The purpose of Florida’s Community Redevelopment Act of 1969 is to remove slum and blight from municipalities. In accordance with this act, the City Commission of Plant City established a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) in 1981. The 1969 act allows communities to increase property taxes to finance improvements in a specified area. Plant City put together a Community Redevelopment Plan to address the obvious blight within a large portion of the City—roughly from Alexander Street to Park Road and from the library to the bottom of Midtown.
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