The VUU signage atop the university’s belltower was illuminated on a recent evening. (BizSense file)
City Center plan, VUU tower signage on Richmond planning agenda
The Richmond Planning Commission meets Monday at 1:30 p.m. Full agenda here.
Business includes a resolution to adopt the City Center Small Area Plan. Presented in June, the document envisions future uses for a roughly 20-block area around and including the dormant Richmond Coliseum. It also maps out how those properties could be developed to invigorate the largely under-utilized area and create a mixed-use, urban activity hub.
A map of the city blocks and properties involved in the city’s new City Center plan and their potential uses. (BizSense file)
The commission is scheduled to review a special-use permit request from Virginia Union University to allow its “VUU” signage to remain on its campus belltower. The illuminated signs were placed without required city and state approvals, and an agreement between the university and the state was in the works when the request was deferred last month.
Also on the agenda is a special-use permit request for a proposed mixed-use conversion of a duplex at 3101-3105 E. Marshall St. in Church Hill. Commissioners last month voted 4-3 against the request, with some members not participating in the vote.
Chester mixed-use and townhome projects on Chesterfield planning agenda
The Chesterfield County Planning Commission is scheduled to meet Tuesday. Full agenda here.
Emerson-Roper Cos. has filed a rezoning and CUPD application needed to build up to 830 new residential units and commercial space north of the Route 1 and Route 10 intersection in Chester.
The proposed development, dubbed Moore’s Lake, would fill out land around The Jane at Moore’s Lake, an existing 385-unit apartment complex at 12300 Moores Lake Road. The Jane site constitutes 60 acres of the nearly 172 acres included in the application.
Moore’s Lake would consist of 500 apartments, 238 two-over-two units, 30 townhouses lots and 62 single-family lots, according to a staff report. Those units, along with the existing The Jane apartments, would bring the development to a total of more than 1,000 residential units.
Also on deck is a rezoning and CUPD request by Lingerfelt Development to build up to 390 apartments on undeveloped land just south of the Route 1 and Route 10 intersection near Breckenridge Shopping Center. The apartments would rise on a 17-acre site on parcels at 12801, 13001, 13013 and 13007 Briggs Road, and at 2407 and 2221 W. Hundred Road.
A rendering of the apartments Lingerfelt Development is proposing in Innsbrook.
Innsbrook infill plans advance, Short Pump proposals deferred in Henrico
At its meeting last week, the Henrico County Planning Commission recommended approval of Lingerfelt Development’s reworked proposals to add nearly 1,400 apartments and structured parking across five office building properties it owns in Innsbrook.
The cases had been deferred multiple times, most recently last month, to give the developer time to address issues related to mixture of uses, appearance and impacts on public infrastructure and services. The proposals now go to the Board of Supervisors for a final verdict.
Also recommended for approval were Better Housing Coalition’s plan for 112 apartments and 28 townhomes on 10 acres just east of Henrico’s Eastern Government Center, and KM Hotels’ revised plan for the former Akaza Hotel property at 6531 W. Broad St., where 250 apartments are now proposed.
The commission deferred votes on three proposals that would add more than 2,000 homes off Gayton Road in Short Pump. The three cases — Eagle Construction of VA’s 1,600-home Avenlea development, 325 apartments from Edward Rose & Sons, and Rebkee’s plan for 94 condos and up to 75,000 square feet of retail space — were deferred to the commission’s next meeting Nov. 10.
Goochland awarded AAA credit rating from Fitch
Fitch Ratings awarded Goochland County a AAA credit rating, the county announced this month.
Fitch’s rating means Goochland now holds AAA credit ratings from Fitch, Standard and Poor’s, and Moody’s Investors Service. AAA ratings from the three major U.S. credit rating agencies are seen as a positive indicator of a locality’s financial health and management.
In a prepared statement, Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Ken Peterson said the ratings will allow the county better access to capital markets and make it easier to attract and retain businesses. Goochland earned its AAA rating from Moody’s in 2018 and its AAA rating from S&P in 2015.
The VUU signage atop the university’s belltower was illuminated on a recent evening. (BizSense file)
City Center plan, VUU tower signage on Richmond planning agenda
The Richmond Planning Commission meets Monday at 1:30 p.m. Full agenda here.
Business includes a resolution to adopt the City Center Small Area Plan. Presented in June, the document envisions future uses for a roughly 20-block area around and including the dormant Richmond Coliseum. It also maps out how those properties could be developed to invigorate the largely under-utilized area and create a mixed-use, urban activity hub.
A map of the city blocks and properties involved in the city’s new City Center plan and their potential uses. (BizSense file)
The commission is scheduled to review a special-use permit request from Virginia Union University to allow its “VUU” signage to remain on its campus belltower. The illuminated signs were placed without required city and state approvals, and an agreement between the university and the state was in the works when the request was deferred last month.
Also on the agenda is a special-use permit request for a proposed mixed-use conversion of a duplex at 3101-3105 E. Marshall St. in Church Hill. Commissioners last month voted 4-3 against the request, with some members not participating in the vote.
Chester mixed-use and townhome projects on Chesterfield planning agenda
The Chesterfield County Planning Commission is scheduled to meet Tuesday. Full agenda here.
Emerson-Roper Cos. has filed a rezoning and CUPD application needed to build up to 830 new residential units and commercial space north of the Route 1 and Route 10 intersection in Chester.
The proposed development, dubbed Moore’s Lake, would fill out land around The Jane at Moore’s Lake, an existing 385-unit apartment complex at 12300 Moores Lake Road. The Jane site constitutes 60 acres of the nearly 172 acres included in the application.
Moore’s Lake would consist of 500 apartments, 238 two-over-two units, 30 townhouses lots and 62 single-family lots, according to a staff report. Those units, along with the existing The Jane apartments, would bring the development to a total of more than 1,000 residential units.
Also on deck is a rezoning and CUPD request by Lingerfelt Development to build up to 390 apartments on undeveloped land just south of the Route 1 and Route 10 intersection near Breckenridge Shopping Center. The apartments would rise on a 17-acre site on parcels at 12801, 13001, 13013 and 13007 Briggs Road, and at 2407 and 2221 W. Hundred Road.
A rendering of the apartments Lingerfelt Development is proposing in Innsbrook.
Innsbrook infill plans advance, Short Pump proposals deferred in Henrico
At its meeting last week, the Henrico County Planning Commission recommended approval of Lingerfelt Development’s reworked proposals to add nearly 1,400 apartments and structured parking across five office building properties it owns in Innsbrook.
The cases had been deferred multiple times, most recently last month, to give the developer time to address issues related to mixture of uses, appearance and impacts on public infrastructure and services. The proposals now go to the Board of Supervisors for a final verdict.
Also recommended for approval were Better Housing Coalition’s plan for 112 apartments and 28 townhomes on 10 acres just east of Henrico’s Eastern Government Center, and KM Hotels’ revised plan for the former Akaza Hotel property at 6531 W. Broad St., where 250 apartments are now proposed.
The commission deferred votes on three proposals that would add more than 2,000 homes off Gayton Road in Short Pump. The three cases — Eagle Construction of VA’s 1,600-home Avenlea development, 325 apartments from Edward Rose & Sons, and Rebkee’s plan for 94 condos and up to 75,000 square feet of retail space — were deferred to the commission’s next meeting Nov. 10.
Goochland awarded AAA credit rating from Fitch
Fitch Ratings awarded Goochland County a AAA credit rating, the county announced this month.
Fitch’s rating means Goochland now holds AAA credit ratings from Fitch, Standard and Poor’s, and Moody’s Investors Service. AAA ratings from the three major U.S. credit rating agencies are seen as a positive indicator of a locality’s financial health and management.
In a prepared statement, Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Ken Peterson said the ratings will allow the county better access to capital markets and make it easier to attract and retain businesses. Goochland earned its AAA rating from Moody’s in 2018 and its AAA rating from S&P in 2015.
The City of Richmond shoudl take all the laws that limit buildings to two stories and burn them in the dumpster out back to raise density in the city by replacing the limit with 4 stories city wide.