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~-0 )~ TUESDAY JUNE 26, 1979 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor William D. Hobson presiding, was held Tuesday, June 26, 1979, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members being present, viz., William D. Hobson, Mayor; William C. Cole, Jr., Vice Mayor; Barry A. Greene; L. D. Oakes; and Francis T. West. After the invocation, Council approved--as recorded--the minutes of its regular meeting held June 12, 1979, with the proviso that, as an addendum to said minutes, there be included a reference to the Martinsville-Henry County Chamber of Commerce's Housing Committee's recently-released report and the fact that Mr. George W. Brown, Assistant City Manager-Public Works Director, was requested (by Council) to respond thereto. Council directed its Clerk to express Council's condolences to Mrs. June West (wife of Councilman Francis T. West) in the recent loss of her mother and the more recent loss of her father. Pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on a petition, submitted by Messrs. Fred D. Gill and Silver C. Williams, seeking the closing and abandonment of that portion of G Street ("unopened") which lies between First and Second Streets, subject to the reservation at the east end of said G Street (at First Street) of forty feet for a vehicular turn-around, which petition was first acted upon by the Planning Commission at its public hearing conducted July 20, 1978 (having been received and referred by Council to the Commission on June 13, 1978), pending subsequent and final action by the Commission after sufficient time had been allowed for possible development of properties on First Street between F and G Streets. Under date of May 18, 1979, by report the Commission concluded that development of properties, hereinabove referred to, appears not to be physically and