VDOT presents Floyd County six‑year road plan; residents urge keeping Sunny Ridge, Reedsville and other roads on priority list

Virginia Department of Transportation resident engineer David Clark presented the draft secondary six‑year construction plan to Floyd County supervisors and opened a joint public hearing, telling the board the draft is built from last year’s plan minus completed projects and that the county will be able to add several roads before the final resolution is submitted.

Clark explained constraints that affect how far projects can extend in a single contract: environmental regulations that limit the acreage of disturbance without a stormwater management pond and the need for right‑of‑way agreements with property owners. “We’re not able to go all the way to Wade due to a restriction in environmental policy…other environmental agencies have limited VDOT to an acre of disturbance of land unless you build a stormwater management pond,” Clark said, explaining why the Reedsville Road project will end at the first bridge…