Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 22, 1990 TAG: 9005220499
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-1 EDITION: EVENING
SOURCE: By MARK MORRISON STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: FINCASTLE LENGTH: Medium
The station will be built at the entrance to the new East Park Commerce Center industrial site on Alternate U.S. 220 across from the Botetourt East subdivision.
The Roanoke County Board of Supervisors approved the operating agreement between the two jurisdictions earlier this month.
Under the plan, Roanoke County will pay for the construction, which is expected to cost $375,000. Then the two counties will split all operation costs.
Fire officials hope to have the facility in operation by November.
The board also approved an agreement to buy water from Roanoke County to serve the East Park industrial site.
Board members contend that successful development of the 105-acre site depends on an adequate water supply, which Botetourt County currently cannot provide.
The five-year agreement allows Botetourt to tap into the Roanoke County water supply and pay the present water user rate of $2.20 per 1,000 gallons. No connection fee will be required.
Eventually, the board hopes to extend adequate water and sewer service from within Botetourt to the site and along the Alternate U.S. 220 corridor.
In other business, the board agreed to consider and conduct a public hearing on raising sewer system user rates to fund future improvements proposed at the regional sewage treatment plant in Roanoke.
Botetourt is served by the plant and would share along with other local jurisdictions in the cost of any improvements.
County officials have tentatively proposed a rate increase of $1.50 per month for residential users and $2 per month for businesses.
The increase would generate more than $63,000 in additional sewer service revenues annually, which would be kept in a reserve fund until needed.
In a zoning matter, the board approved a request to build a church on 10 acres at the intersection of Virginia 605 and 713 in Cloverdale.
Calvary Tabernacle Church, now at 1802 Orange Ave. N.W. in Roanoke, plans to move to the Cloverdale site and close its building in Roanoke.
by CNB