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,': .) ,",'-.I TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1987 unimproved section of Boden Street, which petition was recently forwarded to the Council by the Planning Commission with a recommendation--subject to certain stipulations included by the Commission--that Council approve the petition. There being no objections registered by any citizen to the petition, Mayor Oakes declared the public hearing closed; whereupon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council accepted the Planning Commission's recommendations in this matter and, in so doing, adopted the following ordinance authorizing and directing the vacating and abandonment of said unimproved section, subject to the Commission's stipulations: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this fourteenth day of July, 1987, that an unimproved section of Boden Street (being approximately 151 feet in length and being the westernmost end of said Boden Street) be--and is hereby declared--vacated and abandoned, subject to dedication of a fifty-foot turnaround, using an adjacent ten-foot alleyway and subject to presentation of final maps showing the turnaround and the street section hereby being abandoned, which maps shall require the review and approval of the City's Engineering Division and shall be duly recorded. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that, an emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force on and after July 15, 1987. To comply more fully with the requirements of the Virginia Department of Transportation (viz., to assure the Commonwealth of Virginia and its Department of Transportation that the City will pay its five per cent share), Council unanimously adopted the following resolution (which supersedes a similar resolution adopted by Council at its regular meeting held June 23, 1987) requesting the Virginia Department of Transportation to establish an urban system highway project designed to improve the vertical clearance of Liberty Street Underpass of the Southern Railway Company: WHEREAS, Tultex Corporation is proposing to expand its industrial facili- ties through the construction of a distribution center in Henry County abutting State Route 108 near the North Corporate Limits of the City; and WHEREAS, the proposed Tultex Corporation expansion is extremely important to the economic development and growth of Martinsville and Henry County, as well as to the State of Virginia; and WHEREAS, certain street and h~ghway improvements situated both in Martinsville and Henry County are needed to meet transportation needs resulting from the proposed Tu1tex Corporation expansion; and