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Council Agenda - Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 7:30 P.M.

Council Chambers, 8th Floor, City Hall

City Council:

Randall A. Gilliland, Angela Lee Leary, Charles N. Sapp, Joseph H. Spencer, II, Rhet Tignor, Paige V. Washington, Ross A. Kearney, II, Mayor

Staff:

Jesse T. Wallace Jr., City Manager
Cynthia Hudson, City Attorney
Katherine K. Glass, Clerk of Council
Brenda J. Vaccarelli, Deputy Clerk

CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL
 
INVOCATION
 
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO FLAG
 
MAYOR'S COMMENTS
 
CONSENT AGENDA
    Consent Items - Second Reading
1. 07-0388 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE FOR THE CITY OF HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, BY ADDING THERETO A CHAPTER 13.1 ENTITLED "LAND DISTURBING OPERATIONS".
2. 07-0389 AN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL CHAPTER 13 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, ENTITLED EXCAVATING, FILLING AND SIMILAR OPERATIONS
3. 07-0395 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND REENACT CHAPTER 12, SECTION 12-2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, ENTITLED “CENTRAL ABSENTEE VOTER PRECINCT”.
4. 07-0407 ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND REENACT CHAPTER 24 ENTITLED "MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES" BY ADDING THERETO A NEW SECTION 24-50 ENTITLED "AGGRESSIVE SOLICITING"
5. 07-0408 ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND REENACT CHAPTER 26, ENTITLED PARKS AND RECREATION SECTIONS 26-3, 26-4, 26-22, 26-28, 26-29, 26-30, 26-33, 26-37; AND TO REPEAL SECTION 26-25.
6. 07-0413 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND RE-ENACT NON-CODED ORDINANCE NUMBER 1038 SETTING THE TAX RATE ON REAL PROPERTIES IN THE CITY OF HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 2007 AND ENDING JUNE 30, 2008.
    Consent Items - Other
7. 07-0419 Approval of Minutes from the Afternoon and Evening Council Meetings of July 18, 2007, and the Special Meeting of July 23, 2007.
8. 07-0436 License Agreement between the City of Hampton and William Fuller, Jr., to grant permission to install Licensed Improvements in the Licensed Area located in the public lands adjacent to Bellwood Landing and commonly known as Newmarket Creek.
9. 07-0443 Hampton Victim-Witness Assistance Program Grant
10. 07-0444 Hampton Adult Drug Treatment Court Grant
11. 07-0450 Homeless Intervention Program Grant
12. 07-0446 Resolution approving the City of Hampton, Virginia's acceptance and appropriation of the 2006 Citizen Corps Grant from the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Domestic Preparedness through the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.
 
PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS, AWARDS
13. 07-0380 Proclamation In Recognition of Peggy Mertz
14. 07-0440 Proclaiming September 2007 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
 
REPORTS BY CITY MANAGER, CITY COUNCIL, STAFF, COMMITTEES
15. 07-0451 Annual Report of the Hampton’s Youth Commission – FY 2007.
16. 07-0447 Back River Flooding and Shoaling Citizens Committee - Final Report
 
PUBLIC HEARINGS
    Rezonings - Second Reading
17. 07-0401 Zoning Ordinance Amendment to modify regulations as they relate to hotels, motels and apartment hotels.
    Rezonings - First Readings
18. 07-0435 Rezoning Application #1245 by Mayer Sarfan to rezone one 6.20± acre parcel at the terminus of Benthall Road from One Family Residence District (R-13) to One Family Residence District (R-11) to allow up to twenty three (23) new single family homes. [LRSN: 11002678]
19. 07-0437 Rezoning Application #1253 by the City of Hampton to rezone six city-owned parcels at 1227, 1233, 1235, 1237, 1241 and 1245 Big Bethel Road from One Family Residence District (R-11) and Neighborhood Commercial (C-1) to Special Public Interest District- Public Land (SPI-PL) in order to align the zoning of the property with its intended use as an expansion of Sandy Bottom Nature Park. [LRSNs: 4004316, 4004315, 4004314, 4004313, 4004311, 4004312, respectively]
20. 07-0439 Zoning Ordinance Amendment by the City of Hampton to amend Chapter 14, Limited Manufacturing (M-1) District, to add schools as a permitted use, subject to securing a Use Permit.
    Comprehensive Plan Amendment
21. 07-0453 Community Plan Amendment 013-2007 by the City of Hampton to amend the Hampton Community Plan (February 2006) by adopting the proposed Phoebus Master Plan.
 
GENERAL ITEMS
    Ordinances
22. 07-0434 ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND REENACT NON-CODED ORDINANCE #950, SECTION II AND SECTION III PERTAINING TO BAY DAYS, ADOPTED ON AUGUST 14, 2002.
23. 07-0438 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND RE-ENACT THE CODE OF THE CITY OF HAMPTON, CHAPTER 37 ENTITLED “TAXATION” IN ITS ENTIRETY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADDING NEW SECTIONS 37-151.1, 37-155.01, 37-211, 37-278.1, 37-337.1 AND 37-344.1, RENUMBERING SECTION 37-212 AND REPEALING SECTIONS 37-149.1 AND 37-279.
24. 07-0445 ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 1026 ENTITLED "ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE PENINSULA TOWN CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND AUTHORIZING A COLLECTION AGREEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY'.
25. 07-0455 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND RE-ENACT CHAPTER 2, “ADMINISTRATION”, ARTICLE III, “OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES GENERALLY”, SECTION 2-108 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF HAMPTON, VIRGINIA, ENTITLED, “CRIMINAL HISTORY INVESTIGATIONS OF APPLICANTS FOR POSITION OF POLICEMAN AND FIREMAN”
    Resolutions
26. 07-0452 Resolution Authorizing the Transfer of $5,000,000 of General Improvement Bonds – Series 2005 Appropriations from Buckroe Property Acquisition-Schools to Buckroe Strategic Property Acquisition and Demolition.
27. 07-0454 Resolution Authorizing the Appropriation of $500,000 from Unappropriated Interest Earned on General Obligation Bonds in the City’s Capital Project Fund to Fund the Completion of the Streetscape and Other Improvements Along Coliseum Drive Between Pine Chapel and Mercury Boulevard – Coliseum Drive Streetscape Engineering Services Project No. 04-015.
    Appointments
28. 07-0310 to consider appointments to the Hampton Federal Area Development Authority.
29. 07-0411 to consider appointments to the Social Services Local Advisory Board.
30. 07-0425 to consider appointments to the Hampton Tourism Advisory Committee.
31. 07-0426 to consider appointments to the Golf Course Advisory Committee.
32. 07-0427 to consider appointments to the Hampton Roads Regional Jail Authority.
33. 07-0429 to consider an appointment to the Animal Control Advisory Board.
 
AUDIENCES GRANTED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
 
MISCELLANEOUS NEW BUSINESS
 
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Last Published on 08/09/2007