AGENDA DATE: 6/19/2019
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Performance Agreement Among the County, the Economic Development Authority, and Habitat for Humanity
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SUBJECT/PROPOSAL/REQUEST: Approval of a Performance Agreement Among the County, the Economic Development Authority, and Habitat for Humanity
ITEM TYPE: Regular Action Item
STAFF CONTACT(S): Richardson, Walker, Kamptner, Shifflett, Nedostup, Pethia
PRESENTER (S): Greg Kamptner
LEGAL REVIEW: Yes
REVIEWED BY: Jeffrey B. Richardson
BACKGROUND: The Southwood Mobile Home Park ("Southwood") is located on Hickory Street south of I-64 and east of Old Lynchburg Road in the Southern Urban Neighborhood and is located in one of the County's Development Areas. Southwood currently has 341 mobile homes and more than 1,500 residents and is the County's largest concentration of substandard housing. Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville, Inc. ("Habitat") purchased Southwood in 2007 with a stated intention of redeveloping the site into a 700 to 800 unit, mixed income, mixed-use development, removing all 341 mobile homes and replacing them with a variety of housing unit types including site-built homes.
On October 5, 2016, the Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution supporting a collaborative redevelopment process with Habitat for Southwood (the "Collaboration Resolution"(Attachment B)). On September 8, 2017, the Board's work session on its Strategic Plan included a discussion of Southwood. At its January 10, 2018 meeting, the Board approved an action plan and authorized the County Executive to sign a performance agreement on behalf of the County in which the County agreed to contribute $675,000 to Habitat in two installments. The purpose for the County's contribution to Habitat was to assist Habitat in its costs to prepare and submit a complete rezoning application for Phase 1 of the redevelopment of Southwood ("Phase 1"). The rezoning application was submitted to the County, and is identified as ZMA 2018-0000...
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