Example of Code and Standard Not Applicable to Restoration Type
An Applicant requests Public Assistance funding for the repair of a damaged building and the construction of a parking garage. The Applicant states that while there was no parking garage prior to the incident, zoning codes and other local ordinances require one. Because parking improvements have no relationship to the disaster-related repairs, they do not apply to the type of restoration required and are not eligible.
Similarly, if a code and standard that applies to new construction or the rehabilitation of an entire road requires the construction of paved shoulders, drainage swales, and berms, the construction of these improvements is not eligible for a project involving repairs to discrete damaged portions of the road shoulders.