Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Administration › Chapter Adm 93 - SMALL CITIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM FOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter I - General Provisions › Section Adm 93.03 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1)
				"Application" means an application for CDBG funds under this chapter.
(2) "Blight" has the meaning set forth in s.
				66.1331(3)
				(a), Stats.
Note:
Section
				  66.1331(3)
				  (a), Stats., reads: "Blighted area" means any
				  area, including a slum area, in which a majority of the structures are
				  residential or in which there is a predominance of buildings or improvements,
				  whether residential or nonresidential, and which, by reason of dilapidation,
				  deterioration, age or obsolescence, inadequate provision for ventilation,
				  light, air, sanitation, or open spaces, high density of population and
				  overcrowding, or the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by
				  fire and other causes, or any combination of these factors, is conducive to ill
				  health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency and
				  crime, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals or
				  welfare.
(3) "Blight
				elimination and brownfield redevelopment program" means the blight elimination
				and brownfield redevelopment program administered under subch. V.
(4) "Blighted property" has the meaning set
				forth in s.
				66.1333(2m)
				(bm), Stats. For the purposes of this
				chapter, the definition of blighted property shall apply to cities, villages,
				towns, and counties.
Note:
Section
				  66.1333(2m)
				  (bm), Stats., reads: "Blighted property"
				  means any property within a city, whether residential or nonresidential, which
				  by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age or obsolescence, inadequate
				  provisions for ventilation, light, air or sanitation, high density of
				  population and overcrowding, or the existence of conditions which endanger life
				  or property by fire and other causes, or any combination of such factors, is
				  conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile
				  delinquency or crime, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals
				  or welfare, or any property which by reason of faulty lot layout in relation to
				  size, adequacy, accessibility or usefulness, insanitary or unsafe conditions,
				  deterioration of site or other improvements, diversity of ownership, tax or
				  special assessment delinquency exceeding the fair market value of the land,
				  defective or unusual conditions of title, or the existence of conditions which
				  endanger life or property by fire and other causes, or any combination of such
				  factors, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of a city, retards
				  the provisions of housing accommodations or constitutes an economic or social
				  liability and is a menace to the public health, safety, morals or welfare in
				  its present condition and use, or any property which is predominantly open and
				  which because of obsolete platting, diversity of ownership, deterioration of
				  structures or of site improvements, or otherwise, substantially impairs or
				  arrests the sound growth of the community.
(5) "Blighted site or brownfield site
				redevelopment project" means any work or undertaking by a local government to
				acquire a blighted or brownfield site, to conduct an environmental audit, to
				engage in environmental remediation, and to raze, demolish, remove,
				reconstruct, renovate, or rehabilitate existing buildings, structures, or other
				improvements to promote use of a blighted or brownfield site by a business or
				person for purposes that will result in end uses with a taxable value in
				accordance with an approved blighted or brownfield site redevelopment
				plan.
(6) "Blighted site or
				brownfield site" means an abandoned, idle, or underused industrial or
				commercial facility or site in a blighted area, or that qualifies as a blighted
				property, the expansion or redevelopment of which is adversely affected by
				actual or perceived environmental pollution.
(7) "CDBG funds" means community development
				block grant funds awarded to the department by the federal government under
				42 USC
				5301 to
				5319
(8) "Department" means the
				department of administration.
(9)
				"Economic development program" means the economic development program
				administered under subch. III.
(10)
				"Eligible local government" means a local government that is eligible to apply
				for and receive CDBG funds under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
				Development's State and Small Cities Program pursuant to
				24
				CFR 570.3.
(11) "Emergency grant program" means the
				program administered under subch. VI.
(12) "Environmental audit" means an
				investigation, analysis, and monitoring of a brownfield site to determine the
				existence and extent of actual or potential environmental pollution.
(13) "Environmental pollution" has the
				meaning set forth in s.
				291.01(4),
				Stats.
Note:
Section
				  291.01(4),
				  Stats., defines "environmental pollution" to mean the contamination or
				  rendering unclean or impure the air, land or waters of the state, or making the
				  same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or
				  deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.
(14) "Environmental remediation activities"
				has the meaning set forth in s.
				238.13(1)
				(d), Stats.
Note:
Section
				  238.13(1)
				  (d), Stats., reads: "Environmental
				  remediation activities" means investigation, analysis and monitoring of a
				  brownfields facility or site to determine the existence and extent of actual or
				  potential environmental pollution; abating, removing or containing
				  environmental pollution at a brownfields facility or site; or restoring soil or
				  groundwater at a brownfields facility or site.
(15) "Full-time job" has the meaning set
				forth in s.
				71.07(2dx)
				(a) 4, Stats.
Note:
Section
				  71.07(2dx) (a)
				  4 reads: "Full-time job" means a regular,
				  non-seasonal full-time position in which an individual, as a condition of
				  employment, is required to work at least 2,080 hours per year, including paid
				  leave and holidays, and for which the individual receives pay that is equal to
				  at least 150% of the federal minimum wage and receives benefits that are not
				  required by federal or state law. "Full-time job" does not include initial
				  training before an employment position begins.
(16) "HUD" means the U.S. Department of
				Housing and Urban Development.
(17)
				"Local government" means a city, village, town, or county that is in a
				nonentitlement area as defined in
				24
				CFR 570.3 and is not eligible to directly
				apply for or participate in the federal community development block grant
				entitlement program.
(18) "Low to
				moderate household income" means the median household income in the county
				where the local government is located, as reported by the latest U.S. census
				and updated periodically by HUD.
(19) "Municipality" means a local government
				that is eligible for CDBG funds under s.
				Adm
				93.02.
(20) "Net mill rate" means the total of all
				property taxes levied by local governments against a given property for all
				purposes less general property tax relief payments divided by the estimated
				market value of taxable property in the municipality.
(21) "Person" means an individual,
				partnership, corporation, nonprofit organization, city, village, town, county,
				or trustee, including a trustee in bankruptcy.
(21m) "Program income" has the meaning set
				forth in s.
				24 C.F.R
				570.489.
Note:
The definition of "program income,"
				  including applicable exceptions, is too lengthy to be quoted in full here. A
				  summary of the definition of the term "program income" is all gross income
				  received by a unit of general local government, or a subrecipient of a unit of
				  general local government, that was generated from the use of CDBG funds.
(22) "Public facilities economic
				development program" means the public facilities economic development program
				administered under subch. IV.
(23)
				"Public facilities plan" means a written plan for proposed project for which an
				eligible local government may seek funding under subch. VII.
(24) "Public facilities program" means the
				annual public facilities program administered under subch. II.
(25) "Residential utility rate" means for
				areas served by public water and sanitary sewer service, the average annual
				household utility rate paid for water and sanitary sewer services determined by
				dividing the total gross annual residential water and sewer revenue collected
				for the preceding calendar year by the number of households, as reported by the
				latest U.S. census and updated periodically by the U.S. department of
				commerce.
(26) "Site redevelopment
				plan" means a plan adopted by a local government for the acquisition,
				clearance, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and future use of a blighted or
				brownfield site.