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<br />_50 <br /> <br />TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1985 <br /> <br />Through Mr. Lawrence W. Wuensch, Executive Director of the Martinsville-Henry County <br /> <br />Economic Development Corporation, a request was filed by this agency's Board of <br /> <br />Directors seeking Council's permission to grade approximately 3.3 acres of land <br /> <br />identified as Lot No. 4-A within the City's Industrial Park to enhance this tract's <br /> <br />saleability. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council granted <br /> <br />said request. Meanwhile, Council suggested that City Manager Brown and Executive <br /> <br />Director Wuensch study certain aspects of the current Option Agreement between the <br /> <br />City and the Economic Development Corporation to the end that certain transactions <br /> <br />and/or procedures related thereto might be expedited. <br /> <br />Mr. W. R. Broaddus, III, Attorney at Law, appeared before Council on behalf of Mr. <br /> <br />Mike Lester (of Piedmont Construction Corporation) and requested that Council reopen <br /> <br />for further consideration and, also, vote again on the question of issuing a Special- <br /> <br />Use Permit to Mr. Lester for construction of forty-six housing units on the west side <br /> <br />of Smith Lake Road (the initial request having been for 56 units), inasmuch as, Mr. <br /> <br />Broaddus suggested, Council might not have followed required parlimentary procedure <br /> <br />in its August 27th actions on this matter and, therefore, the vote disapproving Mr. <br /> <br />Lester's application might not be legal. City Attorney Worthy, however, issued his <br /> <br />legal opinion that required procedures were correctly followed by Council and, too, <br /> <br />the majority members of Council who voted on August 27th to disapprove Mr. Lester's <br /> <br />application indicated that their position on this matter remains unchanged. Mean- <br /> <br />while, Mrs. Ann Dollarhite, of 1225 Sam Lions Trail, appeared before Council and re- <br /> <br />called her early childhood days when she and her family resided on Forest Street <br /> <br />near Smith Lake Road and the fact that Smith Lake Road was not--nor is now--a desir- <br /> <br />able place for children to play; however, Mrs. Dollarhite inferred that the housing <br />