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

DATE: THURSDAY, December 8, 1994                   TAG: 9501120066
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: CHARLES STEBBINS STAFF WRITER
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VINTON'S UPDATED PLAN HAS FEW CHANGES

An updated comprehensive plan and future land use map that make relatively minor changes to land use in Vinton sailed through a Town Council public hearing Tuesday with no public comment.

The Vinton Planning Commission, which has held several open sessions on the updating process during the last two years, uniamously recommended approval. Town Council is expected to approve the map and plan at its Dec. 20 meeting.

Town Planner David Holladay said that most of the changes are to bring the plan and land use map in line with rezoning changes granted by Town Council.

Several areas, he said, had been given industrial zoning but no industry located there. The adjoining areas are developing as residential, so the updated plan makes the whole area residential.

State law requires that comprehensive plans be updated every five years.

In another action, Town Council raised the fee to help cover the cost of the 911 emergency telephone system from 46 cents to $1. Most of the increase will be used to upgrade the equipment to make it compatible with new equipment in the Roanoke County system.

Council held a public hearing on this issue in November and received no comment from the public.

In other action Town Council:

Approved the purchase of a bucket truck - a truck with a person-size bucket on a hydraulic boom - for use by the utility and street departments. Council authorized spending up to $10,000 for the purchase.

Authorized the sale of a surplus pumper truck by the Fire Department to the Town of Tazewell, which has offered to buy it for $5,000.

by CNB