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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27) 1987 A regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville) Virginia, with Mayor L. D. Oakes presiding) was held Tuesday) October 27, 1987, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M. All members were present, viz., L. D. Oakes, Mayor; Clyde L. Williams, Vice-Mayor; William C. Cole, Jr.; Alfred T. Groden; and Allan McClain. - After the invocation and Mayor Oakes' cordial welcome to visitors present) Council unanimously approved--as recorded--the minutes of its regular meeting held October 13, 1987. ,...-..., Miss Jane English appeared before Council and asked that Council set a public hearing for Council's forthcoming November 10th regular meeting on her petition (on which the Planning Commission conducted a duly-advertised public hearing on October 22, 1987, but had not presented its report and recommendations thereon to Council) seeking the rezoning of petitioner's properties consisting of Lots Nos. 18-thru-22 located at 502-to-514 East Church Street from R-9 Residential to C-3 Commercial. In the absence of City Manager Brown, who was attending the 1987 meeting of the International City Managers Association in Montreal) Canada, Public Works Director Leon F. Towarnicki verbally reported the Planning Commission's findings and vote on said petition, including the fact that, with the concurrence of Miss English, the petition was in effect amended to the extent that P-2 Professional zoning (instead of C-3 Commercial zoning) is being sought for said properties, inasmuch as there was considerable opposition by neighboring property owners to the said C-3 Commercial rezoning. Mr. Towarnicki further reported that, by a vote of four-to-three, with two abstentions, the