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~50 TUESDAY MARCH 8, 1977 Council continued for study, pending the re-defining of certain specifications by the City's administrative personnel, a proposal (submitted by said personnel) to amend the City's subdivision development requirements and/or regulations, whereby-- under certain conditions--the City might share in the cost of constructing access streets (where necessary or needed) to subdivisions proposed to be developed in areas not already accessible by streets. Council also continued for study, and consideration at its next regular meeting, the filing of a "final" application (a pre-application having already been filed, of which a small segment involving the constructing of a connection street between Pony Place and Route 57 West has been tentatively approved, in the amount of $8,500.00) for Community Development (Federal Block-Grant) funds, it being noted that other projects made a part of the pre-application do not fall within the required priority ratings established by the Federal Government's Department of Housing & Urban Development. It being noted that the City, because its population size does not meet requirements, can not of itself be eligible to be designated an Economic Development Area and, therefore, can not qualify for certain Federal funds available for economic planning, and it being further noted that the City can avail itself of such funding by being included in the larger area consisting of Henry County, if Henry County is designated as Economic Development Area, Council unanimously adopted the following resolution requesting such inclusion: WHEREAS, the City of Martinsville has been found to be eligible to be included in an Economic Development Area, and WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Martinsville desires to secure for the City the advantages of becoming eligible for inclusion in such a designated area; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled, that the City be, and it is hereby requested to be, included in any Economic Development Area which may be designated by the request of the Board of Supervisors of Henry County, Virginia.