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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1988 Pursuant to duly-published public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on~ the Martinsville Bulletin's recent petition seeking the vacating and abandonment of remaining unused-excess Brown Street-Market ~Street right-of- ways, consisting of approximately 2,450 square feet and situated on the south side of Market Street between Broad and College Streets. Representing the petitioner was Mr. William F. Stone, Jr., Attorney at Law. There being no objections registered by any person to the petition, Mayor Oakes declared this public hearing closed; whereupon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council approved said petition, as recommended by the Martidsville Planning Commission, and, in so doing, adopted the following ordinance'setting forth certain conditions made a part of Council's action, with the amount to be paid the City by Martinsville Bulletin for said right-of-way established at $1,875.00, being--in keeping with City policy--one-half of the recently- appraised value of said property: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-nint~ day of November, 1988, that the remainder of unused-excess Brown Street-Market Street right-of-ways, 'consisting of approximately 2,450 square feet, situated on the south side of Market Street between Broad and College Streets and between the south side of Market Street and Lots Nos. 8, 9, and 11, as shown on SeCtion (Page) 32 of the Tax Map of the City of Martinsville, be and is hereby declared vacated and abandoned in favor of Martinsville Bulletin, subject to the filing by said Martinsville Bulletin of appropriate map or maps with--and the approval by--the City's Engineering Division and the City's Public Works Director, showing the area hereby vacated and abandoned, which map or maps, when and as approved, shall be duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of Martinsville City Circuit Court. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that, an emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force on and after December 1, 1988. Pursuant to duly-published public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on a proposed amendment to the City's Land Use Plan & Map, as recommended by the Martinsville Planning Commission, to reflect the recent abandonment of "old"