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Anderson is furious with the highway department. According to Mr. Anderson the appraiser said the highway would take all his outbuildings and most of his land at the intersection of U.S. 211 and Route 622 at Gid Brown Hollow, leaving him just his house with almost no land around it. “I told them they might as well take the whole thing,” he said. “I can’t live in it like that.”
The budget for the project shows $575,000 for right-of-way acquisition for the project’s first phase. Some of that has been spent on parcels the highway department has already acquired.
Jimmy Jenkins, the department’s Right-of-Way Manager in Culpeper, said, “Those figures are not realistic,” and he estimated that “over $1 million" would be needed for the whole process including the appraisals.
Mr. Bledsoe added that it would probably be the end of August before the highway department begins negotiating with Mike Brown or any other property owner along the road.
When the state finally approved the four-laning of U.S. 211 last fall after a 20-vear delay, construction was supposed to start this summer. The highway department budget and six-year plan presented at public hearings this spring included $900,000 for the project in fiscal year 1988-89. This was supposed to pay for final planning and engineering studies and for right-of-way acquisition, which was due to be finished by the end of June. 1989, according to the. six-year plan.
The budget included $2 million for construction for the 1989-90 budget year, which ends next June, $1.1 million for construction in 1990-91, and another $1 million for 1991-92.
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