ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, August 30, 1996 TAG: 9608300022
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: PULASKI
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
For Mark Wiley, the Sept. 23 meeting of the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors will decide whether his 60-unit Silvanway Apartments gets built or not.
"I've been on it for nearly a year," Wiley said Thursday. "I've got to get prepared for next month."
Earlier this week, the board heard conflicting reports from engineers representing Wiley and neighboring landowners worried about water runoff from the project. Unable to resolve the experts' claims that the project would or would not harm nearby acreage, the board tabled a decision for 30 days. The supervisors want to see if both sides can negotiate conditions for building the project.
The apartments would cover 4.25 acres, Wiley said, but will require him to assume management of the surrounding 16 acres for disposing of water runoff. This will be done by draining the water into a pond, and then releasing it at a slower rate than it would normally be released.
Wiley said he has built three such ponds and all of them have worked. But even his engineer, Ray Varney of Anderson & Associates, agrees the project will cause much more water to drain off than before. That concerns neighboring property owners about potential erosion, sediment and contamination problems from it.
After hearing pros and cons on the project for about nine months, the county Planning Commission approved it with a series of conditions the developer would have to meet. Some of the landowners appealed the commission's decision to the supervisors.
Supervisor Jerry White said he was ready to vote on a decision when the board met Monday. But he deferred to Chairman Joe Sheffey's and Supervisor Charles Cook's calls for the property owners and developer to try once more to work out an easement or some other conditions that would satisfy both sides.
"This is the third plan that we've done for them," Wiley said. He said that has not bothered him, because he does not want to design something which will not work. That was why he went to Anderson & Associates to design the pond and runoff system, he said.
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