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,....r 4 . TUE SDA Y FEBRUARY 27, 1973 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor Francis T. West presiding, was held on Tuesday, February 27, 1973, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M. All members were present. Following the invocation, minutes of the meeting of February 13, 1973, were approved as read. Councilman Boaz, Chairman of Council's Special Committee for Traffic and Safety, reported that Mr. J. H. Barnes, one of the three members of the committee, had found it necessary to resign from the committee because of a change in his work schedule. On Councilman Boaz's recommendation, Council unanimously named Mr. William A. Wade, currently president of the Retail Merchants Association, as Mr. Barnes' replacement on the Traffic and Safety Committee. Mayor West expressed the City's thanks to Mr. Barnes for his valuable service to the City, through the work of this committee. By unanimous vote, after motion by Mr. Boaz, seconded by Mr. Hartford, Council accepted the recommendation of the City Planning Commission that the City's C-3 Commercial zoning classification be the zoning covenant to be included in a contract between the City and Lester Lumber Company, under the terms of which the City would execute a contract for provision of City water and sewer services to a proposed business development outside the City limits, on Commonwealth Boulevard in the vicinity of VC Drive. It was pointed out that Mr. Martin J. Lester had petitioned the City, in November, 1972, for the rezoning of his property at 318 Starling Avenue from R-6 Residential to C-3 Commercial classification but, that subsequent to that original petition,