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376 Resolution re: Requesting the ~ University of Va. to consider community needs in plans for hospital relocation and/or expansion Resolution re: Urging U.Va. to request authority from General Assembly to construct add'l. 2,500 studentchousing units Ms. Gleason stated her high regard for the work accomplished by the shelter staff. Mr. James F. King, Jr., urged City Council to consider this service as a basic and crucial one that should be retained in the City budget even through drastic budget cuts next year if they should occur. Mayor Buck raised the question of the funding formula, pointing out that Charlottesville carries a disproportionate financial burden for services of this kind as it attracts the population, most likely to need these services. Mr. Wiley reminded Council that the City provides the physical facility for the shelter at a nominal rent of $1 per year, which should be taken into account when funding requests are made. Mayor Buck asked that the shelter staff work with. the City staff to accomplish a more equitahle funding formula before budget requests for FY 1981-82 are made in the spring. He also warned the shelter staff that an interim appropriation at this time should not be regarded as a guarantee of funding for the coming fiscal year. On motion by Mr. Conover, seconded by Mr.. Albro, the appropriation of $13,730 for interim funding was offered and carried over to the next meeting for consideration. -On motion by Mr. Conover, seconded by Mr. Albro, the following resolution was unanimously adopted by Council: WHEREAS the decision by the University of Virginia whether to expand or relocate its medical center will be the most important land use decision made in Charlottesville in the next twenty years and will have significant impacts on economic, housing ~ and t~ffic conditions in the City; and WHEREAS this decision also involves major issues about the cost and quality of health-'care and health science research for this entire community and the State of Virginia; and WHEREAS a capital project of this nature, cnsting several hundred million dollars, requires that all of these issues and concerns be considered carefully by the University and the loca community; and WHEREAS the report prepared by Baskerville & Son and Rosenfeld Associates does not address this interplay of local, state and Un'~versity factors; and WHEREAS, after careful study and balancing of these concerns has been made, the City will be willing to cooperate wi~h~the University to implement the alternative which better meets the needs of the Univemsity and the local community, regardless whether relocation to the Blue Ridge site or expansion south of Jefferson Park Avenue proves to be the better alternative; mnw, therefore, be it RESOLVED by the Council of the City~ of Charlottesville, Virginia, that the University of Virginia be requested through its president to expand its study of alternatives for the future of the medical center, to include a thorough and careful analysis of the relative impacts of the expansion and relocation alternatives on the economy, environment and traffic, parking and housing conditions of surrounding areas of the City; and be it FURTHER RESOLVED that we express to the University our willingness to cooperate in such a study and to support a decision to relocate or expand provided it is based upon such an analysis and ~dequately balances the needs and concerns of both the University and the surrounding community. On motion by Dr. Hall, seconded by Mr. Conover, Council unanimouslY approved the following resolution: WHEREAS the lack of adequate studen ~ousing at the University of Virginia produces a documented increase in cost and decrease in availability of private housing in Charlottesville; and WHEREAS the need for additional dormitory housing at the University has produced overcrowding and other undesirable conditions