Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 21, 1994                   TAG: 9412210081
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-12   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Medium

LAND THAT INCLUDES INDUSTRIAL PARK TO BECOME PART OF DUBLIN

The county and town have also formally pledged to continue cooperating in the development of the park, which will benefit both localities.

The agreement must still be approved by the county's circuit court. County Attorney Tom McCarthy and Town Attorney Tommy Baker were authorized to prepare the necessary documents.

The county Board of Supervisors and Dublin Town Council gave the agreement their stamp of approval in a joint session here Monday night, following a public hearing which drew no speakers.

The addition will double the area of the town but will not add to its population since it includes no residential property. All the property lies south of Bag Plant Road (Virginia 1030).

The main property includes some 271 acres, formerly owned by Burlington Mills. The town acquired 101 acres after the Burlington plant, which is outside the Dublin's corporate limits, closed. It acquired the other 170 acres in two transactions with Burlington earlier this year.

The former Burlington buildings still stand in the industrial park and can be adapted for use by industry locating there.

A few other business sites between the present corporate limits and the industrial park will go to Dublin: 7.64 acres owned by Marshall Concrete Products of Christiansburg Inc., 6.73 acres owned by J.Y. Realty Corp., about 20 acres belonging to Lane Enterprises Inc., and state property just off Virginia 100 where the state police and Virginia Department of Transportation have offices.

The agreement includes those commercial properties bordering the town so it would be able to deliver water, sewer and police protection more efficiently.

Still another agreement provides Dublin with access to water and sewer facilities owned by the Pulaski County Public Service Authority but located within the town limits. It also gives Dublin access to a planned sewer collection system to be installed on the Burlington property as part of the system scheduled to start serving Claytor Lake State Park in 1995. The authority and the town will not charge each other for transmitting water through their systems.

The county also held a public hearing on a bond issue of up to $901,000 to finance water facilities to serve Virginia 660, Claytor Lake State Park and Pond Lick Hollow. No one spoke at the hearing.

The supervisors denied a request by Leon Gillis of Christiansburg to change the zoning along Parrott River Road (Virginia 600) in the Cloyd District from C1 conservation to A1 agricultural to allow for smaller lot sizes in potential future development. Residents argued that such a change would alter the complexion of the area.

The board also agreed to help support the annual Count Pulaski Day festival in the town of Pulaski by providing staff assistance, as available, as it does other festivals held in the county.