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.~ r- ,- - 3 TUESDAY AUGUST 25, 1964 Upon recommendation of City Manager Hirst, Council adopted the following ordinance amending the City's Zoning Code to eliminate an unnecessary duplication of yard specifications, as follows: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-fifth day of August, 1964, that the front yard and rear yard minimum requirements listed under colunm llC-311 of sub-paragraph 1 of paragraph A of Section VI of the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Martinsville be and are hereby deleted. City Manager Hirst informed Council that there has been recently discovered the requirement by the State Department of Health, in connection with the construction of the new Health Center on the Armory Road (Lester Boulevard), whereby the City of Martinsville and/or the County of Henry must finance the total cost of constructing the new Health Center, with reimbursement by the State and Federal Governments--as to their shares--subject to audit. At the suggestion of City Manager Hirst, Council agreed to the procedure whereby the City of Martinsville will be responsible for payment of all bills in connection with this construction, subject to payment at an appropriate time by the County of Henry as to its share and subject to reimbUrsement by the State and Federal Governments as to their shares. Pursuant to recommendation of City Manager Hirst, Council adopted the following revision and amendment to the City's curb-and-gutter policy: Where there exists a parcel of land abutting a street for which curb-and gutter and/or sidewalk is requested, which parcel of land is not designated as a building lot on a duly-recorded plat and is not of adequate dimensions to allow for the construction of a 13ingle-family dwelling or building in accordance with the Ci tY':3 Zoning Code and/or applicable City building standards, such pRrcel of land shall be assessed at a rate of thirty-five cents (35r) per lineal foot of frontage measured along the street right-of-way line.