The Hampton City Council voted at its March 10 regular meeting to approve annexations and rezonings for two pieces of property on South Hampton Road.

  First readings on the two ordinances that would annex a 41.01-acre site and a separate 2.22-acre tract were approved last August, but only passed their second readings this month. Two other ordinances addressed the change from RA (residential-agricultural) to R-3 (single-family residential) as well as an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan, changing the designations from rural residential to low-density residential.

  All four of these actions passed with a 4-1 vote, with Henry Byrd voting against each one.

  In other business, the council voted to rezone 201.43 acres of property on Floyd Road for residential development, with Byrd again casting the lone dissenting vote. The requested change was from RA to R-3 and included an amendment to the city’s comprehensive plan changing the designation from rural residential to low-density residential.

  The council approved a conditional use request for True Light Baptist Church regarding a 4.83-acre site at the southeast corner of South Hampton Road and Hampton-Locust Grove Road. That request was approved unanimously.

  An ordinance was approved granting a requested modification of a master development plan for roughly 65 acres south of Hwy. 20 between West King Road and South Hampton Road. The site is zoned PD (planned development) and the request was to change a general commercial pod within the plan to a combination of multi-family residential and general commercial development. The vote to approve was 4-1 with Errol Mitchell voting in opposition. A first reading of the ordinance had been approved with conditions at the council’s February meeting.

 A memorandum of understanding was approved between the city and Jeremy P. Faulkner Post 330 of the American Legion to allow its use, without fee, of the meeting room within the Catherine Williams Center on a monthly basis. The council also approved an agreement with Fulton and Kozak Certified Public Accountants for financial auditing services, a resolution setting meeting dates for the Youth Council Committee, use of the parking lot at the depot downtown for a spring and fall market, and the first reading of an ordinance amending the Ethics Committee to include seven members instead of five.