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2~ TUESDAY JUl\1E 8, 1954 In connection with the following recommendations of the Planning Commission regarding zoning for public truckin[; terminals and public warehouses and, too, the petitions recently submitted by Mrs. Evelyn E. S tone and others, owrers of the properties on which the Virginia-Carolina Trucking Company and the R. P. Thomas Trucking Company are located, Council called for a public hearing on these matters to be held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, on Jure 29, 1952+, at 7:30 P.M." at a special meeting of the Council, to which meeting and hearing Council invited all members of the Planning Commission to be present: The Planning Commission, in considering the petition of Mr. James C. Stone and Mrs. Evelyn H. Stone, referred to it by the City Council, and requesting the rezoning of all that property owned by the petitioners fronting on the south side of Fayette street, did on its OVfn motion consider the reclassification of public trucking terminals, warehouses, and kindred fac ili ties in the ci ty as a whole. ~~ ~~ ~~ i Public notice was:iven and letters forwarded to all operators of such facilities and numerous hearings held wi th respect thereto at vrhich times the Commission heard evidence from adjoining property mvners and trucking facility operators. During the course of matters another petition, that of Mrs. Evelyn H. Stone, was referred to the Commission by the Douncil requesting the rezoning of proper~ owned by the petitioner and occupied by the R. P. Thomas Trucking Company, which property lies between the north side of the New Danville Highway and the southwest side of Bob Gregory Street. As a result of these considerations the Planning COJT1.mission makes three unanimous recorrnnendations to the Ci~ Council as follows: (1) That Item 3 of Section 6 of the present Zoning Ordinance be re-enacted to read as follovlS: "All public utilities with the exception of public freighting or public trucking terminals and yards. All warehouses except public warehouses.1I (2) That the property of Mr. James C. Stone and Mrs. Evelyn H. stone, Petitioners, occupied by Virginia-Carolina Trucking Company, be rezoned from present A-2 Residential zoning and B-1 Commercial zoning to B-2 Industrial zoning in order to afford opportunity of expansion and for reasons set forth hereinafter. - (3) That the property of ~~s. Evelyn H. Stone, Petitioner, occupied by R. P. Thomas Trucking Company, be rezoned from present B-1 Commercial zoning to B-2 Indus trial zoning for the same reason as set forth immediately above. In making these recommendations, the Commission has given careful consideration to the following: