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~1 0 TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 10. 1968 vacating of that portion of "C" Street lying between Fifth Street and Roundabout Road, subject to retention of easements for any and all utilities lying within the street space; and BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by said Council that a copy of this ordinance be filed with the Clerk of the Corporation Court of the City of Martinsville as directive that his records be marked accordingly. Also, pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on the proposed rezoning to "M-2 Irrlustrial" of properties at 405 and 406 Bridge Street, as requested July 23, 1968, by Martinsville Ice Company and by Martinsville Coal & Oil Company (respectively). There being no objections registered by anyone to this proposed rezoning, and in acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendation that these and other properties--hereinafter described--be so rezoned, subject to retention of existing fifteen-foot setback requirements, Council adopted the following ordinance effecting said rezoning (~ith setback requirements) and amending the City's Zoning Code and Zoning Map: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this tenth day of September, 1968, that the City's Zoning Code and Zoning Map be, and are hereby, amended to reclassify--for zoning purposes--to "M-2 Industrialll all those properties fronting both east and west sides of Bridge Street between the Norfolk & Western Railway Company's right-of-way (Bridge Street underpass) and Lavinder Street; and BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that Paragraph "F" of Section VI of the City's Zoning Ordinance be, and is hereby< amended to provide and require a setback distance of fifteen (15) feet on both (east and west) sides of the aforementioned section of Bridge Street hereby rezoned. Having received the Planning Commission's report and favorable recommendation on the rezoning request filed July 23, 1968, by Custer & Custer Sporting Goods, requesting a commercial zoning classification for its property within the City's north corporate limits, along Liberty Street, Council directed that a public hearing on this proposed rezoning be conducted at Council's forthcoming October 8th meeting.