Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 25, 1990 TAG: 9004250192
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PETER MATHEWS NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
Alcorn was a member of the landowners' committee to the Route 460/114 Corridor Advisory Planning Council. The group attempted to come up with development standards that Christiansburg, Blacksburg and county officials could agree on.
"Why have we spent over two years of our time in addressing these issues if what we have is completely unpalatable?" Alcorn asked Monday night at a public hearing of the Board of Supervisors and county Planning Commission. "In several instances, I feel like this work has been absolutely ignored."
The standards cover access, signs, landscaping and other development features.
Alcorn particularly objected to the county's proposed changes in the access standard, which would generally limit entrances to arterial streets to one every 500 feet, with some exceptions.
The county's zoning committee, which reviewed the landowners' report, also rejected the group's recommendations for substantial changes in the sign ordinance.
Dean Allen, a Planning Commission member, said the report contained some good ideas that were simply unenforceable.
On another matter, the Board of Supervisors interviewed Robert C. Goncz Jr., who is unopposed for reappointment to the School Board.
Asked to assess the need for two new elementary schools, Goncz said he was convinced the county had space needs and that building new schools seemed the most appropriate way to solve the problem.
Goncz also told the board he did not think the door was totally closed to Montgomery County's participation in the Governor's School.
by CNB