Examples:

Acquisition of real property, relocation, demolition and/or rehabilitation of non-residential structures, including historic preservation construction and reconstruction of public facilities and improvements, such as water and sewer facilities, streets, curbs and sidewalks, neighborhood centers ADA improvements to existing facilities.

Public Facilities Activities must either principally benefit low- and moderate-income persons or eliminate slums and blight. Determination of whether a public facility project benefits principally low- and moderate-income persons is based on the service area of the facility. However, ADA improvements are presumed to benefit low and moderate income persons.

Goals:

To eliminate slums and blight, prevent blighting influences, provide needed community facilities, promote economic development, and eliminate conditions which are detrimental to the health, safety, and public welfare in York County neighborhoods and communities principally those lived in by low and moderate income persons.

Objectives:

1. Continue public improvements & redevelopment programs in neighborhoods & communities by upgrading housing, sanitary sewers, storm drainage, water supply, transportation, & public utility facilities, consistent with local, state, & federal plans & requirements.
2. To upgrade or install new public facilities in those low and moderate income areas where there are conditions threatening the health, safety, and welfare of the public or causing the deterioration and blight of properties.
3. To eliminate conditions which are a serious and immediate threat to the health and welfare of the community and are of recent origin.
4. To encourage adaptive reuse of vacant, obsolete or deteriorated commercial, industrial, public, institutional, historic, or large residential structures where there are conditions threatening the health, safety, and welfare of the public or causing a blighting influence.
5. To provide for the removal of material and architectural barriers from publicly and privately owned building, facilities, and improvements.
6. To support applications submitted to other entities that involve activities to improve existing or provide new public facilities and infrastructure that will principally benefit low and moderate income households.