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September 23rd, 1952. At a regular meeting of the City Council held ~ September 23rd, 1952, there were pres- Fred A. Duke, George L. C,~/mes, R. E. Hawks, C. C. Houghton,Jr., James N. Howard, Edgar ~/. Lawrence, R. Irvine Smith~ E. R. Sturtevant, C. E. ~/arren, Pearle J. Wilson, I. G. Vass, City Nan~ger, and. R.C. Barclay, City Attorney. Minutes of the regular meeting held on September 9th, 1952 w~re read and approved. The foll~ing reports from the City Manager were read: - \ ~ let - "At your last meeting I submitted to you ~ list of certain parcels of real estate which it is necessary for the City to acquire in order to ~iden the Gosport Road to a width of eighty feet before ~the road can be paved end the contemplated ~mDrovaments made. In compiling the list, errors were made in the amounts set apart for four of the parcels and I desire to correct these errors and I have again listed the four parcels below. I respectfully request authority to offer to the owners end tenants of the land needed to widen the road the amounts fixed by the appraisers as proper compensation for the land and d~m~ges to their property. The parcels are described ma thee plat prepared by the State Highway Department and on file in the office of the City Engineer, and are listed by parcel n,,mhers. The four parcels to be corrected and several of the parcels to be acquired are as follows: Parcel Number Name of Owner or t..enaut ~f the free-hold .Amount to be offered 37 16 lll-C lll-D Heirs of Asa Clenton $ 8~0.00 " " D.B. Hillmmu 680.00 Jam~s Edward King 1,7~0.00 Howard Rube~, Harry N Cohen and unknown Lessee 850.00 William N. Johnsoa John W. Iuliauo, Jr. 300.00 Moses T. Jones 128.25 Jessie H. Wellons 96.80 Albert Le~is Johnson 1,156.60 Jacob Sackstein 291.00 Isaiah Price 1~ 9/~.~0 Cora C. Carrington 2,~0,00 Louis B. Fine i~.~0 Talmage Johnson, Chas. Russell and others 5,000.00 Trustees- Noble St. Baptist Church 280~00 Robert Turner John 1/. & Cora Hare 2~O.00 Wm.W. & Eva Nae Sledge 200.00 William Harris 120.00 Francis Chaves' heirs Tillie Shapiro 120.00 A. Kiss ?2.00 Jacob H. Collins 93.~0 Orris D. & Eva E. Parker 107.60 In addition to the parcels of land listed above and ~.hose included in the list submitted at the last meeting of the City Co~rmil, I request authority to offer to the several owners of the land needed to widen the Gosport Road and shown on the above-mentioned map the sumsof money f/xed by the appraisers as com~ensstion and damages to the owners and tenents, and in the event the offers are not accepted or the City is otherwise unable to acquire the land, I request that the City Attorney be instructed to in~e - diately institute condemnation proceedings for acquisition of the land." Motion of ~r. Grimes to concur in the recon~andation of the City N~ager,was adopted~ 2nd - "I suhait the attached Resolution and recommend its adoption." Resolution - On motion of Mr. Grimes, said resolution was adopted. "Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia that in the event the owners end/or tenants of the freehold of the land needed by the City to widen the Gosport Road, as shown on the map prepared by the State Highway Department, do not accept the of- fers of purchase as are authoriaed to be submitted by the City Nen- ager of this City, or if the cons ent to ac~ire the land can not be obtained because of the incapad~ty of the owners or one or more of them, or because the owners are unknown or can not with reasonable diligence be found within this State, that the City Attorney be and he is hereby instructed to immediately institute condenmation suits for the acquisition of the land of such owners or tenants." 3rd - ,I submit the attached resolution from the Planning Co, lesion which reads as follows: The Planning Conm~ission respectfully recommends that the Honorable City Council approve engaging the services of a Planning Engineer. In this connection, the Chairman of the Portsmouth Re- development and Housing Authority has discussed the possibility of using the Planning Engineer of the Housing Authority Jointly dividing his time equally between the Housing Authority and the City. This ma~ter was brought to m~ attention during the time that Mr. Fay was the Emgineer for the Housing Authority, but at that time the City had no i~mdS available for this purpose, but the