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HS TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 13. 1966 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor F. T. Renick, M.D., Mayor, presiding, was held Tuesday, September 13, 1966, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M. All members of Council were present, viz., Dr. F. T. Renick, Mayor; E. E. Stone, Vice-Mayor; Harry L. Boaz; W. Donald Hartford; and Francis T. West. After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held August 23, 1966, and of its special meeting held September 1, 1966. Pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on the rezoning petition submitted by Mr. Morton W. Lester (on July 26, 1966), carrying the Planning Commission's recommendation that said petition be granted, requesting the rezoning to "C-3 Commercial" of two lots identified as Lots Nos. 11 and 12 of the J. I. Petuske Subdivision and located at the intersection of Liberty Street and Lester Lane. There being no objections registered by anyone to this proposed rezoning, Council adopted the following ordinance effecting said rezoning by amending the City1s Zonirg Code and Map accordingly: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this thirteenth d~ of September, 1966, that the Zoning Code and Zoning Map of the City of Martinsville be, and are hereby, amended to reclassify--for zoning purposes--to "C-3 Commercial" those two lots identified as Lots Nos. 11 and 12 of the J. I. Petuske Subdivision, located in a triangle formed by the intersection of Liberty Street and Lester Lane. In connection with a petition filed July 26, 1966, by Bassett Industries, Inc., (Mr. W. R. Broaddus, III, Attorney), requesting the closing and vacating of portions of Bel~ont and Union Streets (off Forest Street) which have never been opened, a duly-constituted Board of Viewers (composed of