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I ' OCTOBER 27, 1981 TUESDAY The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor Barry A. Greene presiding, was held Tuesday, October 27, 1981, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., the following members being present: Barry A. Greene, Mayor; William C. Cole, Jr., Vice Mayor; and L. D. Oakes. Absent were Councilman Henry C. Reed (because of his presence being required at another meeting) and Councilman Francis T. West, who was in Richmond, Virginia, on business. - After the invocation, Council approved--as recorded--the minutes of its regular meeting held October 13, 1981. Pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on a property rezoning petition, as recently filed by Attorney Philip G. Gardner on behalf of Doctors Jack H. Eberhart, John W. Selman, and Paul A. Holyfield, seeking a P-2 Professional zoning classification for properties located between Morgan Street and Commonwealth Boulevard and extending from the Martinsville Athletic Club site to Bethel Lane. There being no objections registered by any citizen to the proposed rezoning, and in acceptance of the Planning Commission's previously-filed recommendation that the request be granted, Council effected said requested rezoning through its adoption of the following ordinance: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled, that the Zoning Map of the City of Martinsville be--and is hereby--amended to reclassify, for zoning purposes, to P-2 Professional those certain properties heretofore zoned R-9 Residential, C-3 Commercial, and M-3 Industrial as situated between Morgan Street and Commonwealth Boulevard and extending from the Martinsville Athletic Club site to Bethel Lane. ,,- In tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendation that a Special-Use Permit be issued to the Piedmont Trust Bank, applicant and representing Schottland Real Estate, for occupancy and usage--subject to certain conditions--of the former M. R. Schottland residence and grounds at 215-217 Starling Avenue by the piedmont Arts Association, Council called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted on this matter at Council's forthcoming November 24th meeting. Upon being informed that the Henry County Board of Supervisors, at its October 26th meeting, adopted an ordinance exempting domestic heating fuel consumption from Henry County's 1% sales-use tax, and pursuant to the position expressed by Council at its September 29th meeting on the matter of enacting a similar exempting ordinance for the City of Martinsville, Council placed on first reading such an ordinance which, subject to final adoption scheduled at Council's forthcoming November lOth meeting, will exempt domestic heating fuel consumption