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Q. 1 I! Q r. II A B I 1li 2 Y 111~, ! 1 B g 1 !i 1 ! A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE REROUTING OF VIRGINIA ROUTE 57 WITHIN THE CITY OF :r,iARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA "'-', WHEREAS, Virginia priIllExy State Route 57, which passes through the City of Martinsville:- is a prime carrier~ in increasing volun~, of traffic through and within Pittsylvania, Henry and. Patric~\. Counties and the City of hartinsville and is ~ additionally, an inlportant traffic connection between other major north-south and east-west primary routes in the area; and ..~S, the value and use of the Route 57 is such as to require that it be located~ ligned and maintained to those standards as would be most beneficial to the using kffic and the areas traversed; '-- Nm/; THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Nartinsville, Virginia, in special session this 15th day of December, 1964~ that the City Council does petition <.:h0 7L~ginia Department of Highways for a relocation of a portion of the routing of 'iirginia Primary State Route 57 within the City of },lartinsville; BE IT IiUR'I'HER RESOLVED that this request for routing change is explained to the Department of Hig:J.\.Jays by the following description of the present routing of Route 57 through the City and the following description of the revision as proposed thereto and by a ID8.p which is attached to and made a part of this Resolution: 1 . PRESENT ROUTE Virginia Route 57 enters the north Corporate Limits of the City (Point A) at what is designated by City street name as Chatham Road. It continues on Chatham Road to intersection with U. S. Route 53, Church Street (Point B). There it joins Route 58, Church Street, proceeding to the intersection of Northside Drive (point C); thence continuing with Route 53 e.nd Church Street to Starling Avenue, where Route 58 turns south. Route 57 continues westward on Church Street to C1Fl.y Street (point D). At Cl~y Street (Point D), due to the one-way street pattern in the central business district:. Route 57 divides. The west-bound traffic of Route 57 follows C1El.y Street to Lain street; Hain Street to Jones street; Jones street to Fayette Street; Fayette street to intersection of Eliz.abeth Street (Point E); Fayette street, continuing, to intersection of U. S. Route 220, Nemorial Boulevard (point F). The east-bound traffic or opposite movement of Route 57, through the above business district, moves from Route 220~ Memorial Boulevard~ (point F) along Church street to the intersection of a projection of Elizabeth Street (point G); thence continues on Church Street to rejoin the west-bound routing at Clqy street (point D). Beyond and west of U. S. 220, Hemorial Boulevard, (point F) all Route 57 traffic is directed along Fayette Street to pine Hall'Road (point H) and thence continues along Fayette Street to the west corporate Limits (Point I). 2. PROPOSED ROUTE This Resolution would petition for the new routing of Route 57 to be as follows. The present routing from the north corporate limits (point A) to the intersection of \ ........-- - 1 -