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TUESDAY JUNE 13, 1978 - In an effort to further evaluate these projects, I requested our Engineering Division to make as thorough a study as possible of these projects, in the absence of detail plans and specification, and to prepare a cost estimate of each project. Both projects were plotted on topographic maps, cross sections were drawn and other pertinent information obtained from which detailed estimates were prepared covering the cost of both projects. These estimates include cost of right-of-way, construction, and engineering. For the sake of identification we are paralleling Mr. Ripley's reference to these estimates in terms of Project A and Project B. These estimates are as follows: Project A Cost $4,007,000 Commonwealth Boulevard Extension Project B Mulberry Street Extension $1,824,000 I have reviewed in depth the 1958 Thoroughfare Plan which was prepared for Martinsville by City and Town Planning Associates of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This plan was developed under the general guidance of the City Planning Commission and City Administration. The current 1969 Martinsville Thoroughfare Plan, which is in the process of being reviewed and updated, generally parallels the 1958 plan particularly in concept. Some streets were shifted in location; their purpose, however, remains the same. There are basically two types of street systems. "Checkerboard" pattern and the other is based on pattern. The latter is the general concept used Thoroughfare Plan for Martinsvi11e. One is based on a a "Radial-Circumferential" in developing the The Radial-Circumferential street pattern is made up of a series of major streets radiating from the center of the City and supplemented by a series of circumferential streets which encircle the City. This system consist of minor, collector, radial, cross-town, business, loop streets, by passes and parking. The Mulberry Street project and the Commonwealth Boulevard Project are identified as vital cross-town routes. The Commonwealth Boulevard project has sufficient continuity to enable it to function reasonably efficiently. The proposed Mulberry Street Extension Project would complete a vital link in establishing and making functional an east-west cross-town route which would actually begin at the east corporate limits on Spruce Street and extend to Mulberry Road, along Mulberry Road to Ellsworth, continue westward with the proposed project to west Church Street, and continue westward along Church Street and Memorial Boulevard to the Northwest Corporate limits. This project would further create a north-south cross-route, using Route 108, Market Street, Mulberry Street Extension as proposed, Bridge Street and Memorial Boulevard. A study of the Thoroughfare Plan and its concept will more clearly indicate the significance of this project. After further evaluation of the overall benefits of each of the proposed projects to the Community, and in consideration of the relative cost of each