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Optional Coverage for Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The Cabarrus County CDBG Program may undertake relocation that is not be automatically covered under the URA such as homeowner voluntary demolition. It is the County's intends that such persons be served at the same levels as those described under the URA and the County will use this Optional Coverage Relocation Plan to establish this coverage. Under this plan, the f Cabarrus County shall provide relocation payments and assistance to the following: 1. Homeowners and their families who are displaced by rehabilitation activity of a dwelling located within the CDBG Activity Area. 2. Homeowners and their families who are displaced by the voluntary demolition of a dwelling occupied by the families and located within the CDBG Activity Area. Relocation Assistance to Families and Individuals The County shall provide relocation planning, advisory and coordination services consistent with those described in Section 24.205 of the URA. These shall include, but not be limited to, the provision of transportation services as needed to view comparable replacement dwelling, or other transportation as deemed necessary and reasonable to support the relocation, assistance in submitting claims for payment, counseling and education on relocation regulations and coordinating these activities with existing social service and economic assistance programs as they are available. Temporary Relocation Housing rehabilitation shall be conducted without relocation of the affected occupants to the greatest extent feasible. Should relocation be necessary, temporary relocation shall be accomplished at a minimum feasible cost. Temporary relocation payments will be limited to expenses that are directly related to the temporary relocation and which are above and beyond the normal expenses incurred by the relocatee. These would include, but not be limited to: • reasonable expenses for lodging for the period of dislocation, , • costs for temporary storage of household belongings. • Relocation of land -line telephone services • One moving payment under the Fixed Payment for Moving Expenses (chart below) There would be No reimbursement for expenses that would otherwise be incurred (meals, normal travel, etc). Relocatees would be required to submit receipts to the County documenting the expenses for which they are requesting reimbursement. Moving Expense Payment 2 Attachment number 1 F -4 Page 159