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Planning and Building Department, Planning Division, Long Range Planning Unit, Housing, Community and Economic Development Program, recommending the Board of Supervisors adopt a Resolution 049-2020 to:
1) Authorize the submittal of a 2019 Infill Infrastructure Grant Program application to the State of California Department of Community Development to provide up to $1,000,000 as gap funding for infrastructure improvements required for affordable multifamily residential infill development; and
2) If awarded, authorize the Director of the Planning and Building Department, or designee, contingent upon approval by County Counsel and Risk Management, to execute the grant agreement and subsequent amendments thereto that do not affect the dollar amount or the term and to sign other grant-related documents.
FUNDING: State funding authorized by Assembly Bill 101 (Chapter 159, Statutes of 2019) and Part 12.5 (commencing with section 53559) of Division 31 of the Health and Safety Code.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
The State of California Department of Housing and Community Development (the “Department”) issued a Notice of Funding Availability (“NOFA”) dated October 30, 2019, for the Infill Infrastructure Grant (IIG) Program established under Assembly Bill 101 (Chapter 159, Statutes of 2019) and Part 12.5 (commencing with section 53559) of Division 31 of the Health and Safety Code, which authorizes the Department to approve funding allocations utilizing monies made available by the State Legislature, subject to the terms and conditions of the statute and the IIG Guidelines.
Eligible applicants for IIG grant assistance include a city, county, city and county, or public housing authority that has jurisdiction over a qualifying infill area, or a nonprofit or for-profit developer of a qualifying infill project applying jointly with a city, county, city and county, or public housing authority that has jurisdiction over a qualifying infill area.
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