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SIDESTOWN/SI{ANKLETOWN CO.}~UNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRA~. The Sidestown/Shankletown community is located in Town- ship four (4), lying to the northwest of the city of Concord, between U~S. 29 and Concord's city limits. There are 180 families with 566 individuals residing in this community. Some 189 residential structures are located here, the bulk Of which are in a deteriorating condition. Of these, 70% are owner-occupied. The Sidestown/Shankletown community suffers from a lack of services such as public water, sanitary sewer, paved roads and street lights. In reviewing the needs of the area, the most pressing of these needs is the lack of sanitary sewer, Presently, sewer is being handled by septic tanks and outdoor privies. The soils in the area are not suitable for septic systems and the lots are small, thereby restricting the areas available for drainage fields. The systems frequently fail, overflow and creates an increasing danger of polluting the area wells. The 1981 Community Development (CD) Application is an attempt to deal with the septic tank system failures. As there was avail- able, a maximum of $500,000.00 in funds, it was felt that only samitary sewer related activities could be completed for this sum. The Community Development budget calls for around $300,000.00 for approximately 15,000 feet of eight (8) inch collector pipe, The sewer connections to the homes, engineering costs, the provision of some indoor plumbing, demolition of five (5) vacant, delapidated houses and administration. The Planning Department has completed an Environmental Review Record, a revised Citizen Participation Plan, a bid package for engineering services, field surveys for physical characteristics, mapping and a community questionaire to determine social character- istics. The full application is due at the HUD Greensboro area office on July 1, with funding to begin around October 1, 1981. The time between July 1, and October 1 will be spent organizing and setting up record keeping, financial accounting, and prelim- inary engineering specifications for construction bids. We hope to be able to immediately go to construction bids upon being noti- fied of funding so that we can take advantage of the depressed construction prices.