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E TUESDAY MAY 12, 1970 ",-, The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor F. T. Renick, M.D., presiding, was held Tuesday, May 12, 1970, in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 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 D. Hobson. .- After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held April 28, 1970. Pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on a proposal to rezone previously-zoned IIR-9" properties fronting Cabell Street to "C-3 Commercial", including Lots Nos. 13 through 18 owned by Woodmen of the World (Camp 48) for which a "C-3" zoning was requested by this organi- zation in its petition dated January 22, 1970. There being no objections registered by anyone to this proposal, which carried the Planning Commissionts approval, Council effected said requested and proposed rezoning by means of the following ordinance amending the City's Zoning Code and Zoning Map: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twelfth day of May, 1970, that the Zoning Ordinance and the Zoning Map of the City of Martinsville be-- and are hereby--amended to reclassify to "C-3 Commercial" all property fronting Cabell Street heretofore zoned "R-9 Residentialll. Pursuant to the request of the Planning Commission, in order to expedite processing of the Piedmont Trust Bank's April 14th petition--on behalf of the Whitney Shumate Estate--requesting the closing of a portion of "Ell Street, between Fifth Street and Roundabout Road, Council directed that a joint and duly-advertised public hearing be conducted by the Council and the Commission on this petition at Council's forthcoming June 9th meeting.