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July 25, 2000 Motion by Mr. Robinett, and seconded by Mr. Griffin, to transfer $127,100 from the Grants Contingency Fund to support the Adult Drug Court, and was adopted by the following: Ayes: Benn, Griffin, Moody, Robinett, Whitehurst, Holley Nays: None - Public Hearing - 00 - 173 - Public Hearing on an ordinance to appropriate 1.3 million dollars for fiscal year 2001 from the City General Fund for increasing funding to the School Operating Budget. The source of funding for this appropriation is School and City Operating Budget savings from fiscal year 2000. There were no speakers. - Unfinished Business - Consent Aqenda 00 - 164 - Comprehensive Plan and rezoning modification applications: Motion by Mr. Robinett, and seconded by Mr. Moody, to adopt the following resolution and ordinance, approved at the July 11, 2000 meeting, and was adopted by the following vote: 00-164(b): "A RESOLUTION APPROVING AND ADOPTING AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH. {CP-00-01) WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, has adopted a Comprehensive Plan, (CP-89-1), for the physical development of the territory within the City; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission, after notice and public hearing, as required by Chapter 22 of Title 15.2 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, has recommended that: 1. Chapter 4 of the Comprehensive Plan and Exhibit 4-7 (General Land Use Plan Map) contained therein be amended to allow development of a Corporate Center on the former Fairwood Homes (Academy Park) site and to adjust and modify the pattern of allowed land uses in the immediate vicinity of the Corporate Center, as shown on Exhibit A, attached hereto and made a part hereof; and 2. Exhibit 5-1 of the Comprehensive Plan (Park and Open Space Plan) be amended to eliminate the proposed mini-park north of 1-264 in the vicinity of McLean Street and the existing park located where the Portsmouth Corporate Center will be developed and to add Bide-A-Wee Golf Course as a park and open space feature; and 3. Chapter 7 of the Comprehensive Plan, entitled "Image and Open Space," be amended by adding the following language at the conclusion thereof: The site of the proposed Portsmouth Corporate Center business park east of Victory Boulevard lies within one of the Significant Image Corridors. This corridor stretches along Victory Boulevard from Interstate 264 south to its intersection with George Washington Highway. In general, the Significant Image Corridors in the city can be characterized as heavily traveled roadways; usually they are arterial highways that connect the Commercial Image Areas together. The corridors can be described typically as having visual overload. The proposed design criteria for the Portsmouth Corporate Center will address the visual effects of the business park development but not the visual conditions along the Significant Image Corridor.