2010 North Carolina Code
Chapter 143B Executive Organization Act of 1973.
Article 7 - Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
143B-344.37. (Expires June 30, 2016) North Carolina Sustainable Communities Grant Fund.

143B‑344.37. (Expires June 30, 2016) North Carolina Sustainable Communities Grant Fund.

(a) Establishment. The North Carolina Sustainable Communities Grant Fund is established in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the North Carolina Sustainable Communities Task Force within that Department shall be responsible for administering the Fund.

(b) Purposes. Funds in the North Carolina Sustainable Communities Grant Fund shall be used, as available, to provide funding to regional bodies, cities, or counties to improve regional planning efforts that integrate housing and transportation decisions, to increase the capacity to improve land use and zoning and to provide up to fifty percent (50%) of any required local matching funds for recipients of Federal Sustainable Communities Planning Grants and any other federal grants related to sustainable development and requiring local matching funds. In order to receive funds under this section, regions must meet all of the following requirements:

(1) The regional body, city, or county is a part of a regional sustainable development partnership that includes any of the metro regions as defined in G.S. 143B‑344.38(b). Partnerships may also include any Metropolitan Planning Organizations, Regional Planning Organizations, regional transit agencies, and representation from involved State agencies.

(2) The partnership has submitted a work plan to the Task Force describing the activities to be funded and the public comment process by which activities are selected and prioritized.

(3) All members of the partnership have adopted a jointly developed memorandum of agreement describing how coordinated planning activities will be undertaken.

(c) Funding Guidelines. In awarding any grant funding, the Task Force shall utilize the common local government sustainable practices scoring system developed in accordance with G.S. 143B‑344.35(7). In its consideration of grant applications, the Task Force may also consider any offers by a partnership to provide matching funds. (2010‑31, s. 13.5(a).)