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16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />10 <br />2C <br />21 <br />22 <br />27 <br />24 <br />2r <br />2E <br />2? <br />2E <br />29 <br />(d) Further, that the existence of blighted areas characterized by any <br />or all of such conditions, separately or collectively, constitutes a serious and <br />growing menace which is hereby condemned as injurious and inimical to the <br />public health, safety and welfare of the people of the .City of Colton in particular, <br />j and to the people of the State of California generally; and <br />WHEREAS, such areas present difficulties and handicaps which are <br />beyond remedy and control solely by regulatory processes in the exercise of the <br />ypolice power; that they contribute substantially and increasingly to the problems <br />of, and necessitate excessive and disproportionate expenditures_ for, crime <br />prevention, correction, prosecution and punishment, the treatment of juvenile <br />I <br />j delinquence, the preservation of the public health and safety and the maintaining <br />1 <br />I of adequate police, fire and accident protection, and other public services and <br />ii facilities; that this .menace is becoming increasingly direct and substantial in <br />j its significance and effect; that the benefits which will result from the remed <br />of these conditions and the redevelopment of these areas of blight will accrue to <br />all the inhabitants and property owners in the City of Colton. <br />Further, such conditions of blight tend to further obsolescence, <br />11f deterioration and disuse .:because of the lack of incentive to the individual land- <br />owner and his inability to improve, modernize or rehabilitate his own particular <br />property while the condition of theneighboring properties remains unchanged; <br />that as a consequence the process of deterioration of a blighted area frequently <br />cannot be halted or corrected except by redeveloping the entire area,, or sub- <br />stantial portions thereof; that such conditions of blight are chiefly found in areas <br />which have been subdivided into small parcels; that in most instances the lands <br />are held in divided and widely scattered ownerships, frequently under defective <br />titles; that in many such instances the private assembly of the lands in blighted <br />areas for purposes of redevelopment is so difficult and costly that it is un- <br />economic and as a practical matter i;rnpos sible for individual owners independ- <br />ently <br />ndepen -ently or collectively to undertake to remedy such conditions because of lack of <br />