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TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1989 On behalf of Mr. Dorn V. Willjams, developer of a nursing home complex (now under construction and identified as the "Dorn-Will" project) off the east side of East Church Street (Route 58 East), near the City's corporate limits, Mr. Conrad M. Knight, Architect for the project, appeared before Council, accompanied by Mr. Williams, and requested that the City finance the cost, estimated $42,370.00 (excluding grading), of an access road of approximately 340 feet to serve the complex. As City Manager Brown pointed out, recent efforts by the City to obtain Community Development Block Grant funding for the access road have been unsuccessful; and, whereas under the City's Subdivision Ordinance regulations, unless Council authorized a-variance therefrom, the developer would ordinarily be responsible for required street improvements, the character and scope of the project will be of such favorable economic impact upon the City as to justify such a variance. After some discussion, and upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council agreed for the City to construct said access road, for which Council unanimously appropriated the sum of $42,370.00 from the City's Industrial Park Fund. In accordance with the provisions of Subsection A. 1 of Section 2.1-344 of the CODE OF VIRGINIA (195'0, and as amended), and upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried by a recorded vote, Council convened' into an Executive Session for the purpose of considering nominees for appointment and/or reapp0intment to the City's Overall Economic Development Program Committee and to the Commercial Development Commission for terms beginning July 1, 1989. At the conclusion of this Executive Session Council reconvened into regular session and upon motions, duly seconded and unanimously carried, (i) reappointed all present members of the OEDP Committee, with the exception of