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MR. HILL AND MR. TESELL. ABSENT: (NONE. CITY ATTY. PRESENTS THE CITY ATTORNEY EXHIBITED TO THE COUNCIL A COMMUNICATION FROM COMMUNICATION RE: THE ATTORNEY OF MR. P. Be HENSHAW AND STATED HE HAD BEEN ADVISED BY HENSHAW PROPERTY IT THAT THE ONLY DEVICE WHEREBY THE CITY MAY ACQUIRE TITLE TO PROPERTY AT 114 EAST HIGH STREET WOULD BE THROUGH CONTESTED CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS, ON MOTION BY MR. HADEN, SECONDED BY MR. TEBELL, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION WAS UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED: SINCE APRIL 1951, WHEN PURCHASE NEGOTIATIONS WERE COMMENCED BY THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE IN AN EFFORT TO ACQUIRE CERTAIN PROPERTIES WEST OF SECOND STREET AND BETWEEN JEFFERSON AND Hi -3H STREETS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING THE RECOMMENDED PARKING LOT, THE CITY'S REPRESENTATIVES HAVE BEEN IN CONSTANT TOUCH WITH THE OWNERS OF THE VARIOUS PROPERTIES INVOLVED OR THEIR ATTORNEYS. THERE ARE FOUR SEPARATE PARCELS EMBRACED WITHIN THE RECOMMENDED SURVEY. ONE PARCEL IS OWNED BY THE METHODIST RESOLUTION RE: CHURCH AND UPON IT THE CITY HAS ACQUIRED AN OPTION TO PURCHASE. PARKING LOT ANOTHER PARCEL WAS OWNED BY THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF THE LATE DR. J. FULTON WILLIAMS. TWO OF THESE ARE CONVEYING THEIR INTERESTS TO THE CITY AND THE THIRD, HAVING AGREED THROUGH HER ATTORNEY TO MAKE A SIMILAR CONVEYANCEp HAS SINCE WITHDRAWN FROM THE AGREEMENT. ANOTHER PARCEL, OWNED BY THE ANTRIM FAMILY SEVERAL MEMBERS OF WHICH LIVE OUT OF THE STATE, IS THE SUBJECT OF PURCHASE NEGOT 1 AT IONS. THE FOURTH PARCEL IS OWNED BY MR. P. Be HENSHAW AND WITH RESPECT TO 1T THE CITY9 ACTING IN GOOD FAITHS ENTERED INTO AN ORAL PURCHASE AGREEMENT. HOWEVERV AFTER APPROPRIATING THE AGREED AMOUNT TO PURCHASE THIS PROPERTY9 THE CITY WAS ADVISED BY THE OWNER'S ATTORNEY THAT "THE ONLY DEVICE WHEREBY THE CITY MAY ACQUIRE TITLE TO THIS PROPERTY IS THROUGH A CONTESTED CONDEMNATION PROCEEDING.lt NOW, SINCE THIS COUNCIL HAS NOT AUTHORIZED CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ACQUIRING THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION FOR PARKING LOT PURPOSES AND DOES NOT CONTEMPLATE SUCH ACTION BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL of THE CITY of CH ARLOTTESV 1 LLE $ V` RG 1 N i A 9 THAT 9 WHEREAS IT NOW APPEARS IMPOSSIBLE TO PURCHASES WITHOUT CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS ALL THE PROPERTY REQUIRED FOR THE PARKING LOT PROJECTS THAT ALL NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF THE PROPERTY BE TERMINATED; THAT THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH BE RELIEVED OF ITS OBLIGATION TO THE CITY; AND THAT THE ANTRIM FAMILY BE NOTIFIED THAT THE CITY IS NO LONGER IN A POSITION TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATIONS FOR THEIR PROPERTY. ON MOTION THE MEETING ADJOURNED. CLERIC PRESIDENT • 0