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, 'j TUESDAY NOVEMBER 14, 1972 - Accordingly, in accepting the Mayor's suggestion, motion was made, seconded and carried that the special CBD Committee be asked to incorporate this situation in its deliberations and report, hopefully in January, as to this segment. Council conducted a duly-advertised public hearing on a petition submitted by Mr. Ralph C. Lester requesting the closing of the portion of Hickory Street ,- lying between Middle Street and Highway 57 in the West End section of the City. It was explained that petitioner owned the property on both sides of the section of street proposed for closing. No citizen spoke in favor of or in opposition to the proposal. After reviewing the Planning Commission's recommendation that the petition be granted, subject to the submission of a map showing all property abutting the portion of the street requested to be closed, its ownership and the disposition of the right-of-way in the event of the closing, it was determined that such map filing is necessary in order to completely satisfy legal technicalities involved in the closing, whereupon motion was made, duly seconded and carried, that the petition for closing be granted, by ordinance, as follows: AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSING AND VACATING OF A PORTION OF HICKORY STREET, BETWEEN FAYETTE AND MIDDLE STREETS WHEREAS, by petition filed August 4, 1972, with Martinsville City Council, Mr. Ralph C. Lester, requesting the closing and vacating of an unused portion of Hickory Street between Fayette Street and Middle Street; and WHEREAS, by report dated October 10, 1972, the Martinsville Planning Commission recommended to Martinsville City Council that petitioner's request be granted, subject to the provision of certain maps; and WHEREAS, at its regular meeting held on November 14, 1972, pursuant to Section 3 of Chapter 8 of the Charter of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, City Council conducted a duly-advertised public hearing on said request, at which meeting no objections thereto were registered; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this fourteenth day of November, 1972, that it doth accept the Planning Commission's aforesaid recommendation and does hereby order and declare that said portion of Hickory Street, extending a distance of approximately 210 feet between the east boundary line of ,