A site plan shows the seven buildings that would house the apartments near the intersection of Walmsley and Broad Rock boulevards. (File image courtesy Spy Rock)
Silos redevelopment, South Richmond apartments project on City Council agenda
The Richmond City Council meets Monday starting with an informal meeting at 4 p.m. On the agenda is a presentation from Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority CEO Steven Nesmith on RRHA’s Home Ownership Program.
On the consent agenda for council’s 6 p.m. regular meeting is a special-use request from Hourigan Development for the Southern States silos site at 2-4 Manchester Road, where it plans to raze the vacant silos to make way for a mixed-use development including a 20-story apartment tower and a six-story office building.
Crescent Development and Spy Rock Real Estate request a rezoning for a residential development totaling 276 income-based apartments on 10 acres in the 4800 block of Walmsley Boulevard, just west of the Broad Rock Boulevard intersection.
Also on the consent agenda, D.C.-based Audeo Partners seeks special-use approval to build 26 townhomes at 219 S. Stafford Ave., part of a larger effort to redevelop Dominion Energy’s 5-acre assemblage south of the Fan.
Full agendas for the meetings can be found here.
Grant request for Short Pump I-64 interchange improvements on Henrico agenda
Desired improvements include additional lanes and expanded ramps on I-295 and Route 288.
Henrico supervisors meet in regular session Tuesday at 7 p.m. Full agenda here.
Business includes a resolution authorizing staff to apply for a $50 million federal grant that would be put toward planned interchange and traffic improvements in the Short Pump area. The funds would come from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant program for fiscal year 2023-24.
The estimated cost for the planned projects totals $250 million. Last month, county officials announced the Federal Highway Administration conditionally approved a diverging diamond design for a new North Gayton Road interchange and other plans to improve interstate safety and traffic flow in the area, including modifications to the West Broad Street interchange just west of Innsbrook.
Also on the agenda is an ordinance introduction for a proposed special service district for Virginia Center Commons. An additional levy on property taxes within the district area, which would consist of commercial properties adjacent to the former mall’s ring road, would be used to fund streetlights in the district. The introduction would set a public hearing on the ordinance for the board’s Sept. 12 meeting.
Chesterfield to consider new residential development rules for rural areas
The Chesterfield Board of Supervisors is expected on Wednesday to take up a proposed zoning ordinance amendment that would loosen development rules in rural parts of the county.
If approved, the amendment would give supervisors the ability to consider zoning requests from developers to build new public roads that would service residential projects in areas with the agricultural (A) zoning designation.
As things stand, the ordinance prohibits the creation or extension of a road for residential developments in areas zoned for agricultural use. The proposed change would give supervisors the option to allow exceptions to that rule.
Projects that could take advantage of the exception policy under consideration could not have lots smaller than 5 acres, among other requirements.
The full agenda for Wednesday’s board meeting can be found here.
Federal funding secured for road projects near Meadowbrook Country Club
Chesterfield announced last week that it received $3.6 million in grant funding to improve the Chippenham Parkway and Hopkins Road interchange, as well as finance other transportation projects in the area.
Most of the funding – $3.2 million – is earmarked for design of improvements to the interchange. Initial plans envision either a diverging diamond design or turn-lane improvements to reduce collisions at the interchange, according to a county news release.
Also to be funded by the grant is a $360,000 planning project for how to rework less than a mile of Hopkins Road that runs from Beulah Road to Meadowdale Boulevard, to make it safer and create new pedestrian and bike amenities. Another $40,000 of the grant is intended to study and implement on-demand public transportation service (known as micro-transit) in North Chesterfield.
The funding came by way of a grant from the federal Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program.
Chesterfield sells bonds to finance improvements to Sportsplex, other projects
Chesterfield last month sold the first $116 million of a planned $540 million in bonds to finance capital projects.
The first round of sales kicked off a handful of projects, among them River City Sportsplex improvements, amenities at Horner Park, a new library and several new schools.
Chesterfield sold the bonds at a 3.3 percent interest rate to Bank of America Securities. Voters approved the $540 million bond referendum last year.
Petersburg hires new planning director
Naomi Siodmok
The City of Petersburg hired Naomi Siodmok as its new director of planning and community development. Siodmok is returning to Virginia with nearly a decade of experience in planning, including stints in Roanoke County, San Diego, metro Atlanta.
“I look forward to working with the community and Petersburg leaders to celebrate what is valued in the City and to address the community’s concerns,” Siodmok said in a city announcement. “Petersburg has a lot to offer, and I am excited to be a part of celebrating and enhancing it.”
Siodmok has a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Virginia Commonwealth University and a master’s of science in urban design from Georgia Tech. She is recognized by the American Planning Association as a certified planner.
A site plan shows the seven buildings that would house the apartments near the intersection of Walmsley and Broad Rock boulevards. (File image courtesy Spy Rock)
Silos redevelopment, South Richmond apartments project on City Council agenda
The Richmond City Council meets Monday starting with an informal meeting at 4 p.m. On the agenda is a presentation from Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority CEO Steven Nesmith on RRHA’s Home Ownership Program.
On the consent agenda for council’s 6 p.m. regular meeting is a special-use request from Hourigan Development for the Southern States silos site at 2-4 Manchester Road, where it plans to raze the vacant silos to make way for a mixed-use development including a 20-story apartment tower and a six-story office building.
Crescent Development and Spy Rock Real Estate request a rezoning for a residential development totaling 276 income-based apartments on 10 acres in the 4800 block of Walmsley Boulevard, just west of the Broad Rock Boulevard intersection.
Also on the consent agenda, D.C.-based Audeo Partners seeks special-use approval to build 26 townhomes at 219 S. Stafford Ave., part of a larger effort to redevelop Dominion Energy’s 5-acre assemblage south of the Fan.
Full agendas for the meetings can be found here.
Grant request for Short Pump I-64 interchange improvements on Henrico agenda
Desired improvements include additional lanes and expanded ramps on I-295 and Route 288.
Henrico supervisors meet in regular session Tuesday at 7 p.m. Full agenda here.
Business includes a resolution authorizing staff to apply for a $50 million federal grant that would be put toward planned interchange and traffic improvements in the Short Pump area. The funds would come from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Multimodal Project Discretionary Grant program for fiscal year 2023-24.
The estimated cost for the planned projects totals $250 million. Last month, county officials announced the Federal Highway Administration conditionally approved a diverging diamond design for a new North Gayton Road interchange and other plans to improve interstate safety and traffic flow in the area, including modifications to the West Broad Street interchange just west of Innsbrook.
Also on the agenda is an ordinance introduction for a proposed special service district for Virginia Center Commons. An additional levy on property taxes within the district area, which would consist of commercial properties adjacent to the former mall’s ring road, would be used to fund streetlights in the district. The introduction would set a public hearing on the ordinance for the board’s Sept. 12 meeting.
Chesterfield to consider new residential development rules for rural areas
The Chesterfield Board of Supervisors is expected on Wednesday to take up a proposed zoning ordinance amendment that would loosen development rules in rural parts of the county.
If approved, the amendment would give supervisors the ability to consider zoning requests from developers to build new public roads that would service residential projects in areas with the agricultural (A) zoning designation.
As things stand, the ordinance prohibits the creation or extension of a road for residential developments in areas zoned for agricultural use. The proposed change would give supervisors the option to allow exceptions to that rule.
Projects that could take advantage of the exception policy under consideration could not have lots smaller than 5 acres, among other requirements.
The full agenda for Wednesday’s board meeting can be found here.
Federal funding secured for road projects near Meadowbrook Country Club
Chesterfield announced last week that it received $3.6 million in grant funding to improve the Chippenham Parkway and Hopkins Road interchange, as well as finance other transportation projects in the area.
Most of the funding – $3.2 million – is earmarked for design of improvements to the interchange. Initial plans envision either a diverging diamond design or turn-lane improvements to reduce collisions at the interchange, according to a county news release.
Also to be funded by the grant is a $360,000 planning project for how to rework less than a mile of Hopkins Road that runs from Beulah Road to Meadowdale Boulevard, to make it safer and create new pedestrian and bike amenities. Another $40,000 of the grant is intended to study and implement on-demand public transportation service (known as micro-transit) in North Chesterfield.
The funding came by way of a grant from the federal Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity program.
Chesterfield sells bonds to finance improvements to Sportsplex, other projects
Chesterfield last month sold the first $116 million of a planned $540 million in bonds to finance capital projects.
The first round of sales kicked off a handful of projects, among them River City Sportsplex improvements, amenities at Horner Park, a new library and several new schools.
Chesterfield sold the bonds at a 3.3 percent interest rate to Bank of America Securities. Voters approved the $540 million bond referendum last year.
Petersburg hires new planning director
Naomi Siodmok
The City of Petersburg hired Naomi Siodmok as its new director of planning and community development. Siodmok is returning to Virginia with nearly a decade of experience in planning, including stints in Roanoke County, San Diego, metro Atlanta.
“I look forward to working with the community and Petersburg leaders to celebrate what is valued in the City and to address the community’s concerns,” Siodmok said in a city announcement. “Petersburg has a lot to offer, and I am excited to be a part of celebrating and enhancing it.”
Siodmok has a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Virginia Commonwealth University and a master’s of science in urban design from Georgia Tech. She is recognized by the American Planning Association as a certified planner.