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WHEREAS, The Virginia Department of Transportation has consistently stated <br />that the City of Portsmouth's number one transportation project, the Pinners Point <br />Interchange, will continue to proceed regardless of the outcome of the project proposed <br />by Hampton Roads Public-Private Development LLC; and <br /> <br /> WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, recognizes that the <br />projects proposed by Hampton Roads Public-Private Development LLC are directly <br />related to the proposed Pinners Point Interchange. <br /> <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of <br />Portsmouth, Virginia, hereby urges the Governor and the General Assembly of the <br />Commonwealth of Virginia to identify and allocate funding sources other than tolls to <br />construct these projects as expeditiously as possible, and further urges the <br />Commonwealth to seek special project funding from the Federal Government in <br />recognition of the regional, statewide, and national interest in their construction. <br /> <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Portsmouth, <br />Virginia, hereby expresses its opposition to the use of tolls as proposed by Hampton <br />Roads Public-Private Development LLC as a funding mechanism for constructing the <br />Pinners Point Interchange, the Midtown Tunnel, or the Martin Luther King Freeway <br />Extension to 1-264. <br /> <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Portsmouth, <br />Virginia, reaffirms its previous resolution adopted November 24, 1998, whereby the <br />Council requested the Virginia Department of Transportation to use a portion of the city's <br />Urban Allocation funds to repay the State's Toll Facilities Revolving Account in lieu of <br />imposing tolls on the users of the Piuners Point Interchange, while also designating the <br />Pinners Point Interchange as a high priority project, and to explore additional funding <br />sources which can be applied to this project, in order that the use of Urban Allocation <br />funds be minimized to the extent possible. <br /> <br /> Adopted by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia at a meeting held on <br />April 13, 1999. <br /> <br />Teste: <br /> <br />City Clerk <br /> <br /> <br />