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<br />TUESDAY
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<br />NOVEMBER 24, 1964
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<br />Through Mr. Rieves S. Hodnett, President of Burch-Hodges-Stone, Inc.,
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<br />Council received an inquiry from Mr. J. Burness Frith in which Mr. Frith
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<br />expressed an interest in purchasing from the City some ten acres of land
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<br />located within the City's Industrial Park east of Route 220 South. City
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<br />Manager Hirst recommended that, should the City sell such a tract of land
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<br />within the general area in which interest has been expressed, the City
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<br />retain possession of land adjacent to the City's water storage tank and
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<br />a nearby dwelling, including these improvements, as well as an undeveloped
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<br />roadway and the City's target-practice range; and, further, that any required
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<br />surveys be made by (or for) and paid for by the purchaser. Vice-Mayor Renick
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<br />urged Council to consider carefully not only the amount of land it might sell
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<br />within the Industrial Park from time to time but also to relate intended
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<br />usages with the general development purpose of the Park, particularly inasmuch
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<br />as--in Mr. Frith's case, for example--the site he might purchase might not be
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<br />entirely required for a proposed public storage warehouse nor might such a
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<br />warehouse be entirely in keeping with the City's general development aims.
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<br />Council agreed, however, to consider Mr. Frith's inquiry and to negotiate with
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<br />Mr. Frith for site location, at a tentative price of $3,000.00 per acre.
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<br />Meanwhile, Councilman Boaz suggested that proceeds from the sale of Industrial
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<br />Park tracts be reserved for purchase of a new Prison Farm site; whereupon
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<br />Council asked council~omas J. Burch and City Manager Hirst to act as a
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<br />study committee to survey the Prison Farm's needs, its present location, and
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<br />other related matters, including consideration of such farm sites as might be
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<br />for sale.
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<br />City Manager Hirst reported that various aspects of the proposed connecting
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<br />street between Liberty Street and Northside Drive--as related to current
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<br />expansion of the Sale Knitting Company plant on Franklin Street--are currently
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<br />under study and that contacts 8re being made with the Southern Railway System
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