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~54 TUESDAY JULY 25. 1 961 they should utilize the property now, then I think they should work out a purchase of the "()roperty through the owner, Mrs. l-lary Few, or through Dr. Toms and associates, who I understand hold an option to purchase the property. They do not, I feel, have the right to set aside the property for the use of the hosDital until such time as the hospital feels tl:at it neccs the property. The Planning Commission might decide, in theory, that the city should own all of the property betvreen the Post Office and Mos~" street for subsequent use by the city in municipal buildinGS, but I believe it would be beyond the commission's scope or pouer to deny a lop;lcal sale of the -oroperty by a c;tizen to a citizen merely because they might feel that ideally the city should O\.m the property. It is my conviction that it is f;I'ossly unfair, if not i11e[;al, and that it is beyond the scope of tho PlanninG' Commission to deny the rezoning of the property on the basis that they thing the hospital 'should own the property.' In my experience in the real estate business, I have seon property that I felt that the city should ovm, but I have felt that if they should own it, they should bU~T it. I.TnUe I acknowledge the meritorious service of the Planning Commission and their great value to our connnurlity, I hope that the council will recognize the dangers and inequities of a commission under their juris- diction arbitrarily denying this and similar requests for rezoning, based o~ the fact that they believe someone else should 0\.]11 the property. Respectfully yours, Brooks R. Leavitt. AttorneJ' ~~illiam F. Stone appeared before COUJlcil on behalf of l{r-. James B. Jones, Jr., in connection with the requested closing of a portion of Cheshire Street (see Council minutes of ~~y 23, 1961), and reported that procedures are in process for compliance with the statutes for the closing of said street portion, pending confirmation of tr:e Board of Viewers' report already submitted and pending Council's final action thereon at its next regular meeting to be h el d August 8, 1961. In considering the drainage conditions at the new l;Jcst End Elementary School, as brought to Council's attention by the City School Board, CouncilapproDriated from its Emergency Fund the sum of $9(JG.OO to the Public Forks Department to Drovide fU11ds for correcting these drainage conditions in the event the School Fund is unable to absorb the cost from its budget.