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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 10, 1993                   TAG: 9302100115
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

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LAND-SWAP OBJECTIONS RAISED

Town Council has raised objections to Montgomery County's proposed land swap for a bus access road to the planned new Blacksburg elementary school. The county wants to swap a 50-foot right-of-way at the western edge of the school property (see map above) to adjacent landowner Michael Kipps for a right of way for a bus access road to the school from Cambridge Road in the Haymarket Square subdivision. Council says the deal will jeopardize the future of a recreation park the town has planned next to the school. The county Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on the land swap on Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in the courthouse.

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