As used in this part 8, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) Authority means a downtown development authority created pursuant
to the provisions of this part 8 in any municipality of this state and any successor to
its functions, authority, rights, and obligations.
(1.5) Blighted area means an area within the central business district
which, by reason of the presence of a substantial number of deteriorated or
deteriorating structures, predominance of defective or inadequate street layout,
faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness,
unsanitary or unsafe conditions, deterioration of site or other improvements,
unusual topography, defective or unusual conditions of title rendering the title
nonmarketable, or the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by
fire and other causes, or any combination of such factors, substantially impairs or
arrests the sound growth of the central business district, retards the provision of
housing accommodations, or constitutes an economic or social liability and is a
menace to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare in its present condition and
use.
(2) Board means the board of the authority.
(3) Central business district means the area in a municipality which is and
traditionally has been the location of the principal business, commercial, financial,
service, and governmental center, zoned and used accordingly.
(3.5) Development project or project means undertakings and activities
of an authority or municipality as authorized in this part 8 in a plan of development
area for the development or redevelopment of said area in accordance with a plan
of development.
(4) Director means the chief executive officer of the authority.
(4.5) District means the authority or the area within which the authority
may exercise its powers.
(5) Downtown means a specifically defined area of the municipality in the
central business district, established by the governing body of the municipality
pursuant to this part 8.
(5.5) Governing body means the city council, town council, board of
trustees, or other governing board of any municipality of this state.
(6) Landowner means the owner in fee of any undivided interest in real
property or any improvement permanently affixed thereto within the district. As
used in this part 8, owner in fee includes a contract purchaser obligated to pay
general taxes, an heir, and a devisee under a will admitted to probate and does not
include a contract seller of property with respect to which the contract purchaser is
deemed to be the owner in fee for purposes of this subsection (6).
(6.2) Lessee means the holder of a leasehold interest in real property
within the district. As used in this part 8, leasehold interest does not include a
license or mere contract right to use real property within the district.
(6.4) Planning board means the agency designated by the governing body
of the municipality which is chiefly responsible for planning in the municipality; and,
if no separate agency exists, planning board means the governing body of the
municipality.
(6.6) Plan of development means a plan, as it exists from time to time, for
the development or redevelopment of a downtown development area, including all
properly approved amendments thereto.
(6.8) Plan of development area means an area in the central business
district which the board and the governing body designate as appropriate for a
development project.
(7) Public body means the state of Colorado or any municipality, quasi-municipal corporation, board, commission, authority, or other political subdivision or
public corporate body of the state.
(8) Public facility includes but is not limited to any streets, parks, plazas,
parking facilities, playgrounds, pedestrian malls, rights-of-way, structures,
waterways, bridges, lakes, ponds, canals, utility lines or pipes, and buildings,
including access routes to any of the foregoing, designed for use by the public
generally or used by any public agency with or without charge, whether or not the
same is revenue-producing.
(9) Qualified elector means a resident, a landowner, or a lessee as said
terms are defined in this section. Any landowner or lessee which is not a natural
person may vote only if it designates by some official action a representative
thereof to cast its ballot. This subsection (9) shall not be construed so as to permit
any qualified elector to cast more than one vote, even though any person qualified
or lawfully designated may be entitled to cast the vote of more than one qualified
elector.
(10) Resident means one who is a citizen of the United States and a
resident of the state of Colorado, eighteen years of age or older, who makes his
primary dwelling place within the district.