SUPERVISORS OK BUS-ENTRANCE LAND PURCHASE

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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 1, 1993                   TAG: 9304010132
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short
SUPERVISORS OK BUS-ENTRANCE LAND PURCHASE
Following a closed-door meeting Monday night, the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors voted to buy land for a bus entrance to a new Blacksburg elementary school.
The board decided to buy 1.44 acres from Michael S. Kipps and others for $25,983 for an entrance road. Snyder-Hunt Corp. also has agreed to donate to the county a small piece of land for the bus road.
The Snyder-Hunt donation allows the county to connect the entrance road with Tall Oaks Drive and eliminates the need to connect the road with Cambridge Road in the Haymarket Square subdivision. The change will eliminate one turn for buses arriving and leaving the school.
Some residents in the Hethwood subdivisions had objected to plans to bring buses through the subdivisions and had argued that they should be brought into the school from Prices Fork Road instead.
School officials noted that a car entrance already was planned off Prices Fork Road and said the bus entrance into the back of the school would be safer.
The new school and a Blacksburg recreational park will be located on 28 acres of land just west of the Food Lion store on Prices Fork Road.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB