ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, December 24, 1995 TAG: 9512260085
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
John A. Moseberth doesn't care what it's called - he just wants a name for his street.
The retired restaurant owner and five other residents live on a street off Jolliff Road in Chesapeake's Western Branch area. Moseberth has lobbied the city for more than a year to pick a name and post signs for the half-mile-long street.
His pleas got no results until recently. Officials have promised Moseberth that signs will be erected by Jan.15.
``It's just a simple thing that could have been easily corrected,'' Moseberth said. ``It should never have happened.''
Officials have tried to help Moseberth, said Perry Rogis, the city's chief of staff. But Moseberth, 67, never responded to city requests that he pick a name for the street, Rogis said.
``I think we would have acted sooner if we had received responses to our inquiries,'' Rogis said. ``Because the last thing you want to do is go ahead and name a street without the concurrence of the residents.''
Moseberth said city officials have not selected a name.
The trouble began about 15 years ago when state transportation officials began getting ready for the highway that eventually would become Interstate 664, Moseberth said. Moseberth's property and that of his neighbors was separated from Jolliff Road. An offshoot street was created to serve them.
The residents still claim Jolliff Road as their address, but delivery drivers and repair workers can't find the street. Moseberth said emergency response is his biggest worry. Once, when a neighbor called an ambulance, the driver had to be flagged down.
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