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TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1988 BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that, an emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force on and after January 27, 1988. In tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendations on the following two petitions, COuncil unanimously directed that Council conduct duly-advertised public hearings thereon at its forthcoming February 9th regular meeting: A petition filed by Dorn-Will Corporation seeking the abandonment of an un-used right-of-way within petittoner's property situated on the south side of East Church Street and east of Salmon Street, near the City's east corporate limits, at which site petitioner proposes to construct and operate a nursing home facility; and A petition filed by Harris-Teeter Super Markets, Inc.., (represented by Mr. L. Dale McGhee, Attorney-At-Law), seeking the rezontng from R-9 Residential to C-1 Commercial of portions of Lots Nos. 2 and 27 situated on the northeast side of Brookdale Street, near its intersection with Spruce Street. Pursuant to Council's request from its recent January 12th regular meeting, Mr. William Woolf, Manager of Adelphia Communications Corporation's Martinsville (formerly Mutli-Channel) cablevision system, appeared before Council in connection with recent complaints filed with members of Council by this cablevision system's customers, particularly complaints of poor customer relations and against rate increases effected by the company as of January I, 1988. As to the complaints against the rate increases, Council explained that, with recent Federal deregulation of the cablevision industry, it no longer has any control or authority over basic rates charged users in the City; nevertheless, Council indicated that it would have much preferred to have been given advance notice of the recent rate increases'and that it would hope that the local cablevision company will inform Council in advance of future rate increases or of other