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Newbill Miller said he didn’t think that many houses would be affected, and Hope checked his figures and announced: “Three dwellings and eight businesses without curb and gutter, and 16 houses and 14 businesses with curbs and gutters. Without curbs and gutters, you have to construct wide shoulders.”
By-passing Sperryville to the north has, “for all practical purposes,” been abandoned as a possible alternative, said Hope, because this would give no traffic service to Route 522.
H. L. MANWARING, speaking from the audience, urged that if the southern by-pass is decided upon, that the Highway Department give “thorough consideration to what you’re doing to good agricultural land. It’s open grazing land there; we’re agriculturally - based in this county, and we shouldn’t take more good agricultural land out of production.”
Miller agreed that “we need food for future gener
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