Redevelopment Agency

Agendas & Minutes

Agendas are available prior to the meetings. Minutes are available following approval.

Duties & Responsibilities

Redevelopment Agencies empower local governments to help promote economic development, job creation, and eliminate blight. Municipalities are authorized to create redevelopment agencies or “urban renewal agencies” to accomplish these purposes. As of 2010 in Utah, 70 cities have redevelopment agencies.

Redevelopment Agencies or RDAs have a long history in Utah. In 2006 the Utah legislature passed the Community Development and Renewal Agencies Act as Title 17C of the Utah Code.

The Act divided “redevelopment” into three different purposes including Urban Renewal, Economic Development, and Community Development.

Urban Renewal

Urban Renewal is the new term for what was historically redevelopment. The goal of Urban Renewal is to eliminate blight from specific areas within the community.

Economic Development

Economic Development is a tool that redevelopment agencies can use to help promote job growth in the community. The redevelopment agency may use tax increment to help encourage business relocation, expansion, and development through incentives targeted toward the creation of high-quality jobs.

Economic Development Policies & Actions

Community Development

Community Development is a flexible tool that allows redevelopment agencies the opportunity to encourage different kinds of new development that the community believes will be beneficial, including mixed-use and retail.

Redevelopment Tools

Examples of redevelopment tools include:

Ability to assemble land for development
Ability to utilize tax increment and issue bonds
Ability to invest in infrastructure to assist private enterprise
Ability to increase affordable housing

Redevelopment Plans

Redevelopment plans can help communities to:

Attract new jobs and businesses
Create more affordable housing
Stimulate private reinvestment in local neighborhoods and businesses
Reduce crime
Stimulate development of improvement programs
Stimulate private investment and help rehabilitate homes and businesses
Build or improve roads, utilities and public facilities
Preserve open space
Create, adopt and/or implement specific plans
Initiate and fund comprehensive planning efforts

Community Development & Renewal Agency

The Redevelopment Agency, also known as a Community Development and Renewal Agency, is a separate, distinct legal entity from the City. However, the City Council serves as the governing board of the Agency.

The Redevelopment Agency can utilize city staff or hire its own staff and advisors to carry out its day-to-day operations as well as to help formulate and implement redevelopment plans. The benefit of this system is that the Redevelopment Agency is ultimately responsible to the voting public through the elected governing body that oversees the Agency.