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ORDINANCE ADOPTED RE: NONCONFORMING USES REQUEST - tSTH ST. REFERRED TO PLANN. COMM. RESOLUTION RE: VA. PIPE LINE Co. CERTIFICATE Of ALLOTMENT. MR. RENNOLDS AND MR, SCRIBNER. NOES: NONE. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND REENACTING SECTION 57 OF ARTICLE XV OF APPENDIX II ENTITLED 'NONCONFORMING USES' OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, 1959, BY THE REPEAL OF SECTION 57", WHICH WAS OFFERED AT THE MEETING OF THE COUNCIL ON DECEMBER 6, 1965 WAS ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING RECORDED VOTE: AYES: MR. HAGGERTY, MR. MOUNT, MR. PONTON, MR. RENNOLDS AND MR. SCRIBNER. NOES: NONE, A REQUEST FOR REZONING ON 15TH STREET, N. W. WAS REFERRED TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR RECOMMENDATION. ON MOTION BY MRo SCRIBNER) SECONDED BY MRo RENNOLDS, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED: WHEREAS, ~T HAS COME TO THE ATTENTION OF THIS COUNCIL THAT VIRGINIA PIPE LINE COMPANY OF LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA, HAS ASKED THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION IN CASE NO. ~3863 FOR A CERTIFICATE OF ALLOTMENT, PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 10.1 OF TITLE 56, VA. CODE ANN., AS AMENDED, OF ALMOST ALL OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY EXCEPT FOR THE AREA WITHIN THE PRESENT CITY LIMITS AND A CERTAIN PORTION OF THE COUNTY IN THE NORTHWEST SECTION ALREADY CERTIFICATED TO VIRGINIA GAS DISTRIBUTION COMPANY, A SMALL TRIANGULAR PORTION AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE COUNTY, AND ~'JEREAS, THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE HAS OWNED AND OPERATED THE MUNICIPAL GAS SYSTEM SERVING BOTH RESIDENTS OF THE CITY AND Of ALBEMARLE COUNTY SINCE ABOUT 1875, AND WHEREAS, SINCE THE CITY HAS ALSO CONTINUED TO ANNEX AS THE COMMUNITY GREW AND PRIOR TO THE 1963 ANNEXATION HAD ABOUT 20~ OF ITS GAS CUSTOMERS LOCATED IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY AND CURRENTLY HAS MANY CUSTOMERS IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY INCLUDING THREE LARGE INDUSTRIES, NAMELY SPERRY PIEDMONT COMPANY, HARNISCHFEGER CORPORATION AND STROMBERG-CARLSON CORPORATION, AND IN'~DDITION THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA WHICH FOR TAX AND POLITICAL PURPOSES IS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, AND WHEREAS, IT IS CERTAIN THAT THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE WILL CONTINUE TO GROW AND WILL ALSO THEREFORE CONTINUE TO ANNEX ADDITIONAL URBAN AREAS FROM THE COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE IN THE FUTURE, AND WHEREAS, THIS COUNCIL BELIEVES THAT THE CITY HAS THE BEST ABILITY TO RENDER ADEQUATE SERVICE TO ITS CITIZENS AND THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY AND THAT THE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THIS COMMUNITY IS DEPENDENT UPON THE AVAILABILITY OF ADEQUATE NATURAL GAS SERVICE AND TO THAT END THE CITY HAS ONLY RECENTLY COMPLETED LOOPING APPROXIMATELY ONE-HALF OF ITS MAIN TRANSMISSION LINE FROM WHERE SUCH LINE CROSSES THE RIVANNA RIVER WEST TO THE ATLANTIC SEABOARD 20 INCH TRANSMISSION LINE AND IS PLANNING TO CONTINUE THIS 8 INCH HIGH PRESSURE GAS LOOP TO THE CITY BY WAY OF U. S. ROUTE 29 NORTH AS SHOWN ON EXHIBIT #1, TO SERVE PROSPECTIVE INDUSTRIES IN THAT RAPIDLY GROWING AREA~ TOGETHER WITH SERVICE TO THE CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE AIRPORT, AND THAT THIS LINE IS SCHEDULED FOR CONSTRUCTION WITHIN THE NEXT TWO YEARS. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE THAT THIS COUNCIL RESPECTFULLY SUBMITS TO THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION THAT IT IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST FOR VIRGINIA PIPE LINE COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS, TO BE ALLOTTED ANY PORTION OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY LYING INSIDE THE BOUNDARY LINE SHOWN IN RED ON AN ALBEMARLE COUNTY ROAD MAP MARKED EXHITIT NO. 1, HERETO ATTACHED. A SMALL PORTION OF THE PROPERTY WITHIN THE BOUNDARY LINE HAS ALREADY BEEN CERTIFICATED TO VIRGINIA GAS'DISTRIBUTION CORPORATION OR ATLANTIC SEABOARD CORPORATION ALONG THEIR TRANSMISSION LINE. THIS BOUNDARY LINE EXTENDS 600 FEET FROM THE MARGIN OF HIGHWAYS IN A DIRECTION OUTWARD FROM THE PRESENT CITY LIMITS AND ENCLOSES AN AREA IN WHICH IT CAN- NOT BE GAINSAID THAT THE CITY OFFERS THE MOST ADEQUATE NATURAL GAS SERVICE, AVAILABLE