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3i6 -- TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1988 After reviewing with City Manager Brown his written analysis of the Special Housing Study Committee's report and recommendations submitted to Council on July 26, 1988, Council referred to the Planning Commission, for its consideration and report (the report back to Council being requested filed within the next thirty-to-sixty days), four of the Committee's ten recommendations, which four lie within the Commission's direct interest and purview, pertaining to (1) subdivision standards, (2) administration of the City's Subdivision Ordinance, (3) the forthcoming proposed Zoning Ordinance, and (4) proposed "new" usage of a portion of J. Frank Wilson Park off East Church Street Extension. Meanwhile, City Manager Brown reported the receipt of a petition from thirty-three citizens in support of a recent editorial in the local newspaper in opposition to the proposed "new" usage for that portion of the J. Frank Wilson Park not now utilized or needed for recreational purposes (viz., that consideration be given to dedicating such portion specifically for housing). Council acknowledged receipt of the following staff reports: Monthly financial report for period ended July 31, 1988, prepared on the "cash accounting method", with some discussion of this method versus the "accrual accounting" principle reflected in the City's annual reports; Co On demolition (in process) of a condemned residence at 204 Park Street; On the Virginia Department of Transportation's highway-street construction project allocations and its Six-Year Construction Program, with City Manager Brown noting that, hopefully, in light of the cost of widening Spruce Street, a project now underway, there is reason to expect that the bridge replacement project on East Church Street, now scheduled to begin in 1990-91 fiscal year, can be undertaken much sooner and, too, that the Commonwealth Boulevard Extension project may be rescheduled to an earlier date;