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By Gerald Ochs
Rappahannock New* Writer
County resident Ken Estes raised an alarm at last week’s School Board meeting regarding the proposed road at the Rappahannock National Bank’s new “Commercial Centre.”
He noted that the interior road would run from Route 211, through the commercial property, and terminate at Schoolhouse Road. He cautioned that it could prove to be hazardous to pedestrian traffic in the area and in conflict with school bus traffic as well.
The engineering drawings for the road do, in fact, depict it terminating directly opposite the bus entrance at the Rappahannock County Elementary School (RCES), but no plans are evident in the Virginia Department of Transportation’s SixYear Road Plan to improve Schoolhouse Road to accommodate the additional traffic likely.
Mr. Estes said that he was surprised to learn that the commercial center road was in the offing because, he said, “We were told that the road was years down the road.”
He asked that the School Board consider the impact of additional traffic on Schoolhouse Road and advised that “we need to question it before it’s toolate."
Mr. Estes noted that the Planning Commission will hold a hearing on the road at their Feb. 19 meeting. He also said that the RCES Parent Tfeacher Organization objects to the road and that “the Sheriff’s Office and ’Jeff Brown both expressed conCWtt«
School Board member Franklin Warner said that he “is concerned mightily, and hopes that the board will see fit to take a position in opposition.” The road issue will be put on the agenda for the School Board’s Feb. 11 meeting.
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