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," j ~ "j ~ } TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 1981 Commission that the petition be granted, Council directed the vacating and abandonment of said section through adoption of the following ordinance, all members--with the exception of Vice Mayor Cole, who abstained and who raised a question as to the development of the property before Council's final action on the petition as well as the question as to the status of the right-of-way proposed to be abandoned or being abandoned in the event the property is sold sometine in the future--voting affirma- tively on the motion to grant the request, effecting same by the following ordinance: WHEREAS, Patricia B. Byrum, Albert G. Byrum, Jr., Emma S. Richmond, and Marion D. Richmond have filed a petition requesting the vacating and abandonment of one-half of the north side of Brown Street which abuts Lot No. 3 (with reservation of nine feet of right-of-way for Ellsworth Street) situated on the east side of Ellsworth Street, as shown on "Map of Property Belonging to the J. D. Aaron Estate, in M.B. 2, Page 169, Henry County Circuit Court Clerk's Office"; and WHEREAS, the Martinsville Planning Commission, having duly considered this request and having conducted a duly-advertised public hearing thereon, has recommended that the petition be granted; and WHEREAS, Nartinsville City Council on September 29, 1981, conducted a duly-advertised public hearing on this matter, at which hearing no objections to the petition were registered; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this 29th day of September, 1981, that one-half of Brown Street abutting the aforesaid Lot No.3, subject to the reservation of utility easements and subject to the reservation of nine feet of right-of-way for Ellsworth Street, as shown on Plat of Survey prepared for petitioners by J. A. Gustin & Associates under date of April 14, 1981, and as marked or outlined in red on said Plat of Survey, be, and the same is hereby declared, vacated and abandoned. In tentative acceptance of a recommendation from the Planning Commission that Council approve a petition seeking a P-2 Professional zoning of properties located between Morgan Street and Commonwealth Boulevard and extending from the Martinsville Athletic Club site to Bethel Lane, as filed by Doctors Jack H. Eberhart, John W. Selman, and Paul A. Holyfield, Council called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted on this petition at Council's forthcoming October 27th meeting. Council acknowledged receipt of the annual report (for the year ended June 30, 1981) of the City's Industrial Development Authority, as presented by its Chairman, Mr. Irving M. Groves, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of the Piedmont Trust Bank. The