Resolution 1999-268RESOLUTION NOo 99- 268
A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING COLLIER
COUNTY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN,
AS COLLIER COUNTY'S COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT PLAN, PERTAINING TO
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
APPLICATIONS.
WHEPEAS, the Florida Department of Community Affairs awards
grants through the Small Cities Community Development Block Giant
Program of up to $750,000 to qualifying cities and counties for
projects that benefit low-and moderate-income persons, aid in the
prevention or ~limination of slums or blight, or meet other community
development needs having a pa~ticular urgency because existing
conditions p~se a serious and immediate threat to the health or
welfare of t.i~e community and where other financial resources are not
available to meet such needs; and
WHEPEAS, a city or county may apply each cycle ~or a Coramunity
Development Block Grant for Economic Development, Neighborhood
Revitalizatio[:, Housing, or Community Revitalization based on the
dccumented nee<] for these funds, or the number of jobs created and the
amount Of private capital leveraged; and
WHEREAS, Collier County currently has $750,000 in CDBG
Economic Development Grant funds reserved for a project called the
Immokalee Regional Airport Manufacturing Facility, located at the
Immokalee Regional Airport in Iramokalee, Florida; and
WHEREAS, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
requires that ali Community Development Block Grant applicants have
developed and adopted a Community Development Plan that identifies
their corru~.~unity development and housing needs, and
WHEREAS, That objective is to develop viable urban cormmunities
by providing decent housing, a suitable living environment, and
expanding economic opportunities, princiFally for persons of low and
moderate income, and
WHEPEAS, On January 10, 1989, the Collier County Board of
Com~missi<,no~:: did pass ordinance 89-05, which established th~ County's
Comp:ehens:v~. Plan as require-! by Chap[er 163, Florida Statutes,
WHEPEAS, The U.S. Departmont of Housing and Urban Developmer~r
has auth?rlz~-! the Florida State Department of Com~munit¥ Affairs to
p~rm[t Ccunt:,.s in ~he Stat~- ef Florida to designate their
Comprehensive Plan as their Cot%munity Development Plan.
~;~}~;, THEUEFORE, BE iT RESOLVED !~'f THE BOARD OF Cr'~UIITY
COMMiSSIC:;EFS OF COI,LIER COUIIT'f, FLORIDA, THAT:
T~,n Noa:d of County Co~issioners hereby designates Co! i ~e~
County's C~xr~:eh~nsive Plan, ,iqopt,~d or, ~anuary 10, 1989, as am~nde,~,
pursuant ~ % Chapter i~, Fiorlca .Statutes, as ou: Community
Dev~]opmen~ ~ ~.~n.
BE '- FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution be recorded by t::e
Official C!,.:k cf Courts in the Public Records of Collier CountV,
Flor! 'la.
ADOPTED thi~l'~- L~2__._ day of June, 1999.
COLL:E? CO__OF COUNTY
COMM i S S~MTERi~