Title
Reinvestment Plan (B)
Explanation
Ordinance No. 181001, adopted by the City Commission on September 5, 2019, outlines the CRA’s transition from a Community Redevelopment Agency overseeing projects in four redevelopment areas to become a City Department and one consolidated Community Reinvestment Area. As required by the ordinance in Section 2-410, the City Commission must adopt a reinvestment plan to guide community redevelopment within the new Community Reinvestment Area (GCRA).
The GCRA is consolidating the former redevelopment plans into one reinvestment plan for the City of Gainesville. The plan document will provide a brief history of the CRA, encapsulates the present by an annual accounting of redevelopment activities completed in FY19 and looks to the next ten years by analysis of community feedback received, project opportunities, proposed redevelopment locations and surrounding context, and potential strategies for the next decade.
Community outreach began in October and has continued throughout the planning project process. Most recently, a Public Engagement Workshop was hosted on January 15, 2020. A draft of the plan was presented to the City Commission on January 16, 2020. All engagement meetings were posted on the City’s Notice of Meetings, and as a public notice in the Gainesville Sun newspaper.
At today’s meeting the GCRA Advisory Board will receive a presentation and update on the reinvestment plan draft and hear about potential strategies for the next decade of the GCRA’s work.
Fiscal Note
None
Recommendation
Hear update from GCRA Staff