Parkways and park roads :: :: University of Virginia Library

The R.O.W. line requires difficult judgments when private properties
are affected by the land necessary for acquisition. Land
acquisition teams are employed to establish reasonable offers to
land owners; fair market values are the rule. I encourage you to
argue for the owners in cases where their lands are separated by
the proposed R.O.W., or where their homes will be dangerously close
to the proposed roadway. You've seen homes situated at the toes
of slopes where the owners would have faired better if their entire
land had been acquired and they had been relocated. You've seen
farms divided by elevated roadways and pastures connected by long
culverts to let cattle move under road fills. We must do better!