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TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 198~. the City's present requirements relating to property development in which the City might be involved, such as, for example, utility connection fees, nor did the Council commit itself to amending current regulations which have established present requirements. Council continued for further consideration, in conjunction with its pending and scheduled worksessions on the City Manager's proposed 1989-90 City Budget, a request by the Blue Ridge Airport Authority (Mr. Morton W. Lester, Chairman) that Council expedite'consideration and decision on the Authority's funding application now before the West Piedmont Planning District Commission (in a clearinghouse procedure -- see minutes of Council's meeting held March 14, 1989) to finance, with City/County participation, the installation of an above- ground fuel farm system at and for Blue Ridge Airport. Mr. Douglas K. Frith, Attorney at Law and owner of property within the downtown business area, appeared before Council and requested that Council (although he initially supported the downtown hotel project proposed by Maurice Elledge & Associates) reacquire the hotel site which the Council, as the Martinsville Redevelopment & Housing Authority, sold in January of 1987 for hotel development usage only, with Mr. Frith contending that the best interests of the City and the downtown area can best be served if the property remains as a public off-street parking lot. Also appearing before Council in support of-- though independent of--Mr. Frith's request were Mrs. Georgia Lee, owner/ operator of Holt's Store and the building in which it is located, and Mr. Robert L. Canupp, Jr., owner/operator of Martinsville Office Supply, Inc., and owner of the building in which it is located. In addition, Mr. Ronnie Stone, Chairman of the Commercial Development Commission, relayed to Council some