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, (. -ll ) TUESDAY AUGUST 17, 1971 by The Whittle Family Irrevocable Trust. Representing petitioner was Mr. James W. Haskins, Attorney at Law, who indicated that Waldron & Fralin, Inc., intend purchasing this tract and constructing and operating a convalescent home at an investment of approximately $l,OOO,OOO. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council accepted the Planning Commission's recommendation (filed with Council July 13, 1971) that this petition be approved and, too, Council adopted the following ordinance amending the City's Zoning Code to effect said rezoning: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this seventeenth day of August, 1971, that the Zoning Code and the Zoning Map of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, be--and are hereby--amended to reclassify to "R-6 Residential" that certain 3~-acre tract of land, owned by The Whittle Family Irrevocable Trust, situated approximately 600 feet east of Brookdale Road, to the rear of the Cooper & Ratcliff Store on Brookdale Road. Reference is made to petition filed with Martinsville City Council on May 11, 1971, by Mr. Earle W. Greene, Realtor, Agent for Waldron & Fralin, Inc. Council acknowledged receipt of the following Planning Commission report on petition dated June 8, 1971 as filed by Mrs. Beulah W. Covington and Mrs. Nannie J. Draper, requesting the closing of a portion of unopened Douglas Street, and then called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted by Council on this petition at Council's forthcoming September 28th meeting, by which time it is expected that the Board of Viewers considering this request will have reported its findings: The City Planning Commission conducted a duly advertised public hearing on Thursday, July 15, 1971 with regard to a petition submitted to Council by Mrs. Beulah W. Covington and Mrs. Nannie J. Draper requesting the closing and abandonment of a portion of an unopened street known as Douglas Street lying in South Martinsville between Whittle Street and the Coca-Cola property. Also included in this petition was a verbal request that Lots No.8, 9, 10, and 11 be rezoned from a R-6 Residential classification to a C-3 Commercial classification. At t this public hearing the Martinsville Coca-Cola Company registered an objection to the closing of any portion of Douglas Street.