ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, September 17, 1996 TAG: 9609170116
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DAN CASEY STAFF WRITER
Raleigh Court is getting a new drugstore, and there will be no fire station built on city park land next to Patrick Henry High School.
Roanoke City Council on Monday unanimously approved a rezoning for Rite Aid that allows the chain to build an 11,000-square foot store at Brandon Avenue and Edgewood Street.
Council granted the Rite Aid request after an official for the Raleigh Court Civic League told council he was promised by two high-ranking city officials that the city would not build a combined fire station next to Patrick Henry High School. The civic league wants to build a soccer field there.
City Manager Bob Herbert and Public Safety Director George "Chip" Snead "essentially promised me that in order to put a fire station on that property it would violate the city's comprehensive plan and it was not going to happen," Raleigh Court Civic League President Mike Urbanski said after the hearing.
The civic league had intended to ask for a delay on the vote because it feared a drugstore on the site - also a potential place for a new fire station - would push the fire station up next to the high school.
The drugstore chain will build on a site now occupied by a closed Texaco station on Raleigh Court's western edge.
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