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South E Specia' August 5. (C( end Redevelopment Commission Meeting 12, 1977 inued) Absent rt J. Cira The President thereupon declared said motion unanimously carried and resolution adopted. 6. Mr Brownell clarified with Ms. Chelminiak her questions about the meeting with HUD on Tuesday, August 16, that the meeting was on the matter of the Urgent Needs Funds in the amount of $2,100,000 for the ma 1 project and that HUD needs to approve this plan but cannot do so un ess the plan is approved locally. 7. Mr. Butler replied to Ms. Derbeck that Resolution 540 is the third amendatory resolution to the basic declaratory that was adopted in 1967 by the Commission along with all of the other needed approvals such as Area Plan , Common Council, and a confirming resolution by the Commission and then approval by HUD. We have amended the Urban Re ewal Plan in 1973, again in 1976, and are now amending in 1977. Basically, the initial resolutions in each case have been identical in lariguage but the difference is in the amendments to the Urban Renewal Plan, Document R 213, our plan changes, amending pages 13, 14, and al o the land acquisition tabulations of three pages. 8. Ka Ma bu so of it sty to Boi un, we 101 pr- na, oui by in in- en Gleason, executive director of the Civic Planning Association and y Chris Adams, Councilwoman, expressed their concerns about the lding of a new parking garage as part of the mall plan, the need for e flexibility in the plan, further loss of the tax base as a result the redevelopment process, and the fear that the city will not protect elf against a possible failure of the mall to develop. Mr. Wiggins Mr. Robinson expressed their opinions to Ms. Gleason and Ms. Adams ting that these arguments are the same arguments that we listened years ago when we first started the redevelopment of the downtown. h commissioners expressed that the mini mall project is one of queness, that the downtown is the pride of any community and that will not let our inner core rot. The development proposal is one by al businessmen with reputations at stake and these men have an obvious de in our community to want to take on a project such as this is in ure. As far as the feasibility of the increase in parking facilities, Century Center will be the basis for much of the increase in traffic, conventions, theatre, civic events. Mr. Wiggins added that the tax base the downtown has not decreased that it has in fact tripled since our tial redevelopment efforts.