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44 TUESDAY JULY 22. 1958 Upon motion, duly seconded and approved, Council referred to the Planning Connnission a peti tion submitted by Mr. Roy Stone requesting the rezoning from "A-1 Residential" to "B-1 Business" certain of his property on or near Brookdale Street near its intersection with East Church Street. Upon motion, duly seconded and unanimously approved, Council placed on first reading, and ordered a public hearing to be held August 12, 1958 thereon, the following proposed ordinance which would amend the City's Zoning Code: WHEREAS, it is the judgment of Council that in the interest of public health and safety, that Section (13b) (1) (2), Title I, of the Planning and Zoning Ordinance of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, 1943, should be amended; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, as follows: Sec. (13b) Area Exceptions and Regulations-. (1) Every room in which one or more persons live, sleep, work, or congregate, except storage rooms or other rooms where the nature of the occrupancy does not require direct light and air from the outside, shall have a total window area to or greater than one-tenth of the floor area of the room. Such windows shall open directly either upon a street or alley not less than 10 feet in width, upon a rear yard, outer court or enclosed court located upon the same lot and conforming to the requirements prescribed for these by this Ordinance as to minimum area and least dimensions. In B-1 and B-2 Districts, any property on which it is intended that dwelling units be constructed, other than for apartment type dwellings, shall be subdivided in accordance with the provisions of the Martinsville Subdivision Ordinance, as amended, and the dwelling units shall be erected to that each unit intended for residential occupancy shall be situated on an individual lot conforming to the standards of the subdivision ordinance. (2) In any B-1 and B-2 District, any building erected for the purpose of residential occupancy, or which is erected after the effective date of this amendment and is occupied for residential purposes, shall be so situated on the lot or property on which it is erected as to conform. to setback, side yard and rear yard requirements as provided for in A-1 and A-2 Residential Districts as would be applicable to the type of building so erected. All ordinances or portions thereof in conflict with these amenrments are hereby repealed.