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o TUESDAY DECEMBER 9, 1969 On August 18, 1967, the Commission reported to Council that a committee of the Planning Commission had expressed to the Commission the opinion that the type of developments requested were feasible in Martinsville and that they could be constructed in keeping with the existing develop- ment planning; that this subcommittee report had been adopted by the Commission and should Council desire, the Commission would continue to investigate this matter and recommend to Council in detail such revisions as might be necessary in the regulations to allow these types of development. Subsequent to this report, Council referred this matter back to the Commission for the instructions to advise Council as to what might be necessary in the way of amending the ordinances to allow for this type construction. The Commission continued to study this matter in great detail and on Thursday, February 15, 1968, the Commission conducted a duly advertised public heaing on a proposed amendment to the Zoning Ordinance which would allow this type development. Following this public hearing, the Commission adopted a set of guidelines which it felt should be included in the Zoning Ordinance as an amendment to this "Special Use" section. In the meantime, interest seemed to lag in this type development and as a result this amendment was not passed on to Council. Due to an expression of interest in this type development in the past 60 days, the Commission, at its meeting on Tuesday, December 2, reviewed the proposals it adopted in 1968 and voted unanimously to recommend to Council that the Zoning Ordinance be amended to incorporate these guidelines, a copy of which is attached. By letter dated November 25, 1969, Mr. J. B. Frith (of Frith Construction Company, Inc.) indicated an interest in exchanging his firm's tract of 46.8 acres--contiguous to the tract recently acquired by the City from Martinsville Stone Corporation and located on the north side of Clearview Drive, in Henry County--for the thirty-acre tract purchased in 1959 by the City from Mr. & Mrs. O. P. Hedgecock as an alternate sewage disposal plant site, being located on Smith River near the City's Industrial Park. Mr. Frith further indicated that the exchange might be on the basis of independent appraisals of the two tracts; whereupon, Council authorized City Manager Noland to obtain three independent appraisals by qualified appraisors, that Council might give further consideration to Mr. Frith's proposal.