About half of a $300 million bonds-driven package would be earmarked for the first phase of construction to extend Powhite to Woolridge Road from its current endpoint near its interchange with Route 288.
The BPOL tax exemption increase – from $500,000 to $1 million – would exempt an additional 1,300 businesses in the county, bringing the total number of businesses paying no BPOL tax to 15,800.
The bill’s sponsor blamed Tobacco Co. restaurant owner Jerry Cable and a Virginia Restaurant Association lobbyist for its failure, saying they “used their money and connections to yet again control the restaurant industry and limit competition.”
The first comprehensive update in half a century to Richmond’s zoning ordinance is now underway.
“At the end of the day we still kind of got what we want, but we got it from the city, surprisingly enough, and not from the state,” a restaurant group spokesman said.
Designed by a team led by architecture firm Baskervill, the plan shows the locations and conceptual images of the campus’s planned components, including a long-planned national slavery museum.
Only Chesterfield-based, locally owned restaurants that have been in business for at least a year are able to participate.
The project will add four new synthetic turf athletic fields at the county-owned 115-acre sports complex, bringing the total number of fields to 16. It’s the first of a multi-phase plan to upgrade the facility.
The board last week voted against a rezoning request for Boyd Homes’ plans for Liberty Landing, which would have featured 60,000 square feet of commercial space as well as 290 homes.
“It’s really hard to hear your stories and know that there were solutions that we’re voting on now that we could’ve done earlier,” Councilmember Katherine Jordan told restaurant owners before Monday’s approval.
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