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1( TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12. 1963 .'- The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor J. Frank Wilson presiding, was held in the Council Chamber, City Hall, Tuesday, February 12, 1963, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members of Council being present, viz., Mayor J. Frank Wilson; Vice-Mayor Fred T. Renick, M.D.; Harry L. Boaz; Thomas J. Burch; and E. E. Stone. After the invocation, Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held January 22, 1963. Pursuant to duly-advertised public notice, Council conducted a public hearing on a proposal to rezone from "A-2 Residential'1 to "B-2 Industrial" certain property on the east side of Franklin and Dillard Streets, including Sale Knitting Company property not already so zoned. There being no objections registered towards this proposed rezoning, and the Planning Commission already having so recommended, Council effected the change of zoning by adopting the following ordinance amending the City's Zoning Code: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this twelfth day of February, 1963, that the Zoning Code and Zoning Map of the City of Martinsville be and are hereby fu'TIended to classify as "B-2 Industrial" all of that certain area east of Dillard Street presently surrounded on three sides by "B-2 Industrial'1 zoning, indicated on the City's Zoning Map as being bounded by the former Rieves Street on the east, Sale Knitting Company property on the south, and by Franklin and Dillard Streets on the west, including Sale Knitting Company property not already so zoned. City Manager Hirst reported that the Virginia National Guard's architect has advised that plans for a new armory for Martinsville are essentially complete. ".... City Manager Hirst reported further that a proposed agreement between the City and the National Guard is under study and will be presented to Council within the near future.