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Rt. 630
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two reasons: (1) to improve safety and (2) to comply with the decision reached jointly by the Board of Supervisors and highway department through the six-year planning process to improve the surface of the county’s roads. And Mr. Moore noted that by law from the General Assembly, each county is given an allocation specifically for turning gravel roads into hardtop roads.
The .8 miles of “narrow dirt road” from Rt. 628 to 631 will be graded; drained, stabilized, and surface treated, said Mr. Bywaters. Originally scheduled for 1987-88, the work was postponed to await the donation of an additional 20 feet to bring the right-of-way to the 50 feet required by the highway department for paving, he explained.
The land on the right side of the road was given in 1985; Mr. Bywaters said the department. learned the property on the left side of Rt. 630 was to change hands “so we decided to wait and contact the new owners” with the result that the remaining right-of-way was donated this spring.
Mr. Moore noted that the department will accept donated right-ofway in advance of the scheduling of road improvements. “We’re usually not that much ahead of ourselves,” he said, adding that right-of-way is normally secured the winter before work is to begin. But since property may change hands and since the refusal of right-of-way by a single property owner can block a secondary project, early acceptance “might make the difference between whether a road gets built or not,”
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