What is a Community Development Plan?

1. What is a Community Development Plan?

2. Community Development Plan Section A, page 28 • All LCDBG grantees are required to develop a CD Plan, Exhibit A-29 • The plan must be submitted to the Office of Community Development for final review • The plan must cover the three-year period of the grant; it is suggested that grantees use the date of the Authorization to Incur Costs letter for the beginning date

3. Developing your Plan • Instructions are identified on pages 144-146 • Font 12, single-spacing recommended, and no borders • The plan includes the community’s needs and its planned strategies to address those needs • Address ALL known community needs, not merely those to be addressed using LCDBG funds • For example, if the community has high unemployment, discuss the need to search for funding for ED projects through EPA, FmHA, etc. • If the community has ample local forest resources, discuss the need to secure labor intensive industries that rely on those resources

4. The four common deficienciesSection A, Page 29 • Failure to identify any population group(s) with high unemployment in Sect. 2-D, “Economic Development Needs” • Or, failure to state that there are no identifiable population groups • Failure to match strategies mentioned in Sect. 4 with needs mentioned in Sect. 2 • Failure to explain strategies as they relate to: • Objectives, activities, timing, monetary amounts, & other funding sources • Failure to follow the general outline found in Exhibit A-29

5. In summary, a cd plan SHOULD: • Followtheprescribed outline structure • Identify ALL known community needs • Explain strategies the community will pursue in order to meet those needs