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'~8 c> TUESDAY AUGUST 22, 1972 WHEREAS, at its regular meeting held August 22, 1972, pursuant to Section 3 of Chapter 8 of the Charter of the City of Martinsville, Martinsville City Council conducted a duly-advertised public hearing on said request, at which meeting no objections thereto were registered; now, therefore, ,,- BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-second day of August, 1972, that it doth accept the planning Commission's aforesaid recommendation and does hereby order and declare that said portion of Harris Street, situated between property owned by Graves Supply Company, Inc., identified as Lot A on plat of Survey prepared by J. A. Gustin & Associates under date of June 21, 1972, and a new west line of Harris Street (26 feet west of and parallel to the centerline of said Harris Street), be and is hereby vacated, closed and abandoned, being further identified as a parcel consisting of .061 acre to be quitclaimed to said Graves Supply Company, Inc., by the City of Martinsville; and BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that a copy of this ordinance be forthwith filed with the Clerk of Martinsville Corporation Court as Directive and authorization to mark his records accordingly. Also, pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on Graves Supply Company's petition (filed June 13, 1972) requesting the rezoning (from "C-3" to ''M-l'') of petitioner's property fronting the west side of Harris Street at its intersection with North Memorial Boulevard and including the portion of Harris Street hereinabove vacated and closed. In acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendation (dated July 24, 1972) that this request be granted, Council adopted the following ordinance effecting said requested rezoning through the amending of the City's Zoning Ordinance and Zoning Code: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-second day of August, 1972, that the Zoning Code and the Zoning Map of the City of Martinsville be--and are hereby--amended to reclassify to "M_Ill that certain lot owned by Graves Supply Company, Inc., including that portion of Harris Street right-of-way ordered vacated and abandoned by ordinance adopted by Martinsville City Council under date of August 22, 1972, which portion is quitclaimed to Graves Supply Company, Inc., being identified as Lot A on Plat of Survey prepared June 21, 1972 by J. A. Gustin & Associates, and situated on the west side of Harris Street at its intersection with Memorial Boulevard North.