Open house set to hear city plans for Whitehall area redevelopment

What's going on with the Whitehall area redevelopment plan? Residents can findout next Tuesday evening.

Improving conditions for homes and business along the Whitehall Street corridor will be the subject of a public open house scheduled at 6 p.m. next Tuesday, September 18, at the Reese J. Booker Park Recreation Center off Whitehall Street.

The open house will include a presentation by the CSRA Regional Development Center about how the Southwest Washington Urban Redevelopment Plan will benefit city residents.

City leaders are saying that this effort will require some of the most far-reaching decisions they will make, and will be discussing the redevelopment plan at great length at the city council retreat later this month.

The redevelopment plan is being prepared in partnership with the CSRA Regional Development Center to achieve the following goals: promote housing redevelopment through home-ownership; improve street utilities; abate nuisance (dilapidated) properties; promote neighborhood commercial investment; and to provide home-ownership and credit-counseling opportunities.

The redevelopment planning area includes portions of Washington roughly bounded by Lexington Avenue and Liberty Street to the north, 42nd and Spring Street to the east, and the southern and western municipal limits.

A draft of the Southwest Washington Urban Redevelopment Plan and a map of the redevelopment planning area can be viewed at Washington City Hall, 103 E. Liberty Street; or at: www.csrardc.org/ csra/ planning/planning_review.asp.

The public is encouraged to attend the open house meeting next Tuesday.

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