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42 TUESDAY JULY 13. 1965 .,"-' Pursuant, also, to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on a proposal--carrying the Planning Commissionls approval--to rezone to l1P-2 Professionall1 (three) lots fronting the south side of Brown Street within the block between Maple Street and Ellsworth Street. There being no objections registered, Council adopted the following ordinance amending the Zoning Code and Zoning Map to effect said zoning reclassification: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this thirteenth day of July, 1965, that the Zoning Code and Zoning Map of the City of Martinsville be, and is hereby, amended to reflect a zoning reclassification to rrp-2 Professionalll of those lots--being three in number--fronting the south side of Brown Street in the block between Maple Street and Ellsworth Street. Attorney William F. Stone appeared before Council, in behalf of Mr. C. Harry Anglin1s CATV franchise proposal previously discussed with Council, and urged Council to proceed with the advertising for CATV franchise bids. Council was informed ty City Manager Hirst that a preliminary draft of a CATV franchise has been prepared although somewhat yet incomplete and that a draft of a utility pole rental attachment agreement is yet to be prepared. Mr. William Lawless, of Skywaves TV Service, appeared before Council and presented a number of points for consideration in preparing a CATV franchise, which (points) Council referred to City Attorney Cubine. At the request of Attorney J. English Ford, representing Mr. Strother Fulcher, Council continued the matter of non-conformity with the City1s building set-back requirements involving a gasoline service station being constructed - by Mr. Fulcher on Route 220 North.