Broadband Project

2015 Project Overview

• 2015 CDBG-LIG Grant Funds – Project Information
• 2015 Project Fact Sheet
• Fiber Route Maps (3 Sections)

The 2015 Broadband project will install an open access 8.1 mile fiber network along the Route 151 corridor from the intersection of Martin’s Store at Route 6, south to the Route 664 intersection in Nellysford and north from the existing network in Afton to the County line. Additionally, it will go northwest from the intersection of Route 151 and Route 6 in Afton up Afton Mountain Road to Saddleback Lane. This installation of last mile fiber is an extension of our successful thirty-one (31) mile middle mile fiber network project. The project meets the national objective of job creation and retention for low to moderate income individuals. The project will allow businesses along the fiber route to expand, creating at least twenty (20) new jobs that will be made available to low to moderate income individuals, thus meeting the national objective to create and retain jobs for low to moderate Income individuals.

The intended results include connecting 50% of the 240 (120) Homes and Businesses that are within less than 500 ft of the fiber, 40% of the 111 (45) Homes and Businesses that are within 1,000 ft of the fiber, and 25% of the other businesses that are within close proximity of the fiber.