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<br />, t 4) <br />P -J .... <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />SEPTEMBER 10. 1 968 <br /> <br />To comply with State statutes and upon recommendation of City Attorney Cubine, <br /> <br />Council adopted the following ordinance amending Paragraph A of Section XIII <br /> <br />of the City's Zoning Ordinance to provide for the appointing of Zoning <br /> <br />Appeals Board members (for "staggered" five-year terms) by the Circuit or <br /> <br />Corporation Courts of the City: <br /> <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, <br />in regular meeting assembled this tenth day of September, 1968, that <br />P'lragraph A of Section XIII of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of <br />ME,rtinsville be--and is hereby--amended to read as follows: <br /> <br />SECTION XIII. BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS <br /> <br />A. The Board of Zoning Appeals is hereby re-established. It shall <br />consist of five (5) members, who shall be residents of the <br />City, and who shall be appointed by the Circuit or Corporation <br />Court of the City. Members of the Board shall be appointed for <br />five-year terms, except that the original appointments shall be <br />made for such terms that the term of one member shall expire <br />each year. Members may be appointed to succeed themselves. <br />The membership of the Board as constituted on the day priod to <br />the effective date of this ordinance shall continue in office <br />and be the membership of the Board under this ordinance for <br />the remainder of their originally-appointed terms. A member <br />whose term expires shall continue to serve until his successor <br />is appointed and qualifies. <br /> <br />An emergency existing, this ordinance shall be in force on and after <br />September 10, 1968. <br /> <br />City Manager Noland informed Council that he--as a member of a special study <br /> <br />committee--will be in Richmond on September 25th at a public hearing of the <br /> <br />special committee to receive comments and recommendations pertaining to the <br /> <br />State formula for distributing educational funds to the localities. <br /> <br />A request submitted by Elder James L. Martin, of 108 Sellers Street, for <br /> <br />construction of a sidewalk along Memorial Boulevard between Sellers Street <br /> <br />and Fayette Street, particularly for the use of school children who now have <br /> <br />no safe place to walk along this street, was referred to Mr. George W. Brown, <br />