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,), TUESDAY NOVE~lliER 14, 1972 -- BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, VirgLnia, in regular meeting assembled this fourteenth day of November, 1972, that the Zoning Code and the Zoning Map of the City of Martinsville be--and are hereby--amended: .,"'-" 1. To reclassify the block between Franklin Street, Liberty Street and Liberty Street Extension from its present "M-l" Industrial classification to an "M-2" Industrial classification. 2. To reclassify a tract of land lying west of the Lester Lumber Company, Inc. lands on which is situated its Jones creek plant, bounded by a line 800 feet north of the north line of Commonwealth Boulevard to the west corporate limits of the City, and the C&NW Railroad and the west line of the "M-2" zone to the west of the petitioner's present plant on Liberty Street, such reclassification to be from an "R-6" Residential to an "M-2" Industrial classification. The City Manager outlined briefly the sequence of events which began in mid-summer, when a citizens group appeared before City Council to request "free bus service" for City school students, after which the matter was referred to the City Manager for work with the citizens group in an investigation, that the citizens group had made an investigation, had met again with the City Manager, which series of events led up to consideration of the matter at this meeting, whereupon various citizens present commented on their view as to the need and desirability of the City's accepting the responsibility of providing bus service for school children, financed through public funds rather than by direct charges to those children who use the service. One citizen favored continuation of the present system. Specifically, there was discussion as to the feasibility of tieing the free lunch program to one involving free bus transportation, with the understanding that this and all other facets of the situation are subjects for further investigation, in depth. Accordingly, Mayor West summarized the situation by saying that the solution is not easy, that the proposal would mean greater cost to the taxpayers, probably resoluting in an increase in the property tax rate, and the probable end of public transit as it has been operated for many years; that the solution of one problem brings on another problem and an additional factor or the possibility of a change in the National policy.