agency such sum as may be agreed upon or, in the absence of agreement, as may be fixed by the Chief Justice of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

(b) The Agency shall have the power to lease or sell the remainder of the project area as an entirety to a redevelopment company or to an individual or a partnership. Said remainder may include streets or parts thereof which in accordance with the plan are to be closed or

vacated or other than publicly owned properties; and the Federal and District departments and agencies are empowered to transfer said spaces or properties to the Agency for such sums or other consideration as may be agreed upon.

(c) Any such lease or sale may be made without public bidding but only after a public hearing, after ten days' public notice, by the Agency upon the proposed lease or sale and the provisions thereof.

(d) The term of any such lease shall be fixed by the Agency and the instrument of lease may provide for renewals upon reappraisals and with rentals and other provisions adjusted to such reappraisals. Every such lease or sale shall provide that the lessee or purchaser shall carry out or cause to be carried out the approved project area redevelopment plan or approved modifications thereof and that no use shall be made of any land or real property included in the lease or sale nor any building or structure erected thereon which does not conform to such approved plan or approved modifications thereof. In the instrument, or instruments, of lease or sale, the Agency may include such other terms, conditions, and provisions as in its judgment will provide reasonable assurance of the priority of the obligations of the lease or sale and of conformance to the plan over any other obligations of the lessee or purchaser and also assurance of the financial and legal ability of the lessee or purchaser to carry out and conform to the plan and the terms and conditions of the lease or sale; also, such terms, conditions, and specifications concerning buildings, improvements, subleases, or tenancies, maintenance and management, and any other related matters as the Agency may reasonably impose or approve, including provisions whereby the obligations to carry out and conform to the project area plan shall run with the land. In the event that maximum rentals to be charged to tenants of housing be specified, provision may be made for periodic reconsideration of such rental bases, with a view to proposing modification of the project area plan with respect to such rentals.

(e) Until the Agency certifies that all building constructions and other physical improvements specified to be done and made by the purchaser of the area have been completed, the purchaser shall have no power to convey the area, or any part thereof, without the consent of the Agency; and no such consent shall be given unless the grantee or mortgagee of the purchaser obligates itself or himself by written. instrument to the Agency to carry out that portion of the redevelopment plan which falls within the boundaries of the conveyed property, and also that the grantee, his or its heirs, representatives, successors, and assigns, shall have no right or power to convey, lease, or let the conveyed property or any part thereof or erect or use any building or structure erected thereon free from the obligation and requirement to conform to the approved project area redevelopment plan or approved modifications thereof.

(f) In lieu of the lease or sale of a project area as an entirety, the Agency shall have the power to lease or sell parts of such area separately to individuals, partnerships, or redevelopment companies. Any such sale or lease of a part or parts of a project area shall be fully subject to the provisions of subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section.

(g) No lease or sale of any project area or portion thereof shall be made by the Agency to any public redevelopment company unless

the terms of such lease or sale shall provide greater compensation to the Agency than any offer or combination of offers based on substantially the same area and substantially the same redevelopment plan which shall be received from any responsible private sources (eligible as purchasers or lessees under this Act) within a reasonable announced period of time (not less than thirty days) after the public hearing on such proposed lease or sale. It is the intent of this provision that private enterprise as represented through a responsible private redevelopment company, individual, or partnership shall be given a preference over any public redevelopment company in such lease or sale provided such preference can be given, in the judgment of the Agency, consistently with the protection of the public interest and consistently with a purpose to resort to a public redevelopment company only in the event that private enterprise shall not reasonably be available for the development of the project area or the part thereof under consideration.

(h) The Agency may itself demolish any existing structure or clear the area or any part thereof, or may specify the demolition and clearance to be performed by a lessee or purchaser within a reasonable time after such lease or purchase. The Agency may specify a reasonable time schedule and reasonable conditions for the construction of buildings and other improvements by a lessee or purchaser: Provided, That any such time schedule or condition shall be specified prior to the offering of the area or part thereof for lease or sale, and shall be equally binding upon any purchaser or lessee, public or private. The cost of demolition or clearance made by the Agency pursuant to this subsection shall be treated as an item of cost of the acquisition of the

area.

(i) In order to facilitate the lease or sale of a project area or, in the event that the lease or sale is of parts of an area, then to facilitate the leases or sales of such parts, the Agency shall have the power to include in the cost payable by it the cost of the construction of local streets and sidewalks within the area or of grading and other local public surface or subsurface facilities necessary for shaping the area as the site of the redevelopment of the area. The Agency may arrange with the appropriate Federal or District agencies for the reimbursement of such outlays from funds or assessments raised or levied for such purposes.

HOUSING FOR DISPLACED FAMILIES

SEC. 8. (a) Prior to approval by the District Commissioners, pursuant to subparagraph (2) of subsection 6 (b), of any redevelopment plan, the District Commissioners shall satisfy themselves (and shall so state at the public hearing required by such subparagraph) that decent, safe, and sanitary housing, substantially equal in quantity to the number of substandard dwelling units to be removed or demolished within the project area, under the proposed redevelopment plan, are available or will be provided (by construction pursuant to the redevelopment plan, or otherwise) in localities, and at rents or prices, within the reach of the low-income families displaced or to be displaced (temporarily or permanently), pursuant to the redevelopment plan, from the project area.

(b) Families displaced by slum clearance or redevelopment under this Act shall be given preference as tenants to fill vacancies occurring

in housing owned or operated within the District of Columbia by Federal or District of Columbia governmental agencies until appropriate housing is available to such families.

ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY FROM PROSPECTIVE LESSEE OR PURCHASER

SEC. 9. As an aid in the acquisition of the real property of a project area, the Agency may accept a fund or, at an agreed value, any parcel or parcels of property within such area, from any redevelopment company or partnership or individual, subject to a provision that in the event the supplier of any such fund or the conveyor of such property shall become the purchaser of the project area or any part or parts thereof such fund or the agreed value of such property shall be credited on the purchase price of such area or part thereof and if there be an excess above the cost of acquisition of the area such excess shall be returned, and that in the event that such supplier or conveyor does not become the purchaser of such area or any part thereof, the amount of the fund or the agreed value of such property (as the case may be) shall be paid to such supplier or conveyor.

USE-VALUE APPRAISALS

SEC. 10. After the Agency shall have assembled and acquired the real propert of a project area, it shall, as an aid to it in determining the rentals and other terms upon which it will lease or the price at which it will sell the area or parts thereof, place a use-value upon each piece or tract of land within the area which, in accordance with the plan, is to be used for private uses or for low-rent housing, such usevalue to be based on the planned use; and, for the purpose of this use valuation, it shall cause a use-value appraisal to be made by two or more land-value experts employed by it for the purpose; but nothing contained in this section shall be construed as requiring the Agency to base its rentals or selling prices upon such appraisal.

The aggregate use value placed, for purposes of lease or sale, upon all land, within a particular project area, leased or sold by the Agency pursuant to this Act shall be not less than one-third of the aggregate cost to the Agency of acquiring all such land (excluding the cost of old buildings destroyed and the demolition and clearance thereof).

PROTECTION OF REDEVELOPMENT PLAN

SEC. 11. (a) Previous to the execution and delivery by the Agency of a lease or conveyance to a redevelopment company or previous to the consent by the Agency to an assignment or conveyance by a lessee or purchaser to a redevelopment company, the articles or certificate of incorporation or association or charter or other basic instrument of such company shall contain provisions so defining, limiting, and regulating the exercise of the powers of the company that neither the company nor its stockholders, its officers, its directors, its members, its beneficiaries, its bondholders, or other creditors or other persons shall have any power to amend or to effect the amendment of the terms and conditions of the lease or the terms and conditions of the sale without the consent of the Agency or, in relation to the project area redevelopment plan, without the approval of any proposed modification in accordance with the provisions of section 12 of this Act; and no action of stockholders, officers, directors, bondholders, creditors, partners