Greg Oravec, economic development director and assistant city manager of New Port Richey, offered this explanation of CRAs and how they work:
In 1969, the Florida Legislature adopted the Community Redevelopment Act, empowering cities and counties to revitalize the parts of their communities suffering from conditions associated with “slum” and/or “blight” through a specific set of tools referred to as “community redevelopment and related activities.”
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