Election Alert - Transportation Bond Referendum - Stafford, VA

On Tuesday, November 4^th Stafford County residents will be voting on a transportation referendum that will allow the Board of Supervisors to borrow $70 million by issuing bonds to fund specific road and pedestrian projects throughout the county. This bond referendum would call for the borrowing to begin in 2010 and $147 million in projects to begin. The referendum is printed below and includes the specific projects. Transportation is one of the most important and often debated issues throughout the Commonwealth and especially in Northern Virginia.

QUESTION: Shall Stafford County, Virginia contract a debt and issue its general obligation bonds in the maximum amount of Seventy Million Dollars ($70,000,000) for the purpose of paying the costs, in whole or in part, of the following transportation improvement projects:

(1) Warrenton Road (Route 17);
(2) Garrisonville Road (Route 610);
(3) Ferry Road (Route 606);
(4) Courthouse Road (Route 630);
(5) Truslow Road (Route 652);
(6) Telegraph Road (Route 637);
(7) Courthouse Road (Route 630) Railroad Bridge;
(8) Pedestrian improvements;
(9) Kellogg Mill Road (Route 651);
(10) Youth Driver Task Force "Hot Spot" Traffic Safety Improvements:
(a) Jefferson Davis Highway (U.S. Route 1);
(b) Brooke Road (Route 608);
(c) Poplar Road (Route 616);
(d) Mountain View Road (Route 627);
(e) Rock Hill Church Road (Route 644)?

Irene Morales Ward, Northern Virginia Real Estate