confers additional and supplemental powers. The governing body of the community, or such public officer or public body as it may designate, is hereby authorized to prepare a workable program (which may include an official plan of action, as it exists from time to time for effectively dealing with the problem of urban slums and blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas within thee community and for the establishment and preservation of a well-planned community with well-organized residential neighborhoods of decent homes and suitable living environmrent for adequate family life) for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate, and prevent the development or spread of, slums and urban blight and deterioration, to encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of blighted, deteriorated, or slum areas, or to undertake such of the aforesaid activities otr other feasible activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of such a program. The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.
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