California Code of Regulations › Title 25 - Housing and Community Development › Division 1 - Housing and Community Development › Chapter 7 - Department of Housing and Community Development Programs › Subchapter 21 - Enterprise Zone Program › Article 12 - Targeted Tax Area › Section 8448 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to the regulations
						contained in this article, in addition to the definitions contained in
						Government Code section 7072:
(a)
					 "Act" means the Targeted Tax Area Act, Government Code section 7097.
(b) "Agency" means the Department of Housing
					 and Community Development.
(c)
					 "Applicant" means a city, a county, or a city(ies) and county that submits an
					 Application to the Agency to have a geographical area in its Jurisdiction
					 designated as a Targeted Tax Area. A county and any cities within the county
					 may apply jointly as a single Applicant provided that a portion of the
					 Application Area is located within each Applicant's jurisdiction.
(d) "Application" means the written
					 application submitted to the Agency, by an Applicant. The Application shall
					 contain the information described in sections 8448.4, 8448.5, 8448.6, 8448.7,
					 and 8448.8.
(e) "Application Area"
					 means the geographical area for which the Applicant is seeking Conditional
					 Designation. The Application Area shall be wholly contained within the Eligible
					 Area identified in the Application.
(f) "Community" means the geographical area
					 within a county, a city, or a county and city(ies) within that county, where is
					 all or part of the Eligible Area identified in the Application.
(g) "Conditional Designation" means
					 designation by the Agency of an Applicant's Application Area as a Targeted Tax
					 Area, subject to the Final Applicant's completion of the conditions necessary
					 for Final Designation specified in the Conditional Designation Document
					 described in section 8448.12.
(h)
					 "Decennial Census" means the population survey of the United States conducted
					 every ten years by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
					 Census.
(i) "Designation Process"
					 means all steps described in sections 8448.1 through 8448.15 which are required
					 for Final Designation, including determination of eligibility, submission of an
					 Application, Conditional Designation and Final Designation.
(j) "Distressed Area" means a geographical
					 area that meets at least four of the following requirements:
(1) The average unemployment rate exceeded
					 7.5 percent in 1995;
(2) The
					 average unemployment rate exceeded 7.5 percent in 1996;
(3) The median family income does not exceed
					 $32,700, using the most currently available data at the time of Application
					 deadline.
(4) The percentage of
					 persons below the poverty level is at least 17.5 percent, using the most
					 currently available data at the time of Application deadline;
(5) The geographical area ranks in the top
					 quartile among California counties, in the percentage of population receiving
					 Aid for Families with Dependent Children benefits, based on the Cash Grant
					 Caseload Movement and Expenditures Report, July 1995 to June 1996 published by
					 the California Department of Social Services.