Budget season continues with a hearing in Richmond, vote in Henrico and approval in Goochland, and Chesterfield gets an update on its Spring Rock Green redevelopment. (BizSense Pro subscription required)
Class is now in session at Regency, as the Henrico County school division’s new adult education center at the mall held its first GED and English-as-a-second-language classes last week.
After neighborhood feedback the developer tweaked the design, which reduced the number of apartments from 260 to 253, and the number of parking spaces from 335 to 330.
Richmond gets a new city attorney, Chesterfield appoints its first tourism director, and Henrico wraps up a $1.8M road improvement project.
The change would not remove existing parking or prohibit owners from providing parking on their properties, but rather allow them to determine how much parking is needed based on the market and neighborhood conditions.
On display at the event was a scale model of the 1.7 million-square-foot Chesterfield factory made out of about 34,000 Lego bricks.
The new rules change the definition of what types of hemp products are legal to sell in Virginia, while the state will wait until at least next year for another crack at creating a recreational cannabis market.
Henrico holds a budget hearing this week, Chesterfield approved its $1.9B budget, and a new I-95 bridge is on the drawing board near the GreenCity development site. (BizSense Pro subscription required)
The transfer occurred one day before the property was scheduled to go to auction and three years after the city sued the developer for default. The city has yet to recover $200,000 in grant funds it awarded for the project.
The Chesterfield Board of Supervisors on Wednesday voted to approve a $1.9 billion budget for fiscal year 2024. The budget is a 9.4 percent increase over the current budget.
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