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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1988 the Henry County Board of Supervisor's application for funding assistance from-and-by the Virginia Community Development Block Grant program for a proposed Route 714 industrial development project (viz., access road construction, sewer line, and drainage facilities to serve two new.industrial plants which will create 110 new jobs). In response to recent queries or requests from Councilman Cole and Vice-Mayor Willjams, City Manager Brown relayed copies of Public Works Director Leon E. Towarnicki's September 1st memorandum report (addressed to Mr. Brown) (A) summarizing the number of motor vehicle accidents which occurred at twenty-one street intersections within the City during the calendar years 1986 and 1987 and for the first six months of calendar 1988, and (B) concluding that conditions found at a vacant lot adjacent to property owned by Mrs. Ruby StultZ at 108 Pony Place are insufficient to warrant applying the enforcement provisions (as to keeping vacant lots free of excessive growth of grass and weeds) of Section 13-37 of the City Code. With regard to the traffic accident data report, Councilman Cole concurred with Mr. Towarnicki's finding that additional information (such as that which would include geometry, weather conditions at the times of accidents, physical conditions of drivers involved, andaccident/vehicle ratios) should be provided whereby a more realistic picture, in the interest of highway safety, can be developed. Councilman Cole also urged that the compiling of such data be on-going and updated periodically. As a follow-up to a recent inquiry from Vice-Mayor Willjams, City Manager Brown informed Council that the Virginia Department of Transportation has completed acquisition of rights-of-way (although with some difficulty in several instandes) necessary for the proposed improvement of the intersection involving