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<br />~ 1. !! 2 t t1! B ! 1. t! ~ X I ~ 1=!, Y l ~ g 1. !! 1. ! <br /> <br />RESOWTIOO <br />r <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Department of Highways of the Commonwealth of Virginia 1s presently <br />enga~ed in constructing a Distribution Road (sometimes oalled Route 220 Thorough- <br />fare) in the City of Martinsville as a Federal-8tate-Local Project (project No. <br />181,4-06-(7), and <br /> <br />\.n1EREAS, the current plans for said project provide for the construction of a <br />concrete median divider strip, and <br /> <br />m1EREAS, along said Distrirotion Road there are presently located a number or <br />,.,.-- retail businesses catering in many instances to ftdrive-inlt traffic, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, undoubtedly in the immediate future said Distribution Road will be <br />built up solidly with such retail businesses catering to Itdrive-in1f traffio, <br />and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, there are virtually no streets parallel to said Distribution Road to <br />provide such traffic with ready access to intermediate points along said <br />Distribution Road or for circulation to reverse direction of travel and, <br />s1mi1arly~ <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the proposed concrete median divider strip will make it extremely <br />~~~ diffioult and hazardous for traffic going in either direction along said <br />~~ Distribution Road to get to and/or patronize businesses on the opposite sides <br />i of such traffic, and <br /> <br />WHEREAS s ~'1is condition will become even more acute wen the Distribution Road <br />is extended south if the unbroken type divider strip is constructed to the <br />City's corporate limits; now, therefore, <br /> <br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsv111e J Virginia, in regular <br />meeting assembled this ninth day of February, 1954, that the Department of <br />Highways of the Oommonwealth of Virginia be, and is herein requested, to revise <br />the present plans for the construction of said Distribution Road so that, in <br />lieu of said concret.e median divider strip, concre~ median divider bloc~ will <br />be const~cted along said Distribt~tion Road and thereby improve the conditions <br />hereinabove set forth; and <br /> <br />DE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the said Council that a copy of this resolution be <br />forwarded to General James A" Anderson, Commissioner, Department of Highw.ys, <br />Comrnon'-lealth of Virginia, Richmond 19, Virginia. <br /> <br />----- ------- - ----- --- ----- ---------- ----- <br /> <br />....... <br />