A screenshot of Mayor Levar Stoney delivering his State of the City address, which featured a sign language interpreter.
Stoney sets low-income homeownership goal in State of the City address
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney delivered his annual State of the City address last week at the Main Street Station train shed. In his remarks, Stoney announced a goal to create 2,000 new homeownership opportunities for low-income households by 2030, among other initiatives.
Stoney also announced a $1.5 million investment to help fund community college access for Richmond Public Schools students, award of a $750,000 state grant to fund a so-called Real Time Crime Center for the police department, funding for a new “Sprout” preschool in Oregon Hill, and expansion of the Richmond Resilience Initiative to support families in need who don’t qualify for federal benefits.
The full address can be viewed here.
City planning agenda includes food bank expansion request in Manchester
The Richmond Planning Commission meets Monday at 1:30 p.m. Business includes a special-use request from Sacred Heart Center to add a modular structure for an existing food bank at Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 1400 Perry St. Also on the agenda is an annual report on the Richmond 300 plan and an advisory council discussion of a planned zoning ordinance rewrite. Full agenda here.
Ukrop’s mixed-use project, Sauer VCC rezoning on Henrico planning agenda
A conceptual site plan shows the Ukrop project’s different phases. (Henrico County documents)
The Henrico County Planning Commission meets Thursday at 7 p.m. Full agenda here.
Public hearing items include a permit request for a mixed-use infill and partial redevelopment of the nearly 20-acre office complex at 2000 Westmoreland St., where the Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods bakery and catering businesses are based. The multiphased project could ultimately consist of 1,000 multifamily residential units, along with a mix of retail, restaurant, office and hotel uses.
Also on the agenda is Sauer Properties’ plan for a development with industrial, office and retail uses and 780 residential units on 93 acres along Jeb Stuart Parkway south of Virginia Center Commons. The rezoning request was deferred from last month’s meeting.
$25 million in state funding teed up for Upper Magnolia Green tech park
The governor’s office recently announced that Chesterfield County had been selected for a $25 million grant that would be used for preliminary utilities and transportation design work at the planned Upper Magnolia Green technology park.
In addition to design work associated with an extension of Powhite Parkway through the Upper Magnolia Green site, county officials plan to use funding to prepare a development pad site at the planned technology park.
The Chesterfield Board of Supervisors last spring voted to approve rezonings for the 2,400-acre Upper Magnolia Green site. Of that, 1,700 acres was rezoned for the new technology park and the remainder rezoned for residential development.
Powhatan to consider expanding areas for retail and light industrial uses in county
A map of the Courthouse Village Special Area Plan boundaries in Powhatan. (Image courtesy Powhatan County)
The Powhatan Planning Commission is slated to consider on Tuesday zoning text amendments related to the expansion of retail and light industrial uses in the county.
For consideration is a zoning amendment that would add small-scale retail as a primary or accessory use in the courthouse square center district, which is an area along Route 60 between Route 522 and Route 603. The area is home to the county’s administrative building and circuit courthouse and subject to the Courthouse Village Special Area Plan included in the 2021 comprehensive plan.
Also on the docket is a zoning text amendment to add more light industrial uses to the commerce center district designation. The full agenda for the meeting can be found here.
A screenshot of Mayor Levar Stoney delivering his State of the City address, which featured a sign language interpreter.
Stoney sets low-income homeownership goal in State of the City address
Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney delivered his annual State of the City address last week at the Main Street Station train shed. In his remarks, Stoney announced a goal to create 2,000 new homeownership opportunities for low-income households by 2030, among other initiatives.
Stoney also announced a $1.5 million investment to help fund community college access for Richmond Public Schools students, award of a $750,000 state grant to fund a so-called Real Time Crime Center for the police department, funding for a new “Sprout” preschool in Oregon Hill, and expansion of the Richmond Resilience Initiative to support families in need who don’t qualify for federal benefits.
The full address can be viewed here.
City planning agenda includes food bank expansion request in Manchester
The Richmond Planning Commission meets Monday at 1:30 p.m. Business includes a special-use request from Sacred Heart Center to add a modular structure for an existing food bank at Sacred Heart Catholic Church at 1400 Perry St. Also on the agenda is an annual report on the Richmond 300 plan and an advisory council discussion of a planned zoning ordinance rewrite. Full agenda here.
Ukrop’s mixed-use project, Sauer VCC rezoning on Henrico planning agenda
A conceptual site plan shows the Ukrop project’s different phases. (Henrico County documents)
The Henrico County Planning Commission meets Thursday at 7 p.m. Full agenda here.
Public hearing items include a permit request for a mixed-use infill and partial redevelopment of the nearly 20-acre office complex at 2000 Westmoreland St., where the Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods bakery and catering businesses are based. The multiphased project could ultimately consist of 1,000 multifamily residential units, along with a mix of retail, restaurant, office and hotel uses.
Also on the agenda is Sauer Properties’ plan for a development with industrial, office and retail uses and 780 residential units on 93 acres along Jeb Stuart Parkway south of Virginia Center Commons. The rezoning request was deferred from last month’s meeting.
$25 million in state funding teed up for Upper Magnolia Green tech park
The governor’s office recently announced that Chesterfield County had been selected for a $25 million grant that would be used for preliminary utilities and transportation design work at the planned Upper Magnolia Green technology park.
In addition to design work associated with an extension of Powhite Parkway through the Upper Magnolia Green site, county officials plan to use funding to prepare a development pad site at the planned technology park.
The Chesterfield Board of Supervisors last spring voted to approve rezonings for the 2,400-acre Upper Magnolia Green site. Of that, 1,700 acres was rezoned for the new technology park and the remainder rezoned for residential development.
Powhatan to consider expanding areas for retail and light industrial uses in county
A map of the Courthouse Village Special Area Plan boundaries in Powhatan. (Image courtesy Powhatan County)
The Powhatan Planning Commission is slated to consider on Tuesday zoning text amendments related to the expansion of retail and light industrial uses in the county.
For consideration is a zoning amendment that would add small-scale retail as a primary or accessory use in the courthouse square center district, which is an area along Route 60 between Route 522 and Route 603. The area is home to the county’s administrative building and circuit courthouse and subject to the Courthouse Village Special Area Plan included in the 2021 comprehensive plan.
Also on the docket is a zoning text amendment to add more light industrial uses to the commerce center district designation. The full agenda for the meeting can be found here.