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<br />31 <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />FEBRUARY 22, 1972 <br /> <br />The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, <br /> <br />Virginia, with Vice-Mayor Francis T. West presiding (in the absence of Mayor <br /> <br />Fred T. Renick), was held Tuesday, February 22, 1972, in the Council Chamber, <br /> <br />City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., the following members being present: <br /> <br />Francis T. West, Vice Mayor; W. Donald Hartford; and William D. Hobson. <br /> <br />Pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing <br /> <br />on Mr. C. J. Buck's property rezoning petition filed November 23, 1971, which <br /> <br />requested the rezoning to ''M-l Industrial" of Mr. Buck's property fronting <br /> <br />Stultz Road, between Lester's Lane and Rahlway Street. There being no objections <br /> <br />registered by anyone against the requested rezoning, and noting with appreciation <br /> <br />Mr. Buck's cooperation in designing the location of his building to be constructed <br /> <br />on this property so as to anticipate the future widening of Stultz Road, and in <br /> <br />acceptance of the Planning Commission's recommendation (dated January 21, 1972) <br /> <br />that petition be granted, Council unanimously effected the requested rezoning <br /> <br />through its adoption of the following ordinance, which amends the City's Zoning <br /> <br />Code and Map accordingly: <br /> <br />,-,.-.... <br /> <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, <br />in regular meeting assembled this twenty-second day of February, <br />1972, that the Zoning Code and the Zoning Map of the City of <br />Martinsville be--and are hereby--amended to reclassify to ''M-l Industrial" that <br />certain tract of land owned by Mr. C. J. Buck and/or Buck Enterprises, Inc., <br />which tract fronts Stultz Road between Lester's Lane and Rahlway Street. <br /> <br />Also, pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing <br /> <br />on a petition filed December 14, 1971, by Roselawn Burial Park (through its counsel, <br /> <br />Mr. John D. Epperly, Attorney at Law), for a zoning classification to allow construction <br /> <br />and operation of a funeral chapel on a tract of land lying within Roselawn Cemetery <br /> <br />at the end of Valleydale Drive and near the offices of petitioner. Mr. William F. <br /> <br />Stone, Jr., Attorney at Law, retained by and representing some eighty-three <br /> <br />signatories, presented the following petition: <br />