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Commissioners approve CDBG application to relocate four structures to Patuxent Habitat for Humanity
Summary
The board authorized a $213,994 Community Development Block Grant application to relocate two houses and two detached garages from Old Rolling Road to Patuxent Park for Habitat for Humanity to renovate into workforce housing; the county will appraise and pursue a public hearing on transfer of the properties.
The Board of County Commissioners authorized county staff to submit a Community Development Block Grant application for $213,994 on May 15 to fund relocation and site work for four structures that the county proposes to transfer to Patuxent Habitat for Humanity.
County officials said the structures sit in the FDR Boulevard right-of-way and would otherwise be demolished to make way for roadway construction; the plan would instead relocate the two houses and two detached garages to lots owned by Patuxent Habitat in Patuxent Park and convert them into four homes for qualifying families. The grant application requests federal CDBG funds administered by the state; the county would be the applicant and Habitat would be the subrecipient.
Patuxent Habitat representatives described the capacity to receive, renovate and place the homes on nine lots the nonprofit already owns in Patuxent Park. Habitat’s board member said volunteer labor and an earlier national grant have given the organization the staff and project capacity to accept relocated structures and make them habitable for homeownership programs.
County legal staff explained the required process for transferring county-owned buildings without monetary consideration under Maryland law: the county must obtain appraisals, publish a notice that includes the appraisal, hold a public hearing and then the commissioners may pass a resolution to convey the property. Staff said the county’s appraisal value for the two parcels is a little more than $300,000; if the CDBG application is successful, the county would avoid demolition costs and Habitat would obtain structures for reuse.
The board approved the motion authorizing the application, directing the county attorney’s office to obtain appraisals, advertise and schedule the required public hearing, and to proceed with the administrative steps needed to transfer the structures if the board later votes to do so.
Votes at the meeting: the motion to submit the CDBG application and start the appraisal/public process passed unanimously.
