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DISPLACEMENT PLAN <br /> Community Development Block Grant Program <br /> County of Hawaii <br /> The County of Hawaii, through its Office of Housing and Community <br /> Development (OHCD) , is required to minimize displacement of <br /> persons as a result of activities assisted with Community <br /> Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds. In addition, the OHCD must <br /> provide reasonable benefits to any persons involuntarily and <br /> permanently displaced as a result of the use of CDBG funds to <br /> acquire, demolish, or rehabilitate property. This requirement <br /> applies to all such displacement resulting from CDBG assisted <br /> acquisition, demolition, or rehabilitation of non-residential as <br /> well as residential property not governed by the Uniform Act. <br /> In order to comply with this requirement, the County must develop <br /> a written displacement plan which outlines the approach the <br /> County will take to minimize displacement, describes the specific <br /> actions the County will take to discourage displacement, defines <br /> displacement, and describes the monetary and nonmonetary <br /> assistance that will be provided to the displacees. This is to <br /> serve as the Plan. <br /> To minimize displacement, the OHCD has developed a system to rate <br /> potential projects to be funded with CDBG funds. The rating <br /> system is designed, among other things, to select projects with a <br /> minimum number of problems.. <br /> One of the criteria that the OHCD rates is displacement. If no <br /> displacement is involved, the project will be assigned the <br /> maximum number of points. However, if displacement is involved, <br /> the points assigned to the, project will be reduced according to <br /> the degree of displacement (i.e. , whether an alternate location <br /> is found for the displacees, etc.) . The OHCD ranks all the <br /> project proposals, and the projects with the highest number of <br /> points are recommended for funding. <br /> Any agency or organization utilizing the CDBG funds for <br /> acquisition, demolition, and/or rehabilitation and which causes <br /> displacement of persons, compliance with the attached Federal <br /> Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Act <br /> dated March 2, 1989, is required. The regulations define <br /> displacement and describe the monetary and nonmonetary assistance <br /> that will be provided to the displacees. The County will ensure <br /> compliance to the regulations by inserting a provision in the <br /> agreement executed between the County and agencies for the use of <br /> the CDBG funds. <br /> OHCD/1188C/7-93 <br />