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20 TUFS DAY DE'CEMBER lOL}963 expressed appreciation of Mr. Hodnett's loyalty and service to the City while employed by the City. City Manager Hirst reported that study of the proposed new Zoning Code is continuiT4':; by various officials and agencies of the City, as well as by an independent consultant, and that snch suggested revisions as might be appropriate will be presented to Council in the near future. ",,- By letter dated November 25, 1963, certain members of the Martinsville-Henry County Woman's Club pledged their support of legislation and regulations tmvards smoke abatement and the elimination of air pollution in the City. Council continued for consideration, to the time the City's 1964-65 budget is prepared, the recent petition submitted by the Albert Harris Parent-Teacher Association requesting curb- and-gutter-and/or..sidewa1k construction aloI1€: Third street near thei:'[est End Elementary School. Council suggested, meamvhile, that such temporary measures as might provide better conditions for children walking to and from this school would be aplJroved. Dnde~ date of December lOth, the Planning Commission reported that the rezoninG petition ,- filed September 26, 1963, by Moorefield's Cleaners r;. Laundry, Inc., requesting the rezoning of a lot between Cross street and the Moorefield plant, now has the Planning Commission's approval under the conditions that all propE,rty O"Imed by the petitioner at the plant site-- including the lot cited in the petition--be rezoned to 1IB-2 Businessll inasmuch as some of the property is a:lready incorrectly zoned for current usage. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously carried, the Council accepted the Planning Commission's report and called for a duly-advertised public hearing on the proposal to be concIucted at Council's next rerulAr meetinr;, re-schedu1ed from Christmas Eve (Tuesday, December 21!th) to Monday, December 30th, at 7:30 P.M.