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<br />TUESDAY
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<br />OCTOBER 12, 1971
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<br />WHEREAS, by petition filed with Martinsville City Council on June 8, 1971,
<br />Mrs. Beulah W. Covington and Mrs. Nannie J. Draper requested the closing
<br />and vacating of that portion of Douglas Street on which Lots Nos. l, 2, 3,
<br />4, 8, 9, 10, and II front, which petition was subsequently amended to
<br />apply only to Lots Nos. 8, 9, lO and ll, and (which) amended petition
<br />included the requested rezoning of said Lots Nos. 8, 9, lO and II from
<br />"R-6 Residential" to "C-3 Commercial"; and
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<br />WHEREAS, the Martinsville Planning Commission, to which agency said petition
<br />was duly referred, having conducted a duly-advertised public hearing on same,
<br />by report dated August l2, 1971, has recommended that the amended petition
<br />be approved; and
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<br />WHEREAS, a duly-constituted Board of Viewers (appointed to consider said
<br />amended petition as it pertained to the closing of said portion of Douglas
<br />Street) has reported in writing that said portion of Douglas Street (i.e.,
<br />opposite Lots Nos. 8, 9, lO and ll) can be closed without inconvenience
<br />to anyone; and
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<br />WHEREAS, at its regular meeting held September 28, 1971, Martinsvi11e City
<br />Council conducted a duly-advertised public hearing on petitioners' amended
<br />request, at which hearing no one registered any objections to the amended
<br />proposal; now, therefore,
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<br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in
<br />regular meeting assembled this twelfth day of October, 1971, that the portion
<br />of Douglas Street, on which Lots Nos. 8, 9, 10, and ll, front be and is
<br />hereby declared vacated, closed and abandoned, the effective date of which
<br />shall coincide with the date on which petitioners submit a properly prepared
<br />map suitable for recording--and the same is recorded--in the office of the
<br />Clerk of Martinsville Corporation Court; and
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<br />BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Zoning Code and the Zoning Map of the City
<br />of Martinsville be--and is hereby amended--to reclassify to "C-3 Commercial"
<br />zoning said Lots Nos. 8, 9, 10, and ll; and
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<br />BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that a copy of this ordinance be forthwith filed
<br />with the Clerk of Martinsville Corporation Court as authorization to mark
<br />his records accordingly.
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<br />Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, Council convened into an
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<br />Executive Session to consider a real estate matter.
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<br />W. H. Y~a~n, Clerk of Council
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