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Rancho Santa Margarita adopts 2025–29 consolidated plan, adjusts CDBG allocations
Summary
The City Council unanimously approved the 2025–2029 Consolidated Plan, the 2025–26 annual action plan and related fair housing assessment and citizen-participation amendments, directing modest increases to planned CDBG grants after HUD published a slightly larger allocation than anticipated.
The Rancho Santa Margarita City Council unanimously adopted a five-year Consolidated Plan covering fiscal 2025–2029, the 2025–26 annual action plan and an updated Assessment of Fair Housing, the council voted during its May 14 regular meeting.
Mike Lanieris, the city’s CDBG consultant, told the council that HUD published the city’s allocation late that day and it came in about $13,000 higher than the earlier estimate — roughly a 7% increase over the $200,000 figure the staff had used in preliminary planning. He said staff’s recommendation is to scale previously proposed allocations upward proportionally to capture the additional funds. “We’re recommending we just adjust those upward by the 7%…
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