Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 11, 1991 TAG: 9104120894
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-20 EDITION: METRO
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Betty Knapp, a licensed practical nurse at Roanoke Memorial Hospital, has filed a petition for a special exceptions permit for the home, which she says will provide short- and long-term stays for people infected with the HIV virus.
The Botetourt County Planning Commission will recommend that the supervisors reject the petition because a number of residents opposed the home during the commission's public hearing Monday.
Much of the opposition to the home, Knapp said, is based on the idea that the AIDS virus would spread about the neighborhood. But, she said, the only way to catch the disease from infected individuals is to be in close contact their body fluids.
Knapp said the house, on U.S. 11 just north of Troutville, is on 5.5 acres and is quite a distance from surrounding houses.
The supervisors' hearing on the petition will be held during their afternoon session, which begins at 1:30. They also will hear a petition from Jim and Dorothy Hancock who want to rezone 446 acres west of U.S. 220 in Daleville for a planned-unit development.
During the morning session, which starts at 9, the supervisors will hold hearings on the renaming of eight streets and on an amendment to the solid-waste ordinance.
The amendment will allow for private facilities for composting yard wastes, such as leaves and grass clippings.
Board members also will discuss a disputed state redistricting plan that divides Botetourt among three legislative districts. The supervisors had asked that all of Botetourt be put in a single district.
by CNB