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Roanoke council outlines $30M+ of federal earmark requests, votes to oppose SAVE Act and proposed cuts to CDBG/HOME/CoC
Summary
City staff described four federal community‑project funding requests — including $10M for an Amtrak station phase and $10M for a Mill Mountain Greenway phase — and Council voted to send letters opposing the SAVE Act and proposed federal eliminations of CDBG, HOME and HUD’s Continuum of Care programs.
City staff and a federal liaison briefed Roanoke’s legislative committee on April 6 about four community‑project funding requests the city submitted to its U.S. senators and partners.
Staff described the submissions as: a river kayak park request (just over $3 million), a phased Amtrak station renovation (phase one requested at $10 million), Mill Mountain Greenway bridge phase one ($10 million), and support for a Roanoke Regional Airport runway‑extension study (about $7 million). “We submitted three…
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