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?6 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1986 right-turn lane in the Spring of 1987. For the total project, total required right-of-way (for the entire project) should be acquired by the Highway Depart- ment by the end of December, 1987, and construction would be scheduled for 1988. Council was informed that, for the right-turn lane, two houses (and lots) and a vacant lot will be involved. In acceptance of City Manager Brown's recommendation, Council unanimously directed that the State Highway Department be requested to acquire the right-of-way necessary for the right-turn lane as soon as possible after the forthcoming January public hearing and that the City proceed with construction of the right-turn lane (after right-of-way is acquired by the State) in the Spring of 1987, on the basis of the cost being credited to the City's share of the total project cost, assuming that the turn lane construction can be designed and installed as a permanent improvement. Meanwhile, commending Council for its action in this matter were Mrs. Gloria Hodge Hylton (of 402 Second Street), Mr. J. B. Travis (of 401 Fifth Street) and former Mayor-Councilman William D. Hobson (of 1013 West Fayette Steet). City Manager Brown reported on a meeting he and Mayor Oakes attended in Salem, Virginia, on September 5, 1986, during which meeting several officials of the Commonwealth of Virginia reviewed the findings and recommendations of the Governor's Commission on Transportation in the Twenty-First Century pertaining to current and projected transportation needs in the Commonwealth of Virginia as well as ways and means to finance the cost of meeting these needs. Current needs included the following three projects for the City of Martinsville (these being also listed in the Six-Year Plan of the State's Department of Highways and Transportation):