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A RESOLUTION providing for an initial study and.
survey to etermine whether or not any commercial
blight areas (areas located within the territorial
limits of the City where commercial buildings
or improvements because of age, dilapidation,
obsolescence, overcrowding, lack of ventilation,
light, sanitary facilities, adequate utilities,
or excessive land coverage, deleterious land use
or layout or any combination of these factors,
are detrimental to the public safety, health,
morals or welfare) exist within the City of
Canton, Illinois; and to formulate a proposed
commercial redevelopment plan for such areas
if they do exist; and to appoint a ten. mem-
ber Citizens Committee to help conduct the
study and survey and formulate a proposed
redevelopment plan if one is required;
WHEREAS the City of Canton, Illinois (hereinafter referred
to as the "City") is authorized by the Commercial Renewal and
Redevelop merit Areas Act, appearing as Division 74.2 of Article
11 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as amended, (hereinafter
referred to as the "Act"), to determine if the City contains
any commercial blight areas, and to formulate a proposed com-
mercial redevelopment plan for the eradication and elimination
of any commercial blight areas found to exist, for the public
purposes expressed in Section 11-74.2-1 of the Act; and
WHEREAS the City is further authorized by the Act to
create a representative Citizens Committee of not less than 10
persons to be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of a
majority of the City Council, which Committee shall assist in
the study and survey to determine if the City contains any com-
mercial blight areas and in the formulation of a proposed
commercial redevelopment plan if any such areas exist, and
which committee must approve by 2/3 majority vote of its
members any final commercial redevelopment plan proposed for
the City; and
WHEREAS the City is further authorized by the Act to hold
public or private hearings, conduct investigations, hear testi-
mony and gather evidence relating to commercial blight and its
elimination; and
WHEREAS it has now been determined that it is in the best
interests of the City and in all respects in conformity to the
provisions and requirements of the Act for the City Council to
provide for an initial study and survey to determine if the City
contains any commercial blight areas and if it does to formulate
a commercial redevelopment plan for their elimination; and
WHEREAS it is necessary, in connection with the study and
survey and plan formulation mentioned above to appoint a Citi-
zens Committee:
NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Resolved by the City Council of the
City of Canton, Fulton County, Illinois, as Follows:
Section 1. An initial study and survey to determine if
the City of Canton has any commercial blight areas and to formu-
late a plan for the elimination of any such areas found to exist
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is hereby authorized and determined to be in the public interest
and for a public purpose, to promote and protect the health,
safety, morals and welfare of the public.
Section 2. For the purpose of assisting the City Council
in its study and survey and planning provided for iii Section 1
above, a representative Citizens Committee of 10 persons is hereby
created and the appointment by the Mayor of the following named
persons to that committee is hereby approved and it is hereby
found that the persons named below are representative of the
interests set forth below their respective names:
Larry D. Williams
525 S. Main Street
Canton, Illinois
V ~ w Electronics Inc.
and commercial property
owner
Mel Harris
R. R. 2
Canton, Illinois
Mel's Sporting Goods
and commercial property
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Charles E. Wright
531 S. Second Avenue
Canton, Illinois
Radio Station WBYS
Adopted and approved this
Attest. ~.,
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Robert Fordyce Boyd Pickett
59 N. Avenue D 444 S. Sixth Avenue
Canton, Illinois Canton, Illinois
Canton Daily Ledger Human Relations Commission
Roger Ball
146 Ingersoll
Canton, Illinois
Blessman's Pharmacy
and Canton Junior
Chamber of Commerce
Mrs. Robert Schnake
415 N. Third Avenue
Canton, Illinois
Canton YWCA.-
John Beale
305 Sycamore Tr.
Canton, Illinois
Canton Lions Club
Mike Hogan
15 N. Thirteenth Avenue
Canton, Illinois
President UAW-CIO
Carl Barthelemy Sr.
83 Laurel
Canton, Illinois
Canton Rotary Club and Evergreen
Estates Inc. (a residential
property owners association)
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day of ~ 1974.
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