A legal notice appears in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era announcing a “public hearing” to discuss the needs in the community “with funds available under Lancaster County’s Fiscal Year 2014 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program.”

The discussion topic: “$250,000 toward the total reconstruction cost estimate of $351,902 for the total reconstruction of the 100 block of South 8^th St. from Cherry St. to Ridge Ave to benefit approximately 55 residential units.”

The County’s draft CDBG Plan states: “Lancaster County does not have many concentrated areas of low-and moderate-income residents outside the City. Frequently, low-and moderate-income persons and families are distributed throughout the County in small “pockets” or small neighborhoods. In order to assist these low-and
moderate-income households, the County may undertake an activity in a pocket of low-and moderate-income persons located outside of the designated census areas. Areas with a concentration of low-income households are defined as those areas where more than 51 percent of the households have incomes of less than 80 percent of the Median Family Income. According to this definition, there are only two municipalities that meet these criteria: Columbia Borough and Leacock Township.”