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q ,', ""~ 'o.j TUESDAY MARCH 27, 1973 The Mayor and the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, met in regular session at the Council Chamber of said City at 7:30 o'clock, P.M., on the twenty-seventh day of March, 1973. Mayor Francis T. West presided and called the meeting to order, followed by the invocation, after which the minutes of Council's regular meeting held March 13, 1973, were approved as read. The following members, constituting a quorum, on roll call, were present: Mayor Francis T. West; Vice-Mayor Harry L. Boaz; and Councilmen W. Donald Hartford, William D. Hobson, and Morton W. Lester. (Absent: none). Pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a Public Hearing on the petition (as amended) of Mr. Martin J. Lester, President of Forest Haven Estates, Inc., requesting the rezoning to "P-2" of petitioner's property at 318 Starling Avenue, as recommended by the Planning Commission. There being no objections registered to this proposed rezoning, Council unanimously effected said rezoning by its adoption of the following ordinance amending the City's Zoning Map: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twenty-seventh day of March, 1973, that the City's Zoning Code and Zoning Map be--and are hereby--amended so as to effect a "P-2 Professional" for that property located at 318 Starling Avenue, for and on behalf of Mr. Martin J. Lester, President of Forest Haven Estates. Among other things had and done at said meeting the Mayor announced that further consideration of Ordinance No. F-2 first passed at the City Council's regular meeting of March 13, 1973, consenting to and approving the sale and assignment of the telephone franchise through a merger of the Companies from Lee Telephone Company, to Virginia Telephone & Telegraph Company was in order.