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18 TUESDAY JULY 26. 1960 7. Because of conflicts between property and survey descriptions dated 1931 and 1959 recorded by the State Highway Department, the Highway Department has found it appropriate to re-examine its design plans for the widening of East Church Street from Booker Road to Bob Gregory Street to conform, if possible, to present and actual right-of-way owned in the area by the State "'---- and City. Meanwhile, Council authorized City Manager Hirst to acknowledge by his signature to an easement agreement with Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Shockey, of 906 Chatham Heights, relating to the Routes 57-58 widening projects. 8. The concern on the part of several property owners and business establishments on Memorial Boulevard over the divider strip between the traffic lanes on this highway although the City and the State Highway Department are of the joint opinion that this strip should not be broken beyong its present intervals. 9. SmIth Road curb-and-gutter project to be considered by Council jointly with all other similar petitions on file. 10. The installation of a protective fence along Brown Street west --, of Cleveland Avenue, as recommended by Mr. P. S. Ford, cost of which fence Mr. Ford and his associates offered to bear if the City will install--Council authorized Mayor Shultz to appoint a committee (Mayor Shultz naming Councilmen Wilson and Stone; City Manager Hirst, and Traffic-Planning Engineer McGhee) to confer with the School Board on this proposal. - Vice-Mayor and Councilman Stone requested the removal of "two-hour" parking restrictions recently posted on Broad Street between Brown Street and the Norfolk & Western Railway crossing on Broad Street. Council was adjourned. '" 6J~~.L ~<'-' W. H. Ye ~ Clerk of Council ,......, ..----.------.-'...... "--.-",..".--- ...--.---- -".,--_.~_._--_._---------