Ohio Administrative Code › Title 122:1 - Impacted Cities Program › Chapter 122:1-1 - Certification Criteria and Procedures › Section 122:1-1-02 - Application and criteria

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
			 Applications for workable program certification shall be signed by the
			 executive officer of the applying municipal corporation and shall set forth
			 each element required by the criteria of this rule in sufficient detail to
			 enable the director of the development
			 services agency to make a determination as to
			 whether the requirements of this rule are met. Reasonable supporting
			 documentation and information may be required upon the request of the director
			 of the development services agency.
(B) The director of the development services
			 agency shall certify the workable program of a municipal corporation
			 where the director
								 finds that the requirements of this rule are met
			 and that each criterion set forth in paragraphs (B)(1) to (B)(6) of this rule
			 is substantially satisfied.
(1) The municipal
			 corporation shall have adopted or be enforcing a municipal building code or
			 other effective enforceable regulations which (a) meet the minimum standards
			 set forth in the Ohio building code and all model codes adopted by the Ohio
			 board of building standards pursuant to section
			  3781.10  of the Revised Code as
			 they are or may hereafter be amended and (b) do not unduly restrict or prohibit
			 the use of new materials and methods of construction.
(2) The municipal corporation shall have
			 adopted or be enforcing a housing code, or other effective enforceable
			 regulations used by the municipal corporation to maintain safe and sanitary
			 housing, and have in effect a program of housing, building, and related code
			 enforcement on a priority basis. The program shall include efforts (a) to
			 eliminate blight in basically sound but deteriorating areas, and (b) to deal
			 with serious threats to health and safety in blighted areas.
(3) The municipal corporation shall have in
			 effect a continuing planning and programming process for orderly community
			 development, which shall include the following elements:
(a) Alternative solutions available for the
			 social, racial, economic, and physical problems of slums and blighted areas in
			 the municipal corporation. Those solutions shall address the problems of poor
			 and minority citizens and the advancement of equal opportunity, and shall
			 include efforts to eliminate discriminatory barriers in the housing supply and
			 to assure the availability of housing on an open occupancy basis.
(b) Land use planning without unreasonable
			 constraints on low and moderate income housing.
(c) Efforts to develop solutions to the
			 nonphysical problems associated with slums and blighted areas. Evidence that
			 consideration has been given to the needs of minority citizens in planning,
			 administrative resources, and capital programs shall be provided.
(d) A completed work program based upon
			 census tracts or other identifiable areas which analyzes:
(i) Housing conditions, including the
			 location and extent of blight;
(ii)
			 Characteristics of families affected by poor housing;
(iii) The adequacy of public and private
			 facilities and services;
(iv)
			 Conditions in non-residential areas, including the location and extent of
			 blight; and
(v) Factors causing
			 blight.
(e) A completed
			 work program based upon census tracts or other identifiable areas which
			 proposes:
(i) Plans to eliminate present
			 blight and future blight; and
(ii)
			 A schedule of priorities for such plans.
(f) Due consideration of the need to provide
			 environmental amenities.
In evaluating the planning and programming process, the
				director of the development
				services agency shall consider the following:
				budget and staff resources; relationships between the decision making and the
				planning processes; utilization of existing community resources that impact
				upon effects made to expand existing resources where reasonably required; and
				the relationship of the elements in the process.
(4) The municipal corporation shall have
			 identified and analyzed the gap, if any, between the number of low and moderate
			 income families living in substandard housing, and the number of units existing
			 at prices or rentals within the means of such families. The analysis shall also
			 project total housing needs.
(5)
			 The municipal corporation shall have identified what administrative
			 capabilities exist or can be provided to deal with displaced families and
			 individuals, and what housing resources are available within the municipality
			 and its environs. The workable program need not deal with such administrative
			 capabilities and housing resources as they relate to specific
			 projects.
(6) The municipal
			 corporation shall have taken action to assure continuing opportunity for the
			 involvement of citizens, including the poor and minorities, in:
(a) The development of the workable program
			 goals and objectives;
(b) The
			 planning and programming process; and
(c) Any program to expand low and moderate
			 income housing.
Meaningful citizen participation may be established by
				involvement in planning, evaluating, monitoring and influencing program
				development and implementation, or by other appropriate means.