DATE: Wednesday, July 2, 1997               TAG: 9707020505

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Public Life 

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YESTERDAY [BRIEFS]

NORFOLK

GATEWAY DELAY: A four-lane bridge over Pretty Lake on Shore Drive that is to serve as the gateway to a redeveloped community on East Ocean View might not be built until the summer of 1999. The City Council approved its design Tuesday but learned that the state had delayed construction as much as a year, pushing hard against the city's plans to begin marketing lots for homes in the area by 2000. See page B11.

TUNNEL OK'D: Norfolk endorsed an option for a new bridge-tunnel between the Southside and Peninsula paralleling the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel. The new span would connect all three of the region's shipping ports and relieve truck traffic on Hampton Boulevard.

VIRGINIA BEACH

NEW NEIGHBORS: Residents of nearby Bellamy Plantation protested, but the City Council - looking to add business revenue to tax coffers - approved plans for a medical complex, office building and family restaurant to be built off Salem Road. See page B11.

CHESAPEAKE:

The City Council did not meet Tuesday.

PORTSMOUTH:

The City Council did not meet Tuesday. KEYWORDS: PROPOSED TUNNEL

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