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City staff outlines $350,744 CDBG ADA project plan; council probes scope and eligibility

3428721 · May 21, 2025
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Community Development staff told the council the city’s 2025–26 Community Development Block Grant allocation and program income total $350,744, intended for ADA capital improvements; council members pressed on whether the consolidated plan limits uses to ADA projects and whether parks such as Riverbend qualify.

Chanel Hovalle, the city’s community development program manager, told the Lompoc City Council on May 20 that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has granted the city $262,641 in entitlement CDBG funds for fiscal year 2025–26 and that program income increases the total available for ADA capital improvements to $350,744.

Hovalle explained that Community Development Block Grant funds are “intended to develop communities for low and moderately low‑income persons” and that HUD requires eligibility and spending limits for CDBG projects. She told the council…

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