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I I I to the number of displaced individuals and families, are not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities than the dwellings of the displaced individuals and families in the areas comprising the Program, are available at rents or prices within the financial means of the displaced individuals and families, and are reasonably accessible to their places of employment. 9. In order to implement and facilitate the effectuation of the Urban Renewal Plan hereby approved, it is found and determined that certain official action must be taken by this Body with reference, among other things, to changes in zoning, the vacating and removal of streets, alleys, and other public ways, the establishment of new street patterns, the location and relocation of sewer and water mains and other public facilities, and other public action, and, accordingly, this Body hereby (a) pledges its cooperation in helping to carry out the Urban Renewal Plan, (b) requests the various officials, departments, board, and agencies of the Locality having administrative responsibilities in the premises likewise to cooperate to such end and to exercise their respective functions and powers in a manner consistent with the Urban Renewal Plan, and (c) stands ready to consider to take appropriate action upon proposals and measures designed to effectuate the Urban Renewal Plan. 10. Additional financial assistance under the provisions of Title I of the Housing Act of 1949, as amended, is necessary to enable the land in the areas comprising the Program to be renewed in accordance with the Urban Renewal Plan for the Program, and accordingly, the proposed Program and the annual increment are approved and the Local Public Agency is authorized to file an application for financial assistance under Title I. 11. It is hereby found and determined that those areas in Neighborhood Development Program, Tex. A-6 designed in the Urban Renewal Plan for said Project for total clearance are included within a slum clearance and redevelopment section of said Project and (a) that the rehabilitation of such section without clearance would be impractical, infeasible and ineffective based upon this Governing Body's finding from the evidence presented to it in connection with the attached Plan and also the facts and evidence produced at the public hearing held in connection therewith, that at least 50 per cent of the structures in said slum clearance and redevelopment sections of Neighborhood Development Program, Tex. A-6 are dilapidated beyond the point of feasible rehabilita- tion, or are otherwise unfit for rehabilitation; and (b) that there exists other blighting characteristics, such as over- crowding of structures on the land, mixed uses of structures, narrow, crooked, inconvenient, conjested, unsafe and otherwise deficient streets, and deficiencies in public utilities, recrea- tional and community facilities. 12. The importance of this Ordinance creates an emergency and an imperative purpose necessary that the provisions of the Charter requiring that all Ordinances be read at three separate meetings and that no Ordinance shall become effective until the expiration of 10 days following the date of its final passage, be suspended, and this provision is hereby suspended, and this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its adoption, 'and publication in a newspaper of general publication within the City.