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TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1988 which the Commission returned to the Council meeting and recommended that Council authorize issuance of the special-use permit upon the conditions that (1) additional "screening" shall be provided along the southwest border of the Mall, (2) a properly-engineered site plan (showing locations of buildings) be prepared and filed with the Commission, (3) a five-lane entrance/exit be provided along East Church Street, and (4) the developer-owner (The Covington Company) reimburse the City for the cost of a traffic controller unit opposite the five-lane entrance/exit if such a controller is deemed necessary and is installed. Council Unanimously accepted the Commission's'report and recommendations and, upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, authorized the issuance of a special-use permit, which is to include the foregoing cited conditions. Meanwhile, Council concurred with Councilman Cole's expression of appreciation of the Commission's on-going work on behalf of the City. Council unanimously approved, for City Manager Brown's execution on behalf of the City of Martinsville, a lease agreement (i.e., Deed of Lease) with Yellow Cab Company of Martinsville & Henry County, lessee, by which Yellow Cab Company will be allowed, on a year-to-year basis, to continue operating its taxi stand off Broad Street on property recently leased by the City from GBG Enterprises (see minutes of Council meeting held July 26, 1988, pages 297 and 298), with the understanding that lessee will upgrade the taxi-stand building at lessee's expense, for which lessee will pay no rental to the City; however, lessee will pay rental to the City on four parking spaces used by Yellow Cab Company. Council tabled for further consideration the City School Board's request that a reserve fund be established to finance the cost of replacing seventeen of the local s~hool system's school buses, pending responses to Councilman McClain's