In this chapter:
(1)
"Application" means an application for CDBG funds under this chapter.
(2) "
Blight" has the meaning set forth in s.
66.1331(3)
(a), Stats.
Note: Section
66.1331(3)
(a), Stats., reads: "Blighted area" means any
area, including a slum area, in which a majority of the structures are
residential or in which there is a predominance of buildings or improvements,
whether residential or nonresidential, and which, by reason of dilapidation,
deterioration, age or obsolescence, inadequate provision for ventilation,
light, air, sanitation, or open spaces, high density of population and
overcrowding, or the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by
fire and other causes, or any combination of these factors, is conducive to ill
health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency and
crime, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals or
welfare.
(3) "Blight
elimination and brownfield redevelopment program" means the blight elimination
and brownfield redevelopment program administered under subch. V.
(4) "
Blighted property" has the meaning set
forth in s.
66.1333(2m)
(bm), Stats. For the purposes of this
chapter, the definition of
blighted property shall apply to cities, villages,
towns, and counties.
Note: Section
66.1333(2m)
(bm), Stats., reads: "Blighted property"
means any property within a city, whether residential or nonresidential, which
by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age or obsolescence, inadequate
provisions for ventilation, light, air or sanitation, high density of
population and overcrowding, or the existence of conditions which endanger life
or property by fire and other causes, or any combination of such factors, is
conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile
delinquency or crime, and is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals
or welfare, or any property which by reason of faulty lot layout in relation to
size, adequacy, accessibility or usefulness, insanitary or unsafe conditions,
deterioration of site or other improvements, diversity of ownership, tax or
special assessment delinquency exceeding the fair market value of the land,
defective or unusual conditions of title, or the existence of conditions which
endanger life or property by fire and other causes, or any combination of such
factors, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of a city, retards
the provisions of housing accommodations or constitutes an economic or social
liability and is a menace to the public health, safety, morals or welfare in
its present condition and use, or any property which is predominantly open and
which because of obsolete platting, diversity of ownership, deterioration of
structures or of site improvements, or otherwise, substantially impairs or
arrests the sound growth of the community.
(5) "Blighted site or brownfield site
redevelopment project" means any work or undertaking by a local government to
acquire a blighted or brownfield site, to conduct an environmental audit, to
engage in environmental remediation, and to raze, demolish, remove,
reconstruct, renovate, or rehabilitate existing buildings, structures, or other
improvements to promote use of a blighted or brownfield site by a business or
person for purposes that will result in end uses with a taxable value in
accordance with an approved blighted or brownfield site redevelopment
plan.
(6) "Blighted site or
brownfield site" means an abandoned, idle, or underused industrial or
commercial facility or site in a blighted area, or that qualifies as a blighted
property, the expansion or redevelopment of which is adversely affected by
actual or perceived environmental pollution.
(7) "
CDBG funds" means community development
block grant funds awarded to the department by the federal government under
42 USC
5301 to
5319
(8) "Department" means the
department of administration.
(9)
"Economic development program" means the economic development program
administered under subch. III.
(10)
"
Eligible local government" means a local government that is eligible to apply
for and receive
CDBG funds under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development's State and Small Cities Program pursuant to
24
CFR
570.3.
(11) "Emergency grant program" means the
program administered under subch. VI.
(12) "Environmental audit" means an
investigation, analysis, and monitoring of a brownfield site to determine the
existence and extent of actual or potential environmental pollution.
(13) "
Environmental pollution" has the
meaning set forth in s.
291.01(4),
Stats.
Note: Section
291.01(4),
Stats., defines "environmental pollution" to mean the contamination or
rendering unclean or impure the air, land or waters of the state, or making the
same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or
deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.
(14) "
Environmental remediation activities"
has the meaning set forth in s.
238.13(1)
(d), Stats.
Note: Section
238.13(1)
(d), Stats., reads: "Environmental
remediation activities" means investigation, analysis and monitoring of a
brownfields facility or site to determine the existence and extent of actual or
potential environmental pollution; abating, removing or containing
environmental pollution at a brownfields facility or site; or restoring soil or
groundwater at a brownfields facility or site.
(15) "
Full-time job" has the meaning set
forth in s.
71.07(2dx)
(a) 4, Stats.
Note: Section
71.07(2dx) (a)
4 reads: "Full-time job" means a regular,
non-seasonal full-time position in which an individual, as a condition of
employment, is required to work at least 2,080 hours per year, including paid
leave and holidays, and for which the individual receives pay that is equal to
at least 150% of the federal minimum wage and receives benefits that are not
required by federal or state law. "Full-time job" does not include initial
training before an employment position begins.
(16) "HUD" means the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
(17)
"
Local government" means a city, village, town, or county that is in a
nonentitlement area as defined in
24
CFR
570.3 and is not eligible to directly
apply for or participate in the federal community development block grant
entitlement program.
(18) "Low to
moderate household income" means the median household income in the county
where the local government is located, as reported by the latest U.S. census
and updated periodically by HUD.
(19) "
Municipality" means a
local government
that is eligible for
CDBG funds under s.
Adm
93.02.
(20) "Net mill rate" means the total of all
property taxes levied by local governments against a given property for all
purposes less general property tax relief payments divided by the estimated
market value of taxable property in the municipality.
(21) "Person" means an individual,
partnership, corporation, nonprofit organization, city, village, town, county,
or trustee, including a trustee in bankruptcy.
(21m) "
Program income" has the meaning set
forth in s.
24 C.F.R
570.489.
Note: The definition of "program income,"
including applicable exceptions, is too lengthy to be quoted in full here. A
summary of the definition of the term "program income" is all gross income
received by a unit of general local government, or a subrecipient of a unit of
general local government, that was generated from the use of CDBG funds.
(22) "Public facilities economic
development program" means the public facilities economic development program
administered under subch. IV.
(23)
"Public facilities plan" means a written plan for proposed project for which an
eligible local government may seek funding under subch. VII.
(24) "Public facilities program" means the
annual public facilities program administered under subch. II.
(25) "Residential utility rate" means for
areas served by public water and sanitary sewer service, the average annual
household utility rate paid for water and sanitary sewer services determined by
dividing the total gross annual residential water and sewer revenue collected
for the preceding calendar year by the number of households, as reported by the
latest U.S. census and updated periodically by the U.S. department of
commerce.
(26) "Site redevelopment
plan" means a plan adopted by a local government for the acquisition,
clearance, reconstruction, rehabilitation, and future use of a blighted or
brownfield site.
