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<br />~4 <br /> <br />TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1986 <br /> <br />it would be necessary to amend the Special-Use Permit as cited. <br /> <br />Pursuant to a recommendation by the Martinsville Planning Commission, in response to a <br /> <br />request filed by Mr. Harris Brown, Property Developer for W. H. Weaver Construction Com- <br /> <br />pany, Greensboro, North Carolina, Council unanimously granted a 180-day extension to (or <br /> <br />of) the Special-Use Permit issued to W. H. Weaver Construction Company under date of <br /> <br />March 13, 1984, for the construction of Phase II (i.e., 46 apartment units) of Weaver's <br /> <br />Martins Landing Project off Route 58 East, near the City's east corporate limits. The <br /> <br />record notes that the original permit was for a period of eighteen months, or to Septem- <br /> <br />ber 15, 1985, and (that) by Council's action on August 27, 1985, the permit was extended <br /> <br />for a period of 180 days, or to March 14, 1986. <br /> <br />Because of problems being encountered by the City's Police Department in attempting to <br /> <br />enforce Section 5-39 of the City Code ("Continuously barking or howling dogs"), as <br /> <br />amended, City Manager Brown reported that he and Police Chief Terry L. Roop and Common- <br /> <br />wealth's Attorney J. Randolph Smith, Jr., now recommend that said Section 5-39 be further <br /> <br />amended to reduce from the current seven (7) minutes to three (3) minutes the allowable <br /> <br />time of continuous barking before violation occurs and, also, to define the word "con- <br /> <br />tinuously" and to delete the word "uninterrupted". Speaking to this proposal as well as <br /> <br />to past newspaper accounts of their "situation" and a neighbor's complaints thereon were <br /> <br />Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Hickox of 932 Stonewall Court. After discussing the proposal with <br /> <br />both City Manager Brown and Police Chief Roop, Council urged further study of this mat- <br /> <br />ter by City Manager Brown (as to what regulations are in effect in other Virginia cities <br /> <br />to "control" barking and howling) for report back to Council. Council also referred the <br /> <br />proposed amending ordinance to City Attorney Worthy for study and for re-wording to <br /> <br />achieve practicability for enforcement purposes. <br /> <br />~------_.~--~..~"_.'*_."..,-"--..."".~_.._~.,_.,..__..."..- <br />