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5OO MATTER RE: RUMOR Of IMPASSE BETWEEN COUNCIL AND CItY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS REQUEST TO CLOSE UNNAMED STREET REFERRED TO PLANNING COMMISSION PETITION RE: REZONING NAYLOR ST. PROPERTY WITHDRAWN PETITION RE: APPLE TREE RD. REFERRED TO PLANNING COMM. SIDEWALK SALE APPROVED RESOLUTION RE: 1970 CENSUS BLOCK STATISTICS PROGRAM PUBLIC HEARING SET RE: REZONING PRESTON AVE. AND QUEEN CHARLOTTE SUB._ REQUEST RE: MERIDIAN STREET DENIED RESOLUTION RE: CLOSING PORTION OF KELLY AVE. PROGRAM. THE MAYOR ADVISED HRS. CARPENTIER THAT MAYBE SOME COUNCIL AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS ARE NOT IN AGREEMENT BUT HE WAS NOT AWARE OF ANYTHING THAT COULD BE ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AS AN IHPASSE. HE STATED THAT THE SCHOOL BOARDtS REQUEST FOR PURCHASE OF SITES FOR TWO SCHOOLS HAD BEEN THOROUGHLY CONSIDERED AND DISCUSSED , AND THE COUNCIL HAD REQUESTED FURTHER INFORMATION. SOME OTHER PATRONS URGED THE SPEEDY COMPLETION OF DESPERATELY NEEDED SCHOOL FACILITIES. A REQUEST FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA TO CLOSE AN UNNAMED STREET BETWEEN LANE ROAD AND JEFFERSON PARK AVENUE WAS REFERRED TO THE PLANNING CO~MISSI'ON FOR RECOMMENDATION. ON MOTION BY MR. MOUNT, SECONDED BY MR.. HAGGERTY, MR. CALVIN DODD WAS PERMITTED TO WITHDRAW THE PETITION FOR REZONING HIS NAYLOR STREET PROPERTY. A PETITION FOR A ZONING CHANGE ON APPLE TREE ROAD WAS REFERRED TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR RECOMMENDATION. A COMMUNICATION WAS PRESENTED FROM DOWNTOWN CHARLOTTESVILLE, INC. REQUESTING PERMISSION TO HOLD A SIDEWALK'SALE ON JULY 12TH AND 13TH. ON MOTION BY MR. VOGT, SECONDED BY MR. RINEHART, THE FOREGOING REQUEST WAS APPROVED. ON MOTION BY MR. MOUNT, SECONDED BY MR. HAGGERTY, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS UNANIMOUSLY-ADOPTED: WHEREAS,'THE DI. VlSION OF PLANNING, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, HAS ADVISED THAT THIS CITY IS ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 1970 CITY BLOCK STATISTICS PROGRAM AND THAT THE STATE PLANNING DEPARTMENT WILL PREPARE THE NECESSARY HAPS AND WILL ACT AS COORDINATOR FOR THE PROGRAM WITHIN THE .STATE, AND WHEREAS, THE DATA TO BE COLLECTED, TABULATED AND MADE AVAILABLE BY THIS PROGRAM WOULD BE Of MUCH VALUE TO THIS CITY IN ITS PLANNING STUDIES~ WORKABLE PROGRAM AND URBAN RENEWAL STUDIES, AND WOULD BE HELPFUL TO THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN THEIR WORK, AND WHEREAS, THE ClTYtS SHARE OF THE COST OF THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN ESTIMATED TO SE NOT IN EXCESS OF $1200.00, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE THAT THE DIVISION OF PLANNING, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA~ BE AND THEY ARE HEREBY RESPECTFULLY REQUESTED TO INCLUDE THIS CITY IN THE CITY BLOCK STATISTICS PROGRAM FOR THE 1970 CENSUS AND THAT THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE HEREBY AGREES TO PAY ~1200o00, OR AS MUCH THEREOF AS MAY BE NECESSARY, FOR ITS SHARE OF THE PROGRAM FOR THIS CITY, REPORTS WERE PRESENTED FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDING THAT THE REQUEST FOR REZONING AT 1310-131~ PRESTON AVENUE AND IN QUEEN CHARLOTTE SUBDIVISION BE GRANTED. A PUBLIC HEARING WAS SET FOR JUNE 17~ 1968 AT 7:30 P. M. TO CONSIDER THESE RECOMMENDATIONS. A COMMUNICATION WAS PRESENTED FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDING THAT THE REQUEST TO CLOSE A PORTION OF MERIDIAN STREET BE DENIED. ON MOTION BY MR. MOUNT, SECONDED BY MR. VOGT~ THE FOREGOING RECOMMENDATION WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED. ON MOTION BY MR. VOGT~ SECONDED BY MR. RINEHART, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS UNANIHOUSLY ADOETED: WHEREAS~ THE PROPERTY OWNERS OWNING ABUTTING PROPERTY ON THAT PORTION OF KELLY AVENUE WHICH LIES NORTH OF POPLAR STREET, HAVE REQUESTED THAT A PORTION OF SUCH STREET BE CLOSED, 'AND WHEREAS~ THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION BY REPORT TO COUNCIL DATED MAY 16, 1968, HAS RECOMMENDED SUCH CLOSING~ AND