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') - TUESDAY MAY 11, 1971 Also, pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, the Council and the Planning Commission conducted a joint public hearing on Nationwide Homes' petition (dated April 5, 1971) requesting the vacating and closing of a portion of Forest Street Extension and the vacating and closing of an unnamed street which extends from said Forest Street Extension into petitioner's industrially- zoned property off Rives Road Extended. At the conclusion of this public hearing, at which no one registered any objections to petitioner's request, and in acceptance of the Commission's recommendations thereon, Council unanimously adopted the following ordinance providing for the vacating and closing of said streets or portions thereof, subject to certain conditions and/or alternatives set forth: WHEREAS, by petition filed April 13, 1971 with Martinsville City Council, Nationwide Homes, Inc., requested the closing and vacating of that portion of Forest Street Extension which extends from its northwest terminus to the southwest corner of Lot No. 49, as shown on petitioner's t1Plat of Surveytl dated February 4, 1971, and the closing and vacating of an unnamed street extending from said Forest Street Extension in a southeasterly direction into petitioner's industrially-zoned property off Rives Road Extended; and WHEREAS, at Martinsville City Council's regular meeting held May 11, 1971, a duly-constituted Board of Viewers reported that, in its opinion, no inconvenience would result to anyone by the closing and vacating of said street portions; and WHEREAS, also at Martinsville City Council's regular meeting held May 11, 1971, at which meeting a duly-advertised public hearing was jointly conducted by said Martinsville City Council and the Martinsville Planning Commission, said Commission recommended that petitioner's request be granted as filed, said Commission suggesting that petitioner file with said Council either a map with the request that the remainder of Forest Street Extension be closed and vacated, providing a "turn- aroundtl at the end of the remainder of Forest Street Extension following the present abandonment; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this eleventh day of May, 1971, that it doth accept the findings and recommendations of both the said Board of Viewers and the said Planning Commission; and BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that the hereinabove street portions are hereby declared vacated, closed and abandoned, subject to the Planning Commission's suggestion hereinbefore cited; and