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1997 SESSION

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 467 Recognizing the New Century Region of Virginia and requesting the Virginia Department of Transportation to consider posting and maintaining signs marking the entrances to Virginia's Technology Corridor.

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 20, 1997 Agreed to by the Senate, February 19, 1997

WHEREAS, in order to create a new platform from which to sell the region nationally to firms that can invest, create jobs, and take advantage of the region's institutions of higher education, the economic development organizations of the Counties of Allegheny, Bland, Botetourt, Craig, Floyd, Franklin, Giles, Montgomery, Pulaski, Roanoke, and Wythe and the Cities of Clifton Forge, Covington, Radford, Roanoke, and Salem have collaborated to promote the New Century Region of Virginia; and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly applauds this and other similar efforts at regional cooperation in the interest of economic development; and

WHEREAS, the General Assembly particularly wishes to applaud the efforts of the aforementioned localities in moving ahead and allowing real progress in the visioning made possible by the citizens of the New Century Region of Virginia; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly recognize the New Century Region of Virginia and the efforts at regional cooperation for economic development embodied by the New Century Region; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Virginia Department of Transportation be requested to consider posting and maintaining signs bearing the legend "Entering Virginia's Technology Corridor" at the entrances to the New Century Region along Interstate Routes 64, 77, and 81, and U.S. Routes 52, 100, 220, 221, and 460.