A conceptual map of the city blocks and properties involved in the city’s new City Center plan and their potential uses. (Image courtesy of City of Richmond)

City Center rezoning, Leigh Addition development on city planning agenda

The Richmond Planning Commission meets Monday at 1:30 p.m. Full agenda here.

Business on the consent agenda includes a request from property owner Richard Westbrook to rezone a roughly half-acre parcel at 500 Maury St. in Manchester from heavy industrial use to TOD-1 Transit-Oriented Nodal District.

Richmond Hill Design + Build seeks to amend its plan to replace six homes in the 500 block of Westview Avenue with new home clusters. The amendment would reduce the number of new homes from 12 to 10.

Level 2 Development and SJG Properties seek a special-use permit to allow street-fronting structured parking and a drop-off and pick-up area for their planned Leigh Addition mixed-use development at 1117-1201 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd.

The regular agenda includes a request to amend the Stratford Hills Community Unit Plan. The amendment would increase the plan area by 2.85 acres to 67.4 acres to allow development of a restaurant with a drive-thru window and a 6,500-square-foot retail outparcel and up to 36 townhomes on the east side of the site.

The commission also plans to declare its intent to amend the city zoning ordinance in accordance with the adopted City Center Innovation District Small Area Plan.

Chesterfield Planning Commission to consider Sheetz near Irongate Village  

The Chesterfield County Planning Commission is scheduled to meet Tuesday. Full agenda here.

On deck is a proposal by Adams Property Group to build a 6,000-square-foot convenience store with a restaurant and fuel pumps in addition to a commercial building and mini-storage facility at the intersection of Iron Bridge Road and Irongate Drive.

The Chesterfield Planning Commission will consider a request to build a development that is planned to include a Sheetz near Irongate Village Shopping Center. (Image courtesy of Chesterfield County)

The convenience store to be built on the 10-acre site would appear to be a Sheetz, based on conceptual images included in the staff report. The report states the nearly 7,700-square-foot commercial building could be developed as a restaurant or office use.

The assemblage where the development would be built consists of multiple parcels on Iron Bridge Road and Omo Road near Irongate Village Shopping Center.

Commissioners will vote on whether to recommend approval by the Chesterfield Board of Supervisors, which will render the final verdict on the rezoning request needed for the development.

The Planning Commission is also slated to receive an update on the county’s project to update the zoning ordinance.

Rogers-Chenault project comes back to Hanover Planning Commission

After being deferred last month, a development proposal by Rogers-Chenault is getting another look in Hanover.

The Hanover County Planning Commission is slated to meet Thursday. Full agenda here.

Commissioners are expected to vote whether to recommend a Rogers-Chenault project to build 203 townhomes and three speculative commercial pads at the intersection of East Patrick Henry Road and Providence Church Road.

About half of the townhomes on the 52-acre site would be age restricted. Commercial uses on the property would be limited to craft breweries, restaurants, fitness centers and other select uses.

With just 9 acres worth of commercial area, the project has a smaller commercial piece compared to the Rogers-Chenault proposal that the Hanover Board of Supervisors rejected last year. The proposal has about double the number of townhomes.

The Hanover Board of Supervisors will vote on final approval of the proposal at a future meeting after the Planning Commission’s consideration.

530-acre Varina industrial zoning withdrawn

A request to rezone 530 acres southeast of the Interstate 64-295 interchange in Varina for an industrial development was withdrawn at last week’s Henrico supervisors meeting. The previously deferred request was from Atlantic Crossing LLC, a group that includes Hillwood Development, the Texas-based firm that’s developing Amazon’s robotics fulfillment center near Richmond Raceway.

The board deferred to Aug. 9 a rezoning request from Markel | Eagle for an 80-home subdivision on 46 acres southwest of Pouncey Tract Road and Wyndham West Drive. The request was previously deferred in May.

Westwood-area apartment building advances in Henrico

At its meeting last week, the Henrico County Planning Commission supported a request from Fulton Hill Properties to permit a seven-story building with 253 apartments at the intersection of Thalbro and Westmoreland streets, on land recently subdivided from the adjacent UTurn sports complex.

Also recommended for approval was Pemberton Investments LLC’s request to rezone 12 acres straddling John Rolfe Parkway at its intersection with Pump Road for a 15-home residential development, and HHHunt’s request to rezone 7 acres on the east side of Pouncey Tract Road north of Twin Hickory Lake Drive for a 65-unit continuation of HHHunt’s recently approved The Pointe condos project.

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