[Amended 11-4-2008 by L.L. No. 10-2008]
The head of the Bureau of Community Development shall be the Director of Community Development who shall be appointed by the Mayor; provided, however, that the Director shall be appointed on the basis of his or her qualifications and experience for the office. The Director so appointed may be removed by the Mayor.
The Director of Community Development shall be charged with and exercise the following powers and duties:
A. 
Make surveys and plans for and estimates of the cost of the redevelopment, through clearance, replanning and reconstruction, of substandard and insanitary areas in the city, and recommend to the Commissioner of Planning and Development, specific methods, programs and projects for the elimination of such conditions by urban renewal or redevelopment, through clearance, replanning, reconstruction and rehabilitation, or a combination of these and other methods.
B. 
Prepare and submit, at the direction of the Commissioner of Planning and Development, applications for the approval of the aforesaid programs or projects pursuant to any federal or state law under which subsidies, grants or grants-in-aid may be made to the city to accomplish such programs and projects, and administer such programs, subject to direction by the Commissioner.
C. 
Recommend to the Commissioner a long-range planning program for urban renewal and redevelopment of residential, commercial and industrial areas in the city.
D. 
Investigate, study and undertake ways and means of promoting and encouraging the prosperous development and protection of the interests and welfare of Yonkers business, industry and commerce.
E. 
Promote and encourage the location and development of new business in the city as well as the maintenance and expansion of existing business, and, for that purpose, seek the assistance of and cooperate with other governmental agencies and with private individuals and agencies both within and outside the city.
F. 
Plan and develop, in coordination with the Commissioner and in cooperation with private individuals and agencies and other governmental agencies, an effective business information service for the assistance of business, industry and commerce within the city and for the encouragement of business, industry and commerce outside the city to use business facilities within the city.
G. 
Assist in the relocation of persons, families and small businesses displaced as a result of fire or other emergency or as a result of any city, state or federal activity.
H. 
Perform all those duties and administer all those program previously assigned to the Community Development Agency, unless any of such functions are reassigned by provision of this Article.
I. 
Exercise such other powers and perform such other duties as may be conferred upon him or her by the provisions of this Article and as directed by the Commissioner.
[Amended 11-4-2008 by L.L. No. 10-2008]
All persons now employed in the Community Development Agency of the City of Yonkers are transferred without change of status, grade or salary to the Bureau of Community Development in the Department of Planning and Development.
All the books, records, papers and documents and other property of the Community Development Agency shall become the property of the Bureau of Community Development.