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January 26, 1965
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<br />65-7 - The following ordinance, approved on first reading at last meeting, was taken up and read:
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<br />"AN ORDIN~NC~ TO APPROPRIATE $16,000.00 FROM ~E GENERAL CAPITAL I~ROVEMENT FUND
<br />FOR THE PLANNING ACCOUNT FOR PROJBCT P-VA-S064"
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<br />On motion of Mr. Barnes the ordinance was adopted and by the following vote:
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<br />Ayes: Smith, Barnes, Dillon, Eastes, Johnson, Knight, Leafy
<br />Nays: None
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<br />65-8 - The following ordinance approved on first reading at last meeting was taken up and read:
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<br />"AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE $6,000.00 FROM THE GENERAL CAPITAL IMPROVHMHNT FUND FOR
<br />THE PURPOSE OF RENOVATING THE CITY COUNCIl CIIA~ERS"
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<br />On motion df Mr. Dillon the ordinance was adopted and by the following vote:
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<br />Ayes: Smith, Barnes, Dillon, Eastes, Johnson, Knight, Leafy
<br />Nays: None
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<br />NEW BUSINESS
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<br /> 65-23 - The following petition signed by 3793 citizens, was nresented hy the City Clerk:
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<br /> "We, the undersigned, qualified electors of this city respectfully petition your honorable body to
<br />cause to be submitted to a vote the following question:
<br /> Should the ordinance passed by City Council on December 22, 1964, and entitled: 'An ordinance to
<br />amend Section 19-10 of the Code of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, 1961, to ALLOW THE SALE i OF BEER AND WINE ON
<br />S~DAYS BET~EN THE HOURS OF 1:00 P.M. AND 12:00 MIDNIGHT' be repealed~ Petitioners' reasons for the said repeal are:
<br /> Said ordinance is detrimental to the economic, social, and moral welfare of the people.
<br /> (Signed by C. M. Justice, 172 DeKalb Avenue and mumeroug others.)
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<br /> Motion of Mr. Knight to suspend the rules to hear from Ralph Yost and Ben Haddon, who had requested
<br />permission to speak.
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<br />Mr. Yost and ~r. Haddon spoke for the ordinance.
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<br />On motion the privilege of the floor was granted John L. Clark, who spoke in regard to the petition.
<br />A letter from the West End Methodist Church relative to the ordinance was presented.
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<br /> Mr. Dillon presented the following resolution which was. uhanimously adopted:
<br />"NH~R~AS, a petition has been presented to this Council asking that the ordinance pel~mitting the
<br />sale of beer and wine on Sunday be repealed or in the alternative that the matter be submitted to the people; and
<br /> WHEREAS, it is the opinion of this Council that this is a proper issue for determination by the
<br />voters of this City.
<br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT Pd]SOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia4
<br /> 1. That there be submitted to a vote of the electors 6f the City of Portsmouth at a special
<br />election to be held on the 20th day of April, 1965, the following question:
<br /> Should the ordinance passed by City Council'on December 22~ 1964, and entitled:
<br /> 'An ordinance to amend Section 19-10 of the Code of. the City of Portsmouth, Virginia,
<br /> ~961, to allow the sale of beer and wine on Sundays between the hours of 1:00 P.M.
<br /> and 12:00 Midnight' be repealed?
<br /> 2. That the City Clerk is directed to transmit forthwith to the ~lectoral Board of the City
<br />a certified copy of the aforementioned ordinance.
<br /> 3. That the Electoral Board of the City be, and they are hereby directed to make the
<br />necessary arrangements for the election and take the sense of the qualified voters of the City on the question as
<br />he~inabove set forth."
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<br />65-24 - The following letter from W. T. Goode, Jr., Chairman, Planning Commission was read:
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<br /> "In December 1962, you received from this Commission and endorsed the document "A General Plan -
<br />Colonel Crawford Common". In June, 1965, you received from the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority and
<br />approved the Northside General Neighborhood Renewal Plan, GN-22. Tegether, these two long-range replanning programs
<br />represent a basic framework for revitalization of that old area between the Downtown Elizabeth River Tunnel and the
<br />U. S. Naval Hospital.
<br /> In 1965, you placed upon "Operation Amidships" your stamp of approval as the formula for regeneratio
<br />of a larger area between the U. S. Naval Hospital and the U. S. Naval Shipyard. In 1964, you endorsed in principle
<br />the "Southside General Neighborhood Renewal Plan". The composite of these long-range plans is a tangible but
<br />difficult program for coping with problems of great magnitude afflicting old Portsmouth of two centumie~ standing
<br />where urban blight has made significant inroads.
<br /> General plans provide a necessary sense of direction, but their implementation denends upon specific
<br />proposals. If Operation Amidships, the Northside General Neighborhood Renewal Plan, the Colonel Crawford Common
<br />Plan, and the Southside General Neighborhood Renewal Plan represent our municipal sense of direction in center
<br />city replanning, then Northside Redevelopment Project#l plans for extension of George Nashington Highway and
<br />improvement of Effingham Street, plans for the crosstown London-Glasgow Highway~ our new Minimum Housing Code and
<br />its systematic-coordinated enforcement program, and proposals contained in this document represent means to
<br />accomplish ends officially established. Trusting that this central-Portsmouth sense of direction established is
<br />understood, accepted and endorsed with enthusiastic determ~ination, it is our obligation now to find ways and means
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