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!'2I December 11, 1978 At a Public Hearing meeting of City Council held on December 11, 1978, there were present Richard J. Davis, Jack P. Barnes, Archie Elliott, Jr., J. Robe~Gray, James W. Holley, Edward L. Oast, Jr., Robert T. Williams, City Manager, Gordon B. Tayloe, Jr., City Attorney. Absent: E. Saunders Early, Jr. 78-42~(h)A joint Public Hearing of City Council Housing Authority on the proposed Plan Amendment to was presented, with the following present: and the Portsmouth Redevelopment and th~ Effingham Conservation and Redevelopme Portsmouth Redevelopment ~ Housing Authority Herbert K. Bangel, Chairman Mrs. Charles Downs Dr. E. A. Barham William H. Oast, III ~. Be~ A. Beame~ Michael A. Kay, Exec. Director Mayor Davis opened the meeting with the following remarks: "This evening brings together members of the City Council and the Portsmouth Redevelopmen and Housing Authority Board of Commissioners in a joint public hearing for the purpose of reviewing a proposed amendment to the Plan for the Effingham Conservation and Redevelopment Project. The hearing will afford interested individuals the opportuntiy to express their views regarding this proposed change, which is th~ redesignation of 58 parcels 6f land within the Effingham Project from Conservation 'not to be acquired' to redevelopment 'to be acquired' In accordance with State law, this action to expand the area designated for redevelopment must be approved by the bodies assembled here tonight. I would remind you that tonight is only a public hearing and th~;City Councilmen and Authority Commissioners will listen and give full consideration to your comments prior to taking any action on the proposed amendment. This pla change will be formally considered by City Council and the Board of Commissioners at their next regularly scheduled meetings." Mr. Herbert K. Bangel, Chairman, Portsmouth Redevelopment ~ Housing Authority, presented the following remarks: "The proposed amendment to the signate a number of parcels in this ment 'to be acquired' is based upon Effingham Conservation and Redevelopment Project to rede- area from conservation 'not to be acquired' to redevelop- several prior events which I-would like to highlight. The 83-acre Effingham Project was approved by the Department of Housing ~ Urban Develop- ment on June 21, 1973. At that time the scope of the project was limited by the reFervation of Federal funds available under the c~nventionalurban renewal program. During the execution phase of the Effingham Project, it became apparent that the original Federal loan and grant for this project would be insufficient to complete all activities and to insure that all objec tives of the Plan were met. This recognition was forthcoming in 1976 and 1977 when the City of Portsmouth allocated a portion of its very limited community development entitlement toward meeting this improvement objective. It was this commitment, together with prior commitments made by the City Council to other portions of this general area of our City, Which en~h~ ~s to~-s3Jccessfully compete for a $10 Million'Urgent Needs grant made av'ailable by the Depart- ment of Housing and Urban Development for the expressed purpose of allowing cities such as Portsmouth to complete planned activities in ~edevelopment project areas. The amendment to the Effingham Plan being considered is consistent with the intent of our UrgentNeeds application in that it was recognized in 197~ that many of the homes originally scheduled for conservation in Effingham could not be economically rehabilitated. In conjuncti with this proposed adjustment, the Authority has worked with the Effingham Project Area Com- mittee to resurvey the majority of homes in the conservation area to determined current struc- tural conditions and subsequent rehabiliatation feasibility. The parcels designated on the exhibit reflect those properties which the Authority and the Project Area Committee do not feel can be economically rehabilitated. The action to designate this property from conserva- tion 'not to be acquired' to redevelopment 'to be acquired' will enable the Authority to as- semble sites for new residential development and in turn offer these new homes to displacees relocated as a result of this particular action. The staging of acquisition, relocation and new construction has been very successful to date in the Effingham Project, and we are con- fonfident that this particular procedure can be followed in connection with this phase of the Effingham Project Area." There being no other public comment, the Public Hearing on the proposeg Amendment to the ~ffingham Conservation and Redevelopment Project was concluded. 78-426 -GHP 78-3 - Application for River Shore Apartments, Virginia Urban Developers of Virginia Beach, The following letter from the Planning Commission was received: '~'At its regular monthly meeting on December 5, 1978, the City Planning Commission for the fourth month in a row took up the following group housing project application: GHP 78-3, River Shore Apartments: Virginia Urban Developers of Virginia Beach, by President Philip Richardson, Architect Carlton Goodwin, Baldwin and Gregg, Engineers, Attorney Edward Russel; and Attorney A. T. Mayo for Portsmouth Partners, Inc., who acquired this property from Associated Churchland Investors and have it under option to Virginia Urban Developers. This proposal involves twelve and one-half acres of a twenty acre tract of land at the northeast corner of River Shore Road and Hedgerow Lane. The proposed River