1. Mall Area/Market Place/Spradlin Farms indicative of poor planning
2. Traffic
3. Poor coordination between jurisdictions
4. Lack of Landscaping
5. No Sense of Community
6. Loss of Downtown due to Big Box Development
7. Hard to Find things in Blacksburg (Loss of retail in downtown area)
8. Increase in Traffic
9. Too Much Growth too soon.
10. Helter-Skelter Development
11. 114/460
12. Poor Regional Cooperation and communication
13. Interjurisdictional turf issues w/ communities, county, and Virginia Tech
14. Blacksburg trying to take Prices Fork
15. Loss of Community identity
16. Services not proportionate to taxes
17. Lack of public utilities
18. Sprawl, created by non-enforcement of zoning, spot zoning
19. Driving distances...automobile dependence
20. 460 Mall Sprawl and traffic congestion
21. Reactive traffic planning rather than long-term proactive traffic planning
22. Recreational opportunities for kids who live outside of the towns.

Issues

Traffic/Transportation

1. 460 & 114 ...mid-county congestion
2. Lack of Road Maintenance on county or VDOT’s part (ditches, regravelling,
3. Congestion--lack of VDOT response
4. Road Connectivity
5. VDOT (State response)
6. Road & Infrastructure--lack of control; lack of adequate response from VDOT
7. Increased control over the growth of roads.

Solutions

Traffic/Transportation

1. 3-A (although, as pointed out, 3A solves the traffic problem only for those traveling between Roanoke and Blacksburg; it does not solve the traffic/congestion problems on 114 due to increased growth or commuter traffic from Radford, Pulaski County, and other points west)
2. Alternative Routes

Development

1. Spot Development
2. Lack of Developer Responsibility...failure to hold developers responsible for impact of development
3. Increased Growth/ Rapid Growth
4. Need to determine numbers/impact of current and future development

Development

1. Controlled Growth; tie growth to the provision of infrastructure (roads, water and sewer, schools, parks)
2. Build from the core (center of the county) out.
3. Restrictions on Developers
4. Impact Fees
5. Requiring developers to adopt the cost of development and not pass the cost of development on to tax payers (Purchasers should take on more of the cost)

Emergency Services

1. Lack of the provision of emergency services in the 114/460 area. Outside of acceptable response times.

Emergency Services

1. Build a Fire/Rescue Station on 114 which wouldn’t be hampered by mall traffic.

Open Space/ Farmland Preservation

1. Preservation of Open Space
2. Support of Farmers in order to keep farmland.

Open Space/ Farmland Preservation

1. Tax incentives to help farmers/small farmers remain in farming or preserve open land;
2. Enforcement of new zoning ordinance
3. Conservation Easements
4. Establishment of a RR Association (similar to Rural Electrification)
5. Providing subsidies for farmers who improve water quality
6. Increased support of extension service
7. Determine how farming/farmland fits into the bigger picture.

Affordable Housing

1. Need more affordable housing that is not manufactured housing (mobile homes)
2. Increased housing for young couples
3. Increased student housing
4. Providing a place for everyone (housing, not mfg)

Affordable Housing

1. Governmental subsidies for affordable housing
2. Expanding Habitat for Humanity.

Water & Sewer

1. Water quality in rural areas, most notably the Tom’s Creek area.
2. Cost of water and sewer in rural areas

Water & Sewer

1. Examine alternatives to traditional approaches to waste water treatment.
2. Extending water/sewer out of towns to rural areas...find ways of providing public services to outlying areas.

Diversity

1. Need to find ways to encourage and promote diversity within the population; lack of diverse population in Montgomery County makes recruiting and retention at Tech more difficult.

Diversity

1. County could promote diversity by broadening images presented to public.

Taxes

1. State Tax Structure unfair to rural counties/ counties in SW Virginia.

Planning/Government

1. Outreach between local government and citizens
2. Increased communication.
3. Interjurisdictional Cooperation
4. Increased support of and participation in regional planning.
5. Finding better ways to increase public involvement

Planning/Government

1. Need to find more avenues for discussion and communication
2. Scheduling of more “informal” community meetings