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3 4 Q i TUESDAY JUNE 25, 1968 Council referred to the Planning Commission, for its consideration and recommendation, a petition presented by Mr. Sherman Mahan requesting the vacating and closing of the un-used portion of "F" Street situated between Second and First Streets. In order to eliminate a minor encroachment upon the rear lot line of the former city hall property by a building owned by the Schottland Estate, Council adopted the following resolution authorizing Mayor Renick to execute deed conveying to the Schottland interests--represented by the Piedmont Trust Bank--the small strip of land involved: WrtEREAS, for a number of years, a building or buildings owned by the late M. R. Schottland and/or member(s) of his family, located on the north side of East Church Street and adjacent to the rear of City-owned property fronting the south side of East Main Street, has encroached slightly upon said City-owned property; and WHEREAS, both the City of Martinsville and the Agent for the Schottland interest (viz., the Piedmont Trust Bank, Martinsville, Virginia) desire to abate said encroachment by the conveying by the City of Martinsville to the Schottland interests of such land necessary so to do, being a strip .29' at its widest point and di.minishing to zero within the lot line distance of 57.39 feet, as shown on may prepared by J. A. Gustin & Associates under date of March 5, 1968; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-fifth day of June, 1968, that the Honorable F. T. Renick, M.D., V~yor, be--and is hereby-- authorized to execute deed to accomplish the aforestated purpose and, thus, to realign property line between the two aforementioned owners. City Attorney Cubine verbally reported on the June 21st regional hearing conducted by the Constitutional Study Commission in Roanoke, Virginia, at which meeting Mr. Cubine represented the City.