2021-06-02 Rural Rustic Roads Designation PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
RESOLUTION # 2021-06-02
RURAL RUSTIC ROADS DESIGNATION
VIRGINIA: At the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors' ("Board")Business Meeting on Tuesday,
June 15, 2021, in the Board Meeting Room, the following Resolution was presented and adopted:
WHEREAS, §33.2-332, Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, permits the hard surfacing of certain
unpaved roads deemed to qualify for designation as a Rural Rustic Road; and
WHEREAS, any such road must be located in a low-density development area and have no more than
1,500 vehicles per day; and
WHEREAS, the Board desires to consider whether the following Routes should be designated a Rural
Rustic Road:
• Route 929 (Victoria Road): From RTE 626 to dead end;
• Route 789 (Valley Road): From RTE 790 to RTE 40;
• Route 766 (Magnolia Road): From RTE 609 to dead end;
• Route 1052 (Pitchfork Road): From RTE 640 to dead end;
• Route 783 (Tomahawk Mill Road): From RTE 644 to RTE 649;
• Route 940 (Owens Mill Road): From RTE 756 to RTE 753;
• Route 654 (Dalton Farm Lane): From RTE 634 to RTE 931;
• Route 803 (Hawkins Road): From RTE 802 to 1.4 MI N RTE 802;
• Route 848 (Joe Carter Road): From RTE 847 to RTE 841;
• Route 792(Tucker Road): From RTE 671 to Stinking River Bridge;
• Route 1527 (Almond Road): From RTE 1526 to dead end;
• Route 893 (Chestnut Lane): From RTE 640 to dead end;
• Route 842 (Hollyville Drive): From RTE 703 to dead end;
• Route 822 (Ponderosa Road): From RTE 703 to dead end;
• Route 709 (Herman Farm): From RTE 718 to dead end; and
WHEREAS, the Board is unaware of pending development that will significantly affect the existing
traffic on these roads; and
WHEREAS, the Board believes that these roads should be so designated due to their qualifying
characteristics; and
WHEREAS, these roads are in the Board's Six (6)-Year Plan for improvements to the secondary system
of state highways.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the Board requests that these roads be hard surfaced and,
to the fullest extent prudent, be improved within the existing right-of-way and ditch-lines to preserve as much as
possible the adjacent trees, vegetation, side slopes,and rural rustic character along the roads in their current state;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Resolution be forwarded to the Virginia
Department of Transportation's Residency Administrator.
Given under my hand this 15t" day of June, 2021.
Recorded Vote: A Co ste:
Moved By: Joe B. Davis
Seconded By: William"Vic" Ingram Signed:
Yeas: 7 Printed N e: id M. Smitherman
Nays: 0 Title: Clerk
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