ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, January 25, 1996 TAG: 9601250059
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG
SOURCE: BRIAN KELLEY STAFF WRITER
Consideration of a major residential rezoning proposal for Price Mountain has been postponed another two weeks.
Developer William H. Price amended his rezoning request Monday to fix a technical error, but the county Planning Commission wants more time before recommending that the Board of Supervisors set a public hearing date on the proposal.
The Planning Commission next will take up the 538-acre proposal at its Feb. 7 work session and Feb. 14 regular meeting.
Seven commission members, Price and several Oilwell Road residents gathered Monday to talk about details of the project again, after an initial talk last week.
Next month, commission members will talk over at least two issues related to the project: the possibility of the owners of existing homes on Oilwell Road seeking a county-initiated rezoning of their land from an agricultural to a residential category; and the chance of finding a new site for communications towers away from existing and planned homes.
In other Montgomery County news nuggets this week:
The Planning Commission recommended denial of an 8-acre rezoning request filed by James Radford for land off Thomas Lane, near the Montgomery Farms neighborhood of Prices Fork. The decision came after a public hearing during which neighbors said Thomas Lane is overburdened already and adding one single-family home and 12 duplexes will only worsen things. That proposal will go to the supervisors next month.
The Board of Supervisors heard that state school bonds probably could be used to pay for sewer and water system improvements related to building a new elementary school in Riner. County Attorney Roy Thorpe told the board the county's bond lawyer had confirmed Virginia Public School Authority bond money can be used to pay for such projects, though they are considered on a case-by-case basis. School and county officials are working to make sure the needed utility improvements don't delay opening the new school by late 1997. Last year, the supervisors gave tentative approval to borrowing up to $8 million from the VPSA to build the school.
The supervisors appointed former Board of Supervisors member Larry Linkous to the county Industrial Development Authority. The board also reappointed David O. Shanks.
The supervisors voted 6-1 to pursue a new trash-collection site at U.S. 460 and Coal Bank Hollow Road on land owned by the Virginia Department of Transportation and William Deemer. The site eventually will be developed as another staffed, fenced collection site similar to the one on Prices Fork Road, said Supervisor Ira Long.
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