Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, August 11, 1994 TAG: 9408190042
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: W-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By CHARLES STEBBINS STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: NEW CASTLE LENGTH: Medium
Richard Flora, county administrator, told the Board of Supervisors last week that confusion is developing in the area around New Castle, the county's only town.
With a population of about 200, New Castle is the urban center of the county.
Flora said that, in the area outside the New Castle town limits, streets have names, but few, if any, have signs.
The streets also have the traditional county road numbers, Flora said, and some people use those, while others use the street names.
Confusion often occurs, he said, when visitors or delivery people are seeking a named street that has no sign. With delivery people and visitors, this is only a minor annoyance, he said, but it could be critical in an emergency.
Flora told the board that he has asked the Virginia Department of Transportation for a cost estimate on installing signs.
Scott Hodge, the VDOT official whose jurisdiction includes Craig, said his department would install the signs with highway funds. After that, however, Craig would be required to maintain them and pay for replacements.
In other business, the supervisors made two appointments and were notified of New Castle appointments to three joint county/town boards.
The supervisors appointed Don Charlton to the Craig-New Castle Industrial Development Authority and reappointed Dallas Fisher to the county Social Services Board.
The other appointments, made by New Castle Town Council, were to three boards that cover both the town and the county. They were: Gertrude Lowery to the Planning Commission, Julian Zimmerman to the Solid Waste Management Board and the Public Service Authority, and Sherry Fuller to the Public Service Authority.
by CNB