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226 October 28. 1997 The activities include acquisitions and public improvements as specified in the Action Plan and administrative support activities, and also include activities to carry out the goals of the Vision 2005 program. Opportunity Acquisitions are also funded under the Community Development Program. The program year for Community Development activities is being changed to correspond with the City's fiscal year. Consequently, the 1999 CD Program will be adopted in the Spring of 1999, along with the Operating Budget and Capital Improvement Plan. Financial ImPact: · These are entitlement funds the City receives from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. No local match is reqUired. Raleigh Harsley, 2124 Peach Street, president, Lee Ward CiviC League, spoke in favor of the New Mt. Olivet Church's position regarding property on County Street. 2. Reverend Antonio Stephenson, 3923 Long Point Boulevard, requested that various properties be excluded from the "to be acquired" list. Rafiq Zaidi, 3106 Hull Street, President, Black Concerned Citizens, spoke in support of New Mt. Olivet Church's request that various properties be excluded from the "to be acquired" liszt. Motion by Mr. Pitts, and seconded by Mr. Clemons, to amend the following resolution by withdrawing 632 High Street, delaying action on 1308 County Street, and no acq=isition~ of the church property be taken by the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority for a period of six (6) months, and that if improvements have not taken place after the six month period, acquisition of the church property would take place as originally planned, and was adopted by the following vote: "A RESOLUTION APPROVING AMENDMENT NO. 28 TO TH E CRAWFORD CONSERVATION AND REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE CRAWFORD URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT. WHEREAS, this Council by resolution adopted August 1, 1967, approved a Conservation and Redevelopment Plan for the Crawford Urban Renewal Project, Portsmouth, Virginia (Plan); and WHEREAS, there has been presented to this body for consideration and approval, a copy of an amended Plan for the project area; which Plan consists of 18 pages and 4 exhibits (Amendment No. 28); and WHEREAS, Amendment No. 28 proposes to designate additional properties as "To Be Acquired"; and WHEREAS, this Council is cognizant of the conditions that are imposed by the provisions of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, including those prohibiting discrimination because of race, age, color, religion, familial status, handicap, sex or national origin; and WHEREAS, in the judgment of this CounCil, it is in the interest of the City and its inhabitants that the said Amendment be approved.