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<br />242 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />DECEMBER 13, 1960 <br /> <br />The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Mart:insville, Virginia, <br /> <br />with Mayor J. Frank Wilson presiding, was held in the Coumil Chamber, City Hall, <br /> <br />Tuesday, December 13, 1960, at 7:15 P.M., with all members bei~ present, viz., Mayor <br /> <br />and Councilman J. Frank Wilson; Vice-Mayor and Councilman Fred T. Renick; and <br /> <br />Councilmen Thomas J. Burch, E. E. Stone, and Harry L. Boaz. <br /> <br />After the invocation, Council approved as read the minutes of its regular meeti~ <br /> <br />held November 22, 1960. <br /> <br />Upon receipt of the following Planning Commission recommendation, Coumil called <br /> <br />for a duly-advertised public hearing to be conducted by Council in the Coumil <br /> <br />Chamber, Tuesday, January 10, 1961, at 7:15 P.M., on a Virginia-Garolina Freight <br /> <br />Lines petition requesti~ the rezoning of its lot at First am B Streets fran <br /> <br />"A-2 Residential" to "B_2 Business": <br /> <br />Honorable Mayor and City C oum il <br />City of Martinsville, Virginia <br /> <br />Gentlen:en: <br /> <br />Your Planning Commission, at its regular meeting on Wednesday evening, <br />November 16, 1960, comidered a petition referred to them by Council. <br />This petition was submitted by Virginia-Garolina Freight Lines, Inc., <br />and requested the rezoning from A-2 Residential to B-2 Busirnss a lot <br />recently purchased by them. This lot is an addition to their present <br />operation and is immediately adjacent thereto, lying at the intersection <br />of First Street and B Street in the West End section of the City. <br /> <br />After due consideration of this petition, your Conunission voted <br />unanimously to make the following recomrrendation to Council: "That <br />the petition be granted as presented". <br /> <br />The Planning Commission hald a public hearing on this matter on October <br />16. At that hearing considerable objection was heard from the residents <br />in the general area, the primary objection being one of additional <br />noise and dust from the operation of the terminal, generally. It was <br />the feeling of the COmmission, however, that this rezoning was a logical <br />expansion of the present B-2 zoning in that block and also a logical <br />expansion of the terminal. It was not felt that noise or dust would be <br />increased appreciably by the rezoning of this property and with regard to <br />dust the planned expansion includes the paving of the expansion area. <br />