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-I- 'J TUESDAY MAY 1 3 . 1969 Council referred to City Attorney Cubine, for study and recommendation, the matter and/or need of updating the City's Code, particularly its Traffic and Criminal Codes, to parallel current State statutes. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council adopted the following resolution regarding a proposed "Martinsville By-Passll, as described in said resolution, endorsing--as to general principle and general route--said proposed highway project: WHEREAS, the Department of Highways of the Commonwealth of Virginia proposes to design and construct a new highway--identified as Route 212 ( and/or "Martinsville By-Passll) --from Routes 220 and 57 at a point known as "Bassett Forks", northwest of Martinsville, in a easterly direction west, south, and southeast of Martinsville, all in the County of Henry, to a point 3.4 miles east of the City's east corporate limits to Route 58 East; and WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Martinsville, having been apprised of this proposed construction project and of its general location and purposes, is in general agreement with same; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this thirteenth day of May, 1969, that--as to general principle and general route--it unanimously endorses said proposed highway project; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Council that copies of this resolution be filed with the Virginia Highway Commission and with the Virginia Department of Highways. By letter from Mrs. Clyde W. Holt, Sr., of 1216 Rives Road Extended, residents of the Rives Road Extended-Lawson Street area, who requested the rezoning of their properties by petition filed April 22, 1969, withdrew said petition. The original petition having been filed with the Planning Commission, Council referred the withdrawal request to the Commission as notice to the Commission of request for withdrawal.