1300                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                           CH. 646

renewal plan for slum or blighted areas in the municipality, and
shall formally approve such plan. Prior to its approval of an urban
renewal project, the municipality shall submit such plan to the
governing body of the municipality, for review and recommendations
as to its conformity with the master plan for the development of
the 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 planning
body or, if no recommendations are received within said sixty days,
then without such recommendations, the municipality may then
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, 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 the hearing, the
municipality may approve an urban renewal project and the plan
therefore, 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 substantially conforms to the master plan of the
municipality as a whole; and (3) the urban renewal plan affords
maximum opportunity, consistent with the sound needs of the munic-
ipality as a whole, for the rehabilitation or redevelopment of the
urban renewal area by private enterprise.

(b)    Change. 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 con-
ditioned 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 modification shall be formally approved by the municipality as
in the case of the original plan.

(c)    Effect. Upon the approval by the municipality 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 municipality may then cause such plan or
modification to be carried out in accordance with its terms.

63-38 Disposal of Property in area

(a) Powers. The municipality may sell, lease or otherwise trans-
fer 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 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