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.04 MONDAY NOVEMJ3ER 30, 1959 Council reviewed the petition dated November 5, 1959 and submitted to Councll on November 10, 1959 by a group of citizens residing in the Prospe9t Hill Drive- Gratton Road area, objecting not only to the erection of arw buildings in the City for the housing of horses or other livestock but also to the presence of those such buildings already erected. A number of the petitioners were present as well as several persons in opposition to the petition. One of the petitioners requested that Council withhold the issuing of any permits for the construction of any such buildings pending disposition of the petition. Council directed City Attorney Taylor to draft a proposed ordinance form in l'Ihich the Cou:ooi1 might provide any restrictive details subject to study of the matter by Council and to a public hearing on the proposed ordinance. Mr. R. M. Simmons, Sr., Pres ident of the American Furniture C ornpany, Inc., appeared before Council and cited some of the assets to the community of the airport operation on City property by the Martimville-Henry County Airport ~velopment Corparation. Mr. Simmons solicited Council's sympathetic under- standing and requested not only a rental waiver or concession to the group but also that Council make available additional land for a cross-rUl1lrCl3'" or landiI€ strip for emergency landings. In response to United Fund Campaign Chairman Frank D. Fulton's appeal (by letter dated November 24, 1959) for a donation from the city to the current fund campaign, Coureil advised that present state statutes prohibit the donating of public funds to non-profit and charitable organizations. Attorney Warren M. Shaw, on behalf of his clients S. H. Baldwin and J. H. Ramsey, presented the following petition requesting the closing of Sellers Street (between Church Street and Memorial Boulevard) under the procedure outlined in Section 15-766.1 of the Code of Virginia, which petition Council referred to the