Workable Program

The government of Guam, for the purposes of this Article, may formulate for the territory of Guam, as a whole, and for each community and locality in Guam workable programs for utilizing appropriate public and private resources to eliminate, and prevent the development or spread of, slums and urban blight, to encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of slum and blighted areas, or to undertake such of the aforesaid activities or other feasible governmental or community activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of such workable programs. Such workable programs may include, without limitation, provisions for:

(a)the prevention of the spread of blight into areas of the community which are free from blight through diligent enforcement of housing, zoning and occupancy controls and standards;

(b)the rehabilitation or conversion of slum and blighted areas or portions thereof by replanning, removing congestion, providing parks, playgrounds and other public improvements, by encouraging voluntary rehabilitation and by compelling the repair and rehabilitation of deteriorated or deteriorating structures;

(c)the clearance and redevelopment of slum and blighted areas or portions thereof; and

(d)the provision of safe, decent and sanitary housing, by private or public effort, or a combination of both.