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4 7~ TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1987 whereupon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, in acceptance of the wishing to speak to this matter, Mayor Oakes declared the public hearing closed; Planning Commission's recommendation (as revised or amended), Council authorized the issuance of the required Special-Use Permit upon the condition that the project be completed within five (5) years from the date of permit issuance. Council also conducted a duly-advertised public hearing on Multitrade Group's petition seeking the rezoning from M-l Industrial to M-2 Industrial those certain properties in an area bounded on the east by Lester Street, on the south and southwest by the right-of-way of Norfolk & Southern Railway {formerly the Carolina & Inc. (and/or The Lester Group). As has been previously recorded in minutes of prior Northwestern Railway), and on the north by property owned by Lester Lumber Company, meetings of Council, petitioner seeks this property rezoning to enable petitioner to construct and operate a plant which will generate steam and electric energy for resale. There being no objections registered to the proposed property rezoning, Council (by a vote of three-to-none, Councilman McClain abstaining because of a Mayor Oakes declared this public hearing closed; whereupon motion and duly seconded, possible conflict of interest) accepted the Planning Commission's recently-submitted recommendation that the petition be approved and, in so doing, Council (also by the Zoning Map by zoning the properties M-2 Industrial: same vote of three-to-none) adopted the following ordinance which amends the City's BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this tenth day of March, 1987, that the Zoning Map of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, be--and is hereby--amended to the extent that those certain properties in an area bounded on the east by Lester Street, on the south and southwest by Norfolk & Southern Railway (formerly Carolina & Northwestern Railway) right-of-way, and on the north by property owned by Lester Lumber Company, Inc., and/or The Lester Group, are hereby rezoned from M-l Industrial to M-2 Industrial. BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that, an emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force on and after March 11, 1987.