Residents Campaign Against ‘Concrete Villages’ At Tuscarora Crossing

Loudoun County:

“While Loudoun County planners continue to hammer out the details of the Tuscarora Crossing development plan, nearby residents are making a push for more residential and less commercial uses on the property.

The current plan proposed by Hunter Lee Center calls for a mixed-use development that would include residential and commercial uses on the 250-acre property adjacent to the W&OD Trail and the Kincaid Forest neighborhood southeast of Leesburg. The plan includes 576 single-family attached and detached units as well as a string of commercial units along Crosstrail Boulevard on the east and west side north of the W&OD Trail and on the east side of Crosstrail south of the trail. It is under review by the Loudoun County Planning Commission and will then go to the Board of Supervisors for review.

Mayor Kristen Umstattd and other Leesburg Town Council members are concerned that the application is primarily for residential uses and goes against town and county comprehensive plans that designate the site for business development.”

~Writes April Grant Leesburg Today

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Residents seek to sink lake development

Louisa County:

“Some residents at Lake Anna are hoping the sun will set on a rezoning application for Sunset Coves, which is being marketed as an “aging in place” community that is coming before the Louisa County Board of Supervisors on Monday, May 5.

The applicant, Gary Griffith, wants the county to rezone a 77-acre property adjacent to Maple Springs from its current R-2 zoning to a Planned Unit Development (PUD) so that lot sizes can be reduced to between one-third up to three-quarters of an acre for some parcels.

According to Griffith, the developer, Paul Koenig, is proposing the smaller lot sizes so that houses can be clustered onto half the property near the lake, and maintenance such as grass mowing and snow shoveling can take place with greater ease.

Based on the county’s current zoning regulations, the developer can build by-right 77 homes on the property on one-acre parcels.  But clustering the homes, he said, also allows for 35 acres as parkland, which would include walking trails and wooded acreage.”

~Writes the Central Virginian

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Developers offer to build Boulevard ballpark

City of Richmond:

“A development team has offered to build a new Richmond baseball stadium on North Boulevard without relying on taxpayer dollars, giving city officials a second option that could cause a seismic shift in the long-running ballpark debate. All nine City Council members and the administration of Mayor Dwight C. Jones have been given a general overview of the plan, according to Councilman Jonathan T. Baliles.’From what I have seen, this plan is real, and it’s ready to go save a few minor details,’ said Baliles, 1st District.

He added that he’s not committed to either plan, but said the city should take ‘a good look’ at the privately financed alternative to the mayor’s proposal to build a publicly funded minor league baseball stadium in Shockoe Bottom.”

~Writes Graham Moomaw Richmond of the Times-Dispatch

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