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] TUESDAY OCTOBER 14, 1969 .,~- A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR THE CITY OF MARTINSVILLE TO INSTITUTE CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS TO ACQUIRE EASEMENT AND/OR RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR PROPOSED AND NECESSARY SEWER LINE OVER LANDS OWNED BY WRAY PARK CORPORATION WHEREAS, the agent and right-of-way negotiator for the City of Martinsvil1e's sewerage system improvement program has informed the Council of the City of Martinsvil1e that he has exhausted all available means within the limitations of his authority, and without success, to acquire perpetual easement and/or right-of-way from Wray Park Corporation for a sanitary sewer extending some forty-seven (47) feet across the property of said Wray Park Corporation, which easement and/or right-of-way are necessary to the constructing of a sanitary sewer line identified as "Line 6-12A" (as shown on plans prepared by the City of Martinsvi1le's Engineering Division under date of April 10, 1969), and which property is that deeded to Wray Park Corporation from W. B. Muse, Jr., and Evelyn Muse, his wife, of record in Deed Book 44, Page 70, dated April 28, 1956, in the Henry County Circuit Court Clerk's Office, said property being south of Virginia Primary Route #57, now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this fourteenth day of October, 1969, that Irvin W. Cubine, its City Attorney and an attorney at law, be and is hereby authorized to institute condemnation proceedings to acquire said easement and/or right-of-way and, as the City's attorney, to make oath to the petition, all in accord with the statutes of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the prov~s~ons of the Charter of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in such cases made and provided. In acknowledging receipt of the documents entitled "Martinsville Thoroughfare Plan (1969)" and "Martinsville Functional Plan (1969)11 from the Virginia Department of Highways, Council expressed appreciation to the Highway Department for its perfor- mance of this service to the City and for its expeditious handling of Council's request for this service. In tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendation thereon, Council called for a public hearing--to be conducted at Council's forthcoming November 11th meeting--on The Lester Corporation's application for a Special-Use Permit to allow petitioner to construct an additional apartment building on property adjacent to petitioner's present apartment building site at the corner of Corn Tassel Trail and Spruce Street (Extension), pursuant to the Unified Housing Development section of the City's Zoning Ordinance.