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Public Hearing: YES ☐ NO ☒ Department: Planning and Sustainability
SUBJECT:
Title
Commission District(s): All Districts
To adopt a resolution to establish a Revitalization and Elimination of Blight Goals and Task Plan for 2022-2026.
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Information Contact: Andrew Baker, AICP, Director of Planning & Sustainability
Phone Number: 404-687-7154
PURPOSE:
To consider a Resolution that list the strategies/goals and tasks for the next five years focusing on Operation Clean Sweep, Housing, Human Investment, Neighborhood Stabilization, Economic Development, Combating Crime, and Quality of Life.
NEED/IMPACT:
DeKalb County recognizes that blighted properties cause adverse impacts in the community, including depressing property values and limiting economic development opportunities, and there is a need to address those problems in a systematic and orderly fashion. As such, the County the enacted resolutions in 2018 and 2019 identifying a number of goals and objectives that were designed to aid in the reduction of blight within the County. However, the COVID-19 Pandemic created a health and economic development emergency causing various initiatives to be delayed while the County focused on providing vital services to citizens during the Pandemic.
The Resolution creates a roadmap listing the goals and tasks for eliminating blight for the next five years.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Special Project Coordinator position which was funded in the 2022 budget.
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommended Action
To adopt the Revitalization and Elimination of Blight Goals and Task Plan to mitigate blighted properties that cause adverse impacts in unincorporated DeKalb County.