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Introduced by Councilor Soucy, September 34, 1979
CITY OF BANGOR
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t➢ ization to Execute. ,end F- 11ile
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of the Housing end-Co®aity Development Act of 19W
., BgGs,(iiey Rosroid of Me IXryolBagor:
ORDERED,
THAT,. the City Cw¢c11 of Bangor, ea the 1gca1 govgMingtogy, hereby
authorizes and directs the City IAanager to submit to and file with the
Departaent of Housing end'Urban Develolment a preapplicatiou for Co®mity
Develoiment Block Grant funds under the Sma11 Cities Program as provided
for in Title I of the Hovainn-aml Community Development Act of 1977, a mpg
of Mich is on file with Ehe City Clerk, and to prdvide'such additional
information end furnish such decamcats as may be required by the Department
of"Housing.end Urban Development.
BE TT FUHTHHH OHDl:HIM, THAT, the City Manager is hereby
appointed as the authorised representative of the City of Bangor to act
in connectim with suchpreapplication of the City of Bangm for Federal
Small Cities funds. under Title I oP the Causing and C®unity, Develolmeat
Act of 1977.
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Smell Cities Comprehensive Program
Preapplication Guide
Supp1®ental Data
This suggested format is intended for use in conjunction
with the Area Office Review Process Statement and the
Federal Regulations for Small Cities (24 CFR 570 Subpart F)
WOM; All responses should be as brief as passible. I£ any additional
infonmation is necessary, it should be completed an the back of the Page
the response is on.
I.
Criteria -for -Selection.
Select four program design criteria as described in section 570.424(e)(1)
Check
one:
Freapplicant Wame City
of Bangor
those Deals.
Comprehensive
Total amount requested $
1,2009000
Criterion selected
_
Multiyear Comprehensive
WOM; All responses should be as brief as passible. I£ any additional
infonmation is necessary, it should be completed an the back of the Page
the response is on.
I.
Criteria -for -Selection.
Select four program design criteria as described in section 570.424(e)(1)
of the CIBC Regulations. Choose
the criteria which best identify the
needs of the community and allows
a comprehensive approach to edlressing
those Deals.
Since only the letter identifying
each criterion is listed, you should
be certain that the correct criterion 1a included here.
Criterion selected
1) 570.424(e)(1)(1)
Supports comprehensive neighborhood
stabilization and/or revitalizatim in
low- and moderate -income areas or
the housing supply for low-er3 moderat-res
iaeeme persons.
2) 570.424(e)(1)(iv)
the expansion.esion. Offor
Supports the
pho$�ng
low- t
3) 570.424(e)(1)(vii)
Benefits low- anAl moderate -income persons
by removing slums or blighted conditions.
4) 570.424(e)(1)(x)
Resolves a serionsthreat to the health
r safety of low -and moderate -income
persona.
I1. Problems/Needs to be addressed by Program
The neighborhood revitalization needs of the City of Bangor include the need
to upgrade or eliminate mbetantial numbers of oda I, dilapidated and rapidly
deteriorating horsing s. detract Pram neighborhood and community environments
and which are perpetuating and accelerating neighborhood deterioration in Census
Tracts 2: 39 41 5 and 6. An improved mud expanded housing supply is needed to
provide a variety of housing types to serve diverse ccmmunity needs especially
for low- and moderate -income families. Also in these neighborhoods, there is the
need to improve axisti!g public facilities era street systems; to eliminate poor
or mixed lend utilization and non -conforming uses and to eliminate health and
safety hazazas.
The City of Assets's Community Development Block Grant Fannia have been
concentrated in the city's three most heavily blighted residential neighborhoods:
thelaacow-York NDP area in census tract 2, the Third -Mein NCP area in canesus
tract 6 and the Curve Street Area NCP in census tract 4. since 1975 Community
Development Holdadd. Discretionary anSmall Cities Hands have been used
aladat exclusively to stabilize and revitalise these neighborhoods.
The area of the City which is vow in moat need of revitalization is the
East Side Neighborhood Conservation Area located principally in wasus tract 2.
This neighborhood is predmflnately residential in character, although there az
several non-residential and mixed saes located in most part along State Street•
The City of Bangor's comprehensive Plan of 1969 identified this neighborhood as
being blighted and is need of renewal activities with the aid of federal assistance.
Recent studied verify that in terms of the physical condition of the structures,
ire rated er�d mined land uses environmental influenced the condition of
public facilities. and overcrowding of residential structures the ar a is lighted
and is progressively deteriorating.
A preliminary survey of the residential structure in the East Side Neighbor-
hood Conservation Area indicate that the following conditions currently exist:
Residential Dwelling
Structures Units (est.)
Total 225 334
Meet code standards 67 99
In cede violation 152 226
Require clearance 6 9
According to this survey, 158 residential structures containing approximately 235
dwelling wits or 70.n of the residences in the East Side Neighborhood Conservation
Area are in Violation of the City's Housing, Building, Plumbing and Fire Codes BOCA).
Housing abandonment is also evident in that b substandard residential structures have
been unoccupied for m extended time.
The City Health Department conducted a comprehensive lead-based paint survey
In 1971-98. The surrey results indicate that there is a significant incidence of
lead-based paint in the Best Side Neighborhood Conservation Area. Of the 201
neighborhood resideatial structures surveyed, 33 or ]b.4$ of the structures con-
tained interlox paint with lead in concentrations greater than 2 milligrams pax.
square centimeter which is the maximum lead concentration alloved in domestic
paints by Federal and State law. Of those 33 structures. 63.6% were inhabited by
children soder 6 years of age when children are most likely to conaume lead-based
pa nt.
Other problems in the East Side Neighborhood Conservation Area include
inadequate setback from the street and es:cessive lot coverage. Twenty x sidential
structures on Merrimac Street east the wblic right-of-way and minimal land has been
arovided between those structures. This high concentration of residential structures
greatly increases threats from fires and promotes conditions of inadequate light,
air, ventilation and smitatim.
Based m estimates submitted by the City Engineer, needed public improvements
in the East Side Neighborhood Conservation Area include approximately 9 blocks of
street resurfacing and/or reconstruction, 8 blocks of new street evrba, blocks
of sidewalk resurfacing, 1 block of new esplanade, 5 new catch basins, and me
removal of two blocks of sidewalks. Sale modification in traffic flow patterns
needs to be a lished m 5 streets to reduce through traffic on evidential
streets. ecpresent deteriorated conditim of these public facilities acts as
a disincentive for private investment in the proper maintevence and revitalisation
of residential properties in the East Side Neigh rhood Conservation Area.
Me combination of all these adverse environmental and housing conditions
U detrimental to the public health. safety and welfare of the East Side Neighbor -
head Conservation Area residents and to the community at large.
Due to the above problems and needs, the City Council of the City of Bangor
has determined that the East Side Neighborhood Conservation Area is a blighted
and declining neighborhood and has assessed the community development end housing
needs of the area as being the following:
A. To ellminate older, deteriorated and badly dilapidated housing units
which threaten the public health aid safety sod which detract from the community
and neighborhood envirorment, to eliminate poor or inappropriate lead uses and to
decmH
rease the high density a residential structures and overered conditions
existing in the area thus providing more needed open space.
B. To upgrade and email the supply of decant, see and sanitary housing,
particularly for persons of low- and mederate-income through ease enforcement,
property rehabilitation assistance and clearance a substandard housing not suit-
able for rehabilitation.
C. To decmcentrate low r-Sncone housing by the acquisition and clearance
of substandard housing and by xelicstim of lower income occupants to other housing
situated throughout the commonalty that is decent, safe and sanitary.
D. To Correct defSciencves in public facilitiea Mich affect the public
health awl safety and MicY. SNvibit ¢eighboxhood revitalization and atabilivstSo¢
by prry aag for laprovamenta to existing public facilities suala as streets,
sidaxa p end Sewers.
(a)
ihmbering
corresponds to
line =bar Of
corresponding
activity on form
HUD -7067
Co®mity Develom®t Fm6rax
(b)
Acquisition Of real property: ApprOximate
l2 residential properties will. be
acquired by the City, 6 for the purpose
of rehabilitation and resale for 1ow-
ar3 ewderate-incone bausing, and 6 for
the purpose of clearance of dilapidated
structures.
Disposition of real property: Approximate:
l2 parcels of real property acquired in
activity #1 will be made wallable for
esale. The 6 reh bilitated residentia
properties will be resold for low- and
moderate-ine a homing. The 6 cleared
properties will be made available for
sale to adjoining property Owners to
increase their lot size to meet the
minim n lot size standard or made
available for resale for the purpose
of development of low- and mgderate-
incOme housing.
public Facilities and Improvements:
Street, curb,sidewalk, esplasede and
catch basin improvements on all or
portions Of lA streets serving a 1970
cannot neighborhood population of 1181.
Included are:
9,250 linier feet of curb.
b. 8,300 linier feet of sidewalk.
800 linier feet of esplanade.
d. 1,730 tons of asphalt street
overlay and patch.
e. 3,155 square yards of bituminov
concrete for street
reconstruction.
f. 14 catch basins.
A n-3
Lava enumeration districts:
E.D. 121• y of census
block 201 of E.D. 117, end
cercus blocks 101, 102,
103 and : of 104 in
E.D. 123.
estate emffieration districts:
E.D. 121; k oY cemm
block 201 of E.D. 117,
and census blocks 101,
102, 103 and q of 104
in E.D. 123.
Enumeration districts:
E.D. 121• t of cemm
black 201 in E.D. 117,
and census blocks 101,
1023 103 and Of 104
IS E.D. 123.
Comwanity Development Proge c
(c)
leafance activities: Approximately Eanmeration districts:
6 residenti9l structures containing E.D. 121 and canvas
6 occupied and 1 vacant dvellieg unit blocks ]A1; 1R, 103
via be acgalred and cleared and q of 104 in E.D.
123.
Relocation payments and assistance
will be made to occupants a 10
residential properties containing
13 dwelling Units acquired for
rebabilltatim or clearance.
n meratim districts:
E.D. 121 and ceases
blocks 1012 302P 103
and # of 104 in E.D.
123.
payments oP lose of rental income fox Enumeration districts:
one month each m two dwelling mats E.D. 121, census
from which relocation ie esaieted blocks 101: 1(D`a 103
order activity 8. and j of 104 in E.D.
123.
Rehabilitation and preservation Activit:
6 residential stroctares acquired
by the City ander activity #1 will
be rehabilitated for resale for lox -
and moderate -income. Upon cmpletia
of rehabilitation the 6 strnctares.
5of which are.currently vacant
w
ill certain approximately 12 Units
of low- and moderate -income hmsing.
Appronimstely 76 private reaidentlal
properties containing 112 dwe111n
Units which provide hmsiVE for
396 low- and mederate-income persons
will be provided rehabilitation
assistance through leans and
grants.
Cede Enforcement:
concentrated code enforcement will
be applied to all the neighborhood's
225 residential properties contains
approximately 334 dwelling Units
hoaxing a 1970 seance poprlatim of.
Enmeratim districts:
E.D. 121{ 1 a census
block 201 in E.D. 117.
and ceases blocks
101P 102P 1D3 and }
a 104 in E.D. M.
Inmmeratim districts:
E.D. 121• season
blocks 101a 102P 103
cad j of 104 in E.D.
123 and g of ceases
block 201 in E.D.
119.
Community Develo�ent Pzvgr�
(b) ce)
16 Planning and Urban E iranmentel
Design:
Development o4 a Cospxe}iensive
DE Oi®evt Plan.
17 ( General Administrationq General
Management, Oversight anxi
Cco nation, and Citizen
participation.
1$ Contingencies and/or Local Option
Activities.
A2-3-
A.
Deacribe the estimated
costs of the co®anity deveLslment program
to be carried out mita
the assistance
requested in this pre -
application. Explain
briefly how you
arrived at the cost estimates.
B.
List: the Caber of the activity in
column (a); the portion of the
coat using CDBG funds
in coluTo (b);
the portion of the cost using-
'
non CDB; funds in coLnsn (c); and, the source or basis for the
estimate in column (d).
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
CPCC Cost
Non CDK Cost
A ti 'ty #
entimate
estimate $
Source of estimate
1
203,622
0
M probable acquisition properties
identified; coat estimate Is 11D%
of current assessed value.
2
7,600
0
- $300 for property maneg®est a
each a 12 properties plus $4,000
Legal expenses.
31
236,772
0
City engineers estimate for needed
street, curb, esplanade, sidevalk
_
- and catch basin improvements
Including engineering costs.
4
24,000
0
6 probable clearance properties
identified; estimated cost a
$4,000 for each property.
8
1303815
0
3 -owner occupied @ $1`5`))500 each;
10 -tenant occupied @ yr,500 each;
salaries and fringe benefits
C39,315-
9
500
0
Estimate of $250 per month for
1 month each o£ 2 properties.
12
351,2/4
0
6 properties @ $5,000 each;
76. properties @ 3,396.42 each;
salaries and fringe benefits
$63.146. -
ltd
-26,285
0
Salaries and fringe benefits for
2 full-time and 1 part-time
employees.
16 -
%000
0
-City Planning Officer's estimate
of cast of staff time.
A 2-4
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
A tiviW
CDW Cost
Non CDW Coat
Cost
Activity #
estimate $
eatimate $
Source of estimate
17 163,303 o C.D. Fiscal Of£icer$s estimate
of salaries and fringe benefits,
citizen participation coats, and
other administrative coats including
supplies, office rental and
Printing coats.
18 48,829 0 4.069$ of total grant request.
C. In addition to the overall program costs reported above, multiyear
preappiicsnts moat list the activities (by comber) and their costs
by program year.
A 2-4
Year 1
Year 2
A tiviW
# Cost
Activity #
Cost
1
$121,774
1
$ 81,848
2
41433
2
3,167
31
1183127
31
118,645
4
6,"
4
16,wo
8
489469
8
82,346
9
250
9
250
12
147,710
12
203,564
12d
8,394
12d
17,891
16a
2,500
16a
23500
17
52,813
17
112,490
18
129530
18
36,299
Total:
$5252000
Total:
$675,000
A 2-4
V. Impact
o£ the proposed Program
(1)
Design Criterion:
570.424(e)(1)(i)
Impact: Activity #1 involves the City'a acquisition of 12 sub-
standard residential properties. 6 of these properties, 5 of which are
currently vacant, will be rehabilitated (activity #12) to contain approx-
imately 12 dwelling wits and, in activity #2, resold for low- and moderate -
income housing. The remaining 6 dilapidated residential structures will be
cleared (activity #4) and the resulting open lots will be made available, in
activity #2, to abutting property owners to increase their lot sizes to allow
open space between remaining residential structures. These activities
will increase housing opportmities for low- and moderate -income persons by
approximately 10 dwelling units, will co serve 5 currently vacant a one
inhibited substandard residential structures containing approximately 12
dwelling unite. Activity #12 will also provide loans and grants for rehabil-
itation of an estimated 76 private residential properties containing pprox-
imately 112 dwelling suite which provide housing for approximately 396 luw-
and moderate -income persona. Under activity #12d, c entrated code enforce-
ment will be applied to all the neighborhood's 225 residential properties
containing approximately 334 dwelling unite with the goal of achieving a
9% housing code compliance rate. Improvements to streets, curbs, side-
walks, esplanades, and catch basins (activity #3) will be made on all or
portions of IS streets within the East Side Neighborhood Conservation Area.
These activities support comprehensive stabilization and revitalization by:
(1) providing owners of residential properties motivation, incentive and
assistance in improving and maintaining their properties; (2) by improving
public facilities; (3) by increasing homing opportunity for low and moderate -
income persona; and (4) by conserving the existing housing stock.
(2) Design Criterion: 570.424(e)(1)(iv)
Impact: Under activity #1, the City will acquire 6 substandard
residential properties containing approximately 9 existing dwelling suite.
5 of these properties,ntaining 8 existing deciding units, are presently
vacant. Under activity #12, these 6 properties will be rehabilitated to
contain approximately 12 dwelling wits a gain a 3 units over the existing
units. then resold (activity #2) for low- and moderate -income housing there
will be a gain of 11 occupied dwelling units. Other dwelling unit gains mdv
be achieved as a result of the rehabilitation of private properties assisted
by loans and grants under activity #12. Development of additional new low -
and moderate -income housing may be possible an 2 of the 6 residential properties
acquired (activity #1) for the purpose of clearance (activity #4) and resale
(activity #2). A maximum of 8 new dwelling units could be added to the housing
stuck in this manner.
(3) Design Criterion: (
570.424( e) 1)(vii)
impact: Under activity #1 the City will acquire and clear
(activity #4) 6 dilapidated residential structures. ahe cleared parcels will
be made available to abutting property owners (activity #2) to increase their
lot size and to lesson the concentration of structures in overdeveloped areae
where the close proximity of structures results in inadequate, light and
ventilations creates fire and sanitation hazards, and promotes annoyingly high
noise levels, all of -which lesson the deeirability of the residential properties
and contribute to the overall blighting influence in the neighborhood. Also
under activities #1 end #12, the City will acquire and rehabilitate 5 deteri-
orating structures which are currently vacant. The rehabilitation and r sale
of these structures under activity #2 will encourage the occupancy and main-
teconce of these now substandazH structures as positive influences on the
desirability a this neighborhood and the motivation of owners of other private
property to melee investments in the improvement and proper maintenance of their
properties. Similar motivation will be provided owners of private property
by the City's improvements to public facilities under activity #3. Activity
#12d will also provide owners of private property motivation to properly
maintain and, in combination with loans and grants made available under
activity #12, to rehabilitate their properties and eliminate the blighting
influence a properties with cede violations.
(4) Design criterion 570.424(e)(1)(x)
Impact: The acquisition and clearance, under activities #1 any
#42 of 6 dilapidated residential structures containing 8 unoccupied and 1
occupied structural ieliminate the
heir n al and resageaross lelectrical,
activity ff2, bing end ng
o abetting
property owners will decrease the structural congestion end increase the
separation of remaining structures thereby reducing the hazards of rapidly
spreading structural fires and the health hazards created by the poor light,
ventilation and sanitary conditions of the current overdeveloped properties.
Improvements to streets and sidewalks under activity #3 will reduce the
existing hazard to pedestrians from motor vehicles by providing adequate
sidewalks and amoreontrolled flow of motor vehicle traffic. Improvements
to street surfaces, curbs gral catch begins will reduce or eliminate inadequate
drainage, end flooding conditions and associated health and safety hazards
that exist an 5 neighborhood streets.
Anal sic of (mount of Funds used
To Bene a Lov- one nGQeTaLC-IHUUIHCone
Activity Member
(a)
Total Number
persons served
DD?s x average
'density per DU
(b)
Member of persona
meeting definitions
of Los and Moderate
love"
(c
% low- and
Moderate
(d)
Amount
(e)
Amount
Used to
Benefit
LIN
f
1
64
64
100%
203,622
2o3,622
2
64
64
1aa,6
7,6w
7,600
3 -
11181
758
64.2%
236,772
152,008
4
25
25
100,%
241000
24,000
8
46
46
100£
130,815
130,815
9
7
7
10D%
500
500
2
438
439
1004.
351,274
351,274
2d
1,181
750
64.2%
26,285
16,875
-
TOTALS:
980 8w
886,694
Total Benefit
Compute the total benefit in accordance With No. 6, instructions above
6 886,694 90.4 T benefit to low- and moderate -income persona
8 980,868
I. $ minority contracts awarded/funds
deposited frunto
month year
month year
2. $ all contracts awarded/funds deposited
(during same time period.)
3. 4 minority contracts/funds deposited ((1) : (2))
4, 425,393 Total Penobscot County
5. 1,222 Minority County or SMSA population
6. .97 - 4 minority population ((4) ? (5))
(b) percentage of minority employees is greater then percentage
a minorities within the county for rovmetropolitan preapplicants,
or the MA For metropolitan preapplicants.
Information sho be provided for minority persons eaployed
directly by the preapplicant.
7 Number minority. employees
574 Total number employees
1.2 A, minority employees.
VIII. IWaain6-0Pportunity-Plan.
Fifty points will be awarded if the preapplicent is a pazticipsting
Jurisdiction, in a IND approved HOP.
preapplicant is
participating in a = approved
is hot HOP.
Date of HOD approval:
A 2-1D
IX. Hold -Harmless
As is statedin the Community Development end Housing Plan - Comprehensive
Strategy of the City of grease's application for 1979 Community Development Black
Grant Hold-Haxmless foods, the general development strategy for the City of Bengor
is to provide a viable community by continuing programs directed toward the
elimination of all forme of physical and visual pollution and blight vrithin the city
for an improved living envirmment. The major objectives for housing end community
development in Bangor are as follows: (1) to provide and assist housing and neighbor-
hood improvement and expansion of the housing stock particularly for lower-income
families; (2) to provide necessary co®unity and public services for residents of
the city; and (3) to promote the economic development of the city to ensure a stable
tax base and to ensure that job opportunities are available.
The City of Bangor's highest priority for the we of CDBG funds continues
to be on neighborhood covaervation/revitallzatiov and on improving and promoting
the expansion of the city's housing stock. Other high priorities are to mdertake
activities designed to stimmlate revitalization of Bangor's central business district
and to assist facilities far the elderly end handicapped.
It is the City of Bangor's objective to expand and upgrade the housing
stork through development and rebabilitation to increase the availability, choice
and locational preferences of all social groups end economic levels, particularly
lower-income families. This strategy will attempt to exceed the role of public
and private participation and financial investment in the process of housing
development and rehabilitation.
n.q a same — we eaywad ceawn Cent"
M"N W. FLYNN 13 "ARLOW ET
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0FORMER E1E OMOI
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ON of Pans=, C4tllaine
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Fiscal Year 1980 Small Cities Preapplication
Citizen Participation Certificate
Pursuant to 24 OR 570.425 (a)(vi)(3), 590.429 (a)(vi) sod 570.431 (e) and (d),
the applicant hereby certifies and assures that prior to submission of the pre -
application, the applicant has:
1. Prepared a written Citizen Participation Plan Mich:
(i)
provides an opportunity for citizens to participate in the
development of the preapplication; Encourages the submission
of vines Rud proposals, particularly by residents of blighted
neighborhoods, low end moderate income persons and minorities;
provides for timely responses to the proposals submitted; and
schedules hearings at times erul locations which permit broad
participation;
(11)
provides citizens with adequate information concerning the
amount of Yards available for proposed community development
and housing activities that might be vvdertaken and other
"
important progress requirements;
(111)
provides for public hearings to obtain the views of citizens
an co®wity development and housing needs; and
(iv)
provides citizens with an opportunity to submit comments
Concerning the community development performance of the
applicant.
2. Followed this plan in a menver to achieve full involvement of citizens
In planning End preparation of the pxeappllcetlon.
Date
Joba W. Flyzm2 City Manager
Introduced by Councilor
CITY OF BANGOR
(TITLE.) �SDCYa_. Auth rlastlpn to Fxeeute esW File Preapplic.tion for
....... ......... ........ ......._
Community Development Small Cities FUnda under Title I
of the Housing and Community Develnlment Act of 1977
Sy fhe City Cowwi! Of she 044 ofBanyor:
ORDERED,
THAT, the City Council of Bangors as the local governing body, hereby
authorizes end directs the City manager to submit to end file with the
Department of Rousing era Urban Development a preapplication for Community
Development ➢lock Grant funds under the Small Cities Program as provided
for in Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1977, a copy
of which is on file with the City Clerk. and to provide such additional
information and tarnish each documents as may be required by the Department
of Housing and Urban Development.
BE = FURTHEB ORDEMF THAT, the City Manager is hereby
4ppoivted as the authorised representative of the City of Berger to act
in connection with such preepplfe4ticv of the City of Bangor for Federal
Small Cities funds under Title I of the Housing and Community Develcoment
Act of 1977.
Bingo, the center of Mame—the Gateany to Maine's North Woods and Seashore Remrte
tt
RODNEY 0. McKAY CITY MALL
JOHN M. LORD
of'pangar, Anuli TeL.sO1 �a.,m.�
S eptxNler 28, 1919
Celeste Bremisem
State C1earingbouse CoordLiator
State Pluming Office
184 State Street
Augusta, Maine 04333
Dear Ms. Braahem
In accordance with OMS Circular No. A-95 and with 24 CFR 570.435 NO
enclosed for your review is a Copy of the City or Bangor's preapPllcation
to Department of Housing and Urban Development for non -metropolitan Smell.
Cities funds under the Cavmus ty Develoimeat Block Grant Program.
A copy of this preapplication has Also been forwarded to the
Penobscot Valley Regional Planning CCRC) u.
Sincerely,
Rodney G. MCFay
"Director
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MCI: AS
Bangor, the renter of Maine—the Gateway to Maines North Woods and Seashorw Reronr
RODNEY G. MI CITY HALL
OVEMI, BANGOR. MAINE 04401
JOHN w- LOAD
l.l..900..., of Paagar, 4flaim ....:o,re.,a..r
DEPARTMENT of PLANNING Ed COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
September 28, 1979
W. Talbot Averill, Director
Penobscot valley Regional Plaming Commission
34 Central street
Bangor, Maine 04401
Dear Mr. Averill:
la accordance with ONUS Circular No. A-95 end. with 24 CER
570.435 (b), enclosed for your review is a copy of the City of Bangor's
preapplication to Department of Housing end Urban Development for non-
mstropclitan Small Cities funds under the Community Development Block
Great Program.
A copy of thia BreapPlication has also been forwarded to the
Maine State Plarning Office.
Sincerely,
Rodney G. MOFq
Director
MWIP
Encl: AS
Recommendations to thero�:�ie.m/
COvoewlt➢lt Citizens 4 eveapmenaens MvI6orV Committee i'
FINDING
* We feel that the first priority in funding should he given to loans and
grants for the rehabilitation of homes.
-- We a concerned that a rehabilitation loans a re -paid the monies
be heldina food to benefit low and moderate income persons, priority
being given to this target area.
-- We recommend that a citizen's committee from the target area be estab-
lished to draw up eligibility criteria and priorities and to make final
decisions on applications for bona and grants.
* We feel that the second priority in funding should be given to street
improvements.-
-- We noticed that Hancock Street was not mentioned and we would like to
knw what will be done if the Hancock Street Extension does not go
through.
-- We trust that the City will take can of the sewer connections and re-
pair before proceeding with their street improvements program. We would
also like to know when the swat connections will be completed.
-- For the most part we endorse the city's proposed street improvements
plan. We have the following comments.
Me sidewalk needs to be fixed on Hancock and Newberry Streets along
the park.
At the end of Salem Court the curb should be removed and replaced with
a turnaround,
We would like, you to investigate the passibility of ane -way streets
n Otis, Fruit and Pearl between State and Garland.
Mere should be sidewalks an both sides of Peru street.
When sidewalks are removed esplanades should be added.
* We feel that the third priority in funding should be given to the acquisi-
tion of dilapidated housing.
-- We urge that CD monies be used to re -locate people into suitable housing.
-- We a concerned that this program not become a bananas for speculators
Who bayupabandonedand dilapidated housing for re -sale to the city at
a profit.
-- We recommend that lend be acquired on the Comer of Otis and Garland
for apark or for housing intended for low and moderate income home-
ownership, as determined by citizens of the target area.
* We are
concerned about the lack of effective code enforcement primarily
against absentee owners. We urge that this problem be addressed imme-
diately and that CD funds be applied to code enforcement.
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GERRM CONSIDERATIONS
* The citizens feel that there should be Increased participation of target
area residents, including low and moderate income persona, on the CD
Advisory Committee and in all phases of CD activity.
* We strongly recommand that all future meetings be held either in or in
close Proximity to the target area, for example at St. John's Church or
the Garland Street Junior Nigh School.
* We appreciated the letter you circulated in the area about today's hearing
and urge that this practice be continued.
*j nee elders f�1y one' member of the Advisory Committee from our
area w
ttd vlte you to accompany a a
on walking tour to familiarize yourselves
with our neighborhood.
* We await a response £rmm the Committee to our statement within 15 days
as stated in Item d9 of the city's Citizen Participation Plan.
Thank you for your consideration of our recommendations.
The NaacOCk/State Neighborhood Council