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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 338-JULY 15, 1949 " Redevelopment area." "Redevelopment plan." " Project. " Ante, p. 416. "Redevelopment." Ante, p. 419. "Local grants-in- aid." DEFINITIONS SEC. 110. The following terms shall have the meanings, respectively, ascribed to them below, and, unless the context clearly indicates other- wise, shall include the plural as well as the singular number: (a) "Redevelopment area" means an area which is appropriate for development or redevelopment and within which a project area is located. (b) "Redevelopment plan" means a plan, as it exists from time to time, for the development or redevelopment of a redevelopment or project area, which plan shall be sufficiently complete (1) to indicate its relationship to definite local objectives as to appropriate land uses and improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recrea- tional and community facilities, and other public improvements; and (2) to indicate proposed land uses and building requirements in the project area: Provided, That the Administrator shall take such steps as he deems necessary to assure consistency between the redevelopment plan and any highways or other public improvements in the locality receiving financial assistance from the Federal Works Agency. (c) "Project" may include (1) acquisition of (i) a slum area or a deteriorated or deteriorating area which is predominantly residential in character, or (ii) any other deteriorated or deteriorating area which is to be developed or redeveloped for predominantly residential uses, or (iii) land which is predominantly open and which because of obsolete platting, diversity of ownership, deterioration of structures or of site improvements, or otherwise substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of the community and which is to be developed for predominantly residential uses, or (iv) open land necessary for sound community growth which is to be developed for predominantly resi- dential uses (in which event the project thereon, as provided in the proviso of section 103 (a) hereof, shall not be eligible for any capital grant); (2) demolition and removal of buildings and improvements; (3) installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets, utilities, and other site improvements essential to the preparation of sites for uses in accordance with the redevelopment plan; and (4) making the land available for development or redevelopment by private enterprise or public agencies (including sale, initial leasing, or retention by the local public agency itself) at its fair value for uses in accordance with the redevelopment plan. For the purposes of this title, the term "project" shall not include the construction of any of the buildings contemplated by the redevelopment plan, and the term "redevelop- ment" and derivatives thereof shall mean develop as well as redevelop. For any of the purposes of section 109 hereof, the term "project" shall not include any donations or provisions made as local grants-in-aid and eligible as such pursuant to clauses (2) and (3) of section 110 (d) hereof. (d) "Local grants-in-aid" shall mean assistance by a State, munic- ipality, or other public body, or any other entity, in connection with any project on which a contract for capital grant has been made under this title, in the form of (1) cash grants; (2) donations, at cash value, of land (exclusive of land in streets, alleys, and other public rights-of-way which may be vacated in connection with the project), and demolition or removal work, or site improvements in the project area, at their cost; and (3) the provision, at their cost, of parks, playgrounds, and public buildings or facilities (other than low-rent public housing) which are primarily of direct benefit to the project and which are necessary to serve or support the new uses of land in the project area in accordance with the redevelopment plan: Pro- vided, That, in any case where, in the determination of the Adminis- trator, any park, playground, public building, or facility is of direct 420 [63 STAT.