North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 04 - COMMERCE › Chapter 19 - RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter L - NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM › Section .0500 - COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PROJECTS › Section 19L .0501 - DESCRIPTION

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) The Community
				  Revitalization category includes activities in which a majority of funds is
				  directed towards improving, preserving or developing residential areas. All
				  eligible CDBG activities may be undertaken for the purpose of community
				  revitalization. Applications for funding may involve single or multiple
				  activities, addressing one or more needs in the area. All Community
				  Revitalization activities, must be carried out within defined project areas.
				  Community Revitalization funds shall be distributed to eligible units of local
				  government on a competitive basis. Community Revitalization projects shall be
				  evaluated against other Community Revitalization project proposals.
(b) The Community Revitalization category
				  includes a subcategory for Revitalization Strategies activities which provides
				  funds to selected governments to address multiple need in high poverty areas.
				  This new subcategory shall provide funding to help carry out a long term
				  revitalization strategy. Up to three hundred fifty thousand dollars ($350,000)
				  per year, shall be awarded to eligible local government to carry out a strategy
				  over three to five years. Revitalization Strategies funds may be used for any
				  of the following components as part of strategies to address high poverty
				  arrears in Tier 1/Tier 2 counties and non-entitlement municipalities with State
				  Development Zones: housing, public services, economic development, public
				  facilities, infrastructure. Activities must be targeted toward a defined
				  geographical area that has at least 25% poverty and must involve collaboration
				  with community/economic development organizations and partners.
(c) The Community Revitalization category
				  includes a subcategory for concentrated needs activities which provides funds
				  for improving, preserving, or developing residential neighborhoods.
				  Concentrated Needs may not include more than one project. A project may have
				  two sub-areas. Projects may have single or multiple activities except a project
				  may not have only water and sewer activities. The maximum award amount for a
				  Concentrated Needs application is seven hundred thousand dollars ($700,000).
				  The highest priority is given to housing needs, substandard housing, lack of
				  water/sewer, and the second priority is given to neighborhood needs (streets
				  and drainage). Concentrated needs funds can be used for rehabilitation,
				  acquisition, clearance, relocation, disposition, water and wastewater, and
				  streets and drainage.
Authority
					 G.S.
					 143B-10;
					 143B-431;
					 42 U.S.C.A.
					 5301;
					 24 C.F.R. 570.483;
Eff. July 1, 1982;
Amended Eff. August 1, 1998; March 1, 1995; June
					 1, 1994; June 1, 1993; October 1, 1990;
Temporary Amendment Eff.
					 January 1, 2001;
Amended Eff. August 1, 2002;
Pursuant
					 to G.S.
					 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
					 substantive public interest Eff. March 6,
					 2018.