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74 TUESDAY MARCH 9, 1965 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, with Mayor J. Frank Wilson presiding, was held Tuesday, March 9, 1965, beginning at 7:30 P.M., in the Council Chamber, City Hall, with all members being present with the exception of Vice-Mayor F. T. Renick, M.D., who was absent because of continuing illness, viz., Mayor J. Frank Wilson; Thomas J. Burch; Harry L. Boaz; and E. E. Stone. After the invocation, the Council approved as recorded the minutes of its regular meeting held February 23, 1965, and of its special meeting held March 5, 1 965 . By letter dated March 5, 1965, the Planning Commission reported that, in considering the petition recently submitted by the Piedmont Trust Bank, requesting the rezoning froTI "R-9 Hesidential" to "P-1 Professional" of the Schottland Apartment property on the south side of East Church Street (between Starling Avenue and Oakdale Street), and having conducted a public hearing on the petition (including an advertised proposal to rezone all propertie;3 fronting the south side of this street--not already so zoned-- to "P-1 P:::-ofessional"), the Commission recommended the rezoning of all ~.t-; ..dl propertie;3 fronting the south side of this^ wi thin the block, to "P-1 Professional". Council, thereupon, in accepting the Commission's recommendation, called for a duly-advertised public hearing on same to be conducted by Council at its forthcoming April 13th meeting. The Planning Commission, also by letter dated March 5, 1965, recommended the granting of rezoning petition submitted to Council on January 26, 1965, by Attorney William F. Stone on behalf of Evelyn H. 'Stone, Trustee, which would classify as "M-3 Industrial" the seventy-eight-acre tract