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19 TUESDAY JANUARY 26, 1954 The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of :Martinsville, Virginia was held in the Council Chaniber, City Hall, on Tuesday, January 26, 1954, at 7:30 P.M., the following members being present: Mayor and Councilman R. S. Hodnett, and Councilmen C. P. Craig, D. H. Goode, and J. R. Walker,--Councilman W. T. Turner being absent. .,- Minutes of the regular Council meeting held January 32, 1954, upon being read, were approved. Before taking up its regular order of business, Council recognized the presence of visitors, one of whom was Mr. Philmore Minter of Graves Street, who called Council's attention to the lack of adequate sewerage facilities on Graves, Oak, ~'" i~ i and Douglas Streets. Other visitors were present merely to observe the Council meeting or to discuss certain items on the agenda in which they were especially interested. The first item on the agenda was a proposed ordinance (on second reading) amending the City's Zoning Map and Zoning Code to provide for rezoning of properties along the new Route 220 Thoroughfare or Distribution Road. A public hearing having already been conducted on this matter and no objections having been registered with the Council, said, proposed ordinance, as placed on first reading January 12, 1954, was unanimously adopted. A resolution providing for the closing and vacating of Alpine and Spruce Streets in the vicinity of the intersection of Lavinder Street with the new Route 220 Thoroughfare and for the closing and vacating of a portion of said Lavinder Street south of said Route 220 Thoroughfare and lying along the front of Lots 60, 61, 62, and 63, was unanimously adopted, as follows: