Distressed area definition
Distressed area means a local governmental unit that meets all of the following:
Distressed area means either a municipal corporation that has a population of at least fifty thousand or a county, that meets two of the following criteria:
Distressed area means: (a) A county which has an
More Definitions of Distressed area
Distressed area means either a municipal corporation that has a population of at least fifty thousand or a county that meets two of the following criteria of economic distress, or a municipal corporation the majority of the population of which is situated in such a county:
Distressed area means: (a) A rural county; (b) a county
Distressed area means a city that meets all of the following criteria:
Distressed area means a county, city, community or other geographic area that is designated as a distressed area by the department, based on indicators of economic distress or dislocation, including but not limited to unemployment, poverty and job loss.
Distressed area means an area that: is categorized as a
Distressed area means either a municipal corporation with a population of at least fifty thousand or a county that meets any two of the following criteria:
Distressed area means: (a) A county which has an unemployment rate which is twenty percent above the state average for the immediately previous three years; (b) a metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the office of federal statistical policy and standards, United States department of commerce, in which the average level of unemployment for the calendar year immediately preceding the year in which an application is filed under this chapter exceeds the average state unemployment for such calendar year by twenty percent. Applications under this subsection (4)(b) shall be filed by April 30, 1989; (c) an area within a county, which area: (i) Is composed of contiguous census tracts; (ii) has a minimum population of five thousand persons; (iii) has at least seventy percent of its families and unrelated individuals with incomes below eighty percent of the county's median income for families and unrelated individuals; and (iv) has an unemployment rate which is at least forty percent higher than the county's unemployment rate; or (d) a county designated as a timber impact area under RCW 43.31.601 if an application is filed by July 1, 1993. For purposes of this definition, "families and unrelated individuals" has the same meaning that is ascribed to that term by the federal department of housing and urban development in its regulations authorizing action grants for economic development and neighborhood revitalization projects.