Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: THURSDAY, April 26, 1990 TAG: 9004260519 SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-4 EDITION: STATE SOURCE: DATELINE: INDEPENDENCE LENGTH: Short
Besides the U.S. 58 issue, part of the project approved by the 1989 General Assembly for four-laning U.S. 58 from Lee County east to Virginia Beach, the group will discuss support for county land-use planning. The meeting is open to the public.
Local governing bodies in the Mount Rogers Planning District, reacting to the letter-writing campaign by Graysonites for Progressive Change, have all formally renewed their support in recent months for four-laning the entire highway through Virginia.
Del. G.C. Jennings, D-Marion, an early advocate of the U.S. 58 project, told state transportation officials at the annual Bristol District roads hearing April 6 in Abingdon that the opposition to the four-laning in Grayson County has largely been from outsiders with vacation homes there and an interest in keeping it rural.
Susan Francis of Independence, a member of the Graysonites group, took issue with his statement. Out of more than 500 signatures on petitions supporting an improved two-lane U.S. 58 rather than the four-laning, she said, only 11 lived outside Grayson or Washington counties.
- Southwest bureau
by CNB