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286 <br /> <br />Appointment re: <br />Housing Authority <br />Board <br /> <br />Staff Report: <br />Fuel Cost Relief <br /> <br />Staff Report: <br />Location for <br />Highrise for <br />the Elderly <br /> <br />Staff Report: <br />Permit Parking <br /> <br />Staff Report: <br />Economic Develop- <br />ment <br /> <br /> On motion by Mr. Fife, Mr. Ed Jackson was reappointed <br /> <br />to the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority <br /> <br />Board, by unanimous vote. <br /> Mr. Bob Stripling addressed the Council and presented a <br />proposed City-Wide Utility Relief Program as prepared by MACAA. <br />He stated that the staff~recommends that City Council endorse <br />the MACAA Utility Relief Program and provide maximum public <br />support to raising funds from the community for implementation <br />of the program; that the city staff work with other utilities <br />to coordinate referral of problem cases to the MACCA Program <br />and that no city funds he committed to this program or any other <br />supplemental program this fiscal year unless an off-setting <br />reduction is made in the~existing programs. The Council <br />asked that Mr. Ken Ackerman report back in a month on the <br />progress of the program. <br /> <br /> Mr. Bob Stripling addressed the Council and presented <br /> <br /> a staff report on the development costs of the Garrett Street <br /> Area and site evaluation for Highrise of the Elderly. The <br /> report recommended that the City continue as planned in <br /> negotiating a sale of the Midway Site for a Highrise for the <br /> Elderly and requests that the Housing Authority submit a plan <br /> for a single family development of the Garrett Street Site. <br /> A motion by Mr. Barbour, seconded by Mr. Brunton that Council <br /> reaffirm its previous stand on use of the property on Gar~ett <br /> Street for single family units and location of the Highrise <br /> for the Elderly on Midway site, was unanimously adopted. The <br /> Mayor appointed Mr. Fife, Mr. Brunton and an appr~opriate <br /> staff member to work with th~ Housing Authority to see that this <br /> program is implemented. Council reaffirmed its support of <br /> single family housing on the site. <br /> <br /> The City Manager advised the Council that the U. S. <br /> <br /> Supreme Court has over turned the State Supreme Court ruling <br /> that permit parking is unconstitutional and asked that the <br /> permit parking ordinance be reaffirmed. A number of residents <br /> from the Lewis Mountain Road-Thompson Road Area requested <br /> that permit parking be reinstituted in their area. A motion <br /> by Mr. Brunton, seconded by Mr. Gatewood that the City staff take <br /> necessary steps to reinstitute the permit parking, was <br /> adopted by.'the following vote. Ayes: Mr. Brunton, Mr. Fife, <br /> Mr. Gatewood and Mrs. O'Brien. Noes: Mr. Barbour. <br /> The City Manager presented a report on Economic Development <br /> recommending an Economic Development Committee to promote <br /> increased commercial development in Charlottesville and a <br /> proposal for reorgainization of those departments of the city <br /> government concerned with economic growth and housing. The <br /> Council set a work session on November 17th at 7:30 p.m. to <br /> <br />discuss this report. <br /> <br /> <br />