The Bedford City Council and the City of Bedford Redevelopment and Housing Authority will hold a joint public hearing on Tuesday, November 13, 1990, at 7:30 p.m. during the regularly scheduled City Council meeting at Liberty Lake Park, Bedford, Virginia 24523. The purpose of the hearing is to solicit public comment on the proposed Plunkett Street Redevelopment Plan to be implemented by the Bedford City Redevelopment and Housing Authority in accordance with Title 36 of the Code of Virginia. The plan is an integral part of the City of Bedford's Community Development Block Grant Program for the Plunkett Street/Greenwood Park Neighborhood Revitalization area.

Citizens are encouraged to attend and will be given an opportunity to comment on the Plunkett Street Redevelopment Plan. For additional information or to obtain a copy of the plan, please contact the City's Assistant Grants Coordinator at (703) 586-7127, Room B-16 of the Municipal Building, 215 East Main Street, Bedford, Virginia.

WHEREAS, Section 36-51 of Title 36 of the Code of Virginia requires the governing body of each municipality in which any area to be covered by a redevelopment plan is situated to approve the redevelopment plan which provides an outline for the redevelopment of the area; and

WHEREAS, the Redevelopment Plan must indicate its relationship to definite local objectives as to appropriate land uses and improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities and other public improvements; indicate proposed land uses and building requirements in the area; indicate the land in the area to be made available to private enterprise for redevelopment and that land which is to be made available to public enterprise for redevelopment and indicate the method for the temporary relocation of persons living in such areas and the method for providing decent, safe and sanitary dwellings in the locality substantially equal in number to the number of substandard dwellings to be cleared from the area at rents within the financial reach of the income groups displaced from substandard dwellings; and

WHEREAS, the City and the City of Bedford Redevelopment and Housing Authority have caused studies to be made of the location, physical condition of structures, land use, environmental influences; and social, cultural and economic conditions of the redevelopment area comprising the Plan and has determined as a result of the studies that 66.5 percent of the total area is a blighted and detrimental slum area and that it is detrimental and a menace to the safety, health, and welfare of the inhabitants and users thereof and of the City at large; and

WHEREAS, attached hereto is a true and correct copy of the Redevelopment Plan presented during a joint public hearing of Bedford City Council and the City of Bedford Redevelopment and Housing Authority and to be approved by the Authority by resolution on this date and it is desirable and in the public interest that the Authority undertake and carry out the Plunkett Street Redevelopment Plan encompassing the area described on the boundary description in the attached Plan dated October, 1990, in the City of Bedford, State of Virginia; and

WHEREAS, there has been prepared and referred to the Bedford City Council for review and approval a said Redevelopment Plan for the Plunkett Street Redevelopment Area, dated October, 1990, and consisting of 26 pages and 2 maps; and

WHEREAS, the approval of the Authority of the Redevelopment Plan will be evidenced by a copy of said Authority's duly certified resolution approving the Redevelopment Plan being attached thereto; and

WHEREAS, the City Council has found that financial assistance to be provided to the Authority from the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant program as authorized under the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, is necessary to enable the redevelopment to be undertaken in accordance with the Plan; and

WHEREAS, there will be presented to City Council information and data respecting the acquisition and relocation by the Authority as a result of implementation of the Redevelopment Plan.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BEDFORD, VIRGINIA;

WHEREAS, In recognition of the positive impact in design, image and economic development that the Main Street program has had in downtown Bedford, the City Council wishes to express its commitment and support for this program, and

WHEREAS, Building improvements, an organized downtown community, new businesses, job creation and increased private investment have occurred because of the efforts of the local Main Street organization, and

WHEREAS, The City of Bedford entered the Virginia Main Street program in 1985. Participation in the program guaranteed Bedford three years of intensive technical and free design assistance to downtown property owners. While that three-year commitment ended in 1988, the services were extended until June of 1990.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that, because of the success the Main Street program has had in Bedford, the City Council urges that the momentum of downtown revitalization in Virginia cities and towns be continued through the inclusion of additional communities in the Virginia Main Street program.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be transmitted to Governor Douglas Wilder, State Senator Elliot Schewel, Delegate Lacey Putney, Secretary of Economic Development Larry Framme, and Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development Neal Barber.

BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bedford that:

Section 1. Section 13-38 and Section 13-40 of the Code of the City of Bedford are hereby repealed.

Section 2. The following new Sections are enacted and added as part of Chapter 13, Article II of the City Code:

Sec. 13-40 Uncontested payment of parking citations.

A person to whom a parking citation has been issued may make an uncontested payment of parking citation penalties to the City Treasurer within five (5) days of issuance or five (5) days of receipt of notice of issuance as hereinafter provided, whichever shall occur later. The notice of violation shall be placed on the front windshield of the vehicle which is in violation and shall advise the violator of the applicable fine as set forth in the schedule of uncontested fines herein, that he may pay the fine at the Treasurer's office in person or by mail, and that failure to comply within five (5) days may result in filing a case in the applicable Court. If payment is not received in the Treasurer's Office within five (5) days of issuance, the Office of the Treasurer shall notify the violator by mail at his last known address or at the address shown for such violator on the records of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and such notice shall advise the violator that he may pay the fine allocated for uncontested payment of parking citations within five days of receipt of such notice. The notice to the violator, required by the provisions in this section, shall be contained in an envelope bearing the words "law enforcement notice" stamped or printed on the face thereof in type at least one-half inch in height. Penalties and fines for uncontested payment of parking violations shall be imposed as follows:

(a) Overtime parking fines shall be those set forth in Section 13-39.

(b) Unlawful parking in a parking space reserved for the handicapped on public property or on privately owned parking areas opened to the public by a vehicle not displaying a license plate, decal, or special parking permit issued under applicable state statutes shall carry a fine of Twenty Five Dollars ($25.00).

(c) All other parking violations shall carry a penalty of Five Dollars ($5.00), which penalty shall be increased by Fifty Percent (50%) for failure to make payment within twenty four (24) hours after issuance.

Sec. 13-41 Enforcement of Delinquent or Contested Parking Citations.

If payment of a parking citation is not received by the Office of the City Treasurer within five (5) days after receipt of a notification of violation by mail as set forth in Section 13-40, the Office of the Treasurer shall notify the Officer who issued the citation that the violator has failed to pay such fine within such time. Upon such notification, after the mailing of such notice by the City Treasurer pursuant to Section 13-40 and upon the failure of the violator to pay the uncontested fine within five (5) days of receipt of such notice, the appropriate law enforcement officer may issue or cause to be issued a summons or warrant in the appropriate Court.

Sec. 13-42 Penalty for Parking Citations in Case of Court Hearings.

Any person violating the provisions of this Article or any parking violations promulgated pursuant to Section 13-3 shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less that Five Dollars ($5.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00); however, in no case shall the fine for unlawful parking in a parking space reserved for the handicapped be less than Twenty Five ($25.00).

Sec. 13-43 Authority of law enforcement officers to enforce handicapped parking restrictions in private parking areas.

On privately owned parking areas opened to the public a summons or ticket may be issued by law enforcement officers employed by the City to enforce parking regulations without the necessity of a warrant being obtained by the owner of the private parking area.

Section 3. This ordinance shall become effective one week after publication in the Bedford Bulletin or after posting at three or more places in the City for one week pursuant to Section 19 of the City Charter.

WHEREAS, the City of Bedford has accepted into the City street system the following streets or portions thereof:

Grand Arbre Drive, from Smith Street to end, .34 center line miles and .68 lane miles; Independence Boulevard, from Orange Street to Dawn Drive, .31 center line miles and 1.24 lane miles; Dawn Drive from Independence Boulevard to 290 feet west, .05 center line miles and .10 lane miles; Industrial Avenue from original end to the end, .17 center line miles and .34 lane miles.

WHEREAS, the City wishes to receive payment from the Virginia Department of Transportation for assistance in maintaining these streets;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Bedford, Virginia, that the City requests that the Virginia Department of Transportation add for payment those portions of the aforementioned streets.

BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Bedford hereby certifies that, to the best of each member's knowledge, (1) only public business matters lawfully exempted from open meeting requirements by Virginia law were discussed in the executive meeting to which this certification resolution applies, and (2) only such public business matters as were identified in the motion convening the executive meeting were heard, discussed or considered by the Council.