Local government assistance: Regional Early Action Planning Fund.
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Overview
This bill creates the Regional Early Action Planning Fund to provide one-time grants to councils of governments, regional entities, and jurisdictions. These funds will support planning activities aimed at meeting future regional housing needs assessments, specifically the 7th and subsequent cycles. The Department of Housing and Community Development will manage the fund and oversee how the money is spent, ensuring it’s used for housing-related planning and technical assistance.
Key provisions
- Establishes the Regional Early Action Planning Fund in the State Treasury.
- Provides grants to councils of governments, regional entities, and jurisdictions for regional housing need assessment planning.
- Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to allocate funds from the fund.
- Allows recipients to use funds for technical assistance, planning, and consultant needs related to updating local planning documents.
- Mandates that jurisdictions using suballocations of funds only use them for housing-related planning activities.
- Requires the Department to monitor expenditures and activities to ensure compliance.
- Authorizes the Department to issue guidelines and adopt emergency regulations to implement the program, exempting those guidelines from standard rulemaking procedures.
- Sets a three-year deadline for recipients to expend awarded funds, with potential extensions.
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