HACA - Study & Design: Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program, 1972

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Title	"Study Design: Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program"
Alt. Title	"Study Design"
Identifier	http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/housing_authority_city_asheville/series_26 _publications/study_design_r&r_program/default_study_design.htm
Creator	Eric Hill Associates, Inc.
Alt Creator	Asheville-Buncombe County Metropolitan Planning Board
Subject Keyword	Appalachia Regional Commission ; Asheville-Buncombe County Metropolitan Board ; Asheville-Buncombe County Metropolitan Planning Board ; Asheville-Buncombe Information System (ABIS) ; Asheville Housing Authority ; Asheville, NC ; Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program (ARRP) ; city planning ; civic improvement ; Civic Redevelopment Project ; Community Renewal Program (CRP) ; Department of Housing and Urban Development ; East Riverside Renewal Project ; East Riverside Urban Renewal Project ; Eric Hill Associates, Inc. ; housing ; Housing Authority of the City of Asheville ; Information System Development Task Group ; modernization ; North Carolina State Highway Commission ; rehabilitation ; urban planning ; urban renewal ;
Subject LCSH	City planning -- North Carolina -- Asheville City planning -- United States -- Asheville (N.C.) Civic improvement -- North Carolina -- Asheville Urban renewal -- North Carolina -- Asheville Asheville (N.C.) -- Urban renewal Urban renewal -- United States -- Case studies Asheville (N.C.) -- Planning Asheville (N.C.) -- History Asheville (N.C.) -- Economic conditions Asheville (N.C.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Real property -- North Carolina -- Asheville
Date	1972
Publisher	Asheville-Buncombe County Metropolitan Planning Board
Contributor	Eric Hill Associates, Inc.
Type	text ; illustrations
Format	Book 8 1/2" x 11"
Source	D. H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, Manuscript Collections M2007.12.126
Language	English
Relation	Is part of: Asheville Model City Records, Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, UNCA ; Housing Authority of the City of Asheville ..., D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, UNCA.
Coverage	1970s: Asheville, N.C.
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Donor	Housing Authority of the City of Asheville
Description	This publication reflects “a growing realization among those concerned with improving Asheville that the small uncoordinated rehabilitation efforts and redevelopment projects were not providing solutions to the deteriorated neighborhoods and housing stock in Asheville.” The study design of the Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program (ARRP) seeks to lay out how information can be shared across departments and offices in Asheville City government, in order to better coordinate urban renewal efforts. The basic rationale and outline of the plan is as follows: “It was felt that the community stood a better chance of effectively managing its rehabilitation and renewal efforts by identifying what data is necessary: to describe the existing circumstances in each sub-area of the community; to identify problems and to understand their causes; to recognize changes and trends and to foresee problems; and to prescribe a coordinated data collection, handling, processing, and dissemination effort that would deliver comprehensive and reliable data to the appropriate decision-makers in a timely manner.” Detailed plans, including estimated time tables and costs, are included.
Acquisition	2007-
Citation	Housing Authority of the City of Asheville Records, "Study Design Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program," D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville
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Study Design Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program -- FULL TEXT
cover	STUDY DESIGN ASHEVILLE REHABILITATION AND RENEWAL PROGRAM ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE COUNTY METROPOLITAN PLANNING BOARD
cover page	Study Design rehabilitation and renewal program for Asheville, north Carolina Prepared For Asheville/ Buncombe County Metropolitan Planning Board Eric Hill Associates, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia Winston-Salem, North Carolina January, 1972
table of contents	TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background 1 1.2 Description of the Study Design 2 1.3 Resources and Opportunities 3 Part II ARRP STUDY GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND WORK PROGRAM APPROACHES 4 2.1 Information System Development 4 2.2 Program Management Capability 4 2.3 Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program Design 5 2.4 Citizens Participation Program Design 5 Part III FISCAL 1971-1972 WORK PROGRAM 7 3.1 Program Study Design and Management Procedures Development 7 3.2 Goals and Standards Formulation 10 3.3 ARRP Information Syb-System Development 13 3.4 Data Collection and Handling 16 3.5 Resources and Opportunity Analysis 18 Part IV FISCAL 1972-1973 WORK PROGRAM 22 4.1 Data Collection and Handling 22 4.2 Situation, Trends, and Problems Analysis 24 4.3 Resources and Opportunity Analysis 27 4.4 Rehabilitation and Renewal Program Development 28 4.5 Project Management, Evaluation and Updating 32 Part V WORK PROGRAM BUDGET AND SCHEDULE 35 5.1 Manpower Requirements and Responsibility Assignments of Work Programming Elements 35 5.2 Cost Estimates and Funding of Work Program Elements 35 5.3 Time Schedule, Sequence, and Relationships of Work Program Elements 36
1	Part I INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND During the past couple of years, there has been a growing realization among those concerned with improving Asheville that the small uncoordinated rehabilitation efforts and redevelopment projects were not providing solutions to the deteriorated neighborhoods and housing stock in Asheville. It was felt that the broader issues and problems has to be considered. In the summer of 1971, it was decided to undertake the development of a coordinated city/county information system that would provide planners and urban problems analysts with more comprehensive and timely physical, social, and economic data descriptive of the community. It was felt that the community stood a better chance of effectively managing its rehabilitation and renewal efforts by identifying what data is necessary: to describe the existing circumstances in each sub-area of the community; to identify problems and to understand their causes; to recognize changes and trends and to foresee problems; and to prescribe a coordinated data collection, handling, processing, and dissemination effort that would deliver comprehensive and reliable data to the appropriate decision-makers in a timely manner. During this same time, the Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program (ARRP) was initiated by a Community Renewal Program (CRP) grant application to the federal government. Since the purposes of the Information System Development program coincided in part with the requirements of the federal CRP grant purposes, it was decided to integrate the two programs to reduce conflicts and duplicity. The Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded a grant for this combined program in October of 1971. The federal grant is to be matched by a local staff effort, data collection activities, and other in-kind contributions. It is anticipated that this arrangement will further develop the local staff capability to deal with rehabilitation and renewal on a continuing basis.
2	1.2 DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY DESIGN The study design serves as a statement of the general goals of the Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program and provides a program for conducting those specific studies and activities necessary to carry out those goals. Areas of concern are identified, troubled situations described, and approaches to solutions delineated. Particular emphasis placed on coordinating the ARRP with the on-going Asheville-Buncombe Information System (ABIS) development program. The ABIS concept incorporates a continuous community situation description and analysis process, utilizing data routinely collected by the operations of governmental agencies The ARRP study design anticipates the necessity of programming activities and expenditures during the time period between the long-range general planning of the Asheville-Buncombe County Metropolitan Board, and the highly detailed fiscal accounting of annual capital and operational budgeting of city governmental agencies. The study emphasizes the development of community improvement needs analyses and project management techniques responsive to the requirements of federal grant fiscal accounting as well as local operations management. The fiscal Work Elements section of the study design contains descriptions of the specific work elements to be undertaken in each action year, and designates the work element responsibilities among the program participants — the Community Renewal Staff, the Asheville-Buncombe County Metropolitan Planning Board, the Asheville Housing Authority, the Information System Development Task Group, the Consultants, and the city agencies and departments. Manpower and cost estimates are developed for each work element and program schedule established. The work element schedule, responsibilities and precedence relationship are illustrated on a program management network that utilizes the PERT/CPM format.
3	1.3 RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES The Asheville Housing Authority is currently in the process of executing two urban renewal projects: The Civic Redevelopment Project has recently been amended and is anticipated to be completed in the near future, and the East Riverside Urban Renewal Project is in the process of being amended. As a result of the amendment, it is anticipated that the net cost of the East Riverside Project will increase by about five million dollars and that the project will require about five years to complete. In 1966, the Metropolitan Planning Board published a city-wide survey of blight, which included the major urbanized portions of the Asheville Metropolitan Area.* This study identified six areas for federally-assisted rehabilitation projects and nine areas for redevelopment projects. Cost estimates were not presented in the report for the six rehabilitation projects; however, the nine redevelopment projects were estimated to cost in excess of 22.5 million in 1966 dollars. From this brief review of the financial status of the city's existing rehabilitation and redevelopment programs, it can be seen that the financial burden of the city's existing commitments in the Civic Redevelopment and East Riverside projects and rehabilitation and redevelopment needs of unprogrammed areas will far outstrip the city's financial capacity. In recognition of this, the ARRP Study Work Program was designed to identify and utilize other non-local and local public and private financial resources. Some examples of the public agencies which will be investigated as potential sources for financial support for the local share of rehabilitation and redevelopment activities will include the Appalacia [sic] Regional Commission, Buncombe County, North Carolina State Highway Commission, and the Asheville City School Board. The feasibility of self-help program neighborhood rehabilitation approaches, particularly where these may be augmented with local and federal resources, will warrant investigation. Private individuals and neighborhoods and community organizations will be solicited in various parts of the ARRP Study and attempts will be made to organize and stimulate private neighborhood groups to improve environmental conditions. _______________ *Program for Renewal: Neighborhood Analysis Study, Asheville Metropolitan Planning Area, Barbor Cooper and Assoc., Asheville, 1966.
4	Part II ARRP STUDY GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND WORK PROGRAM APPROACHES The overall goal of the ARRP Study is to develop an on-going community improvement capability for the City of Asheville. To accomplish this goal, an 18-month study work program has been designed to achieve the following specific objectives and work program approaches: 2.1 INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT Contribute to the development and institutionalization of an integrated governmental information system, which utilizes the capabilities of electronic data processing technology by: .1 Designing and developing a community improvement component of the Asheville/Buncombe County Information System (ABIS) which is currently under development. This includes development of necessary related data processing and programs. .2 Establishing ARRP-related data files which are needed by the ARRP study and which will be later part of the overall ABIS data base. .3 Collecting data necessary for ARRP studies which will also be a part of the overall ABIS data base. 2.2 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY Contribute to the development and institutionalization of a management capability, which utilizes the results of planning in the design and evaluation of community improvement program activities and the preparation of the City of Asheville's annual operating and capital budgets by: .1 Contributing to the development of a capability to periodically describing economic, social and physical situations, trends and problems within subareas of the City of Asheville.
5	.2 Contributing to the development of a capability to periodically revising and updating the city's community improvement program based upon changes in Asheville's community improvement goals, problems, opportunities and the consequences of on-going project activities. .3 Contributing to the development of a capability to annually measure and evaluate the quality and quantity of the consequences of community improvement project activities for Asheville community improvement goals and establish procedures to utilize the results of performance measurement for future project design and budget allocation decisions. 2.3 ASHEVILLE REHABILITATION AND RENEWAL PROGRAM DESIGN Design an initial short- and long-range community improvement program for the City of Asheville by: .1 Identifying general community improvement goals and standards. .2 Identifying existing situations, trends, and analyzing problems in various sub-areas of the city. .3 Identifying local and federal financial, rehousing, real estate absorption, social service, and administrative resources which may be available for ARRP. .4 Designing alternate rehabilitation and redevelopment programs, and identifying the requirements to implement an initial short- and long-range program based upon program goals selected by the community. 2.4 CITIZEN'S PARTICIPATION PROGRAM DESIGN Developing and institutionalizing mechanisms by which citizens may be afforded maximum access to, and opportunities to participate in the community improvement process. Individuals, groups, and representatives would be
6	encouraged to review and provide inputs into community improvement problem analysis, program and project design, updating and evaluation by: .1 Developing procedures for disseminating information and obtaining inputs from individuals, households, and neighborhood and community groups in the City of Asheville. .2 Establishing an ARRP Advisory Board and developing procedures for disseminating information and obtaining Board-policy guidance in all phasing ARRP design. .3 Establishing procedures for making the Asheville City Council aware of individual neighborhood group and Advisory Board value judgments, whether in support of or in opposition to given public decisions.
7	Part III FISCAL 1971-1972 WORK PROGRAM Activities to be undertaken during fiscal 1972 and 1972 and completed prior to June 30, 1972, center largely around developing the methodology by which to identify and quantify urban problems. These activities include developing the data files, data collection handling, processing, display and dissemination techniques necessary for continuously analyzing community problems of a physical nature. Improvement goals and standards and the means of measuring progress will be developed involving analytical, political, and citizens' inputs during this phase of the work program. Specific activities to be undertaken are listed below. 3.1 PROGRAM STUDY DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES DEVELOPMENT 1010 Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program Design Prepare a CRP Study Design Report that will describe the goals, objectives, and techniques employed in the CRP Study. The report will include descriptions of the individual work tasks, the manpower, completion time, and the PERT Network. Undertaken as part of Phase I of the Community Renewal Program, the results of this Activity are described herein. Principal Participant: Renewal Planning Consultant CRP Staff Time: 4 Man-days Other Local Time: 4 Man-days Consultant Time: 60 Man-days Local Cost: $1,500 Consultant Cost: $8,300 Total Cost: $9,800 Estimated Completion Time: 90 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: January 15, 1972
8	1020 ARRP Advisory Committee Establishment Establish a committee of city officials and lay citizens to advise the Community Renewal Program staff, and oversee the results of the Asheville Renewal and Rehabilitation Program. Undertaken as part of Phase I of the Community Renewal Program, the results of this activity are currently being documented. The first official act of the Advisory Committee would be to review the ARRP Study Design. Principal Participant: Asheville City Council CRP Staff Time: 2 Man-days Other Local Time: 2 Man-days Consultant Time: - Local Cost: $400 Total Cost: $400 Estimated Completion Time: 30 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: January 15, 1972 1110 Citizen's Participation Program Development A. Direct Participation Identify study area citizens' activities and interests and extent and type of their participation in projects related to rehabilitation and redevelopment. Estimate the character and extent of direct citizen participation that will be required to assure adequate citizen inputs in the community improvement process. B. Representative Participation Identify the character, activities, and interests of existing neighborhood and community organizations which may form the basis for future citizen participation and the special interests which will require representation for each project area of the community. C. Identification of Citizen Support for Community Improvement Activities Based on the direct and representative citizen participation patterns identified in Sections 3.5 A and B above and the situation description
9	and analysis identified in Section 3.2, develop a program to identify citizens' views as to the situation, prospects, and need for community improvement activities. D. Documentation Prepare a technical report in 25 copies which summarizes the direct and representative participation requirements incident to assuring adequate citizen inputs in the community improvement process and citizens views of the situation, prospects and need for community improvement activities in each Standard Data Zone. Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 15 Man-days Other Local Time: 4 Man-days Consultant Time: 6 Man-days Local Cost: $2,000 Consultant Cost: $1,000 Total Cost: $3,000 Estimated Completion Time: 60 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: March 21, 1972 1120 Project Management Procedures Establishment Establish and provide continuing general management of the ARRP with the CRP Staff, including staff supervision, budget control and reporting, accounting for all in-kind services, and supervision of consultants. Arrange in-kind staff contributions, including the implementation of a continuous ARRP monitoring and evaluation mechanisms to: review work accomplished on a continuous basis, review data sources and needs, decide upon alternative sources of study, and identify potential program opportunities. Drawing upon the Project Management Techniques developed in Activity 1010, prepare (with the aid of a Project Management Consultant) Project Task Management Networks for these activities where coordination and scheduling are critical.
10	Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 10 Man-days Other Local Time: 6 Man-days Consultant Time: 4 Man-days Local Cost: $3,800 Consultant Cost: $1,500 Total Cost: $5,300 Estimated Completion Time: 21 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: February 15, 1972 3.2 GOALS AND STANDARDS FORMULATION 2110 Review of Existing Community Improvement Goals Review existing neighborhood analyses, planning documents and related studies, and identify from them both explicit and implicit goals relevant to the ARRP. Analyze the goals in terms of their community-wide acceptance and consolidate them into broad functional areas of the ARRP work effort. Present these goals considerations in a graphic format so that they may aid the goals discussions at the Goals workshops. Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 4 Man-days Other Local Time: 2 Man-days Consultant Time: 3 Man-days Local Cost: $1,000 Consultant Cost: $500 Total Cost: $1,500 Estimated Completion Time: 7 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: February 21, 1972 2120 Citizen's Neighborhood Improvement Committees Establishment In those portions of the community where they do not already exist, seek the establishment of Neighborhood Improvement Committees that may work with the CRP Staff in identifying local situations, trends and problems, who may organize neighborhood improvement efforts and who may represent the needs
11	and wishes of neighborhood property owners, tenants, and employers and employees at goals conferences and other neighborhood activities. Identify activities and opportunities in which the CRP Staff may contribute to the local effort and provide such support on a limited basis. Principal Participant: Citizen Participation CRP Staff Time: 2 Man-days Other Local Time: 10 Man-days Consultant Time:- Local Cost: $500 Consultant Cost:- Total Cost: $500 Estimated Completion Time: 30 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: February 21, 1972 2130 Community Improvements Goals and Standards Workshops Identify key participants in the ARRP goals and standards setting process, including lay citizens as well as elected officials and representatives from quasi-public and private organizations whose operations and activities relate to the concerns of the ARRP. Prepare municipal and neighborhood statistical data and related graphic materials that may serve as conference aids. Arrange for suitable locations, schedules, and promotional efforts to facilitate the broadest possible citizen participation in the goals formulation process. Conduct a series of goal and standards for improvement conferences so as to obtain a comprehensive and representative citizen and political inputs into the development of ARRP Goals and Standards. Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 10 Man-days Other Local Time: 10 Man-days Consultant Time: 10 Man-days
12	Local Cost: $2,500 Consultant Cost: $1,500 Total Cost: $4,000 Estimated Completion Time: 2 Calendar Months Latest Completion Date: May 15, 1972 2140 Community Improvement Goals Formulation Drawing upon the available information from all relevant sources, and as a result of the goals preparation, synthesis and review process, formulate a set of goals to be achieved by the ARRP for official adoption by both citizen and decision- and policy-making governmental agencies. Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 10 Man-days Other Local Time: 10 Man-days Consultant Time: 5 Man-days Local Cost: $2,500 Consultant Cost: $800 Total Cost: $3,300 Estimated Completion Time: 14 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: June 30, 1972 2150 ARRP Standards Formulation .1 Existing Standards Identify existing development standards as established by city codes and other local state and federal requirements and identify the criteria necessary to measure the nature and degree of physical and non-physical conditions incident to the cause and propagation of blight. .2 Standards Refinements Analyze all of the above standards with respect to the feasibility of obtaining compliance in future projects based upon local conditions and establish a set of standards against which to measure environmental, street, property, building and housing conditions, and the
13	quality and appropriateness of products and services offered by business and governmental agencies to residents of the study area. .3 Documentation Prepare a technical report describing the existing standards and the need for refinements, and the subsequent standards as established for the purposes of the ARRP. Twenty-five (25) copies of the report shall be produced. Principal Participant: CRP Consultant CRP Staff Time: 10 Man-days Other Local Time: 10 Man-days Consultant Time: 20 Man-days Local Cost: $1,500 Consultant Cost: $3,000 Total Cost: $4,500 Estimated Completion Time: 30 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: May 1, 1972 3.3 ARRP INFORMATION SUB-SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT 3110 ARRP-Related Data Files Design Following the Information Needs and Data Format Analyses and the design of the Asheville-Buncombe County Information System (ABIS), design the structures file, and suite sub-files. Provide design inputs to the Information System Design Team designing the Land Parcel Files, Street Segment Files, Utility Network sub-files, and Government Operations and Services sub-files. Principal Participant: Information System Consultant CRP Staff Time: 20 Man-days Other Local Time: 5 Man-days Consultant Time: 55 Man-days Local Cost: $2,500 Consultant Cost: $6,500 Total Cost: $9,000 Estimated Completion Time: 30 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: March 31, 1972
14	3120 ARRP Information Sub-System Design Following the development of the over-all Asheville-Governmental Information System Design, specify the equipment, processing, and softward requirements of those components of the planning sub-system concerned with collecting, storing, updating, processing, and disseminating physical data useful to the ARRP and related planning activities. Principal Participant: Information System Consultant CRP Staff Time: 10 Man-days Other Local Time: 10 Man-days Consultant Time: 25 Man-days Local Cost: $1,500 Consultant Cost: $3,000 Total Cost: $4,500 Estimated Completion Time: 20 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: March 31, 1972 3130 ARRP and AHA Data Manuals Preparation Prepare Data Manual for the CRP Staff, that specifies appropriate data for the CRP Staff to collect and maintain; storage, updating, and processing requirements; dissemination lists and procedures; and input, storage and output formats. Prepare a Data Manual for the Asheville Housing Authority that specifies appropriate data collection, storage, updating, processing, and dissemination activities for the AHA Staff. These Data Manuals are intended to serve as the principal coordinating device among Asheville and Buncombe County's data-collecting agencies. Observance of the specifications, storage formats, and guidelines will facilitate the inter-departmental exchange of data, and the multiple-file analysis operations essential to the ARRP Work Program.
15	Principal Participant: Information System Consultant CRP Staff Time: - Other Local Time: Consultant Time: 60 Man-days Local Cost: $1,000 Consultant Cost: $7,000 Total Cost: $8,000 Estimated Completion Time: 60 Calendar Days Latest Completion Data: May 15, 1972 3140 ARRP Sub-System Processing Equipment Installation Acquire the necessary automated data handling and processing equipment specified by the ABIS and the ARRP Sub-System designs and install where in the location and manner specified. The ARRP Sub-System computer is intended to serve an addition role as the control unit for developing softward for other sub-system components of ABIS. Principal Participant: Metropolitan Planning Board CRP Staff Time: 2 Man-days Other Local Time: 2 Man-days Consultant Time: 10 Man-days Local Cost: $34,200 Consultant Cost: $2,500 Total Cost: $36,700 Estimated Completion Time: 2 Calendar Months* Latest Completion Date: April 21, 1972 3150 ARRP Sub-System Plotting Equipment Installation Acquire the necessary computer-controlled graphic plotter as specified by the ABIS and the ARRP Sub-System designs and install where linking with the ARRP sub-system and ABIS central files are feasible. The ARRP Sub-System plotter is intended to serve as the principal computer-controlled graphic out-put device for all participants in ABIS. _____________________ *Anticipated equipment delivery time following date of order.
16	Principal Participant: Metropolitan Planning Board CRP Staff Time: 1 Man-day Other Local Time: 1 Man-day Consultant Time: - Local Cost: $7,100 Consultant Cost: - Total Cost: $7,100 Estimated Completion Time: 3 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: June 15, 1972 3160 ARRP Software Development Prepare the necessary programs to operate the CRP/MPB computer and the related peripheral equipment so as to produce printed lists of data contained in the land, streets, buildings, and housing files and measure the degree of correlation between occurrences of specific characteristics in specific geographic locations. Principal Participant: Information System Consultant CRP Staff Time: 8 Man-days Other Local Time: 2 Man-days Consultant Time: 35 Man-days Local Cost: $1,000 Consultant Cost: $4,000 Total Cost: $5,000 Estimated Completion Time: 3 Calendar Weeks Latest Completion Date: May 15, 1972 3.4 DATA COLLECTION AND HANDLING 4110 City Land Parcel File Establishment Establish a machine-readable land parcel file within the Planning Information System for use by the Metropolitan Planning Board, Asheville Housing Authority,
17	City Building Inspector, County Tax Assessor, and CRP Staff. This file is to contain recorded data pertaining to each parcel of land within the municipal corporation limits. Specific characteristics needed to describe each land parcel for the purposes of the ARRP will be added as they are collected from other participants in ABIS and by the collection of Environmental Data described in Work Task 4310. Principal Participant: Metropolitan Planning Board/CRP Staff MPB/CRP Staff Time: 80 Man-days Other Local Time: 10 Man-days Consultant Time: 6 Man-days Local Cost: $5,500 Consultant Cost: $1 ,500 Total Cost: $7,000 Estimated Completion Time: 45 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: June 30, 1972 4120 City Street Segment File Establishment Establish a machine-readable street segment file within the Planning Information System for use by the Metropolitan Planning Board, Asheville Housing Authority, City Department of Public Works -Streets Division, and the Department of Public Safety - Traffic Engineering Division. This file is to contain recorded data pertaining to each right-of-way segment (a segment being that portion between intersections, sharp turns, water and rail crossings, and the like), within the municipal corporation limits. Data to be recorded, would include: type, width, and condition of street and sidewalk improvements, street utilization limits, and the number of parking spaces. Principal Participant: City Department of Public Works CRP Staff Time: 10 Man-days Other Local Time: 90 Man-days Consultant Time: 25 Man-days Local Cost: $9,000 Consultant Cost: $3,000 Total Cost: $12,000
18	Estimated Completion Time: 45 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: June 30, 1972 4130 ARRP-Related Environmental Conditions Data Collection Review the existing land use, building conditions, street conditions, property maintenance, and related environmental conditions data already collected within the community, and collect that additional data considered essential to the Blight Analysis and Situation Description Tasks. Record the field-collected data in such a manner as to be machine-entered in the appropriate land, street, and building files. Principal Participant: Planning Consultant CRP Staff Time: 20 Man-days Other Local Time: 30 Man-days Consultant Time: 50 Man-days Local Cost: $5,000 Consultant Cost: $6,000 Total Cost: $11,000 Estimated Completion Time: 1 Calendar Month Latest Completion Date: May 15, 1972 3.5 RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS 6110 Local Housing Demand and Real Estate Marketability Study Based upon alternate economic and population projections, develop estimates of the amounts and types of space that will be required for residential and non-residential activities for the period of 1971 through 1980. Project the extent and characteristics of the city's stock of residential and non-residential space, including the extent and character of private and subsidized residential and non-residential construction, units to be removed from the current inventory and housing available to minority groups. Project the extent and character of private and subsidized residential and non-residential construction, units to be removed from the current inventory and housing available to minority groups. Project the extent and characteristics of relocatees in tentatively defined rehabilitation and relocation areas and
19	the amount and type of rehousing required including rehousing requirements of minority groups. Analyze the city's relocation capabilities and the implication for scheduling the rate of ARRP activities. Utilizing the population and economic data developed in Task 5350, identify real estate marketing problems and potentials of tentatively identified improvement projects. Identify improvement and renewal means which could be developed to stimulate future economic and social development and formulate economic and population goals to guide the design of the ARRP. Principal Participant: Land Marketing Consultant CRP Staff Time: - Other Local Time: Consultant Time: 60 Man-days Local Cost: - Consultant Cost: $7,500 Total Cost: $7,500 Estimated Completion Time: 3 Calendar Months Latest Completion Date: May 31, 1972 6120 Social Services Inventory and Analysis Conduct a review and analysis for the social services available to families involved in or affected by the ARRP. This inventory and analysis will be for the purposes of determining the organizational structure and administrative capacity of the Asheville Housing Authority and other social services agencies in delivering needed services, and to provide the basis for establishing continuously updated machine-readable social services file. Recommendations for improvements to the services delivery system are anticipated. Principal Participant: Management Consultant CRP Staff Time: - Other Local Time: 10 Man-days Consultant Time: 30 Man-days Local Cost: $2,000 Consultant Cost: $5,500
20	Total Cost: $7,500 Estimated Completion Time: 45 Calendar Days Latest Completion Date: May 31, 1972 6130 Self-Help Rehabilitation Prospects Analysis Identify areas with the city where unusual or unique residential attributes may exist despite the fact that the area may be considered blighted or tending towards blight. Such attributes may be structures of unique architectural or historic character, scenic views, attractive geological features. Evaluate the prospects of developing self-help rehabilitation efforts in these areas utilizing city or federal aid programs to serve as as stimulus in launching such programs. Principal Participant: Planning Consultant CRP Staff Time: - Other Local Time: - Consultant Time: 45 Man-days Local Cost: - Consultant Cost: $5,200 Total Cost: $5,200 Estimated Completion Time: 1 Calendar Month Latest Completion Date: June 15, 1972 6140 Metropolitan Improvement and Development Plans Analysis Review the existing comprehensive and community improvement plans and related documents to assess what effects these plans and programs may have upon the public facilities and services available to residents of the city: Public Facilities and Services .1 Education Identify and describe the effects that existing and planned educational facilities and services may have upon the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the study area.
21	.2 Recreation and Entertainment Identify and describe the effects that existing and anticipated hobby, recreational, entertainment facilities may have upon the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the study area. .3 Health, Safety, and Social Services Identify and describe the effects that existing and anticipated neighborhood welfare assistance, health care, and police and fire protection facilities and services may have upon the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the study area. .4 Rehabilitation and Redevelopment Planning Identify and describe the effects that existing and anticipated redevelopment and rehabilitation plans and programs, as prepared by government and private agencies may have upon the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the study area. Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 35 Man-days Other Local Time: 20 Man-days Consultant Time:- Local Cost: $4,500 Consultant Cost:- Total Cost: $4,500 Estimated Completion Time: 2 Calendar Months Latest Completion Date: April 30, 1972
22	Part IV FISCAL 1972-1973 WORK PROGRAM Activities to be undertaken during fiscal 1972 and 1973 and completed prior to June 30, 1973, largely involve developing the Rehabilitation and Renewal Program and relating it to the existing and on-going operations and budgets of the city. These activities include examining the local and federal resources developing alternate renewal and rehabilitation sketch plans, testing the reaction of citizens, officials, politicians and technicians to these plans, selecting an optimum combination of programs and then documenting them. Specific activities to be undertaken are listed below. 4.1 DATA COLLECTION AND HANDLING 4210 City Structures File Conversion to Machine-Readable Format Convert the City Building Inspectors structural records to a machine-readable structures file within the Planning Information System for use by the City Building Inspector, Metropolitan Planning Board, Asheville Housing Authority, City Fire Department, and County Tax Assessor. This file is to contain recorded data descriptive of each separate structure in the city, including the building type and condition. Principal Participant: Building Inspection Department Staff CRP Staff Time: 10 Man-days Other Local Time: 60 Man-days Consultant Time: 3 Man-days Local Cost: $2,500 Consultant Cost: $500 Total Cost: $3,000 Estimated Completion Time: 2 Calendar Months Latest Completion Date: July 15, 1972
23	4220 City Housing Units File Establishment Develop a housing unit classification code and prepare machine-readible [sic] records describing each separate dwelling unit currently listed with the Asheville Housing Authority. Expand this file with data from other housing unit files that is currently available, and collect relocation resources data sufficient to accommodate the relocation needs of existing and anticipated redevelopment projects. Principal Participant: Asheville Housing Authority Staff CRP Staff Time: 10 Man-days Other Local Time: 85 Man-days Consultant Time: 40 Man-days Local Cost: $10,500 Consultant Cost: $4,500 Total Cost: $15,000 Estimated Completion Time: 2 Calendar Months Latest Completion Date: July 15, 1972 4230 Extra-Local ARRP Data Collection Following release of the 1970 Census Block Statistics, acquire Files A through C from the Fourth count. These files contain population and housing characteristics for each block in the Asheville urbanized area. In addition, acquire aggregations of these block statistics to fit the Standard Data Zones developed as part of Phase I of the Comprehensive Data Program. Acquire the appropriate 1960 Census statistics and aggregate those statistics where feasible to fit the Standard Data Zones developed as part of Phase I of the Comprehensive Data Program. Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 25 Man-days Other Local Time: 10 Man-days Consultant Time: 20 Man-days Local Cost: $4,000 Consultant Cost: $4,000 Total Cost: $8,000
24	Estimated Completion Time: 2 Calendar Weeks Latest Completion Date: July 15, 1972 4.2 SITUATION, TRENDS AND PROBLEMS ANALYSIS 5210 Land Acreage Calculation Prepare a computer-program for use on the ARRP Sub-System equipment that can perform land area calculations based upon the geographic coordinates of the vertices of land parcels and street segments, and upon completion of the parcel file development and parcel digitization tasks, calculate land acreages for each parcel of land in the city, and aggregate by Standard Data Zone by type of use. Principal Participant: Metropolitan Planning Board MPB/CRP Staff Time: 30 Man-days Other Local Time: 40 Man-days Consultant Time: 30 Man-days Local Cost: $9,500 Consultant Cost: $5,000 Total Cost: $\|4,500 Estimated Completion Time: 3 Calendar Months Latest Completion Date: July 15, 1972 5220 Standard Data Zones Profiles Development Develop land characteristics profiles for each SDZ in the city by utilizing the land acreage calculation programs developed in 5210 and the data contained in the land parcel files established in Task 4110. Aggregate land acreages by land use code, for each SDZ within the city. Develop population characteristics profiles for each SDZ in the city by utilizing the SDZ data aggregations from the 1970 Census obtained in Task 4320. Develop housing characteristics profiles for each SDZ in the city by utilizing the SDZ data aggregations from the 1970 Census and augment this with structural conditions data contained in the structures file established in Task 4130.
25	Develop environmental characteristics data for each SDZ in the city by aggregating the data contained in the Street Segment and Structures files established in Tasks 4120 and 4130 and augmenting this data with the environmental data collected in Task 4140. Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 20 Man-days Other Local Time: 20 Man-days Consultant Time: 16 Man-days Local Cost: $4,000 Consultant Cost: $2,000 Total Cost: $6,000 Estimated Completion Time: 1 Calendar Month Latest Completion Date: August 31, 1972 5230 Existing Situation Description and Analysis Utilizing the Population and Housing Trends Analysis information and anticipated community problems information developed in Task 5330, prepare a description and analysis of each neighborhood as identified in the officially designed neighborhoods in Asheville. Utilizing the data available in the appropriate SDZ's that comprise each neighborhood and the blight-causing factors identified in Task 5340, estimate the prospects of change and their causes in each neighborhood. Fifty (50) copies of this report shall be prepared. Principal Participant: Planning Consultant CRP Staff Time: 20 Man-days Other Local Time: 5 Man-days Consultant Time: 50 Man-days Local Cost: $2,000 Consultant Cost: $6,000 Total Cost: $8,000 Estimated Completion Time: I Calendar Month Latest Completion Date: August 15, 1972
26	5240 Population and Housing Trends and Problems Analysis Analyze economic and demographic patterns and trends in the metropolitan area and the community. Based upon these considerations, and the SDZ profiles, develop alternate population projections of the metropolitan area's and the community's economy and population for the period of 1970 through 1990, assuming various rates of renewal activity. By arranging the anticipated future populations requirements for housing and other services, estimate the nature and extent of housing shortages, community facility, and services shortages, and other problems induced by changes in the population and the housing stock. Principal Participant: Planning Consultant CRP Staff Time: 10 Man-days Other Local Time: 2 Man-days Consultant Time: 55 Man-days Local Cost: $1,000 Consultant Cost: $6,500 Total Cost: $7,500 Estimated Completion Time: 2 Calendar Months Latest Completion Date: July 1, 1972 5250 Blight Causing Factors Analysis Utilizing the collected physical characteristics data and the criteria developed with which to measure blight, identify specific areas (at the Standard Data Zone level of specificity) that are blighted, are currently subjected to blighting influences, and are likely to be subjected to blighting influences. Identify the blight-causing factors in each neighborhood where present. Perform correlation analyses on geo-coded blighting conditions and manifestations of blight (such as deteriorating structures, conditions of over-crowdedness, high tenant turnover, and the like) to help establish cause-effect relationships. Utilizing the above-described correlation analyses and local and federal resources data prepared in Task 6220, identify apecific [sic] areas where blighting influences may be arrested or countered by self-help rehabilitation efforts, concentrated code enforcement programs, financial institution lending policy changes and other local actions.
27	Principal Participant: Planning Consultant CRP Staff Time: 15 Other Local Time: - Consultant Time: 30 Man-days Local Cost: $2,000 Consultant Cost: $3,500 Total Cost: $5,500 Estimated Completion Time: 1 Calendar Month Latest Completion Date: August 1, 1972 4.3 RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES ANALYSIS 6210 Local and Federal Financial Resources Analysis Update the financial study currently being developed by the Asheville-Buncombe County Metropolitan Planning Board to project annual operating and capital improvement budgets and debt capacity for the period of 1971 through 1980. Project alternate levels of city resources which could be allocated to the rehabilitation and redevelopment activities for the 1971 through 1980 period and the consequences of each on other city programs. Project other programmed local resources which will be available to finance rehabilitation and redevelopment activities for the period of 1971 through 1980 and project the realistic levels of federal financial resources which could be-allocated to the community for the period of 1971 through 1980. Principal Participant: Planning Consultant CRP Staff Time: 10 Man-days Other Local Time: 10 Man-days Consultant Time: 30 Man-days Local Cost: $1,000 Consultant Cost: $5,500 Total Cost: $6,500 Estimated Completion Time: 2 Calendar Months Latest Completion Date: December 31, 1972
28	4.4 REHABILITATION AND RENEWAL PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT 7210 Alternative Treatment Program Development .1 Based upon the causes of blight, identify the appropriate treatments for each sub-area of the city and assign tentative project boundaries. .2 Based upon existing plans and other locally obtainable data, prepare budgeting plans for all RRP project areas indicating structures to be and not to be acquired. These plans are for budgeting and defining project boundaries only and will not be publicized except for projects located within the model neighborhood or included in the short-range ARRP. .3 Develop estimates of the local and federal dollar cost of each project, of the extent and character of potential relocations and of the extent of real estate for various uses which will be yielded by project activities. .4 Develop alternate ARRP project selection and scheduling goals and prepare alternate ARRP programs to advise these ends. .5 Prepare a technical report in 25 copies which identifies the extent and patterns of blight and blighting influences, the attributes of residents of blighted areas and the causes of blight, the type of renewal treatment needed defines alternate ARRP project boundaries, renewal activities; and which dimensions the dollar, relocation and real estate consequences of these activities and which identifies alternate project selection and scheduling objectives and programs to achieve these targets. Principal Participant: CRP Consultant CRP Staff Time: 8 Man-days Other Local Time: - Consultant Time: 5 Man-days Local Cost: $1,000 Consultant Cost: $6,500 Total Cost: $7,500
29	Estimated Completion Time: 6 Calendar Weeks Latest Completion Date: December 10, 1972 7220 Citizen's Review and Input .1 Prepare and disseminate information to individuals and neighborhood groups regarding ARRP projects and programming alternatives. .2 Conduct a series of citizen's work shop sessions, and meet with the ARRP Advisory Board and City Council to assist in the selection of the desired project and program activities. Principal Participant: Citizens CRP Staff Time: 2 Man-days Other Local Time: 20 Man-days Consultant Time: - Local Cost: $1,000 Consultant Cost:- Total Cost: $1,000 Estimated Completion Time: 1 Calendar Week Latest Completion Date: November 30, 1972 7230 Rehabilitation and Renewal Program Analysis and Selection .1 Utilizing previously prepared programs to simulate the consequences of alternate ARRP goals, using techniques of simulation, modeling, and the capabilities of electronic data processing equipment and inputs from citizens, neighborhood groups, advisory board and city council, select the optimum project treatment combination and program schedule. Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 15 Man-days Other Local Time: 5 Man-days Consultant Time: - Local Cost: $1,500 Consultant Cost: - Total Cost: $1,500 Estimated Completion Time: 3 Calendar Weeks Latest Completion Date: January 15, 1973
30	7240 ARRP Program Refinement .1 Refine the ARRP goals in accordance with the selected rehabilitation and renewal activities selected by Asheville City Council and other participants in Task 7230. .2 Refine ARRP project boundaries in accordance with the findings of Task 7230 and federal and state eligibility requirements. .3 Refine ARRP project activities and sketch plans; develop activity descriptions and sketch plans in greater detail for short-range projects. .4 Based upon the revised ARRP project and program goas [sic] and refined project boundaries and sketch plan, redefine the amount of real estate which will be yielded, characteristics of relocatees and the estimated dollar costs involved in each ARRP project. .5 Based upon previously formulated ARRP project and program goals, rank ARRP projects and develop a long- and short-range schedule which identifies the precedence and scheduling of their planning and execution. .6 Based upon ranking and scheduling of ARRP projects, develop a detailed short-range schedule of ARRP activities for 1975 through 1980 and a generalized long-range schedule for the period of 1980 through 1995. Principal Participant: Planning Consultant CRP Staff Time: 12 Man-days Other Local Time: 8 Man-days Consultant Time: 30 Man-days Local Cost: $3,000 Consultant Cost: $6,000 Total Cost: $9,000 Estimated Completion Time: 1 Calendar Month Latest Completion Date: February 15, 1973
31	7250 ARRP Implementation Requirements .1 Identify the extent, sources, and dates of availability of federal grants and local cash and non-cash resources necessary to implement the ARRP and the changes in the existing city Capital Improvements Program and its annual capital and annual budgeting procedures necessary to achieve renewal eligibility of city projects which serve renewal areas. .2 Identify by type of use the annual amount and characteristics of land produced by the ARRP and develop suggested techniques to assist the LPA in marketing ARRP land. .3 Identify the annual number and characteristics of housing production necessary to rehouse ARRP project residents including consideration of family size, income, minority group membership and special housing needs and the annual number and characteristics of non-residential space needs including consideration of black-owned business establishments. .4 Develop a program of suggested changes to or additions in existing social programs, facilities, and services necessary to make the relocation process a positive influence on the lives of ARRP relocatees. .5 Based upon an investigation of past renewal activities, the present administrative organization and procedures in light of local and state enabling legislation, recommend appropriate staffing, organizational and legal changes or additions necessary to implement the ARRP. Principal Participant: Planning Consultant CRP Staff Time: 8 Man-days Other Local Time: - Consultant Time: 48 Man-days Local Cost: $1,000 Consultant Cost: $6,500 Total Cost: $7,500 Estimated Completion Time: 1Calendar Month Latest Completion Date: March 15, 1973
32	4.5 PROJECT MANAGEMENT EVALUATION AND UPDATING 8210 Capital Program and General Plan Coordination Procedures Established .1 Review Asheville's Capital Improvement Program and the necessary changes identified in Activity 7250, and recommend amendments necessary to achieve coordination with the ARRP. .2 Review the Metropolitan Planning Board's General Plan and identify steps necessary to achieve conformity between the ARRP and the General Plan. Principal Participant: Planning Consultant CRP Staff Time: 2 Man-days Other Local Time: 2 Man-days Consultant Time: 5 Man-days Local Cost: $700 Consultant Cost: $1,000 Total Cost: $1,700 Estimated Completion Time: 2 Calendar Weeks Latest Completion Date: March 31, 1973 8220 Citizens Continuing Review and Input Procedures Established .1 Identify objectives and recommend procedures necessary to obtain involvement of residents and neighborhood organizations, advisory board and city council and in future ARRP projects and program updating. Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 4 Man-days Other Local Time: - Consultant Time: - Local Cost: $600 Consultant Cost:- Total Cost: $600 Estimated Completion Time: 2 Calendar Weeks Latest Completion Date: March 31, 1973
33	8230 Program Updating Procedures and Documentation .1 Develop continuing community improvement project management and program updating procedures utilizing the Project Management Techniques identified in Task 1010. Develop ARRP Sub-system software to enable computer processing of PM Networks and project accounting procedures to relate ARRP activities to overall municipal management program. .2 Prepare a technical report in 50 copies which verbally and graphically describes the schedule of projects proposed by the ARRP and the requirements necessary for their implementation and coordination and updating procedures. Principal Participant: Information System Consultant CRP Staff Time: 5 Man-days Other Local Time: - Consultant Time: 35 Man-days Local Cost: $700 Consultant Cost: $5,000 Total Cost: $5,700 Estimated Completion Time: 1.5 Calendar Months Latest Completion Date: May 15, 1973 8240 Public Information Program Operation .1 Prepare press releases, programs for local radio and television, and slide presentations for use by local organizations to convey the need for community improvements, treatment proposals, and costs of the ARRP. .2 Prepare a graphic and verbal summary of the ARRP in 15,000 copies including a description of the need for renewal and proposals and requirements to implement the proposed ARRP.
34	Principal Participant: CRP Staff CRP Staff Time: 25 Man-days Other Local Time: - Consultant Time: 15 Man-days Local Cost: $3,500 Consultant Cost: $2,500 Total Cost: $6,000 Estimated Completion Time: 1.5 Calendar Months Latest Completion Date: June 30, 1972
35	Part V WORK PROGRAM BUDGET AND SCHEDULE Part II identifies the broad goal of the ARRP study and specific objectives and work program approaches. Parts III and IV describe the specific work program elements which are designed to achieve these targets. Part V identifies the manpower requirements, responsibility, costs, sources of funds, schedule, sequence, and relationships of the elements of the work program. 5.1 MANPOWER REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITY ASSIGNMENTS OF WORK PROGRAMMING ELEMENTS The table shows that an anticipated total of 1,955 man-days of effort are required to complete the ARRP study. Over the 18-month period of the study a total of 558 days is assigned to the MPB/CRP staff, 425 days to other local staff members, and 977 days will be required of consultant time. During fiscal period 1971-72 and 1972-73, 312 and 246 man-days of MPB/CRP staff time are estimated to be required respectively. During the same fiscal periods, 238 and 187 man-days are projected for other local staff time and 548 and 429 man-days of consultant time are anticipated to be required. It should be noted that the reduced man-day effort in fiscal 1972-73 is anticipated in part due to the operation of computer-assisted programs to plot the locations of ARRP data, calculate land acreages and measure correlations, and perform other analytical operations. 5.2 COST ESTIMATES AND SOURCES OF FUNDING OF WORK PROGRAM ELEMENTS The estimated total cost to complete the 18-month work program is $271,800. The total costs during fiscal period 1971-72 (July, 1971 - June, 1972) are $134,300, and the total costs during fiscal period 1972-73 (July, 1972 -June, 1973) are $137,500. The sources of funding for fiscal period 1971-72 are $71,300 from a Federal CRP Grant, $27,155 in Model Cities supplemental funds, and $35,845 in City in-kind contributions. The sources of funding for fiscal period 1972-73 includes $41,700 from the Federal CRP Grant, $27,155 in Model Cities supplemental funds, and $68,645 in city in-kind contributions.
36	5.3 TIME SCHEDULE, SEQUENCE, AND RELATIONSHIPS OF WORK PROGRAM ELEMENTS The attached chart shows that work program elements are scheduled to begin on January 15, 1972 and be completed by June 30, 1973. The chart illustrates the elements of the work program, the sequence of work program elements, and the precedence relationships of work program elements and the ARRP participant responsible for the completion of element.
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[Cover] Study Design: Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, UNCA

[Cover] Study Design: Asheville Rehabilitation and Renewal Program
Special Collections, D.H. Ramsey Library, UNCA