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A RESOLLri~ON SE%'±'ING .FORTH PORTSMOUS~{'S DECLARATION OF POLICY IN CONNECTION ~YiTH ITS WORKABLE PROGP~kM FOR CO~4UNITY LMPRO~. WHEREAS, on October 3, 1967, when the special Annexation Court~ handed down its final decision, mutually agreed upon ~by the two cities involved, concluding an ordeal which began on December 5, 1961, Portsmouth faced a 90-day period of preparation for extending mumicipal services ~to 12,000 new citizens over ten additional square miles of land s_~ea; and WHEF~AS, during October, 1_967, application must be made to the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for recertification of the Portsmouth Workable Program for Community Improvement, a seemingly unrelated but actually integral act bearing upon the future of this old urban core commtm~ty; and WHEREAS, partial reunification of a Nineteenth Century "URB" with its new layer of ~entieth Century "SUBL~%BS:' dilutes destructive metro- politan core effec~ts of rampant obsolescence and social deterioration; and.accepting Federal Urban. aid is no longer debatable, so great is the need of.all cities; and Portsmouth's fire resolve as expressed in past Workable Program Decla~ations to strive for the broadest possible c~mmunity growth and renewal is moving forward and hereby reaffirmed. NOW, THEREFORE, BE iT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, as recommended by the Planning Conmmission on October t0, 1967, that the City of Portsmouth hereby proposes the fol- lowing seven tangible steps in further developing its Workable Program for CoWry Improvement: - ~ 1. That the action proposals outlined in this application rom by the City Manager will be pursued diIigently. 2. That Portsmouth will pursue the National '~d0DEL C±~±~lb~'' program in hopes of producing "A Demonstration of Militarily Impacted Renewal kreaLeadership" whereinUncle Sam canexperimentally assist firsthand in correcting urban problem conditions resulting from his presence. 3. That ~irectcitizen participation in the affairs of our munic- ipal goverrment on the part of newly annexed residents may actually pre- cede their official transfer into the City of ?ortemouth and will be actively sought as a policy of this municipality. _ 4. That continued support of the SoutheastermVir~inia Regional Planning Commission will accompany efforts on the part of our r~re- sentatives to that agency and the Elizabeth River Tunnel Commission on behalf of a metropolitan core masstransit s%udy.