Items tied to the Diamond District make the rounds in City Hall, a slavery museum location study could lead to property acquisition, and a dozen candidates vie for two seats on the Hanover School Board. (BizSense Pro subscription required)
“There are some responsible vape shops that are operating in the county and of course they should be able to continue to do so. This will put guardrails on any new shops coming into the county,” Supervisor Jim Ingle said of the new rules.
Initial tenants are Chesterfield County Public Schools and the county’s economic development department, which together are expected to occupy about half of the project’s first office building.
“I have yet to see where a parking requirement has actually solved the issues and concerns about parking,” Andreas Addison said before Monday’s vote. “We can require developers to build parking, but we cannot require people to park there.”
“This is a business market that our original zoning ordinance didn’t even dream of, so where we fit this in our existing zoning ordinance has been a black hole for a while. There are a number of these in Chesterfield and the number is growing.”
In an interview Monday, officials said the soonest that shovels could get in the ground would likely be early next year, meaning the $2.4 billion project’s centerpiece baseball stadium could not be completed before a 2025 deadline.
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.
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