Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, May 20, 1995 TAG: 9505220023
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: BRIAN KELLEY STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
It will be Shawsville night Monday for the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors. The board will hold public hearings on a trailer park expansion and two rezonings in the eastern Montgomery community.
The hearings begin at 7 p.m. Monday in the courtroom on the third floor of the Montgomery County Courthouse. No final decisions are expected Monday.
The largest case involves a request by Smith Village Mobile Home Park to add 25 spaces to the 160 it has at Dark Run Road and U.S. 11/460 in Shawsville.
One factor that may complicate the case is sewage. The Shawsville sewage treatment plant is at capacity and cannot accept a major increase in connections, according to the county Public Service Authority. A planned plant expansion won't be completed until next year.
One of the two rezonings also involves trailers. For the second time this spring, Ray E. Epperly is seeking to rezone land to a zoning category that allows trailers to be placed more densely than in standard agricultural zoning. In this case, Epperly wants to develop 2.3 acres at 3780 Oldtown Road in Shawsville into six small lots. Without the rezoning, Epperly would be able to develop only five lots. Epperly has voluntarily offered to prohibit single-wide trailers from the development.
The spot is about one-tenth of a mile west of Stevenson Lane and a half mile west of the Shawsville Historic District. In April, the Board of Supervisors rejected a similar request by Epperly to rezone 4.5 acres in an undeveloped portion of the Old Mill Estates subdivision in Elliston. Neighbors feared that trailers would hurt property values.
The third Shawsville case involves a request to rezone U.S. 11/460 and Alleghany Springs Road so First National Bank can purchase the land and build a branch bank. The land is owned by Alleghany Realty & Investment Co.
Another public hearing Monday involves a request for a special-use permit for a tract that, although located in the Blacksburg Industrial Park, extends into Montgomery County.
Robinson Construction Co. is seeking a special-use permit to operate a concrete mixing plant in the industrial park, next to the land where Wolverine Gasket and Manufacturing Co. is building a new plant.
Early this month, Blacksburg told Robinson Construction that a concrete plant would not comply with restrictive covenants that regulate property within the industrial park. Those covenants may be amended, however, with the approval of the town and of the owners of at least two-thirds of the acreage at the industrial park.
Montgomery County does not enforce private deed covenants and the county will be neutral on the question, said Jeff Scott, a county planner.
by CNB