Subject: 21121/Authorizing Studies/Southside Area
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 13:27:41 -0500


                             RESOLUTION NO.   21121 
                 
                  A RESOLUTION REQUESTING AND AUTHORIZING THE
                  CHATTANOOGA HOUSING AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT
                  STUDIES AND PREPARE AMENDMENTS RELATIVE TO THE
                  DOWNTOWN AREA IMPROVEMENT PROJECT EXPANSION
                  INTO THE SOUTHSIDE AREA.
                 
                 
                                                    
                 
                 
       	   
       	    	 WHEREAS the City of Chattanooga and the Chattanooga
       Housing Authority are engaged in a program of redevelopment,
       pursuant to T.C.A. A7 13-20-201, known as the Downtown Area
       Improvement Project, and
       	    	 WHEREAS, the City is interested in expanding project
       activities into the commercial and industrial area on the
       Southside of downtown.
       	    	 NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City
       of Chattanooga that the Chattanooga Housing Authority be 
requested
       and authorized to perform studies and recommendations relative to 

       expansion of the Downtown Area Improvement Project into an area
       generally bounded by the southern boundaries of the Downtown Area 

       Improvement Project and the M. L. King Redevelopment Area on the
       North; Carter Street and U. S. Highway 27 on the West; I-24 on 
the
       South; and Central Avenue on the East.
       	    	 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the portion of the expansion
       area generally bounded by Main Street, Cowart Street, 20th 
Street,
       and Central Avenue, also known as the Southside Bicentennial
       Neighborhood, be excluded from the expanded project area, and
       incorporated as a separate and complementary redevelopment 
project
       area.
       	    	 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the planning and
       recommendations incorporate the following principles: (1) Owners
       and occupants of the project area be informed and consulted to 
the
       greatest extent practicable; (2)  Clearance of structures and
       displacement of occupants be minimized; and, (3) Priority for
       implementation focus on the study area incorporated in "The South 

       Central Business District Plan" area as identified by a January
       1995 strategy developed by Calthorpe Associates.
      
       ADOPTED: September 17, 1996  
      
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