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TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1988 Pursuant to duly-published notice and to applicable statutory requirements, Council conducted a public hearing on Mrs. Evelyn H. Stone's petition seeking the closing and abandonment of a ten-foot-wide alleyway extending from Moss Street for a distance of 125 feet between lots fronting West Main Street and Fayette Street (i.e., to the eastern edge of Lots Nos. 38 and 74 between West Main Street and Fayette Street), abutting which alleyway the petitioner owns all properties except that (consisting of a small corner lot facing Moss Street) owned by Messrs. Thomas U. and Richard O. Stockton and occupied by a barber shop. This petition was forwarded to Council (for its May 24th meeting) by the Planning Commission with the recommendation that Council approve the petition, subject to (1) an agreement being reached by petitioner with the Stocktons by which full access to the area beside the barber shop will be continued and (2) the abandonment of an electric utility easement along the alleyway. Representing petitioner before Council was Mr. William F. Stone, Jr., Attorney at Law, who apprised Council of the status of the recommended agreement, now in. process of being negotiated. Upon motion, duly seconded, and unanimously carried, Council indicated that it would take final action on this petition (which it generally approved) at a meeting following the completion of the required satisfactory agreement with the Stocktons. The record notes that no opposition to the petition was registered during the foregoing public hearing. Council called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be 'conducted by Council at its regular meeting scheduled for Tuesday, June 28, 1988, on a petition filed by Mr. & Mrs. Shelton H. Blackwell, of 603 East Church Street, seeking (1) the rezoning of their.property at 601 East Church Street from R-9