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Clerk 03/11/2009
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An ORDINANCE adopting 2009 amendments to the King County Consortium Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan for 2005-2009.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County is a member of the King County Community Development Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnerships Consortia.
2. King County is the official applicant, and is responsible to the federal government for all activities undertaken in the King County Consortium with Community Development Block Grant, HOME Investment Partnerships and other federal homeless, housing and community development funds.
3. Federal legislation requires King County to adopt a consolidated housing and community development plan every three to five years, which identifies housing and community development needs; identifies resources and key partnerships; and establishes objectives to provide decent affordable housing and a suitable living environment for very low to moderate-income residents of the county.
4. The King County Consortium's current Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan is a five-year plan, covering the years 2005 through 2009.
5. The King County Consortium's Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan "Consolidated Plan" is a comprehensive affordable housing and community development policy and planning document that guides King County's administration of federal housing, homeless and community development funds, as well local and state homeless and housing funds, on behalf of the consortium.
6. The interjurisdictional joint recommendations committee of the King County Consortium member cities have participated in the development of the proposed amendments to the Consolidated Plan 2005-2009, and have approved and recommended such amendments;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE KING COUNTY COUNCIL:
SECTION 1. The King County Consortium's Consolidated Plan 2005-2009 as amended by Attachments A, B and C to this ordinance are approved as follows:
A. Add United States Department of Housing and Urban Development-required definitions of standard housing unit, substandard housing unit and substandard housing unit suitable for repair in the Attachment A to this ordinance, King County Consortium Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan, Appendix, A, Needs Assessment, and add Department of Housing and Urban Development-required performance measures for all goals and strategies in the plan, as found in Attachment B to this ordinance, King County Consortium Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan 2005-2009, Part III, Strategic Plan;
B. Make the following strategy amendments, as found in Attachment B to this ordinance, King County Consortium Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan 2005-2009, Part III, Strategic Plan: Affordable Housing Strategy 1C, page 7; Homelessness Strategy 2B, page 20, and Strategy 3A, page 21; and Community/Economic Development Strategy 2B, page 26, Strategy 3A, page 28 and Strategy 3B, page 28; and
C. Add a Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area for White Center to the
King County Consortium's Consolidated Plan 2005-2009 as Appendix M, in substantially the form as Attachment C to this ordinance.
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