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ATTACHMENT I CITY OF LAKEWOOD DEPARTMENT OF PLANNItqG & DEVELOPMENT IMPROVEMENT TARGET AREA DESCRIPTION (AS SUBMITTED TO LAKEWOOD CITY COUNCIL - JIJLY 21, 1997) The City of Lakewood, Ohio is an entitlement community under the federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, which is regulated pursuant to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended. The CDBG Program is administered by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As an entitlement community, the City receives an annual formula allOCation of CDBG funds to be used for eligible activities pursuant to HUD rules and regulations. Each activity funded with CDBG dollars must meet one o_,f tar. ce natio.nal goals. These goals are: 1) primarily benefit low and moderate income persons; 2) aid in the prevention or elimination of slum and blight; or 3) meet an argent need (a very limited goal that is rarely applicable). The City of Lakewood currently has several geographic areas where program activities primarily benefiting low and moderate income people are appropriate and eligible for the expenditure of federal CDBG funds. These areas are established by HUD and referred to as low and moderate income census tract areas. These areas are adjusted every decade following the completion of the national census. The City has, over many years, invested many public improvements into these census i~'~c~ areas. In order to carry out eligible activities in geographic areas which are not designated as low and moderate income census tract areas, the City of Lakewood must demonstrate that such areas qualify by having conditions of deterioration as defined under State statute, or as defined by local legislation. Only by such demonstration of these existing conditions can Lakewood then spend CDBG dollars in such targeted areas to meet the other national objective of aiding in the prevention of slum and blight. A local definition of these necessary conditions was established in Ordinance # 26-97, as adopted by the Lakewood City Council on June 2, 1997, In advancing a study of local conditions which meet the local definition of"Deteriorated or Deteriorating Area", as such term is defined in Ordinance # 26-97, representatives of the Building Department, Planning and Development Deparmaent and Public Works Department for the City of Lakewood have recently performed the following tasks in advancing the development of a new Improvement Target Area for the City of Lakewood, Ohio (iTA). Furthermore, as part of this process, the proposed new ITA itself, as listed by streets and street addresses in Exhibit I and Exhib/t IV, respectively, is also described in detail below: I. Examined results ora preliminary housing survey study and analysis, which was undertaken in 1993 and 1994 by the City. of Lakewood and Leighty and Associates. [nc. Page t of 4