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Gum Springs: Neighborhood Improvement Program and Conservation Plan

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Title: Gum Springs: Neighborhood Improvement Program and Conservation Plan
Repository: City of Fairfax Regional Library - Virginia Room
Date Created: 1979
Creator: By: Fairfax County (Va.). Department of Housing and Community Development

Contributor: Fairfax County (Va.). Redevelopment and Housing Authority
Description: The Neighborhood Improvement Program and Conservation Plan created for Gum Springs in 1979. This plan allowed for the appropriation of funds towards Gum Springs in multiple areas to help update and improve the community in areas that had been continuous problems in the community through block grants, as well as creating a conservation plan that would help to improve and conserve the community. Adopted by the Board of Supervisors after insistence from the community itself and county stakeholders. This conservation plan gave residents a major say in how the development of the community would be carried out over the next three decades.
Research Themes: Gum Springs
Improvement Program and Conservation Plan
Black geographies
County Board of Supervisors
Housing
Drainage
Education
Block Grants
Federal Funding
Development
Conservation
Type: Report
Researcher Name: Jacob
Relation: Gum Springs to Fairfax County: "Earn our trust."; Black enclave says Fairfax County ignores its concerns about Inova expansion; County OKs Plan to Improve Gum Springs Living Condition
Bibliographic Citation: Fairfax County (Va.). Department of Housing and Community Development. Gum Springs: Neighborhood Improvement Program and Conservation Plan. Fairfax, Va: Fairfax County Department of Housing and Community Development, n.d.

Item sets: NORTHERN VIRGINIA ARCHIVE OF BLACK COMMUNITY RESISTANCE

Site pages: Gum Springs: Community Action Then and Now

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County OKs Plan to Improve Gum Springs Living Condition