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, [. ." \) TUESDAY OCTOBER 13, 1970 aesthetic value of the surrounding area, and in which discussion Vice-Mayor West--by evaluation and analysis--concluded that granting of petitioner's request would be in the best interests of the City and its citizens, Council accepted the following report of the Planning Commission (dated October l3, 1970) and effected the requested rezoning, with certain conditions attached, by adopting the following ordinance amending the City's Zoning Code and Map, meanwhile instructing and directing the City's Traffic Engineer to control properly all commercial traffic through the residential areas surrounding Nationwide Homes' property: The City Planning Commission gave final consideration this evening to Mr. Ralph Lester's request, on behalf of Nationwide Homes, that additional area between the present plant site and Forest Street be rezoned to an Industrial classification for expansion purposes. Following this consideration the Commission made the following decision to recommend to Council that the area as requested by Mr. Lester be rezoned from its present R-6 Residential to an M-3 Industrial classification, upon the condition that Mr. Lester plant screen planting in the old right-of-way of Forest Street immediately below Childress Drive sufficient to screen the plant site from casual view. The Commission felt that since the plant already exists, with an industrial access road built to its entrance, that the residential area on Childress Drive and Forest Street will not be materially affected. Also because of the R/R and Topography of the land in question that Industrial use is the best use of the property. It is suggested that the Traffic Engineer be requested to properly control all commercial traffic through the residential areas surrounding this site. BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this thirteenth day of October, 1970, that the Zoning Ordinance and the Zoning Map of the City of Martinsvi1le be--and are hereby--amended to reclassify to "M-3 Industrial" that property owned by Nationwide Homes, Inc., and situated between Rugg Creek and Forest Street, consisting of a tier of lots identified as Nos. 55 through 78 as shown on Sections 60 and 61 of the Property Tax Map of the City of Martinsville, with the following exceptions and subject to the following conditions: (1) Lots Nos. 55 through 59 shall remain as presently resi- dentially zoned for a depth of one hundred and thirty (130) feet from their Forest Street property lines;