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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Firm plans for improvements to Route 211 stop at the north fork of the Thornton River, according to John Capelle, executive director of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District Commission.
Capelle attended last Wednesday’s meeting of the county planning commission to present the latest draft chapters of Rappahannock’s statemandated comprehensive plan, scheduled for adoption by June 1,1980.
Only planners Pete Estes, Newbill Miller and Herbert Barksdale were present. With no quorum, the gathering was an informal session as opposed to a regular meeting and no action was taken.
Capelle reported that he’d met at length with resident highway engineer Don Askew in preparing the plan’s chapter on transportation. Most of the scheduled improvements to primary roads for the next ten or 15 years center around Route 211 with the highway to be doublelaned to the limits of Sperryville, Capelle said.
Beyond Sperryville, he continued, the highway department doesn’t have “any firm plans at all. They don’t have a by-pass (around the town) or four-laning to the Park (Shenandoah National) on the books or in mmd..Jt’s an idea,’’ he said, referring to major improvements, "But that’s all it is at this point.”
Capelle recalled that the highway department had conducted public hearings four or five years ago on proposals for Route 211 in Sperryville. Three alternatives, including plans for a by-pass and four-laning the road, were drawn but if any of the three options were resurrected at this time,
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