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• • h w A RESOLUTION RELATING TO THE DESIGNATION OF THE STARR HILL NEIGHBORHOOD AS A NEIGHBORHOOD STRATEGY'AREA''AND SPECIAL TARGET AREA FOR THE SMALL CITIES PROGRAM, DEFINING THE BOUNDARIES OF SUCH NEIGHBORHOOD, AND AUTI3ORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO REQUEST PERMISSION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO USE SPECIAL PROCEDURES FOR SUCH NEIGHBROHOOD STRATEGY AREA AND TO APPLY FOR A THREE YEAR COMPREHENSIVE GRANT UNDER THE SMALL CITIES/COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM., WHEREAS, this Council has by resolution previously adopted, authorized the City Manager to file a preapplication for .a Small Cities Grant and Neighborhood Strategy Area designation for the Starr Hill Neighborhood; and WHEREAS, a task force consisting of residents and owners of properties and businesses in -the Starr Hill Neighborhood has recommended to Council that the City.proceed with such applications; and WHEREAS, the proposed applications have been the subject of a public hearing for this Council on this 1st day of May, 1978; now, therefore, BF IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville that the Starr Hill Neighborhood be made the subject of an applica- tion to the United States Department of Housing and Urban Develop- ment for designation as a Neighborhood Strategy Area and approval of a Small Cities/Community Development Block Grant, the boundaries of such neighborhood to be shown on a map attached to this resolution and filed therewith in the minutes of the Council meeting at which this resolution is adopted; and be it further RESOLVED that the City Manager be authorized to take all necessary steps to apply for such Neighborhood Strategy Area designation and for authority to utilize special procedures within such designated area under the Section 8 Housing Assistance Program for substantial rehabilitation; and be it further RESOLVED that the City l•lanager.'also be authorized to take all actions necessary to make'�application for a three year comprehensive Small Cities Grant under the Community Development Block Grant - Program in the amount of $1,160,000 to be expended within such neighborhood boundaries for the purposes and in the amount herein- after set forth.