Public Notice #1
PUBLIC NOTICE: The Land Use Law Clinic at the West Virginia University College of Law (Land Use Clinic) is submitting an application under the West Virginia University CDBG-MIT Regional and Local Planning Grant Program administered by the West Virginia Development Office (WVDO). The Program is funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grant – Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) allocation as described in Public Law 115-123. The Land Use Clinic is requesting up to $250,000 to achieve project goals. The project will provide training and education to local governments regarding flood mitigation. The Land Use Clinic will develop a flood resilience toolkit for local governments in West Virginia and provide several regional workshops to train leaders on specific legal, planning, and regulatory tools to improve flood resilience. Educational activities will take place in flood-impacted areas of West Virginia, including Clay, Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Nicholas counties and target local decision-makers and other MIT stakeholders from those counties, as well as Summers, Monroe, Fayette, Pocahontas, Webster, Jackson, Roane, and Lincoln counties. Specific locations of regional training sessions will be identified during the planning phase of the project but will generally occur near flood-impacted communities. The impacted population will include residents and property owners of incorporated and unincorporated areas within the counties listed above. The toolkit will follow West Virginia state law and be available to all local governments in West Virginia. One training session will be held via Zoom, recorded, and archived for flexible access.
Public Comment will begin June 9th, 2022 at 8AM and end June 28th, 2022 at 6PM.
For information on the project including questions, accessibility requests, or to make a comment, please contact Anna Buxton at 304.293.4633 or [email protected]. To review the full proposal visit https://bit.ly/3wWw3WY