P.R. Laws tit. 17, § 105
An authority shall not initiate any redevelopment project under §§ 101—119 of this title until the Puerto Rico Planning Board has approved a plan (herein called the “redevelopment plan”) which provides an outline for the development or redevelopment of said area and is sufficiently complete (1) to indicate its relationship to definite local objectives as to appropriate land uses and improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities and other public improvements and (2) to indicate proposed land uses and building requirements in the area. Any authority which begins a redevelopment project under §§ 101—119 of this title, shall in addition to the redevelopment plan, prepare a report indicating the method for the relocation of the residents of such zones; and also, the method for providing (unless already available) adequate, safe, and sanitary dwellings substantially equal in number to the number of substandard dwellings to be cleared from said area, at rents within the financial reach of the income groups displaced from such substandard dwellings. Said reports indicating the method for relocation and of providing dwellings to the groups to be displaced shall not form a part of the redevelopment plan, and same may be amended or changed to harmonize with the redevelopment plan should same undergo any amendment during the development of the redevelopment project. Any government entity as defined in the Housing and Cooperation Law, §§ 1—7 of this title, and any amendments thereto, shall have the same rights and powers to cooperate with and assist housing authorities with respect to redevelopment projects that such government entity has pursuant to such sections for the purposes of assisting the development or administration of slum clearance and housing projects in the same manner as though the provisions of the Housing Cooperation Law, §§ 1—7 of this title, were applicable to redevelopment projects undertaken under §§ 101—119 of this title.
There are hereby exempt from the approval requirement of the Planning Board for a redevelopment plan, those urban renewal plans which qualify under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, Public Law 90-448, 82 Stat. 476, 518, if such projects have received the previous endorsement of the Planning Board.
History —May 9, 1947, No. 97, p. 226, § 4; June 19, 1969, No. 53, p. 96; May 30, 1970, No. 87, p. 233, § 1.