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<br />1 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />JUNE 23, 1970 <br /> <br />-. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, American Standard Homes Corporation has agreed to donate a <br />sixty-foot (60') right-of-way as well as any easements required for <br />cut-and-fill slopes and drainage and has also agreed to be responsible <br />for the adjustment of utilities and for such cost of constructing the <br />proposed access road as can not be financed from Industrial Access <br />Funds; now, therefore, <br /> <br />/.......-..... <br /> <br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in <br />regular meeting assembled this twenty-third day of June, 1970, that it <br />does hereby recommend that the proposed access road to this new plant, <br />insofar as it be located within the Corporate Limits of the City of <br />Martinsville, viz., a distance of approximately 1,139 feet, be <br />constructed to provide adequate highway access to said plant under the <br />provisions of the Industrial Access Law (Section 33-136.1 of the CODE <br />OF VIRGINIA, 1950, and as amended) and under the provisions of the <br />Virginia Highway Commission's policy of May 14, 1964, with the <br />understanding that American Standard Homes Corporation will donate the <br />rights-of-way and easements required, will be responsible for the <br />adjustment of any utilities that may be necessary, and will bear the <br />cost of constructing the proposed access road in excess of such cost <br />as can not be financed from Industrial Access Funds. <br /> <br />Council then authorized the construction of a ten-inch water main to extend <br /> <br />some 1,650 feet from Armory Road to serve the American Standard Homes' new <br /> <br />plant, at an estimated cost of $21,800.00, and necessary sewer line to cost <br /> <br />approximately $3,200.00. <br /> <br />Upon being informed that a new subdivision, already approved by the Planning <br /> <br />Commission, located in the vicinity of the American Standard Homes plant-site <br /> <br />tract, near Stultz Road, will require the extending of a water main for a <br /> <br />distance of approximately 300 feet, which line would provide a connecting <br /> <br />link in the City's system in that area, Council authorized the constructing <br /> <br />of said main or line. <br /> <br />City Manager Noland reported that the City's consulting engineers have <br /> <br />found that, unless the City has present need and plans to construct a water <br /> <br />treatment plant on its "Hedgecock" tract, along Smith River, for which a <br /> <br />minimum of ten acres would be required of the thirty-acre tract, to reserve <br />