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December 16. 1969 spproprl~t 5. Direct the City Manager of Portsmouth, Virginia to furnish pertinent flood data to the '- e local, federal, or state official in making application for flood insurance to t~e Federal Insurance Adminis~-~ ~ trator of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. 6. Direct the Clerk of th; City of Portsmouth, Virginia, to provide copies of this resolution as may,be required to be used in making ~plication for insurance coverage under the provisions of the National Flooa Insurance Act of 1968 and to pro~ide a copy to the commissioner of l~ater Resources, Commonwealth of Virginia.' _ resolutions and recommend their adoption. The first resolution 69-421 "I submit the attached two requests the State Highway Department to acquire a portion of the right-of-way for the Nestern Freeway Project and also commits the City of PoCtmmouth to agree to provide its fifteen percent (15%) 6~ the cost. The High- way Department has been requested to purchase the right-of-way on certain properties for the Western Freeway. It is also necessary for the City to adopt a resolution agreeing to provide its fifteen percent (15%) of the cost. The second resolution designates the Western Freeway as a limited access highway in the area where the property is being purchased. This area is in the vicinity of Towne Point Road which will be an interchange with the Western Freeway. ~his is a similar resolution to the one adopted designating the London-Glasgow Street Highway as limited access in the vicinity of HE~b~r Drive, If at some future date, this highway is designated as an interstate, the City would be reimbursed its fifteen percent (15%) that it has advanced." Motion of Mr. Eastes ~t~delete this item, on the recommendation of the City Manager, was adopted, without .dissenting vote. 69-422 - "I submit the attached ~agr~ement between the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company and the City of Portsmouth and recom.mend the proper City officials be authorized to sign. This is for the installation of a sewe~ line under the railroad tracks at Greenwood Drive. The construction of this s~w~ line ia necessary under these tracks as it will connect with a pum. ping station necessary to serve all of the un-sewered area south of Airline Boulevard." ~otion of Mr. Hotley that the proper city officials be authorized to sign the agreement was adopted with- out dissenting vote. 69-423 - "The Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority has suggested two program3 for the Mt. l~ermol area -- one rehabilitation project, and two Federally-as~sisted codes enforcement programs, along with a~cddes enforcement program for the ~ ark View area not included in the Conservation Project. The proposed Mt. Harmon Rehabilitation Project would be bqdgeted for a seven-year period while the survey mhd planning period would run approximately eighteen months. Since, at the earliest; it would be three to six months before the survey and planning application would be ~pproved, we are talking about a minimum of nin~ to twelve years under existing Federal guidelines~ in which the City c~erform eligible non-cash work in this area mhd still receive credit for it. Monies that have already been expended or committed by the City, such as the London-Glasgow Street Highway, provide the City with more than a million and a half dollars worth of non-cash credits. Any other improvements anticipated to be performed will not have to commence for at least a minimum of three to five years. The Authority, in estimating the budget, has been extremely liberal in its estimate of costs and extremel~ conservative in its estimate of land disposition proceeds, and it is conceivable that due 'to this precautionar measure by the Authority that the-London-Glasgow Street Highway can alone carry the City's one-third fgnancial s~are of this project. Technicians as well as administrative personnel from the Department of Housing and Ufoan Development in Philadelphia have looked at the Mt. Harmon area, and gone over the rough ~acts that figures compiled by the Authority, and feel that without question this area is eligible, and would meet the requirements necessary to enable this to be approved as a ~ederally-assisted rehabilitation project. The proposed ~.lt. Hermon Federally-assisted Code Enforcement Project consists of three sub-areas identified as North ~t. Herman, South Mt. Hermon, and Park View. It is mandatory that tile City be the applicant for a Federally-asisted Code Enforcement Application. The Authority, however, would prepare the application and undertake the execution activities for the City under a Third Party Contract, if you so desire. In this program, the City must spend a minimum of $230,000 in improver manta, such as curbs and gutters. ~lis must be done over a three to three and one-half year period, and means committing the City to capital expenditures in the amount of $65,700 annually. The code Enforcement Program must be completed within three years from date of execution, and the time limitations with regard to credit are the same as in a conventional type progrmm. ~chnicians as well as administrative personnel from the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Philadelphia have inspected these three sub-areas and had no questions as to their eligibility, and encouraged the Authority to s. ubmit these areas in an application for a Code Enforcement Project. Since it will take approximately eighteen months to process the survey and planning for the Reh~oilitatlo~ Project, and the London-Glasgow Street Highway is already under construction, we should not: take a ~a~lc~ of losing this credit, qhere are no Federal funds in the construction of the highway; therefore, we will have local credit of mo~e than $1,500,000 which will produce better than $3,000,000 in Federal funds. I, therefore, recommend that ~]e Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority be authorized to p~epare applications for these projects." Motion of ~r. Turner to concur in the recommendation that the Housing Authority be authorized to prepare the application was adopted, without dissenting vote.