City of Champaign Announces Additional Service Alterations
Today, the City of Champaign announced additional service changes to promote social distancing and to proactively support the prevention and management of COVID-19. Changes are temporary, and an announcement will be made once the City is able to return to normal business. The Neighborhood Programs Division (Neighborhood Services Department) is suspending all new applications for […]
City of Champaign Announces Additional Suspensions to Services
Today, the City of Champaign announced additional service changes to promote social distancing and to proactively support the prevention and management of COVID-19. Changes are temporary, and an announcement will be made once the City is able to return to normal business. The Code Compliance Division (Neighborhood Services) is suspending all inspections except for cases […]
City Donates Lot to University of Illinois Solar Decathlon Project
On February 21, 2020, the City transferred the deed to 1202 N. Walnut, Champaign, for a house being designed by University of Illinois students for the 2020 Solar Decathlon. The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a collegiate competition comprising ten contests that challenges student teams to design and build highly efficient and innovative […]
Champaign Residents Now Settling Into Their New Homes in the Bristol Development
The City of Champaign is very pleased to welcome the first residents now moving into their new homes in the Bristol Development. While work on parts of the development continue, some families started moving into finished homes on Saturday, February 15, 2020. The complete redevelopment of the former Bristol Place neighborhood is the result of […]
City Staff to Participate in Point-in-Time Count
Staff from Neighborhood Services will participate in the annual Point-in-Time survey on January 30, 2020. The survey is a count mandated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and provides a snapshot of homelessness in Champaign County and throughout the country. Organized locally by the Champaign County Continuum of Service Providers to […]
City Receives Competitive Affordable Housing Grant for the Garden Hills SLEEP Program
The City, in partnership with Busey Bank, has been awarded a $67,500 from the 2019 Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago Affordable Housing Program. The grant will expand the work of the Garden Hills SLEEP Program by providing emergency escape and rescue windows and exterior lighting on yard poles and at entry points to 20 […]
Code Compliance Demolition
Miller Enterprises recently completed demolition of a dilapidated and vacant structure located at 1002 W. Beardsley Avenue. As a result of the property being vacant, Property Maintenance Inspector Cliff Peete contacted the property owner in September 2015 to register the property as a Vacant Residential Building. Unfortunately, the owner failed to register the property as […]
Habitat for Humanity Home Dedication
Congratulations to the Nesbitt family on their Habitat for Humanity home dedication in the City of Champaign! The City of Champaign partnered with Habitat for Humanity on the production of this home by selling the lot to Habitat during the City-owned lot disposition process and by the use of HOME grant funds to assist with […]
Residents Can Help Beautify Neighborhoods and Reduce Localized Flooding When They “Adopt A Drain”
Residents Can Help Beautify Neighborhoods and Reduce Localized Flooding When They “Adopt A Drain” The City of Champaign invites residents and property owners to help keep their neighborhoods beautiful and prevent potential localized street flooding by participating in the City’s new “Adopt A Drain” program. This new program allows volunteers to sign up to “adopt” […]
Neighborhood Programs – HUD Monitoring Visit
From July 15-19, 2019, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) conducted onsite monitoring of the City of Champaign’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. The City received the HUD monitoring visit results on September 16, and is excited to report there were no Findings and no Concerns. The purpose of the visit […]