Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, May 20, 1995 TAG: 9505220020
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
Dublin Town Council voted Thursday to hire Anderson and Associates for the task, at a cost of about $23,800. "They will complete their work within 40 days," Town Manager Gary Elander said.
The project will be on the former Burlington Mills property, which the town acquired and incorporated into its boundaries as an industrial park.
The area has been subdivided into tracts for a new town hall, which would offer Pulaski County services as well, and a new post office to replace the landlocked facility in downtown Dublin, which also needs to be expanded.
The Dublin Town Center building will be on a 1.5-acre tract, and the post office on a 2.6-acre lot. Two of the remaining five lots measure 1.9 and 1.3 acres; the other three each measure less than an acre.
Access roads are planned off Virginia 100 and Virginia 682. The town has applied for a $400,000 access road grant and will work with the county Board of Supervisors on road plans. The Dublin Planning Commission has approved the subdivision plans.
The town gained $35,000 last month by selling 5.1 acres of town shop property to RGM Erectors Inc. and applied that to surveying and engineering for the Dublin Town Center.
A formal dedication of the industrial park is planned for about mid-September, to coincide with the dedication of the new Edwards Hall under construction at New River Community College.
Also, Dublin residents who don't buy their car or truck decals could find themselves facing a citation and fine from a Pulaski or Pulaski County officer as well as from their own.
The council joined with Pulaski and Pulaski County in changing the wording in its vehicle decal ordinance so law enforcement officers in Pulaski, Pulaski County and Dublin can enforce requirements for town or county vehicle decals in each jurisdiction.
Councilman David Stanley noted that the expiration dates for decals still differs from one jurisdiction to another. "It would be helpful if they were all on the same date," he said.
by CNB