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~) ( rJ t~ TUESDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1969 at that location, as he has done for several years. After some discussion, and upon motion, Council unanimously accepted the Planning Commission's recommendation on this matter and, therefore, effected said rezoning by means of the following ordinance amending the City's Zoning Code and Map: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-fifth day of February, 1969, that the City's Zoning Code and Zoning Map be, and are hereby, amended to reclassify--for zoning purposes--to "P_2 Professional" that property located at 413 East Church Street and owned by Mr. Lawrence N. Rorrer. In continuing its consideration of traffic conditions at the intersection of Mulberry Road-Spruce Street-Jefferson Street, Council received--from Traffic & Planning Engineer Irving R. McGhee and Public Works Director George W. Brown--a plan to widen and improve this intersection as well as to provide additional traffic lanes for certain distances along Mulberry Road approaching the intersection, at an estimated cost of $2,650.00 to be absorbed in the Street Division's budget. Upon motion, Council authorized the proceeding with the effecting of this plan, tentatively scheduled during the Spring of 1969. Meanwhile, Mr. McGhee informed Council that the recommended "stop-sign" at Ford and Depot Streets has been installed, with permission of the C&NW Railway Company. Council referred to the Planning Commission--for its consideration and recommendation--a petition from the City1s Electric Department for a "special-use" permit to allow the Electric Department to construct an electric sub-station on the rear portion of property formerly identified as the "EaSley property", at 600 Starling Avenue, or the southwest corner of Starling Avenue and Aaron Street.