1544                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                       [CH. 904

municipality as a whole. The planning body shall submit its written
recommendation with respect to the proposed urban renewal plan
to the municipality within sixty days after receipt of the plan
for review; upon receipt of the recommendations of the plan-
ning body or, if no recommendations are received within said
sixty days, then without such recommendations, the municipality
may proceed with a public hearing on the proposed urban renewal
project. The municipality shall hold a public hearing on an urban
renewal project after public notice thereof by publication in a
newspaper having a general circulation within the corporate limits
of the municipality. The notice shall describe the time, date, place
and purpose of the hearing, shall generally identify the urban re-
newal area covered by the plan, and shall outline the general scope
of the urban renewal project under consideration. Following such
hearing, the municipality 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 accom-
modations within their means and without undue hardship to such
families; (2) the urban renewal plan substantially conforms to
the master plan of the municipality as a whole; and (3) the urban
renewal plan will afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the
sound needs of the municipality as a whole, for the rehabilitation
or redevelopment of the urban renewal area by private enterprise.

(b)    An urban renewal plan may be modified at any time, pro-
vided 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 municipality 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 modification will substantially change the urban
renewal plan as previously approved by the municipality, the modifi-
cation shall be formally approved by the municipality as in the case
of an original plan.

(c)    Upon the approval by the municipality of an urban re-
newal 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 municipality may then cause such plan
or modification to be carried out in accordance with its terms.

6. Disposal of Property in Urban Renewal Area

(a) The municipality 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, educa-
tional 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 running 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
subheading. The purchasers or lessees and their successors and as-
signs shall be obligated to devote such real property only to the uses
specified in the urban renewal plan, and may be obligated to comply
with such other requirements as the municipality may determine to