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• - . `- - . . - . `=.:,--•• - .: r to determine their impact on housing development costs. Those components which unnecessarily increase the cost of housing without impairing the health, sanitation, fire safety, structural integrity and maintenance requirements shall be eliminated. ' Y. _ _ - -- . •- • _ • . .' . . _ - [Discussed in other policies] Policy 1.3: The County shall coordinate with the Florida Housing Finance Agency Corporation (FHFAC)to identify federal,state and other sources of funding,such as Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program funds, earmarked for very low-, low-, and moderate-income housing and actively pursue those funds for local use by applying for funds when appropriate. The eCounty shall also assist and support private applicants applying for these funds. Policy 1.4: The eCounty shall continue to participate in housing bond programs (such as the Eseambia County bond program) in order to provide below market rate loans to very low-, low-, and moderate- income households for home purchases. The county shall inform financial institutions of the availability of the bond programs. Policy 1.5: By 2012,the eCounty shall;establish and maintain a web based permitting process, and the County will regularly request and review user feedback to determine what changes are necessary to ease or better the online permitting process. Policy 1.6: The County shall maintain timeframes for reviews in its land development regulations. The • . - i- • •-- • £o . . -_ • .. _. - . . s • : .. • • --. - - . . - . • - • : • _ :•-: . [Addressed in Chapter 914 of the County's LDRs] Policy 1.7: As part of the adoption process for any eCounty regulation which could affect housing development, eCounty planning staff shall prepare a Financial Impact Statement (FIS) to assess the anticipated impact of the proposed regulation on the cost of housing. When proposed regulatory activities are anticipated to increase the estimated cost per unit for the development of housing, the •• .. _ _ . _ FIS shall include an estimated increased cost per unit projection. The . •-- .. . - FIS then will be reviewed by •- ' - - -• • . - --, the Planning and Zoning Commission, and, if possible, the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. Those groups shall consider the regulation's effect on housing cost in making their recommendation to C:\Granicus\Legistar5\L5\Temp\9ec5cab0-071 a-4938-8838-22e53bcab073.docx 47 257