Expansion Applications - JFA can analyze your existing zone configuration and determine the implications, barriers, and advantages of pursuing an expansion. JFA can prepare all necessary technical narratives and statistical analysis needed to submit an expansion application to HCD. We can also support any stakeholder coordination efforts by preparing presentations, staff reports, and informational brochures.

Local Boundaries, Street Ranges and Zone mapping - including 3 GIS computer-generated color maps showing the zone’s streets, incorporated census tracts/block groups/blocks and land use zoning

Eligibility Documentation - including tables and narratives illustrating the zones compliance with certain socio-economic criteria established by HCD

A Comprehensive Economic Development Plan consisting of: a Marketing Strategy and Plan to address the zone’s goals and objectives for area revitalization, priority business clusters, business retention, expansion and attraction and Enterprise Zone targeted individuals;  Available Property and Businesses Listings including detail on vacant commercial and industrial buildings and the acreage of available commercially or industrially zoned land and a listing of all Zone businesses;  Financing Programs Overview including an explanation of the business and real estate financial incentives available in the application area and their track record of success;

Job Development, Vouchering and Vouchering Fee Remittance Plans including strategies for maximizing the participation of agencies that provide job development services for the unemployed and underemployed, a plan for the issuance of vouchers for eligible employees that is compliant with regulations;

Planning and Local Incentives Narratives including a detailed description of the available local incentives and how the proposed incentives will stimulate business investment in the application area;

Zone Program Management Plan including detailed discussion of budgeting and staff for the zone’s governance, development of a Zone Manager’s Job Description, development of organizational charts, and ratification of all memorandums of understanding and letters of commitment establishing these relationships;

Unemployment and Area Income Levels Analysis including generating statistics for all census blocks within the proposed application area and GIS computer-generated color maps;

Infrastructure and Capital Improvement Plan Narratives including a description of the application area’s infrastructure serving industrial and commercial areas and planned improvements through 2011 and a GIS computer generated map illustrating such infrastructure.