1658                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 791

renewal project, the Board shall submit such plan to the planning
body of the County, for review and recommendations as to its con-
formity with the master plan for the development of the County as a
whole. The planning body shall submit its written recommendation
with respect to the proposed urban renewal plan to the Board within
sixty days after receipt of the plan for review; upon receipt of the
recommendations of the planning body or, if no recommendations are
received within said sixty days, then without such recommendations,
the Board may proceed with a public hearing on the proposed urban
renewal project. The Board shall hold a public hearing on an urban
renewal project after public notice thereof by publication in a news-
paper having a general circulation within the corporate limits of the
County. The notice shall describe the time, date, place and purpose of
the hearing, shall generally identify the urban renewal area covered
by the plan, and shall outline the general scope of the urban renewal
project under consideration. Following such hearing, the Board may
approve an urban renewal project and the plan therefor if it finds
that: (1) a feasible method exists for the location of any families
who will be displaced from the urban renewal area in decent, safe and
sanitary dwelling accommodations within their means and without
undue hardship to such families; (2) the urban renewal plan sub-
stantially conforms to the master plan of the County as a whole; and
(3) the urban renewal plan will afford maximum opportunity, consist-
ent with the sound needs of the County as a whole, for the rehabilita-
tion or redevelopment of the urban renewal area by private enterprise.

(b)   An urban renewal plan may be modified at any time, provided
that if modified after the lease or sale of real property in the urban
renewal project area, the modification may be conditioned upon such
approval of the owner, lessee or successor in interest as the Board
may deem advisable and in any event shall be subject to such rights at
law or in equity as a lessee or purchaser, or his successor or successors
in interest, may be entitled to assert. Where the proposed modifica-
tion will substantially change the urban renewal plan as previously
approved by the Board, the modification shall be formally approved
by the Board as in the case of an original plan.

(c)   Upon the approval by the Board of an urban renewal plan or
of any modification thereof, such plan or modification shall be deemed
to be in full force and effect for the respective urban renewal area and
the Board may then cause such plan or modification to be carried out
in accordance with its terms.

21A.
7.

(a) The Board may sell, lease or otherwise transfer real property
or any interest therein acquired for it by an urban renewal project,
for residential, recreational, commercial, industrial, educational or
other uses or for public use, or may retain such property or interest
for public use, in accordance with the urban renewal plan, subject to
such covenants, conditions and restrictions, including covenants run-
ning with the land, as it may deem to be necessary or desirable to
assist in preventing the development or spread of future slums or
blighted area or to otherwise carry out the purposes of this subhead-
ing. The purchasers or lessees and their successors and assigns shall
be obligated to devote such real property only to the uses specified in