(A) Applications for workable program
certification will be signed by the executive officer of the applying municipal
corporation and set forth each element required by the criteria of this rule in
sufficient detail to enable the director of development 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 development.
(B) The director of development is to
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 has adopted or is 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 the use of new
materials and methods of construction.
(2) The municipal
corporation has adopted or is 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 includes 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 has in effect a continuing planning and programming process for
orderly community development, which includes 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 has to address the problems of poor and minority
citizens and the advancement of equal opportunity, and 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 are to 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 development considers 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 has 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 is to also project total housing needs.
(5) The municipal
corporation has 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 has 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.