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1.20 TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1996 a 1996 Comprehensive Community Development application for the total of $1,244,070 to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development for Virginia Community Improvement Grant (CIG) funds by March 29, 1996, for consideration during the 1996 CDBG funding round; and WHEREAS, the City has identified the Moss/Barton neighborhood, a residential area which is severely blighted and experiencing deterioration of its housing stock and infrastructure; and has conducted neighborhood meetings and completed a needs assessment with the neighborhood advisory group and residents whereby slums and blight removal and housing rehabilitation, street improvements, storm drainage, and water improvements were identified as the major needs and concerns of the neighborhood; and WHEREAS, a Comprehensive Community Development Improvement Program has been developed by the neighborhood and the City including a Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) for the required public improvements and a Housing Rehabilitation Loan Program design, all approved by the City; and WHEREAS, the Martinsville City Council wishes to apply for Virginia Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to assist in implementing the Moss/Barton Comprehensive Community Development Project, which will benefit an estimated 298 residents of which an estimated 283 (95.1%) are low-and moderate-income (LMI) persons residing in the neighborhood; and WHEREAS, said benefits would result from the implementation of the housing rehabilitation loan program for 49 owner- and renter-occupied dwellings (147 LMI persons - 100% LMI benefit); substantial reconstruction of (1) one household (3 LMI persons - 100% benefit); the provision of (2) two standard dwelling units exclusively for home ownership by LMI persons through the public acquisition and reha- bilitation of vacant dwellings (6 LMI persons - 100% benefit); the acquisition of (13) thirteen substandard properties containing (10) ten structures creating severe blight and unsanitary.living conditions, associated relocation assistance for all (14) fourteen LMI renter- occupied households (24 LMI persons - 100% benefit) in said structures and the clearance of all blight conditions; the construction of (15) fifteen new affordable housing units on the cleared property bene- fitting an estimated 45 LMI persons; the improvement of water service for neighborhood residents residing on Montgomery, Preston and Echols Streets providing for needed fire protection .and sufficient water pressure with line improvements; and street resurfacing and drainage improvements along Montgomery, Preston, Echols and Holt Streets, and a new cul-de-sac on Moss Street, curb and gutter improvements, all resulting in the resolution of safety and circulation problems with sidewalk and the said street improvements; and interim assistance for neighborhood clean-up throughout the entire Moss/Barton neighborhood benefitting all 99 occupied households (298 people of which 283 are LMI - 95.1% benefit); and WHEREAS, the City has committed $306,375 in capital funds and force account work to be used for interim assistance, housing rehabilitation, streets and water improvements in the area; and WHEREAS, the City will commit a contribution from the City Landfill