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Hearing set
ifor proposal
| A hearing on the proposed Vir| ginia Byway designation for secondJ ary routes stretching from » Washington east to near the eastern •- Rappahannock County line is schedI uled for early November. I The byway designation is proI posed for Fodderstock Road (Route * 628) from its junction with U.S. 211 * in Washington, including Routes 606 * and 641, to Flint Hill and Route 674 ! from Flint Hill east to its junction l with Route 637 near the Rappahan* nock County line. * The hearing will be held in the t Flint Hill Volunteer Fire Depart* ment firehouse in Flint Hill on l Thursday, Nov. 2 starting at 7 p.m. * The Virginia Department of Con$ servation and Historic Resources j has recommended that the Commonj wealth Transportation Board desigj nate the roads as a Virginia Byway. * Virginia Department of Transt portation officials will conduct the J public hearing in cooperation with * the Department of Conservation and | Historic Resources. * A hearing was requested by the » Rappahannock County Board of Su* pervisors which has passed a resolu$ tion supporting the proposed * designation. Comments heard dur* ing the public hearing will be tran* scribed for reading by ' Commonwealth Transportation | Board members before action is J taken on the proposal. » A Virginia road can be desig} nated a byway under state law if it is | deemed to have a high aesthetic or | cultural value. t An assessment by the Departj ment of Conservation and Historic * Resources reported that the roads ( proposed for the designation “to\ gether form a continuous route, tra{ versing the fertile rolling t topography of the upper Piedmont. * They have been long recognized for » both their scenic qualities as well as 1 their historical importance. i “Although there is no direct linkt age,” the report continued, “these i roads would be easily accessible to I persons traveling Route 231 (in ’ Madison and Rappahannock counr ties) as well as Route 626 between I The Plains and Middleburg (in Faul quier County) which are existing t Virginia Byways.”
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