ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, October 12, 1996 TAG: 9610140020
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-8 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
*Upcoming:
*The Radford City Council meets at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Municipal Building, 619 Second St. Topics include planning for a new recreation building and a new parking ordinance for the downtown business district.
*Because of Columbus Day, the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors has moved its regular meeting to 7 p.m. Tuesday on the third floor of the Montgomery County Courthouse at Main and Franklin streets, Christiansburg. The agenda includes renewal of four major Agricultural and Forestal Districts containing nearly 15,000 acres of rural land. The votes Tuesday also will formally remove 136 acres from the Wilson Creek/Den Creek Agricultural and Forestal District for use in the "smart" highway right of way. In June, the Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 3 that removal of the land for the Blacksburg-to-Interstate 81 highway was necessary to provide a public service and would not unreasonably affect county or state conservation policy. That vote followed months of controversy. Tuesday's AFD votes will renew the four districts for eight years beginning Jan. 1. They also will allow the landowners to continue to qualify for major real-estate tax breaks designed to preserve rural land. The board also will vote on additions to five other AFDs.
Also Tuesday, the supervisors may reconsider last month's resolution in favor of renovating Blacksburg Middle School or building a new facility on the present site. The county School Board wants to seek a new, larger school site away from downtown. The supervisors have been critical of that effort and have met twice with the School Board recently to talk.
And, the board is to consider a $96,000 lease to allow the New River Health District to move into the new health and human services building in Christiansburg.
*The Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library Board of Trustees meets at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Jessie Peterman Memorial Library, 321 W. Main St. in Floyd.
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