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The followzng spoke for the project:
<br />
<br />M.L. McCarty
<br />Leonard G Karp
<br />Euclid Hanbury
<br />C.J. Waters
<br />Robert M. Reed
<br />
<br /> The following resolu±~io~ was D~esen~ed'by Mr. Karp:
<br />
<br /> "At a regular meeting of the Urban Renewal Committee of the Portsmouth Chamber
<br /> of Commerce, held March 20th, 1959, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
<br />
<br /> WITNESSETH, That whereas the Portsmouth Redevelopment and Housing Authority
<br /> has recommended the adoption of the Lincolnsville Urban Renewal Project by the
<br /> Portsmouth City Council; and
<br /> WHEREAS, the Portsmouth Planning Commission has recommended the adoption of this
<br /> project and given approval to the projected boundaries and street layout; and
<br /> WHEREAS, a statistical summary of Lincolnsville reveals its ~onorrhea rate as 6.6
<br />times the average for the City; its Syphillis rate is 4 times the average for the
<br />City; its Tuberculosis rate is 120 eases per one hundred thousand as compared with
<br />.70 cases per one hundred thousand over the entire city; and
<br /> WHEREAS, said statistical summary reveals there are a total of 404 housing units in
<br />Lincolnsville, and of these 74% are not in good condition, 43% have hazardous floors and
<br />stairs, 22% have leaky roofs, 82% have inadequate electrical wzring, 62% have no hot
<br />water, 59% have no baths, 51% have oatside toilets, 35~ are rat harborages, and 9%x are
<br />unfit for human habitation; and
<br /> WHEREAS, the Portsmouth General Hospital is in dire ne~d of room for expansion; the
<br />new multi-million dollar Naval Hospital zs separated from downtovzn Portsmout.h by the
<br />existence of this blighted area; which area detracts frOm and hampers the City in gain-
<br />ing full realization of the economic and social attributes of this Naval establishment;
<br />and
<br /> WHEREAS, the Portsmouth City Manager i]~ recent newspaper article has confirmed the
<br />financial feasibility of this project and explained how it could be accomplished as
<br />a self-liquidating capital improvement; and
<br /> %~EREAS, it is the consensus of this Committee that the continued economic-and social
<br />well-bein~ of the Park View area of our City can only be preserved by the adoption of
<br />this project, upon completion, would be an asset to the City of Portsmouth as a whole.
<br /> NOW~ THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED ~.hat this Commiitee recommend that Board of Directors
<br />of .the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce go on record as approving the Lincolnsville
<br />Urban Renewal Project and take such action as it deems necessary, toward securing the
<br />adoption of thzs project by the Portsmouth City Council.
<br />
<br />Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce."
<br />
<br />The following spoke against the project:
<br />
<br />Thos. ~. Reed
<br />Fred MacDonald
<br />G.L. Cox
<br />Rev. ~alter L Hildebrand
<br />P.E. Wnukoski
<br />
<br />Mrs.Arthur Richard Turtle
<br />Mrs. ~enrietta ~illiams
<br />C.M.Davenport
<br />JGH Mit¢~eI1
<br />L. H. [(effer
<br />
<br />~rs. S.M. Watts
<br />E.E Willisms
<br />Joseph Donlan
<br />Chas. Richardson
<br />George Williams
<br />
<br />The following letter was presented by Mr, Donlan:
<br />
<br /> "The public meeting of citizens of Portsmouth sponsored by the Executive Committee of the
<br />Portsmouth Citizens Protective League, held at 8:00 P.N., on Thursday, Narch 19th, 1959, at the auditorium of
<br />the Harry Hunt Junior High School, adopted the resolution hereinafter set forth and directed that it be presented
<br />to you at the meeting of the Council scheduled for Tuesday, March ~4, 1959.
<br /> The resolution is as follows:
<br /> 'Be it Resolved that the City Council of Portsmouth, Virginia be
<br /> requested to defer any action with respect to the proposed 'Lincolns-
<br /> Ville Urban Renewal Project' until after the Portsmouth Redevelopment
<br /> and Housing Authority has held the Public meeting to consider this 9ro -
<br /> ject as required by law'.
<br /> Your favorable action on this matter will be appreciated.
<br /> (SignSd) J.P. Donlan,Chairman, Executive Committee."
<br />
<br /> ~otion of Mr. Breedlove that the Council extend the time fop the meeting beyond 11:00 P.M
<br />was adopted, without dissenting vote.
<br />
<br />Mr. Weiseman presented the following resolution:
<br />
<br /> "WHEREAS, pursuant to direction of this Coumci~, the Portsmouth Redevelopment and
<br />Housing Authority has employed a planning consultant, appraisers and real estate con -
<br />sultant: with respect to the proposed Lincolnsville Redevelopment plan, and several
<br />possible redevelopment plans have been presented by these consultants ~o this Council,
<br />· n joint conference with the Redevelopmen~ Authority and the Planning Commission; and
<br />
<br /> %~EREAS, the planning consultant recommer~ded the plan identified as'Plan D', with
<br />certain oral modifications, thereafter incorpomated by him into 'Plan E', which plan
<br />the Planning Commission has recommended as compatible with and beneficial to the adjacen~
<br />areas; and
<br />
<br />WHEREAS, the boundaries, basi~ street layout, land usages and excluded properties
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