MINUTE BOOK No. 17, CITY OF OXFORD

(~52r---------- ------ ----0_. ____i~--------.- -----.-..--- ---------.. --_._- ---- --.-._------- .._._-MINUTE BOOK No. 17, CITY OF OXFORD--.--[ R:JGULAR MITTING 7:30 P. ~. OCTCBili 2, 1956STATE OF MISSISSIPfICOUNTY OF LAFAYF TTYCOM~ NOW Dr. J. P. McLaurin and his wife fugenie McLaurin and G. F.Beard by their attorney Dwayne L. Hale, and petitions thp. City Board ofAldermen of the Sity of Oxford, l-ftississippi, and wakes the following request:That whereas, G. F. Heard is the ownrr of a certain lot describedbelow, said lot being located in the City of Oxford, Mississippi, andbeing located on Van Buren Avenue, and within a residential zone in saidcity, said lot having been zoned and designated as residential bJ an ordinanceof a forrrer city board; and whereas, the said G. F. Heard is anxiousto sell said lot to Dr. J. P. ~cLaurin,and whereas said Dr. is anxious torurchase said lot for the proposed purr-ose of constructing and erectingthereon a wasonary type office and or clinic. That in order to be able to doso the petition Frs herein respectfully request the Board of Alderrren andthe zoning corr~issionto specifically designate the lot in question asa commercial lot, after notice as rrquired by the city zoning ordinanceand the amendements thereto, has been properly given to the public.Theproperty is described as follows:The West fraction of Lot No. 475, as the same is laid down and designatedon the plan of Map of said Oxford, a copy thereof being onfile in the office of the Mayor of said City, and a copy of said Mapbeing on file in the office of the 8hancery Clerk of said county andstate, in Section 21, Township 8, Range 3 West, and more particularlydescribed as fronting 60 feet on Van Buren Avenue, and commencingat thr Southwest corner of said Lot 475, run thence North along andwest line of said Lot 475 a distance of 122 feet; thence East Farallelwith the South line of said Lot 475, a distance of 60 f'3et; thmceSouth parallel with thF west line of said Lot 475, a distance of 122feet to thF south line of said Lot 475; th~nce West along the southline of said Lot 475 a distance of 60 feet to the point of beginningand being the same property sold and conveyed to the late Mrs. WinnieMcMahon by W. C. Cox, et ux, by deed dated April 18, 1927, recordedin Deed Book 91, at page 629 of the records of Deeds in said ChanceryClerks office, to which reference is here made.Witness my signature this the last day of October, 1956lsi Dwayne L~aleATTORN}X FOR PETITION"RSAfter carefully considering the foregoing petitionl"Iade, seconded and passed unanimously it is herebyhad on said matter at the time and place specifiedthat said notice be published as required by law;as follows:and on motion dulyordered that a hearing bein the following notice andthe notice refrrred to being