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t f. ') "i. '" TUESDAY APRIL 8, 1969 College Street. There being no objections registered to this proposed rezoning, Council adopted the following ordinance amending the City's Zoning Code and Zoning Map, effecting the rezoning as proposed and recommended: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this eighth day of April, 1969, that the City's Zoning Code and Zoning Map be, and are hereby, amended to reclassify--for zoning pUrposes--as follows, the following properties owned by Messrs. William Dudley Smith and John Wesley Smith, Jr.: (1) a new lot formed by the resubdividing of the Smith property, lying at the northeast intersection of College Street and Railroad Street, to "M-1 Industrial"; and (2) a lot lying immediately north of, and adjacent to, the above-mentioned new lot, being on the east side of College Street, to "C-3 Commercial". In connection with an application for a special-use permit, recently filed by the City's Electric Department to allow the construction of an electric substation on the rear portion of a lot at the southwest corner of Starling and Aaron Streets, and in tentative acceptance of the Planning Commission's report (dated April 4, 1969) recommending granting of said permit, Council called for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted on this matter by Council at its forthcoming May 13th meeting. Through Mr. Herbert O. Hughes, City Recreation Director, Council was apprised of the recent recognition given two local citizens, as follows, by the Virginia Recreation & Parks Society, with appropriate plaques thereof being presented by Mayor Renick: (1) To Mr. Victor B. Calaman - for many years of volunteer services devoted to local youth recreational programs; and (2) To Mr. Connie R. Hill - a special citation, being the first and only such citation ever awarded, for outstanding services to the local Recreation Department and its recreational programs.