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Other considerations for a loan included the Virginia Municipal League (VML) and the USDA Rural Development fund. Interest rates offered by those loan programs were around 4.64 percent.
Piedmont Avenue
proposal returns
to the table
Council member Claudia Mitchell returned the attention of the Council back to the proposal to include Piedmont Avenue within the town’s borders. “It is important that we hear these people and move forward with this issue,” Mitchell said.
Town Attorney John Bennett advised the council to proceed with caution. “No government should expand its boundaries in a haphazard fashion,” said Bennett. “The issue should be set forward in a comprehensive plan.”
The town’s current Comprehensive Plan was voted into effect in April 2006 after several months of debate. While not actually having the force of law, the Comprehensive Plan is intended to act as a mission statement for the Tbwn Council and the future councils to follow when deciding Washington’s future.
The Piedmont proposal is not in the comprehensive plan which would require a thorough revision.
The proposal was made by Piedmont Avenue residents in July. Piedmont property owners William and Jessica Metcalf hired former Town Attorney Doug Baumgardner, to represent the proposal.
“Piedmont Avenue looks like Washington, it’s contiguous with Washington, and the features of the individual properties are consistent with the rest of the town,” Baumgardner said at the time. “It suggests to the beholder that it is part of the town.”
Jessica Metcalf gave the council a letter signed by fourteen owners requesting the town to consider expanding its borders, including the citizens of Piedmont Ave.
Since the proposal, the Tbwn Council has given it minimal attention, as it remains preoccupied with the town’s water reservoir and wastewater project. Adjusting the border
Bennett said that if the
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