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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1998 and extent of the Liberty/Clearview intersection project. Mayor Adams noted the need to dean up the language on Item #2 to show that the intent is to widen and improve upon an underpass which has severely restricted clearances. Council Member Dallas asked if Item #2 had been ranked as priority #1 previously, and Mr. Harned replied no, that it had been ranked number #3 but had been moved up to #2. Upon motion duly seconded, and by unanimous vote, Council adopted the following Resolution: WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Martinsville recognizes that, as a result of changes in traffic patterns and development throughout and around the City, the City's highway construction needs have changed; and WHEREAS, at a City Council work session held on January 12, 1995, it was agreed by the Council of the City of Martinsville that the City's list of urban projects contained in the Virginia Department of Transportation's Six-Year Improvement Program needed to be revised to reflect a change in construction needs; and WHEREAS, at the 1995 Spring Pre-allocation Heating for the Virginia Department of Transportation's Salem District held on March 22, 1995, in Salem, Virginia, the City of Martinsville requested that the Commonwealth Transportation Board add two new urban projects and re-prioritize the City's list of planned road construction projects contained in the Six-Year Improvement Program; and WHEREAS, the Six-Year Improvement Program Document, Fiscal Year 1995-96 indicated that the road construction priorities for the City of Martinsville have been changed as requested at the 1995 Spring Pre- allocation Hearing; and WHEREAS, at a City Council work session held on November 6, 1997 with Virginia Department of Transportation officials in attendance it was agreed that additional definition and clarification should be developed to better define the Liberty/Clearview project and that the project should proceed on a phased basis; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia in regular session assembled February 24, 1998, that said Council requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to establish in the following priority, three (3) urban system highway projects, as follows: (1) Improve the intersection of Liberty Street (Rome 174), Stultz Road and Clearview Drive; improve the section of Liberty Street from Commonwealth Boulevard north to the corporate limits, and to improve the section of Clearview Drive from the intersection east (including its intersections with Northside Drive and Barrows Mill Road) to a point opposite Royal Drive and the new entrance into the Clearview Business Park; and (2) Widen and realign the section of Fayette Street (Route 57) from Pine Hall Road west to the corporate limits including curb, gutter and sidewalk, and to replace an N&W Railroad underpass with severely restricted clearances; and