Item 39 - Relocation Plan for Fairview Bridge Replacement and Street Improvements

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Fairview Bridge Replacement and Street Improvements: Relocation Plan 20 V. Administrative Provisions A. Notices Each notice that the City is required to provide to a property owner or occupant shall be personally delivered or sent via certified or registered first-class mail, return receipt requested and documented in each case file. Each notice would be written in plain, understandable language. Persons who are unable to read and understand any notice would be provided with appropriate translation and counseling. Each notice would indicate the name and telephone number of a person who may be contacted for answers to questions or other help. There are three principal notices: 1. General Information Notice (GIN), 2. Notice of Relocation Eligibility (NOE), and 3. 90-Day Informational or Vacate Notice The GIN is intended to provide potential displacees with a general written description of the City’s relocation program and basic information concerning benefits, conditions of eligibility, noticing requirements and appeal rights. The GIN would be issued at the time the properties are being appraised. NOEs would be distributed to each residential displacee. The NOEs, both tenants and owner-occupants, contains a determination of eligibility for relocation assistance and a computation of maximum entitlement based on information provided by the affected household and the analyses of comparable replacement properties undertaken by relocation staff. NOEs would be issued promptly following the initiation of negotiation (ION) with property owners. No lawful occupant would be required to move without having received at least 90 days’ advance written notice of the earliest date by which the move would be necessary. The 90- day vacate notice would either state a specific date as the earliest date by which the occupant may be required to move, or state that the occupant would receive a further notice indicating, at least 60 days in advance for residential tenants and 30 days in advance for owner-occupants and non-residential occupants, the specific date of the required move. The 90-day vacate notice would not be issued to any residential displacees before a comparable replacement dwelling has been made available. In addition to the three principal relocation notices previously identified, relocation staff would issue timely written notification in the form of a Reminder Notice, which discusses the possible loss of rights and sets the expiration date for the loss of benefits to those persons who: 1. Are eligible for monetary benefits, 2. Have moved from the acquired property, and 3. Have not filed a claim for benefits.