Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 19, 1992                   TAG: 9203190156
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-9   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
DATELINE: PULASKI                                  LENGTH: Medium

OWNER UNHAPPY WITH PULASKI REZONING

That was the recommendation of the town Planning Commission, and council approved it Tuesday 5-2.

Lemon wanted business zoning.

J.R. Schrader and Nick Glenn voted against the change, but Don Crispin, James Neblett, Andrew Graham, W.H. Schrader and Alma Holston favored the recommendation.

Lemon's 2.45 acres was originally part of a blanket rezoning along U.S. 11 that included the Pulaski Medical Services property and the Farmer and English properties. It would only have affected Lemon's property to a depth of 300 feet.

At a public hearing on that larger rezoning, Lemon expressed concern about his property being zoned two different ways, and later asked that his entire property all be made B-2, business.

Robert J. Lyons, assistant to the town manager, recommended that the more restrictive R-O (residential-office) designation be adopted. He noted that Lemon's property is in a transitional area of residential, office and business zoning and thought the middle designation most appropriate.

Council also adopted a resolution allowing an agreement with Pulaski County to satisfy Farmers Home Administration requirements on a water-line extension.

Pulaski County has received FmHA approval for funding to build an extension serving about 60 residents in the Brookmont area. Council already had said the town would supply water to the area.

Estimated use is 10,000 gallons a day.

In another matter, resident Claud Kirkland told council that the town should have hired a reputable contractor instead of a consultant for removing underground oil tanks on town-owned property now being leased as a bus depot and cab stand. The property used to be a service station.