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3 TUESDAY MAY 23, 1972 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor F. T. Renick, M.D., presiding, was held in the Corporation Courtroom (said meeting having been moved from the Council Chamber to accommodate better the large number of citizens attending), City Hall, Tuesday, May 23, 1972, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members being present, viz., Mayor F. T. Renick, M.D.; Francis T. West, Vice Mayor; Harry L. Boaz; - W. Donald Hartford; and William Hobson. After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held May 9, 1972. Council acknowledged receipt of the Planning Commission's recommendations (dated April 21, 1972), on which consideration has been previously postponed at the request of the Commission, proposing changes in certain street names and, also, proposing names for certain new streets or sections thereof, as fo llows : (1) Route 57 relocation, from its ultimate extension eastward to Church Street and the present Armory Road, be named Commonwealth Boulevard; (2) Lester Street, from the Route 57 relocation to Church Street, be named Ellsworth Street; (3) The ultimate extension of Ellsworth Street, from Church Street southward (across Maple Street to Broad Street and thence along Broad Street to Memorial Boulevard), be named Ellsworth Street; (4) The short portion of Northside Drive, isolated by the Route 57 relocation between Fairy Street and East Church Street, be renamed to Cherry Street; and (5) The portion of the Route 57 relocation, between present Armory Road and Church Street and its ultimate extension to Memorial Boulevard, be named Market Street. In connection with the recommended renaming of what is now Lester Street, as well as the proposed extension thereof to the Route 57 relocation project, Mr. James B. Hall, Real Estate Manager of Lester Lumber Company, filed