ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, February 15, 1996 TAG: 9602150060
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG
SOURCE: BRIAN KELLEY STAFF WRITER
Heeding concerned neighbors and its Planning Commission, the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors this week voted down a proposed duplex development in Prices Fork.
The board voted 7-0 Monday to deny the request by James W. Radford to rezone 8 acres off Thomas Lane from agricultural to residential status.
At a public hearing last month, residents of the nearby Montgomery Farms subdivision and Thomas Lane urged supervisors to kill the proposal. They said adding one single-family home and 12 duplexes to their neighborhood would overwhelm their already overburdened road.
The Montgomery County panel decided two other land-use requests this week:
By a 6-1 vote the board rezoned 25 acres off Rock Road from agricultural to residential status at the request of Ben Harris. Supervisor Joe Stewart was the lone no vote. The land is part of 205 rural acres beside the Radford city boundary that Harris and Fred Franklin have proposed developing into a 98-home neighborhood.
Last month, the board postponed a decision on the entire project - which is divided into three pieces of adjoining land - until the county's Public Service Authority and Radford worked out a sewer service agreement for the area. But Harris plans to develop the 25-acre portion with individual septic systems, not public sewer, so he asked that it be moved forward.
The board took the unusual step of adding a clause to the rezoning ordinance specifying that Harris or future landowners, not the county, will be responsible for providing wastewater service. That's to prevent the county from having to foot the bill, should the septic systems begin to fail in the future.
By a 7-0 vote rezoned 4 acres on U.S. 11/460 in Elliston to general business status. This will allow Charles Akers to redevelop the former Green Hill sausage plant into a commercial property. The plant has been vacant for about six years.
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