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chase a property. “Real estate people should help reveal the Six Year Plan,” even though it might result in some lost sales. Yancey Road Project
The controversy surrounding the widening of Yancey Road, Route 621, is a prime example of this change of view.
According to Moore, in the 1970s, VDOT was asked by a local resident to make some safety improvements to Yancey Road. The road was widened in some places, hillsides were cut down and sight distance on some blind curves was improved.
In the early 1980s, VDOT met with Board members, conducted public hearings and set up the project in the Six Year Road Plan. One section along Jerry Jenkin’s property was rebuilt and “surface treated” with tar and gravel, but parts of the road were hard to maintain. When additional money became available in the early to mid-90s, another section, where Route 621 runs into Route 231, was rebuilt and surface treated last year. One and one-half mile remains to be done.
The section uhder opposition is the last to connect to U.S. 522 at Woodville. On one side of the road, owned by Sharon Pierce, is a large rock. Directly across from it on property owned by Lane Industries is a beautiful old sycamore tree and others which create a canopy effect over the road.
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