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1. 3 As required by Section 462.425., Subdivision <br /> 2 of the Act, a public hearing was conducted July 14 , 1981, <br /> on the proposal to activate a housing and redevelopment <br /> authority for the City, after publication- of notice of the <br /> hearing in the official newspaper of the City once not less <br /> _than ten days nor more than thirty. days before the public <br /> hearing. <br /> 1.4 This Council hereby declares that there is a <br /> need for a housing and redevelopment authority to function <br /> in the City, since there exist deterioriated and substandard . <br /> areas within the City which cannot be redeveloped without <br /> government assistance, and since there is a shortage of <br /> decent., safe and family dwelling accomodations in the City <br /> available. to persons of low income at rentals they can afford. <br /> 1. 5 The principal area' in - immediate need of redevelop- <br /> ment is the area north of .Lowry Avenue, west of St. Anthony <br /> Boulevard and south of Kenzie Terrace, plus certain property <br /> on the north side of Kenzie Terrace. Because these areas <br /> contain buildings or improvements and are by reason of <br /> faulty arrangement or 'design, deleterious land use or obsolete <br /> layout detrimental to the welfare of the City, this Council <br /> • finds the areas to comprise a "deterioriated area" and a <br /> "substandard area" within the meaning of Section 462.421, _ <br /> Subdivision 11 and Section 462. 425, -Subdivision 1 of the <br /> Act. <br /> Section 2. There is hereby activated in and for <br /> the City a housing and redevelopment authority, created as <br /> a public body corporate and politic by Section 462 . 425, <br /> Subdivision- 1 of the Acta Said authority shall be known <br /> as the Housing and Redevelopment. Authority in and for the <br /> City of St. Anthony and shall consist of five -commissioners, <br /> who shall be persons residing- within the territorial boundaries <br /> of the City. The commissioners shall be appointed by . <br /> the Mayor., with the approval of this Council, after this <br /> resolution becomes finally effective. Initial appointments <br /> shall be for terms. of one, .two, three, four and five years., <br /> respectively; thereafter each commissioner shall be <br /> appointed for a five-year term; provided that if members <br /> of the City Council are appointed commissioners, their <br /> terms of office as commissioners may coincide with their , <br /> terms of office as council members. Upon appointment of <br /> the commissioners and adoption of by-laws, the Authority <br /> shall exercise all powers and transact such business as it <br /> deems necessary or desirable under the Act. <br /> Section 3. The City shall cause this resolution <br /> to be published .in the official newspaper of the City in <br /> -2- <br />