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8509691 <br />South Bend Central <br />Relocation Policy <br />South Bend, Indiana <br />The purpose of this statement is to set forth relocation P olicies, procedures and requirements <br />concerning relocation benefits <br />and services provided to persons and businesses displaced as a <br />result of activities in the South Bend Central Development Area <br />project. For purposes of this policy, displaced persons or <br />businesses are defined -at 24CFR 42.49. Relocation policies and <br />procedures adopted by the'South Bend Redevelopment Commission are <br />subject to the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property <br />Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (Uniform Act). <br />This relocation policy supplements the Uniform Act, which <br />provides for a number of types of relocation payments, and will <br />extend additional assistance to persons and businesses. <br />I. Relocation Assistance Services <br />A. General. The Department of Redevelopment will assist <br />in relocating displaced families and individuals in <br />purchasing or renting a comparable dwelling of their <br />choice (within their financial means) which is <br />decent, safe, and sanitary. The Department will, to <br />the extent possible, locate displaced persons in the <br />neighborhood of their choice, which is reasonably <br />accessible to their place of employment or potential <br />place of employment. <br />The Department will also assist any person displaced <br />from his business or farm operation to obtain and <br />become established in a suitable replacement <br />location, to the extent possible. <br />B. Services to be provided <br />1. Information concerning the availability of <br />relocation payments and assistance as well as <br />the requirements and procedures for obtaining <br />those payments will be provided to all <br />displaced persons and businesses who wish to <br />be relocated. <br />2. Personal interviews will be conducted to s <br />determine the relocation needs and <br />preferences of displaced persons and <br />businesses, to further explain those <br />relocation payments and other assistance for <br />which they may be eligible, and the <br />procedures for obtaining such payments and <br />assistance. These interviews will be <br />conducted, to the extent possible, at a <br />reasonable time convenient to the displaced <br />person or business. <br />-I- <br />* 'P <br />5-1 O -RI-> <br />