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At a regula~ meeting of the City :Council, held on July 8th, 1947,there · Leslie To Fox, George Lo Grimes, Arthu~ P. Henderson,~J~mes N. Stu~tevant, C. E. Warren, Pestle J. Wilson, A~thur S. Owens, R.C. Ba~¢laM, City Attorney. Howard, E.Robie City Manager, and Minutes of regular meeting heldJune 24th were read and approved~ The following report of the Planning Commission was read: rAt a meeting of the Planning Cormnission held on June 19th, 1947, the following applications_to rezone property were approved: Mr. Willimn C. Gteason, Jr. to rezone from Residential te Commercial the property at 2613 Detroit Street, 40 feet adja- cent te alley 30 feet on ~etroit Street. Mr. R. Earl Byrd tc resone from Residential to Cemmereial the preper~y at the n~thwest corner of Cambridge Ave. and Hartford Street, lets #560-861-862. N~.H.G. MeCready, torezene from Residential ~o Con~nercial, the property at the southeast corner of E~m Avenue s~d London St.~ ll3 feet on Elm Avenue and 143 feet 2 inches on Lenten St. The following applications were denied: M~s. Eo M. Wooda~d to rezone f rom Residential to Commercial the property at 916 LOndon Street. W. H. Reid to rezone f~om Residential to Commercial property at 811-13-18-17 South St." The Chair opened the meeting to the public - no response. On motion o f l~$.H0wa~d, Item I was a~pted. On motion of ~r.~Howa~d~ Item 2 was adopted. 0n motion o f Mr. Wilson, Item 3 was adopted. approved. was approved. On motion of M~. On motion of Er. ~ilson, the Planning Commission's action o n Item 4 was Stu~tevant, ~he Planning Commission's action on Item The following communications~frem the City M~uager were read: 1st - The Manager presented the following: "0u~ attention has been called to recent news stories published in the Portsmouth newspaper which indicate that (1) you~ Co~poration contemplates the resale of the demountable houses allocated to you to a local contracting fizm~, and (2) that the Corporation contemplates the re-erectionof these houses on one site developed on a portion of the fo~mer government trailer project in the Highland Park section. If these newspaper stories a~e t~ue, we feel that you~ Co~oration i s violating the letter, spirit and intent of the contract dated May 29th, 194V, between trois Authority and you~ Co~poration. In coEaectionwith the proposed tracting fi.~m, w e cslt your attention t o Paragraph 8 ef these dwellmng ~nits shall be resold~bythe Co~poration fsmilies. In connection with the propose~ tracting ~i~m, we call your attention to Paragraph 8 of these dwelling units shall be resold by the Corporatio~ their families. resale ef these units to a local con- said contract, which requires that only to a veteranc~ serviceman or thei. resale of these units to a local eon- said contract whieh requires that only to s veteran or serviceman or In connection with the proposal to re-erect approximately t00 ~f these units on one site immediately adjacent to Alexander Park, we must remind you of the several conferences held in the Atlanta office attended by representatives of you~ Corporation, of the City and others. You~ progz~m at that time contemplated offering these dwelling units to eli- gible repu~ehasers, re-erected on new sites of their own choice eithe~in the City of Ports - mouth or Norfolk County. It was understood that one of the pr~ reasons for entering into this progrmm w~s to make it possible for &Rdividual veterans to acquire homes at a reasonable cost in sections of the a~ea in which, fo~ various reasons, they preferred to residee Represen- tatives of this Authority explained at that time emphatically that we did not look with favor upon the use of these demeu~table houses for the creation~ residential develepments on distinct sites ptt~chased and improved for that p~,se. Your representatives, h~wever, pointed out that there was a s~bstantial demand on the p~a~t of Negroveterans and that it was practically impos- sible for Negro veterans to acquire individually satisfactory lots in the Portsmouth area. This Authority, therefore, agreed that approximately 60 of the demountable u~its p~chased could be erected on one site for resale to Negro veterans under the te~ms of the contract, but it was distincttyunderstood by all of the representatives of this Authority who took par~in these conferences that the traits which were earmarked for resale to white veterans w~uld b e placed o~ in~div~idua~l. ~ot~.throughout the general ~a~ea selected b~ the %ndividual Veteran. It is patti- . eu~.a~£y~d~s~u~omng to us that not only ~s t~is general ~nderstanding a~d agreement bei~ appa~- en~±y c~uged without the concurrence of this Authority ~Gt that the single site selected fc~ t th~se~u.ni.'ts~is immediately ad~acenp to Alexander P~k. It is definitely not in .the best inter~ es~ cz the ~overnment to permit this to ~e done. ~f there is need for veterans' housing in the' Alexander Pa~k section of the county, then the dispositic~ committee and the local governing