2014-01-03 Support for VDOT Revised Rural Addition Programi
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I RESOLUTION
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I SUPPORT FOR VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
1 REVISED RURAL ADDITION PROGRAM
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I VIRGINIA: At an adjourned meeting of the Board of Supervisors of Pittsylvania County,Virginia, held
1 on Tuesday,January 21, 2014,the following resolution was presented and adopted:
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1 WHEREAS, the Code of Virginia has provisions in §33.1-72.1 that require the Virginia
1 Department of Transportation to take streets into the secondary road system, subject to available funding;
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i WHEREAS, the Virginia Department of Transportation has developed a Rural Addition Policy
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I that establishes the policies and procedures for road additions to the secondary road system; and
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1 WHEREAS, under current policies, a new street or road must be accepted into the State road
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system before public funds can be used to improve and stabilize a road surface;and
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WHEREAS, the current guidelines of Minimum Standards for New Rural Additions to
Secondary System includes roadway design standards that must be met for road improvements that can be
I more stringent than necessary for the road conditions and unnecessarily expensive for both the Virginia
1 Department of Transportation and the County; and
1 WHEREAS,the Code of Virginia has provisions in §33.1-70.1 for a Rural Rustic Road Program
1 for low density development areas with average daily traffic volume of no more than 1,500 vehicles per
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iWHEREAS, roads or streets designated as a Rural Rustic Road may be paved and improved
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I BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED,that the Board of Supervisors of Pittsylvania County supports a
revision in the Code of Virginia or policies of the Virginia Department of Transportation to allow streets
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I that qualify for Rural Rustic designation to be added to the secondary road system through the Rural
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1 Addition Program and then paved and improved in accordance with Rural Rustic design standards; and
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I BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution will be sent to the County's
legislative representatives.
i Given under my hand this 21' day of January,2014.
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essie L. Barksdale,Chairman
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Pittsylvania County Board of S pervisors
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