Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, April 15, 1994 TAG: 9404150069
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Short
Chairman Jeff London said Wednesday he will not seek reappointment to the Montgomery County Planning Commission next month.
The nine-member commission makes recommendations on zoning and planning issues to the Board of Supervisors. London has been chairman since last summer
Instead of seeking another term, during which the commission will work on an update to the zoning ordinance and revision to the county's comprehensive plan, London is leaving the area in June - in the name of love.
London, 44, got married Sunday and left Thursday to house hunt this weekend in Rochester, N.Y., with his bride, Ditte Phillips, whom he met during a stay at a kibbutz in Israel 18 years ago.
A Blacksburg resident since 1983, London will take a job in New York with Rural Opportunities Inc., a five-state nonprofit housing development corporation. He will leave his job as executive director of Mountain Shelter Inc. in Wytheville.
London's four-year Planning Commission term expires at the end of next month, along with that of Richard Daub of Blacksburg.
by CNB