CA Dept of HCD to Hold Stakeholder Meetings on Prop 1C Infill Funding

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) will be holding stakeholder meetings in October on the Infill Incentive Grant Program created through Prop 1C.  The Department will subsequently release guidelines with the intention of releasing a Notice of Funding Available by January 2008 The dates and locations for the meetings are as follows:

Fresno - 10/18/07, 1pm - 4pm, 2550 Mariposa Mall, Room 1036
Oakland - 10/22/07, 1pm – 4pm, Ehilu M Harris Building, 1515 Clay Street, Auditorium
Riverside - 10/29/07, 1pm – 4pm, Codes & Standards, Southern Office, 3737 Main St., Ste 200, Highgrove Room
Burbank - 10/30/07, 1pm – 4pm, Buena Vista Branch Library, 300 N. Buena Vista St., Auditorium
Sacramento - 11/02/07, 9am– 2pm, 400 R Street, 1st Floor, Sacramento River Room

A document with this schedule as well as details on workshops and stakeholder meetings for all HCD programs is now available on-line here: http://www.hcd.ca.gov/fa/Bond_Program_Workshops.pdf
 
In addition, there is a new timeline for Transit-Oriented Development program implementation, since the Department received numerous comments, they will be issuing the revised draft guidelines in early October and allowing another round of public comment through mid-October.  The first NOFA for the TOD program is slated to be released in early November.

If you have any questions, please contact:
Jolena Voorhis
Director of Legislation
Department of Housing and Community Development
(916) 323-0169

CHC, in the coming months, will continue to work closely with the Department on the guidelines for both of these programs.  If you are a CHC member and interested in participating, email Eric Mackres at emackres@calhsng.org to be added to the Policy Leadership Taskforce.