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3'32 <br /> <br />Request re: Mike <br />Glease to reactivate <br />Bicentennial <br />Commission for <br />1981 Celebration <br /> <br />Staff Report: <br />Delinquent & <br />Erroneous Taxes <br /> <br />Staff Report re: <br />Use of Surplus <br />funds in Vinegar <br />Hill Urban Renewal <br />Account <br /> <br /> p~. Gleason also.requested the Council to consider reactivating <br />an abbreviated Bicentennial Commission to make plans for some kind <br />of celebration in 1981 which marks the 200th Anniversary of <br />Charlottesville being Capitol for a day. This request was taken <br />under advisement and.action deferred until the next meeting. <br /> <br /> The Treasurer's list of 1976 Delinquent and Erroneous Taxes <br /> <br />was presented and referred to a committee composed of Mr. Fife, <br />Mr. Brunton, Mr. Mazziotti and Miss Maupin for recommendation <br />to report in ninety days. <br /> A meport was presented stating that most of the land in the <br />Vinegar Hill Urban Renewal Project has been sold and no serious <br />purchasers for the remaining land are known. The federal <br />government is anxious to have the Charlottesville Redevelopment <br />and Housing Authority close .out the project. There is <br />approximately $515,000 remaining in the porject which would <br />revert to the City at close-out. The report gave two basic options <br />concerning the project. One, the project can be closed out with <br />the City's ~share of the remaining monies moved into the Community <br />Development Block Grant Funds or the project can be kept open and <br />the funds can be held for use in additional improvements to the <br />Vinegar Hill Area which would attract future private development. <br />The first option or a close-out would place the remaining funds <br />in the existing pool of CDBG monies and they would be allocated <br />through the same process and under the same guidelines as the <br />existing annual entitlement. Or, the second option for the use <br />of the Vinegar Hill monies is to keep the project open and <br />attempt to attract private investment to the area. Under this <br />option the funds could be used to provide incentives for private <br />development within the existing boundaries of the Vinegar Hill <br />project or expand the boundaries and make public improvements <br />which may attract future private investment. It is possible under <br />HUD regulations to extend the boundaries of the Vinegar Hill <br />Project to include abutting properties. The completion of the <br />Downtown Mall would be a convenient project since it is contiguous <br />to the Vinegar Hill Project boundary. The report listed a <br />number of purposes the compleCion of the mall could accomplish <br />as follows: the street closing will allow the packaging of a <br />larger parcel of development; additional parking could be made <br />available on either a temporary or permanent basis for the west <br />end of the Mall; the construction would insure downtown developers <br />that the city is still committed to downtown revitalization; <br />it would complete the link of downtown to Vinegar Hill and open <br />the possibility of continuing the link to West Main Street <br />through a hoped for development on Vinegar Hill; and it would <br />finalize the concept of a Main Street pedestrian shopping mall <br />as the primary ingredient in the reviCalization of the core <br /> <br /> <br />