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MATTER RE: FAIR HOUSING ORDINANCE INTER-RACIAL COMM. REPORT PRESENTED REQUEST RE: FACTORY iNSPECTIONS ON PLBG. AND ELEC. SYSTEMS REQUEST RE: HOPE HOUSE RESOLUTION RE: lOTH ST.~ S. ENCROACHMENT REQUEST GRANTED RE: USE OF CITY OWNED PROPERTY ON 4TH ST. AT 7:30 P. M. WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. ON MOTION THE MEETING ADJOURNED. ' COUNCIL CHAMBER - APRIL 7~ 1969 THE COUNCIL MET IN REGULAR SESSION ON THIS DATE WITH THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS PRESENT: MR. DAVlS~ MR. RINEHART~ MR. VAN YAHRES~ MR. VOGT AND MR."WRIGHT. ABSENT: NONE. DR. C. SPURGEON PASCHALL, PASTOR OF BELMONT BAPTIST CHURCH~ GAVE THE INVOCATION. THE MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS OF MARCH 17, 1969 AND MARCH 24, 1969 WERE READ AND APPROVED. MR. CHARLES WEBB, ATTORNEY FOR CHARLOTTESVILLE FAiR HOUSING COMMITTEE~ INC. ADDRESSED THE COUNCIL AND PRESENTED A PROPOSED FAIR HOUSING ORDINANCE WHICH HE REQUESTED COUNCIL TO ADOPT. SEVERAL PEOPLE ADDRESSED THE COUNCI~ SOME tN FAVOR AND SOME IN OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE. A MOTION BY MR. VAN YAHRES, SECONDED BY MR. RINEHART~ THAT THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE BE REFERRED TO THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR POSSIBLE RE-DRAFTING~ AND THE MAYOR SET A DATE IN THE NEAR FUTURE FOR A PUBLIC HEARING WAS DEFEATED 8Y THE FOLLOWING VOTE: AYES: MR. VAN YAHRESo NOES: MR. DAVIS, MR. RiNEHART~ MR. VOGT AND MR. WRIGHT. MR. Ac KEENE BYRD, CHAIRMAN OF THE INTER-RACIAL COMM1TTEE~ PRESENTED A REPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMITTEE. HE OBSERVED THAT THE COMMITTEE IS TWO LARGE MAKING IT COMPLETELY UNMANAGEABLE. HE RECOMMENDED THAT THIS COMMITTEE BE ESTABLISHED BY ORDINANCE WITH THE SAME STATUS AS OTHER COUNCIL COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS. A COMMUNICATION WAS PRESENTED FROM GIBRALTAR INDUSTRIES REQUESTING FACTORY INSPECTIONS ON PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS FOR ITS FACTORY ASSEMBLED HOMES. THE CITY MANAGER ADVISED THE COUNCIL THAT AN AGREEMENT HAD BEEN REACHED WITH OTHER MANUFACTURERS THAT FACTORY INSPECTIONS WILL BE MADE IN CASE OF GROUP PURCHASES FOR CHARLOTTESVILLE. A COMMUNICATION WAS PRESENTED FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION ADVISING THAT THE GRANT FOR THE HOPE HOUSE PROGRAM HAS BEEN REDUCED AND REQUESTING AN APPROPRIATION OF' ~3~O00.00 FOR THE 1969-70 YEAR. ACTION ON THIS REQUEST WAS DEFERRED UNTIL THE NEXT MEETING. ON MOTION BY MR. WRIGHT~ SECONDED BY MR. VAN YAHRES~ THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED: WHEREAS~ A PLAT PREPARED BY B'. AUDREY HUFFMAN & ASSOCIATES~ DATED FEBRUARY 17, 1969, INDICATES THAT THE TWO-STORY STUCCO HOUSE ON LOT 43 OF PLAT #2 ~FIFE LOTS~', AS RECORDED IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY D. B. 90 P. 39, SITUATED ON KING STREET AT ITS INTERSECTION WITH 10TH STREET, S. Wo (FORMERLY VALENTINE STREET)~ IN THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE~ VIRGINIA, KNOWN BY PRESENT STREET NUMBERING AS ~000 KING STREET, ENCROACHES SLIGHTLY~ FROM 0.9 OF A FOOT TO 1o] FEET, ON SAID ~OTH STREET, S. No AND PERMISSION IS REQUESTED TO ALLOW SAID ENCROACHMENT SO LONG AS THE EXISTING STRUCTURE REMAINS ON SAID LOTS NOW~ THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE DOTH GRANT PERMISSION FOR THE AFORESAID ENCROACHMENT FOR THE LIFE OF THE EXISTING BUILDING SO LONG AS THE EXISTING STRUCTURE REMAINS STANDING ON SAID LAND AS SHOWN ON THE ATTACHED PLAT OF B. AUDREY HUFFMAN, DATED FEBRUARY 17, 1969. A COMMUNICATION WAS PRESENTED FROM THE SENIOR HIGH FELLOWSHIPS OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN~ HOLY COMFORTER, AND FIRST METHODIST CHURCH REQUESTING PERMISSION TO USE THE CITY OWNED PROPERTY ON FOURTH STREET~ No E. FOR A YOUTH CENTER ON A TEMPORARY