ACTION REQUESTED:
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Communication from the City Manager and Community Development Director with a Request to RECEIVE AND FILE a Clarification Related to the SOUTH VILLAGE AND EAST VILLAGE HOUSING REHABILITATION PROGRAM. (Council Districts 1 & 3)
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BACKGROUND: Rehabilitation services for owner-occupied properties within the boundaries of the East Village and South Village TIF Districts will be offered during 2017. Council has already approved the funding and general outline of these programs. Applications for the East Village program opened in March. Applications for the South Village program will open on April 3.
The purpose of this communication is to provide additional clarification as to specific aspects of both programs. The clarifications are as follows:
1. The application for both programs states that at the end of the assistance, "no code violations will be present." While this would be an ideal situation, the capacity to resolve all code violations with the limited funds available per property is perhaps too optimistic. As such, the approach for both programs will be to address code violations first, and in order of severity.
2. The funding source for both programs is TIF revenue. The TIF Statute is quite broad in defining the type of work that can be carried out on private properties; "Costs of rehabilitation, reconstruction or repair or remodeling of existing public or private buildings..."
However, the establishment of a TIF District is reliant on certain qualifying criteria related to properties, as listed below:
(A) Dilapidation. An advanced state of disrepair or neglect of necessary repairs to the primary structural components of buildings or improvements in such a combination that a documented building condition analysis determines that major repair is required or the defects are so serious and so extensive that the buildings must be removed.
(B) Obsolescence. The condition or process of falling into disuse. Structures h...
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