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44 TUESDAY OCTOBER 9, 1984 the City might retain same on file and/or place on file with the State Health Depart- ment in the event plant expansion should be found necessary at some time in the future). Mr. Tom Crush, of Wiley & Wilson, indicated that such suspension would reduce the City's current commission cost by some $45,000.00. In order for the City to acquire certain lands and easements (not otherwise obtainable) necessary to the construction and maintenance of the City's current Lavinder Street - Project, Council unanimously adopted the two following resolutions authorizing City Attorney Worthy to institute and proceed with condemnation proceedings against E. L. Stephens, III, et ai, and Elizabeth B. Dillard, et al: CITY OF MARTINSVILLE v. E. L. STEPHENS, III, ET AL In order to provide industrial access from Memorial Boulevard to certain industrial concerns located to the west thereof in the City of Martins- ville, Virginia, so as to relieve traffic congestion and unsafe conditions, both for traffic and pedestrians on other existing streets in said City, it is deemed necessary by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, to extend Lavinder Street to intersect with Salem Street in said City, and, WHEREAS, in order that said extension of Lavinder Street may be opened, constructed, repaired and maintained, it is necessary for the City of Martinsville to acquire fee simple title to a portion of the lands owned by E. L. Stephens, III, and others, in the City of Martinsville, over which said extension of Lavinder Street is to be constructed, and, in addition to the land of E. L. Stephens, III, and others, to be acquired in fee simple, said City needs to acquire a permanent construction ease- ment in order to construct and maintain the proposed street, said land as being shown on Sheet #2 of Plans of Lavinder Street Improvements and Extensions as prepared by the City of Martinsville, Engineering Division, dated October 28, 1983, a copy of which is on file in said Engineering Division office, and a copy of which is attached hereto as a part hereof, with the land to be acquired in fee simple being outlined in red on said plan, and the land to be subjected to said construction easement being outlined on said plan in orange, with said land to be acquired in fee simple being more particularly described as follows: Being as shown on Sheet #2 of Plans of Lavinder Street Improvements and Extension as prepared by the City of Martinsville Engineering Division, dated October 28, 1983, a copy of which is on file in said Engineering Division Office,and lying on both sides of the right of way centerline and extending from the west end of the existing Lavinder Street right of way to the dividing property line between the herein grantor and the heirs of William Riley Bannister and being all that land