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RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION:
PRESENTED October 8, 1996
96-216 ADOPTED October 8, 1996
COMMENTING ON A POTENTIAL SITE FOR A TRUCK WEIGH
STATION
WHEREAS, a letter dated September 19, 1996, from Chairman Dale Polen Myers of the
Loudoun County Board of Supervisors transmitted minutes of the Route 15 Citizens Task Force
meetings to Mayor Clem; and
WHEREAS, the Task Force is considering sites for a truck weigh and inspection station
along Route 15 in and near Leesburg; and
WHEREAS, the Administration and Public Works Committee on October 1, 1996,
recommended that Town Council adopt a resolution formally recommending that the site near
Lucketts offers the safest and most effective location for the truck weigh and inspection station; and
WHEREAS, sites on the Leesburg Bypass Route 15 may encourage trucks to use Business
Route 15 to bypass the station and would generate noise and congestion near residential areas on
Leesburg's Bypass.
THEREFORE, RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia as follows:
The site north of Leesburg and just south of Lucketts is hereby recommended as the
appropriate location for the potential truck weigh and inspection station.
PASSED this 8th day of October ., 1996.
ATYEST:
Clerk of Council
R:weigh.station
J53gnes E. Clem, Mayor
al'own of Leesburg