Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 15, 1994 TAG: 9403150214
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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Town Attorney Richard Kaufmann said Monday he could not reveal what bent the resolution would take, saying that he was still working with individual council members on the resolution's wording.
At the Town Council's last meeting, dozens of Blacksburg and Montgomery County citizens turned out to oppose any plan that would route the Detroit-to-Charleston, S.C., highway through the county.
High on the state Highway Department's list of preferences for possible routes is one that would follow U.S. 460 from West Virginia to Blacksburg and then the proposed smart road path south toward the Roanoke Valley.
As plans are drawn now, the smart road would run through the south end of Blacksburg.
Several council members last Tuesday seemed wary of any plan that would bring an interstate through their turf, and there was talk of voting on a resolution that night. Council members decided to wait until tonight's meeting to get its thoughts and words in order.
Tonight's meeting was originally intended to be a work session on the town manager's recommended budget for 1994-1995. That work session will still be held, but because the state Transportation Board is scheduled to begin considering routes for the interstate at its meeting Thursday, the Town Council's desire to vote on a resolution has taken on an added element of immediacy.
by CNB