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Staunton council adds River Oak Drive to VDOT inventory, formalizes 2.7% tourism share of occupancy tax
Summary
On Jan. 23 Staunton City Council voted unanimously to add River Oak Drive (Red Oaks Subdivision Section 7) to the city’s VDOT-maintained local road inventory and adopted a resolution clarifying that 2.7 percentage points of the 6.7% transient-occupancy tax are dedicated to tourism promotion and marketing.
Staunton City Council voted on Jan. 23 to add a newly completed subdivision street to the city’s VDOT-maintained local road system and to codify longstanding practice allocating part of the city’s transient-occupancy tax to tourism operations.
City Engineer Lisle Hart told council the public infrastructure for Red Oaks Subdivision Section 7 — River Oak Drive — was completed and accepted by the city in December and now qualifies for inclusion in the local system registered with the Virginia Department of Transportation. Vice Mayor Brad Arrowood moved the resolution to add River Oak Drive to the city’s local…
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