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r:l:: :tv WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1977 - What we are talking about, now, is the rezoning to commercial of a small piece of land near the southeast corner of Spruce Street and Parkview Avenue which is adjacent to the property which was zoned commercial over 16 years ago. Assuming that the planned buffer areas will stand permanently, I do not think that the rezoning of this small piece of property will affect adjacent or abutting property values any more than the effect of the 1961 zoning change which was made after a map was submitted calling for a 30,000 square-foot store. ~- The petitioners feel that they can do a better planning job from an engineering and safety standpoint with the addition of the subject property. The City Administration agrees. In view of this, it seems to me that the highest and best use of this piece of property is logically to add to the existing commercial land, so long as a buffer is left to provide a perpetual screen from neighboring residences. On the basis of these findings, I accept the recommendation of the Planning Commission. Upon motion, duly seconded, and with all members of Council--with the exception of Councilman West, who abstained, for reasons set forth in prior proceedings on this matter--voting in the affirmative, Council accepted the Planning Commission's recommendation dated August 22, 1977, as hereinbefore incorporated, thereby effecting the rezoning requested by Lanier Farm, with an appropriate ordinance--amending the City's Zoning Map to so reflect--to be prepared by City Attorney Worthy for Council's enactment at its next regular meeting. After considering the three bids (of which only one was complete) recently received for the - purchase of the City's seven transit-type buses, for which invitations to bid were duly advertised in appropriate publications, Council unanimously accepted the bid submitted by Tri-State Transit Authority, of Huntington, West Virginia, in the amount of $18,900.00 for the seven buses, noting that one-half of the proceeds therefrom are to be relayed to the Federal Government (Urban Mass Transportation Administration) inasmuch as one-half of the original cost of these buses was funded by said agency.