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"I L'.:t TUESDAY AUGUST 26, 1975 four members present recommending approval. Attorney Frith then pointed out that the Commission has considered the request on four separate occasions and on each occasion has recommended approval of the request, with but one member voting against only one time, viz., on the action reported in the Commission's July 18th recommendation. During the course of the foregoing questioning and presentation, some questions arose as to the interpretation and/or implication of the "Transitional Open Space" connotation attached to the area in question by the adopted 1995 Land-Use Plan. At the conclusion of this hearing, upon recommendation of Mayor Boaz, Council called for a special meeting to be conducted by Council, jointly with the City's Planning Commission, at a time to be determined by Mayor Boaz and City Manager Noland, to be held at the site of petitioner's property on Rives Road, for the purpose of viewing said property and reviewing with petitioner the plans for development thereof as well as relating same to the physical surroundings and the objections thereto registered. In tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's report and recommendation (dated August 22, 1975), Council called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted by Council at its forthcoming October 14th (1975) meeting on a request (dated June 24, 1975) filed by Nationwide Homes, Inc., requesting the following rezoning of its property located east of Brookdale Road (to the rear of City-owned property in East Martinsville and on the south side of the Carolina & Northwestern Railroad, near Griggs Road): (a) Approximately 65 acres from ~'R-9 Residential" to "R-6 Residential"; and (b) Approximately seven and one-half acres, adjacent to and paralleling the Carolina & Northwestern Railway Company's right-of-way, to "M-3 Industrial".