New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle S - Division of Housing and Community Renewal › Chapter V - Urban Renewal › Subchapter A - Urban Renewal Assistance Program › Part 1806 - State Requirements For A Workable Program For Community Improvement › Section 1806.1 - Additional workable program requirements

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) In addition to the submittal to the
					 Division of Housing and Community Renewal of one copy of the documentation
					 required by the federal government as proof of the approval of its workable
					 program, as defined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development,
					 formerly the Housing and Home Finance Agency, a municipality making application
					 for a State loan, periodic subsidy or capital grant shall also submit
					 documentation showing that it has fulfilled the additional workable program
					 requirements that follow. The purposes of these requirements are to insure that
					 the municipality's urban renewal program (1) will be carried out in conformity
					 with both the letter and the spirit of the State laws prohibiting
					 discrimination in housing; (2) will promote the sound growth and development of
					 communities through positive advancement of the principle of equality of
					 opportunity; and (3) will reflect a policy of open occupancy. A policy of open
					 occupancy shall mean the planning of land re-use in the project area in a
					 manner that will not tend to perpetuate, or to establish, a pattern of
					 segregation inside or outside the project area.
(b)
(1)
					 Codes and ordinances. In order to insure the existence of sound standards for
					 new construction and for the adequate maintenance of existing structures, a
					 municipality shall adopt, if it has not already done so, the State Building
					 Construction Code [see Chapter I of this Title] or an acceptable building code.
					 A municipality shall also submit a description of the procedures to be used in
					 the enforcement of maintenance standards for existing housing and a definitive
					 schedule for the implementation of its code administration program, by
					 neighborhoods or otherwise. It is recommended that a municipality consider the
					 adoption of the State Model Housing Code or comparable housing codes or
					 ordinances.
(2) Comprehensive
					 community plan. In addition to assessing its physical resources and defining
					 long-range planning decisions for land use, major thoroughfares, and community
					 facilities, a municipality shall, to effectuate the purposes of these
					 additional workable program requirements, also assess its social needs and
					 consider the impact of its planning decisions on those needs.
(3) Neighborhood analyses. Neighborhood
					 analyses and planning must, to effectuate the purposes of these additional
					 workable program requirements, take into consideration social factors as well
					 as physical factors in the planning process.
(4) Administrative organization. The
					 municipality shall adopt a specific and detailed program for the administration
					 of the urban renewal project which will assure the availability of sufficient
					 personnel to carry out its defined physical and social planning
					 responsibilities, including code enforcement functions and programs for the
					 relocation of families displaced by public action. It shall also demonstrate
					 the existence of clear-cut lines of authority and responsibility for the
					 achievement of the objectives and requirements of the urban renewal program,
					 specifically including the objective of open occupancy.
(5) Financing. A municipality must
					 demonstrate that it has the financial capacity to carry out all phases of the
					 workable program, including such additional workable program requirements as
					 are set forth in this section.
(6)
					 Housing for displaced families. Where dislocation of individuals of [sic]
					 families is necessary and unavoidable in connection with the execution of an
					 urban renewal program, or the enforcement of building and housing codes, or the
					 construction of public improvements or other government action, the community
					 has a clear responsibility to use its public and private resources and
					 influences to assure the relocation of such individuals or families in standard
					 housing in a suitable environment, without regard to race, creed or national
					 origin. The municipality shall submit specific evidence showing (i) that the
					 listing of vacancies (rental or sales) in housing to be used as a relocation
					 resource, whether within or outside the urban renewal area, will be made
					 available to all families on the basis of nondiscrimination, equal opportunity
					 and open occupancy; and (ii) that the tenant selection programs for publicly
					 assisted housing projects in the community follow the policy of
					 nondiscrimination, equal opportunity and open occupancy. The municipality shall
					 undertake a community-wide information program to explain and foster a policy
					 of open occupancy as part of its relocation program.
(7) Citizen participation. To create a
					 framework for citizen participation in which citizen leadership and initiative
					 and public opinion in its broadest sense will be brought to bear on the work of
					 the local public agency, a citizens advisory committee shall be established to
					 consider the goals and objectives for the planning of community-wide programs,
					 specific urban renewal projects and implementation of its defined workable
					 program. The membership of the citizens advisory committee shall be
					 representative of groups and interests existing within the community. The
					 format and program of work of the committee shall be such as to encourage
					 active participation by its membership in the planning process and a free flow
					 of information among the committee, the local public agency and the community
					 at large. The committee shall have such subcommittees as may be necessary. It
					 shall meet on a regular schedule and be provided with adequate assistance. The
					 citizens advisory committee and its subcommittees shall include adequate
					 representation of minority groups within the community.
(8) Letter of intent. The municipality shall
					 include in its application for State financial assistance a statement of its
					 intent to carry out, in connection with its urban renewal activities, the
					 policies hereinbefore stated of
(i) conformity
					 with the letter and the spirit of State laws prohibiting discrimination in
					 housing;
(ii) promotion of sound
					 growth and development of the municipality through positive advancement of the
					 principle of equality of opportunity; and
(iii) adoption of a policy of open
					 occupancy.