Current through all regulations passed and filed through December 16, 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.
