ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, June 15, 1996 TAG: 9606170052
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
A special-use permit for a housing development for older adults that includes 20 condominiums was approved this week by the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors.
The development, which also will offer 60 assisted-living units, will be built on Farmview Road off U.S. 460 about one-half mile south of the Marketplace shopping center. L&S Partnership of Blacksburg will oversee the project.
B.F. Holstein Jr., who has been in the nursing home business locally for almost 20 years, told the supervisors last month that the project was needed to meet housing needs in this "prime retirement area."
The 7.8-acre site was rezoned to multifamily in 1990. The owner now wants a special-use permit to allow the housing project with up to 80 units.
At a public hearing last month, nearby landowners expressed concerns about increased traffic on an unpaved road and on U.S. 460. Holstein, however, said minimal increases in traffic would occur with most new car traffic coming from employees. Employee shift changes would occur at nonpeak traffic hours for U.S. 460, he said.
The Montgomery County Planning Commission recommended approving the request, with several conditions that include improving the road and constructing a brick and board privacy fence at least five feet high.
The developers will have to dedicate an additional 30 feet of right-of-way along Farmview Drive for the length of the property and will have to pave the road to a point 15 feet past the last entrance to the development. The service road and parking areas will also have to be paved.
In other business Monday, the supervisors:
Sent back to the Planning Department a request from Larry N. Smith to build a general store catering to the farming community in Prices Fork.
Smith had asked to rezone a parcel of less than an acre on Prices Fork Road from agricultural to general business. He wants to build and operate a farm supply store that he and supporters said would help farmers avoid long drives to Christiansburg or Giles County to purchase supplies.
Planning Commission members had recommended the supervisors approve the request, but change the zoning to community business, a more limited business zoning that allows for stores up to 3,000 square feet.
But Robert Brown, whose property abuts Smith, told supervisors he believed the map Smith submitted with his rezoning request included Brown's driveway and he objected. The supervisors withheld a decision on Smith's request until the property boundary line dispute is cleared up.
Approved $6,600 to help the county Parks and Recreation Department buy new playground equipment for the Mid-County Park.
The department had raised about $9,200 through contributions in the last year but needed additional money to complete the purchase.
County Administrator Betty Thomas said the current playground equipment is 20 years old, wooden and unsafe. With a summer play camp enrollment of 100 children daily, new equipment was needed, she said.
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