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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 797 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee on Transportation) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate Grayson) House Amendments in [ ] -- February 6, 2001 Memorializing the Virginia Department of Transportation to take all prudent and reasonable measures to retain the grassy median on Interstate Route 64 between Virginia Route 199 in York County and Jefferson Avenue in the city of Newport News.

WHEREAS, increasing the capacity of Virginia's highways to meet growing demand is important both to the quality of life of Virginia's residents and also to the traveling enjoyment of the Commonwealth's many visitors; and

WHEREAS, while Virginia's residents and visitors need and deserve an adequate, modern, and safe highway system, they have a right to expect, and the Department of Transportation has an obligation to provide, highways that are no less attractive than they are functional; and

WHEREAS, considerations of visual aesthetics are particularly significant in the vicinity of major tourist destinations, such as the city of Williamsburg; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the Virginia Department of Transportation be hereby memorialized, when widening Interstate Route 64, to [ take consider ] all prudent and [ necessary reasonable ] measures to retain the grassy median on Interstate Route 64 between Virginia Route 199 in York County and Jefferson Avenue in the city of Newport News; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates transmit copies of this resolution to the Virginia Secretary of Transportation and the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner in order that they may be apprised of the sense of the General Assembly in this matter.