Sec.8-216b-4. Eligible activities

Any developer undertaking a housing and community development project shall use any financial assistance received for one or more of the following activities:

(1) Acquisition of real property for housing or community facilities, including but not limited to, the costs associated with the acquisition or disposition of property through sale, lease, donation or otherwise, where the real property was or will be part of a housing and community development project;

(2) Rehabilitation of building(s) for use as housing or community facilities;

(3) Improvements supporting the development of low and moderate income housing, including but not limited to, site assemblage and preparation, demolition and removal of buildings, including movement of structures to other sites, site and public improvements and pre-construction costs;

(4) Development of community facilities through acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, renovation or installation of community facilities, including but not limited to, neighborhood centers, centers for the handicapped, senior centers, historic properties, public utilities, streets, street lighting, parking facilities, sewer and drainage facilities, parks, playgrounds, and recreation facilities. Such community facilities are eligible activities only when they are clearly intended to support adjacent activities that develop or improve housing opportunities for families of low or moderate income;

(5) Removal of material and architectural barriers which restrict the mobility and accessibility of elderly and handicapped persons to buildings, facilities and improvements;

(6) Relocation payments and assistance to individuals, families, business, or farms, as required under the federal or state Uniform Relocation Assistance Act, as applicable;

(7) Activities to support enforcement of and compliance with building, health and housing codes;

(8) Reasonable administrative costs incurred by the developer in connection with the project;

(9) Related costs which may include:

(A) Labor, materials and other costs of rehabilitation of properties, including repairs directed toward an accumulation of deferred maintenance, replacement of principal fixtures and components of existing structures, installation of security devices, and renovation through alterations, additions to or enhancement of existing structures, which may be undertaken singly or in combination;

(B) Improvements to increase the efficient use of energy;

(C) Improvements to increase the efficient use of water; and

(D) Connection of residential structures to water lines or local sewer collection lines.

(Effective June 26, 1989)