Troutville Town Council is holding a community information meeting about its proposal to extend the town’s corporate limits on Thursday, July 19 from 7-9 p.m. in the Town Hall.

The information session is to show what’s proposed, provide a map of the proposed boundary change and to answer questions about the proposal.

Town and county officials will be at the meeting.

Council voted in June to move forward with plans to enlarge the town with the promise there will be no tax increases or new taxes imposed on properties that come into the town should council and the Board of Supervisors reach a boundary adjustment agreement, and that existing zoning would remain in place unless a property owner asked for a zoning change.

A map of the proposed boundary change shows possible new town limits that extend as far northeast along US 11 to Troutville Elementary School and take in Stoney Battery Road. I-81 would be the western boundary, and the proposed new corporate limits would go south to Humbert Road and take in Mountain Pass Road from there back to the current town limits on US 11.

Geographically, the town would be six times larger than its current 440 acres and add approximately 305 households to the 198 households in the current town limits. Under the proposal, the town would cover 3,093 acres.

The document says the proposed boundary adjustment will encompass the majority of the town’s established and planned water service area.

The community meeting is the first step in a process that also requires Town Council and the Board of Supervisors to hold public hearings on the proposal. Both have to approve the boundary change for it to move forward for a survey and approval by the Circuit Court.

‑ Ed McCoy