Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Source: Official source
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17.5 RELOCATION OF DISPLACED TENANTS treated by the developer, you may contact
17.5.1 Purpose the Department of Planning and Urban
The purpose of this section is to encourage the Development, City of Portland, 389
retention of a diverse housing supply throughout Congress Street, Portland, Maine 04101.
the downtown and in areas readily accessible to the
downtown, to ensure that persons displaced as the 17.5.3 Relocation assistance for all tenants
result of redevelopment of residential units to The developer shall provide, upon demand,
nonresidential uses within the B-3 Downtown assistance to all tenants who will be displaced by the
Business zone are treated fairly and consistently, development in the form of referrals to other
and to ensure that persons so displaced will be reasonable accommodations and in determining the
relocated at the reasonable expense of the tenants' eligibility for relocation payments as
developer to comparable housing at a location provided herein. The developer shall make
providing comparable access to services and relocation payments to eligible tenants in
amenities. accordance with the schedule adopted by the City
Council in Subsection 17.5.4.
17.5.2 Notice and eligibility for relocation
assistance 17.5.4 Schedule of relocation payments for
When a proposed development will result in the eligible tenants
displacement of residents of an existing structure, The developer shall, before the tenant is required by
the developer of the property shall give all tenants the developer to vacate, make a cash payment to
written notice as set forth below and shall provide the tenant in an amount equal to the amount of
relocation assistance as set forth below for any rent paid by the tenant for the immediately
tenant whose gross income is 80% or less of the