2020-05-01 Rural Rustics PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
RESOLUTION # 2020-05-01
RURAL RUSTIC ROADS DESIGNATION
VIRGINIA: At the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors' ("Board") Business Meeting on Tuesday,
May 19, 2020, in the Gallery Room of the Chatham Community Center, 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 Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors ("Board") desires to consider whether the
following Routes should be designated a Rural Rustic Road:
• Rt. 618 (Farmers Road) from Rt. 606 to Rt. 640;
• Rt. 738 (Bailess Drive) from Rt. 640 to dead end;
• Rt. 1062 (Church Lane) from Rt. 659 to dead end;
• Rt. 656 (Wiles Road) from Rt. 713 to dead end;
• Rt. 609 (Brights Road) from 0.03 miles north of Rt. 757 to dead end;
• Rt. 607 (Robertson Road) from Rt. 668 to 0.5 miles south of Rt. 668;
• Rt. 995 (Happy Lane) from Rt. 903 to dead end;
• Rt. 698 (Stone Raod) from Rt. 57 to Rt. 640;
• Rt. 644 (Cooksburg Road)from Rt. 750 to 0.9 miles east of Rt. 750;
• Rt. 605 (Toshes Road) from Rt. 40 to Rt. 799;
• Rt. 605 (Toshes Road) from Rt. 778 to Rt. 772;
• Rt. 707 (Cox's Store Road) from Rt. 640 to Rt. 706;
• Rt. 886 (Gandy Road) from Rt. 687 to Rt. 649;
• Rt. 621 (Ed Hardy Road) from Rt. 875 to Rt. 862;
• Rt. 669 (Melon Road) from Rt. 603 to Halifax County line;
• Rt. 602 (Moons Road) from 0.56 miles south of Rt. 668 to Rt. 628;
• Rt. 793 (Cherrystone Lake Road) from Rt. 57 to Rt. 605;
• Rt. 774 (Darby Road) from Rt. 40 to Rt. 605;
• Rt. 601 (Hubbard Road) from Rt. 602 to 1.4 miles north of Rt. 602;
• Rt. 638 (Roark Mill Road) from Rt. 641 to 0.65 miles west of Rt. 641;
• Rt. 889 (Olivers Lane) from Rt. 713 to dead end;
• Rt. 741 (Friendly Drive) from north intersection of Rt. 782 to southern intersection of Rt. 782;
• Rt. 750 (Oxford Road) from 1 mile north of western intersection with Rt. 785 to 1.1 miles west
of eastern intersection with Rt. 785; and
• Rt. 924 (Pocket Road) from 0.43 miles east of Rt. 638 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 Residency Administrator.
Given under my hand this 19th day of May, 2020.
Recorded Vote: A Copy Teste:
Moved By: Mr. Ingram
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Seconded By: Mr. Dudley Sign d:
Yeas: 7 Printe• e: Davi. . Smitherman
Nays: 0 Title: Clerk