Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 28, 1993 TAG: 9307280443
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
The meeting is expected to be closed. The two governing bodies have been meeting privately on possibilities for the site since January, when Pulaski County bought it.
AT&T closed its plant in 1990. New River Industries bought the former AT&T building and about 80 acres in late 1992. Pulaski County bought the remaining 650 acres about three months later.
The supervisors got a look Monday night at some development options proposed by Anderson & Associates Inc. of Blacksburg. Three separate plans for roads, grading and utilities were shown. The options will be reviewed by the county's engineer and Planning Commission.
One possibility discussed was putting a road through the site to improve access and make the various tracts more marketable. But that project would not happen for years, if ever.
Up to 200 acres of the site along the New River lie in a flood plain, limiting their industrial potential. But even those acres could be used for certain types of industry or for such things as recreation or agricultural research, the Blacksburg engineering firm said.
In other business, the board:
Named Bruce Cunningham to Pulaskians Encouraging Progress; Chris Dux to the Community Services board; Jack Leahy and Hugh Huff to the Recreation Commission; and recommended the court appointment of Wayne Ondich to the Zoning Appeals Board.
Agreed to make the former Jefferson Elementary building available for two years for a proposed youth emergency shelter program. The School Board already has made a tentative commitment to providing what space the program would need at the school.
Scheduled a public hearing for Aug. 23 on Appalachian Power Co.'s plan to donate a building on First Street Northwest, formerly used by the company's district offices, to Habitat for Humanity. The hearing is necessary for requesting legislation from the 1994 General Assembly exempting the donated property from real-estate taxes.
Agreed to nominate the closing of the Cloyds Mountain Sanitary Landfill for a Governor's Environmental Excellence Award. The landfill handled solid waste from the mid-1970s, before landfill construction regulations were tightened, until 1989 and its closure had to meet strict state requirements.
by CNB