Dec 02, 2025 Board of Supervisors

FOLKS HERE, UM, AND THEY ARE REPRESENTING, OR THEY COME TO US, UH, VIA HEART OR HENRICO ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION RESOURCE TEAM AND THE SUSTAINABILITY, UH, DIVISION.

ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES.

MR. MANAGER, MR. CHAIR MEMBERS OF BOARD, I HAVE ONE COMMENT THIS EVENING.

WE HAVE A GROUP OF YOUNG

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SO WE'RE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE THE MEMBERS OF THE 20 25 26 YOUTH COUNCIL.

UH, THE YOUTH COUNCIL INCLUDES 20 STUDENTS REPRESENTING ALL NINE HENRICO HIGH SCHOOLS, GIVING OUR COUNTY STUDENTS A VOICE IN THE PROCESS OF HOW OUR COUNTY APPROACHES THE ISSUES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, STEWARDSHIP OF THE ENVIRONMENT, AND PROTECTION OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES.

EACH OF THESE STUDENTS SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION, ANSWERED QUESTIONS AS AND WAS SELECTED, UH, BASED ON THEIR PASSION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, THEIR ACADEMIC STANDING, AND THEIR VISION FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE HENRICO COUNTY.

THEY WORK AS A TEAM ALONG WITH THE HEART COMMITTEE AND SUSTAINABILITY DIVISION ON PROJECTS TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF OUR COUNTY, SUCH AS REFOREST STATION OF COUNTY PROPERTIES, STREAM CLEANUPS, AND THE PLANNING OF THE SECOND HENRICO COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENT CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT THAT IS SLATED FOR THE SPRING OF 2026.

SO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ALONG WITH THE, UH, CO CO-MENTORS, ERIC BYERS, ERIC WARY, THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

MEGAN BROWN, JEFF WEDELL, UM, RENA EASLEY, AND UM, AND OF COURSE, UH, SAM HUDSON.

SAM, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU CONTINUE TO DO WITHIN THE SUSTAINABILITY DIVISION.

I'D LIKE FOR ALL THE STUDENTS TO COME UP AND JUST INTRODUCE YOURSELVES TO, UH, THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

JUST TELL THEM, UH, WHAT YOUR NAME IS AND WHERE YOU GO TO SCHOOL.

THAT'D BE GREAT.

SO IF YOU ALL COULD COME UP, WE'LL JUST MAKE TIME FOR THIS.

SO JUST COME ON UP TO THE MIC RIGHT HERE, ONE BY ONE.

ALRIGHT.

IS THIS GOOD? UH, MY NAME IS STEVEN MEJIA AND I GO TO HERMITAGE AND ADD YOUR GRADE LEVEL JUST FOR PERSPECTIVE.

AND I'M A SENIOR.

MY NAME IS AARON WILLIAMS. I GO TO HERMITAGE AS WELL, AND, UH, I'M A SENIOR AS WELL.

MY NAME IS SAM BABBIT.

I'M A SOPHOMORE AT HIGHLAND IN SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL.

UH, MY NAME IS NAFA AND I AM A SENIOR AT VERINA HIGH SCHOOL.

I'M MARY BETH AND I'M A SENIOR AT VERINA HIGH SCHOOL.

I'M EVA AND I'M A FRESHMAN AT FREEMAN, AND I'M THE VICE CHAIR OF THE YOUTH COUNCIL.

I'M MEGAN AND I'M A JUNIOR AT TUCKER HIGH SCHOOL.

I'M AMANDA AND I'M A SENIOR AT FREEMAN HIGH SCHOOL.

I'M BROOKE AND I'M A JUNIOR AT DEEP RUN HIGH SCHOOL.

HI, I AM SHERIA AND I'M A JUNIOR AT DEEP RUN HIGH SCHOOL.

HI, I AM BRENDA RAJU AND I'M A JUNIOR AT DEEP RUN HIGH SCHOOL.

HI, I'M ALUM.

I'M A JUNIOR AT GLEN ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL.

HI, I AM FRANKIE, I'M A SENIOR AT HERMITAGE, AND I'M THE CHAIR OF THE YOUTH COUNCIL.

THAT'S AWESOME.

AND, AND THE, AND, AND ALL THE EFFORTS OF THE HEART TEAM, BUT THE PASSION THAT THEY HAVE FOR IT, THEY'RE NOT FILLING A SEAT CLEARLY.

UM, AS YOU GUYS ARE FINDING YOUR SEATS, PLEASE, PLEASE GO BACK.

I HAD A CHANCE TO, UH, MY COLLEAGUES, MR. MANAGER, HAD A CHANCE TO GET HERE EARLY AND TALK TO THESE YOUNG FOLKS.

NOT ONLY ARE THEY A MEMBER OF THIS COMMITTEE AND DOING THE GOOD WORK, REALLY WITH REGARD TO OUR SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS

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THEY'RE ALL INTERESTED IN IT.

AND, AND WE TALKED ABOUT YOUR TWO MEETINGS YOU'VE ALREADY HAD, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE GOOD WORK.

SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN ON THIS COMMITTEE NOW FOR TWO, GOING ON TWO YEARS.

UM, THERE'S MEMBERS FROM EVERY GRADE LEVEL I UNDERSTAND, AND OBVIOUSLY CLEAR REPRESENTATION ACROSS ALL SCHOOLS.

SO, SO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU'RE DOING.

THANK YOU FOR THE PASSION THAT YOU SHOW WITH IT.

UM, WHEN YOU'RE MAKING IMPACT, PLEASE KNOW THAT.

THANK YOU, CHAIR.

I HAVE NO OTHER COMMENTS THIS EVENING.

COMMUNITY HERE TODAY THAT I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT AND RECOGNIZE.

ANY COMMENTS FROM MY COLLEAGUES? NOPE.

SEEING NONE.

I I DO HAVE ONE.

WE HAVE SOME MEMBERS OF OUR

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UM, I DON'T SEE, I DON'T SEE MR. THORN, UH, MR. THORNTON TO SNEAK IN HERE.

UM, IN 2000 BACK, UH, MR. MANAGER, YOU'LL REMEMBER THIS, MR. NELSON, I, I KNOW YOU REMEMBER THIS BACK IN, UM, MR. COOPER, I KNOW YOU REMEMBER THIS.

UM, BACK IN 20 17, 18 19, THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITH REGARD TO ONE OF THE COUNTY OWNED, UH, MUNICIPALITY GOLF COURSES, UH, BELMONT AND THE CITIZENS BECAME ENGAGED IN THE PROCESS, AND MR. THORTON AND I TOGETHER HELD, UM, A SERIES, UH, OF MEETINGS, UH, DISCUSSIONS.

THOSE DISCUSSIONS WERE CANDID, THEY WERE OPEN, THEY WERE HONEST, AND THEY IMPARTED CHANGE, IN MY OPINION, AS A, AS A, AS A RESULT OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS WITH WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO BELMONT.

IF YOU, IF FOLKS REMEMBER BELMONT WAS A LOSING ENTITY AS A GOVERNMENT WAS TRYING TO RUN.

UM, THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT THAT COURSE.

UH, BUT WHEN PARTNERED, UH, AND THE RESULT OF WHEN PARTNERED WITH THE PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP WITH FIRST T OF VIRGINIA, WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT TOGETHER, GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE INVESTORS AND PRIVATE PARTNERS CAN REALLY BRING FORTH AN ASSET.

IT'S FOUND TO LOOK FOR OUR COMMUNITY, FOR OUR BUSINESSES, FOR OUR RESIDENTS, AND FOR THE PEOPLE WHO VISIT OUR REGION.

AT THE TIME, IT WAS UNKNOWN WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN WITH THAT LOCATION, WITH THAT LAND.

UH, THERE WAS DISCUSSION ABOUT, UH, GREEN SPACE.

THERE WAS DISCUSSION ABOUT RESIDENTIAL.

THERE WAS DISCUSSION ABOUT COMMERCIAL, AND IT WAS REALLY UP IN THE AIR.

AND THE RESIDENTS REALLY CAME FORWARD WITH THEIR, WITH THEIR THOUGHTS AND THEIR TRUE BELIEFS ON IT.

MANY OF THOSE RESIDENTS ARE SITTING IN THIS ROOM HERE TONIGHT.

WELL, WHAT MR. THORNTON AND I, ONE OF THE RESULTS THAT CAME OUT OF THAT, THAT MOVEMENT FORWARD TO, TO KEEP BELMONT AND UH, AND TO STRIKE UP A PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP, WAS THAT THE CITIZENS WOULD HAVE A VOICE AND CONTINUE TO HAVE A VOICE AS THAT PARTNERSHIP ON UNVEILED AND, AND UNRAVELED AND, AND MOVED FORWARD.

AND WHAT BECAME OF THAT WAS THE BELMONT ADVISORY COMMISSION.

UM, IT WAS A SET OF APPOINTED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, WHICH EACH DISTRICT WAS ABLE TO APPOINT MEMBERS TO SPEAK TO THE, TO, TO, TO THE WAY THAT COURSE WAS RUN, TO THE WAY IT CONTINUED TO SERVE OUR RESIDENTS.

THAT BELMONT ADVISORY COMMISSION WAS BEGUN IN 2019, AND HERE WE ARE SIX YEARS LATER, TWO FULL THREE YEAR TERMS. UH, TWO MEMBERS OF THAT COMMISSION WHO WERE HERE WAS TONIGHT SERVED FROM DAY ONE.

UH, MR. SHOEMAKER AND MR. BEASLEY, UM, AND THE REST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ARE HERE TONIGHT, AND WE WANTED TO TAKE A MINUTE AND HONOR THEM.

AS THAT COMMISSION HAS COME TO AN END AFTER TWO FULL TERMS OF SIX YEARS, NOT ONLY DID THEY DO THEIR JOB AND ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF THE CITIZENS IN THE, NOT ONLY THE FAIRFIELD DISTRICT, UM, BUT PEOPLE WHO USE BELMONT, UH, LIVE IN ALL OF OUR DISTRICTS.

THEY ARE OF ALL AGES.

OUR SCHOOLS HAVE BENEFITED FROM THE ADVOCACY OF THIS GROUP.

OUR VISITORS HAVE BENEFITED BY THE ADV ADVOCACY OF THIS GROUP.

AND THE LOCAL BUSINESSES IN THAT AREA HAVE BENEFITED BY YOUR ADVOCACY.

SO AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO ASK THOSE MEMBERS TO PLEASE COME ON OVER HERE SO WE CAN PUBLICLY THANK YOU FOR YOUR SIX YEARS OF SERVICE IN SERVING YOUR CONSTITUENTS AND ALL OF US.

I WANNA THANK YOU FOR SERVING OUR CONSTITUENTS AS YOU FULFILLED YOUR ROLES.

UH, MR. RAY LEWIS, UH, REVEREND DARIUS WEBSTER, MR. LAYTON CNA, REVEREND PAUL MALLORY.

NOTICE TWO REVERENDS ON THIS BOARD, SIMILAR TO OUR BOARD.

WE, WE STICK TO THAT HERE IN HENRICO.

IT'S A THEME.

UH, REVEREND PAUL MALLORY, MR. RAY BEASLEY, AND MR. CHRIS SCHUMAKER.

AGAIN, MR. BEASLEY AND MR. SCHUMAKER, AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY FORWARD HERE, HAVE BEEN A PART OF THIS COMMISSION SINCE DAY ONE.

SO THANK YOU, YOU BOTH FOR YOUR SIX YEARS OF SERVICE.

UH, I'VE, I'LL, I'LL BRING DOWN SOME, SOME, SOME THANK YOUS, UH, ON BEHALF OF THIS COUNTY, ON BEHALF OF THIS BOARD FOR YOU, BUT CERTAINLY MR. CHAIR, MR. SCHUMAKER, MR. BEASLEY, MEMBERS OF THIS COMMISSION, I CERTAINLY WANNA WELCOME YOU, UH, TO SAY A FEW WORDS IF YOU, IF YOU'D LIKE MR. CHAIR, UH, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, UH, CITIZENS, UH, ON BEHALF OF THE BELMONT ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UH, VOL, UH, SIGNED APPOINTEES, I WANNA TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SAY THANK YOU, THANK YOU TO THIS COUNTY, UH, FOR ITS VISION, FOR HEARING US AND FOR BEING ATTENTIVE TO THE NEEDS, THE, THE, THE, THE DETAIL OF THE NEEDS OF OUR CHILDREN.

UH, THERE'S A REASON WHY THIS

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COUNTY IS A QUADRUPLE TRIPLE A, UH, RATED COUNTY.

IT'S BECAUSE IT PAYS ATTENTION TO ITS CITIZENS.

IT, IT GETS IN THE WEEDS ABOUT THE NEEDS AND IT LISTENS.

AND WE JUST CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR ALLOWING US TO BE A PART OF WHAT HAS BECOME PROBABLY ONE OF THE GREAT WONDERS OF HENRICO COUNTY.

SO, THANK YOU, SIR.

MR. AS THESE FOLKS MAKE THEIR WAY PAST THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THE, THE INCLUSION OF GOLF FOR OUR YOUTH HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED BY THESE FOLKS ACROSS ALL AGES, ALL GENDERS, ALL RACES.

AND THE ACCESS TO GOLF HAS BEEN CHANGED BY THESE FOLKS.

SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

THANKS JACK.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS BY MY COLLEAGUES? ALRIGHT, SEEING NONE, I DO WANT TO RECOGNIZE MS. HARDY, I BELIEVE WITH ENRICO CITIZENS HERE.

GOOD TO SEE YOU, MA'AM.

THANK YOU AGAIN FOR MAKING TIME AND JOINING US TONIGHT, MR. MANAGER, MR. CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, YOU MOVE INTO PUBLIC HEARING REZONING CASES AND PROVISIONAL USE PERMIT, THE FIRST CASE OUT OF BROOKLYN,

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UH,

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[7a. 291-25 REZ-2025-102326 Brookland Youngblood Properties LLC: Request to conditionally rezone from A-1 Agricultural District to R-2AC One-Family Residence District (Conditional) Parcel 764-769-2688 containing 2.356 acres located at the northwest intersection of Tiller Road and Brennen Robert Place. The applicant proposes single-family homes. The use will be controlled by zoning ordinance regulations and proffered conditions. The 2026 Comprehensive Plan recommends Suburban Residential 1, where density should not exceed 2.4 units per acre. The Planning Commission voted to recommend the Board of Supervisors deny the request. (Deferral requested to the First February 2026, meeting.) ]

BLOOD PROPERTIES LLC WITH A CONDITIONAL, UH, REZONING REQUEST IN WHICH THE APPLICANT PROPOSES SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, UH, AT A LOCATION, NORTHWEST INTERSECTION OF TILLER ROAD AND BRENNAN ROBERT PLACE, UH, MS. MOORE DEFERRAL HAS BEEN REQUESTED TO THE FIRST MEETING IN FEBRUARY, 2026.

THAT'S CORRECT.

AND WE SAY FIRST MEETING IN FEBRUARY, 2026 'CAUSE THE BOARD IS NOT SET THE CALENDAR.

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CORRECT.

THAT'LL HAPPEN.

FIRST ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING IN JANUARY.

UH, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING.

IS THERE ANYONE IN THE ROOM THAT WISHES TO SPEAK TO THIS DEFERRAL REQUEST BY THE APPLICANT? ANYONE ON WEBEX TO SPEAK TO THIS DEFERRAL? THERE'S NO ONE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT, UH, REZONING CASE 2 0 2 5 1 0 2 3 2 6 YOUNGBLOOD PROPERTIES LLC BE DEFERRED TO THE FIRST FEBRUARY, 2026 MEETING AT THE REQUEST OF THE APPLICANT.

SECOND, A SECOND BY MR. COOPER.

HOMES OF VIRGINIA AND SHELL BROTHERS WITH A CONDITIONAL REZONING REQUEST, UH, THAT INVOLVES PROPERTY, 76.2 ACRES LOCATED BETWEEN THE SOUTHWEST INTERSECTION OF KNUCKLES ROAD AND HICKORY PARK DRIVE, NORTH LINE OF FORD'S COUNTRY LANE HEREIN.

ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES.

MR. MAYOR, SECOND CASE ON THE AGENDA.

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[7b. 292-25 REZ-2025-101126 Three Chopt Main Street Homes of VA, Inc. and Schell Brothers: Request to conditionally rezone from A-1 Agricultural District, B-1 Business District, B-2C Business District (Conditional), and R-6C General Residence District (Conditional) to B-2C Business District (Conditional) (2.287 acres), RTHC Residential Townhouse District (Conditional) (50.68 acres), and R-5AC General Residence District (Conditional) (23.20 acres) Parcels 747-771-7477, 747-771-9469, 747-771-9985, 748-770-6143, 748-770-8794, 748-771-3527, 749-770-4281, 749-770-9874, and 749-771-5605 containing 76.167 acres located between the southeast intersection of Nuckols Road and Hickory Park Drive and the north line of Fords Country Lane. The applicant proposes a residential and commercial development. The use will be controlled by zoning ordinance regulations and proffered conditions. The 2026 Comprehensive Plan recommends Office and Environmental Protection Area. The Planning Commission voted to recommend the Board of Supervisors grant the request. ]

THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL, UH, DEVELOPMENT, MR. CHAIR.

MS. MOORE.

QUADRANT OF INTERSTATE 2 95 AND KNUCKLES ROAD.

UH, THIS REQUEST IS TO CONDITIONALLY REZONE 76 ACRES TO B2C BUSINESS DISTRICT, RTHC RESIDENTIAL, UH, TOWN HOME DISTRICT AND R FIVE AC, GENERAL RESIDENCE DISTRICT AND 2020, THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE SITE WAS REZONED FOR COMMERCIAL USES AND A LIFE CARE FACILITY FOR A HUNDRED NINETY SEVENTY NINE UNITS, WHICH WERE NEVER DEVELOPED.

THIS APPLICATION PROPOSES TO REDUCE THE COMMERCIAL AREA TO 2.2 ACRES AND REZONED THE REMAINDER, UM, ACRES AND EXPAND 62 ACRES TO DEVELOP 309 TOWN HOMES AND 36 SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTS.

THIS TOTAL OF 345 UNITS, UH, EQUATES TO THE GROSS DENSITY OF 4.5 UNITS PER ACRE.

THE DEVELOPMENT WHEN ENCOMPASSED THE REMAINING A ONE PROPERTIES AT THIS NORTHEAST

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THE LAND IS ALSO BORDERED BY HICKORY PARK DRIVE TO THE NORTH AND THE FORMER SPRINGFIELD LANDFILL TO THE EAST.

THE APPLICANT HAS SUBMITTED PROFFERS AND A VISION BOOK FOR THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT CALLED WESTFORD GLEN.

UM, AND THE PROFFERS AND THE CONCEPT PLANS WERE REISS NOVEMBER 24TH.

AND THOSE HAVE BEEN HANDED OUT TO YOU THIS EVENING.

THE VISION BOOK AND PROFFERS COMMIT TO SIDEWALKS, STREET TREES, BUFFERS, AND SEVERAL OUTDOOR PARKS AND PEDESTRIAN WALKWAYS.

REVISIONS TO THE, UH, CONCEPTUAL LAYOUTS REFLECT THE REDUCTION OF UNITS THAT ARE PROPOSED WITH THE REVISIONS YOU GOT TONIGHT FROM 370 UNITS TO 345 TOTAL UNITS.

THE REDUCTIONS ARE REFLECTED MAINLY IN THIS AREA HERE IN THE NORTHERN PORTION ARE CALLED PHASE ONE.

AND YOU CAN SEE THE REMOVAL ABOUT 26, UH, TOWN HOMES IN THAT AREA.

THE REVISED PROFFERS ALSO SPECIFY THAT ALL AMENITIES EXCEPT FOR, UM, THE POND WOULD HAVE TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE THE 295TH, UH, CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY.

AND THAT EQUATES TO ABOUT PRETTY MUCH WHEN THE, UH, DEVELOPMENT IS 85% DONE.

A NEW PUBLIC ROAD IS PROPOSED, UM, AS HICKORY PARK DRIVE EXTENDED, WHICH WOULD CONNECT TO FORD'S COUNTRY LANE TO THE SOUTH.

IT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE 30 FOOT WIDE BUFFERS ON EITHER SIDE OF THIS ROADWAY, UM, WITH A FOUR FOOT WIDE PEDESTRIAN, UM, PATH, ASPHALT PATH ON THE WESTERN SIDE AND POTENTIALLY ON THE EASTERN SIDE.

ALL OTHER ROADS AND ALLEYS WOULD BE PRIVATE.

SO THE PROXIMITY TO INTERSTATE 2 95 AND KNUCKLES ROADS INTERCHANGE DOES POSE TRAFFIC CHALLENGES AND SEVERAL ROAD IMPROVEMENTS, UM, ARE PROPOSED BY THE APPLICANT, INCLUDING, UH, CONSTRUCTING A NORTHBOUND LANE ON KNUCKLES ROAD, WHICH WITH REVISED PROFFERS WOULD NOW EXTEND TO THE EXISTING THIRD LANE UP NEAR MOUNT, UM, VERNON BAPTIST CHURCH.

HICKORY PARK DRIVE WOULD BE WIDENED FROM KNUCKLES ROAD TO ACCA TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF THE LEFT TURN LANE ONTO, UH, SOUTHBOUND KNUCKLES AS WELL AS TO ACCOMMODATE A RIGHT TURN LANE ONTO KNUCKLES ROAD.

THESE IMPROVEMENTS WOULD BE, UH, COMPLETED PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF THE FIRST BUILDING PERMIT.

OTHER ROAD IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDE POTENTIALLY BUILDING A RIGHT TURN LANE ONTO FORD COUNTRY'S LANE OR AND EITHER CLOSING TOWARDS ITS COUNTRY LANE OR RESTRICTING ITS LEFT TURN MOVEMENT ONTO SOUTHBOUND KNUCKLES ROAD.

SO JUST TO NOTE THAT THOSE TWO WOULD HAVE TO BE DETERMINED 'CAUSE THEY CONFLICT.

THE REVISED PROFFERS ALSO COMMIT TO MAKING APPLICATION TO HENRI'S AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND FOR 5% OF THE LOTS EQUIVALENT TO ABOUT 17 LOTS.

UM, THAT'S NOTED, BUT I WILL SAY IT'S FOR AN APPLICATION AND THEREFORE THE IMPLEMENTATION IS NOT TECHNICALLY ENFORCEABLE BY THE COUNTY.

OTHER PROFFERS ADDRESS HOURS OF CONSTRUCTION BUILDING MATERIALS AND ELEVATIONS, UM, HERE REFLECT THE TOWN HOME TYPES.

I WILL NOTE THAT THE PRIVATE ROAD AND ALLEYS DO ALLOW FOR TOWN HOMES TO HAVE FRONT LOADING GARAGES, AND THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THAT COLOR CODED ON THE VISION BOOK TO DEPICT WHICH TYPE THE ELEVATION SHOWED WHAT THEY WOULD LOOK LIKE FOR FRONT LOADING AS WELL AS REAR LOAD AT TOWN HOMES.

SINGLE FAMILY ATTACHED WOULD LOOK ADHERE TO, UH, THESE ELEVATIONS SUBMITTED AS WELL AS COMMERCIAL.

THE 2026 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, UH, RECOMMENDS OFFICE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AREA AND THIS WOULD BE A DEVIATION FROM THAT, BUT IT WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH CHANGING DEVELOPMENT TYPES AND CHARACTER IN THE AREA, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE MARKET, UH, OFFICE MARKET HAS TO DECLINE.

UH, SINCE THE LAST PLAN WAS ADOPTED IN 2009, UH, WITH THE COMMITMENTS TO FURTHER MITIGATE TRAFFIC IMPACTS AND AND SERVICE IMPACTS, STAFF COULD BE MORE SUPPORTIVE OF THIS REQUEST, BUT STILL HAS OUTLINING CONCERN REGARDING TRAFFIC CONDITIONS AS WELL AS IMPACT ON SCHOOLS.

UM, THERE WERE ABOUT SIX OPPOSITIONS AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND ONE SUPPORT, AND SINCE THEN WE'VE GOTTEN, UM, LETTERS OF OPPOSITION AND SUPPORT.

THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.

I'D

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BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. MOORE? GOOD EVENING, JANE.

SO I, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN, I GUESS SOME VACILLATION, UM, FROM OUR TRAFFIC FOLKS AND, AND ASSESSING THIS AREA, AND I TAKE THAT TO, YOU KNOW, THAT TO ME THAT THEY'RE DOING A THOROUGH JOB AND I, AND I APPRECIATE THAT.

UM, SO THE, I THINK PART OF THE INITIAL ISSUE, AND FIRST I'M GONNA SEGMENT THIS OUT, TRAFFIC AND THEN SCHOOLS.

UM, SO THE THOUGHT BEING THAT BECAUSE THE APPLICANT WAS, I GUESS, ABLE TO SECURE FAIRLY DEFINITIVELY THAT THEY HAD THAT LAST PARCEL, THAT THAT WOULD, WAS THAT TO HOLD IT BEFORE THE, SOME UNCERTAINTY AS TO SECURING THAT PARCEL THAT WOULD MAKE THE CONTINUOUS LANE CORRECT.

SO IT, THERE'S A PINCH 0.2 LANES HERE BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF GETTING THAT THEY ARE NEGOTIATIONS.

I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR ALONG THEY ARE WITH THAT PROPERTY OWNER, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THE PROPERTY OWNER IS WORKING WITH THE APPLICANT TO DO SO TO OBTAIN THE RIGHT OF WAY TO GET THE THIRD LANE THROUGH.

UM, IF, IF THIS PROJECT WAS DENIED AND THE COUNTY AT SOME POINT, YOU KNOW, WE ALL, WE ALL KNOW KNUCKLES IS A PROBLEM.

MM-HMM .

UM, IF IT'S NOT DONE VIA THIS PROJECT, WHAT OBSTACLES WOULD YOU FORESEE WITH THE COUNTY TRYING TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS WITH THAT ROAD? I WOULD HAVE TO DEFER TO MR. YAB ON THAT WITH HIS EXPERTISE IN THIS.

GOOD EVENING, MR. CHAIR.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD? MR. MANAGER OF MR. ROUNDTREE? UM, YOUR QUESTION AGAIN? I'M SORRY.

SO ONE OF THE, JUST SPEAKING CANDIDLY, ONE OF THE, UM, BIGGEST, I GUESS, PLUSES OF THIS PROJECT AS, UM, PUT FORTH BY THE DEVELOPER IS THE IMPROVEMENT TO KNUCKLES ROAD, WHICH IS CERTAINLY A NEEDED IMPROVEMENT BY ADDING THAT, THAT LANE.

IF IT WAS NOT DONE VIA THIS PROJECT, WHAT IS THE LIKELIHOOD THAT IT COULD BE DONE OTHERWISE? WOULD THERE BE ISSUES WITH PARCEL ACQUISITION OR ANYTHING ELSE? UM, WELL MA'AM, WE, WE HAD ALREADY, PUBLIC WORKS HAD ALREADY STARTED A STUDY TO, UH, LOOK AT TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS IN THIS AREA JUST AS WE DO WITH MANY OTHER AREAS WHICH HAVE BOTH SAFETY AND CONGESTION ISSUES.

SO THE, THE PROCESS THAT THAT WOULD FOLLOW WOULD SIMPLY BE TO IDENTIFY ALL THE CONSTRAINTS THAT WE HAVE.

THE BOTTLENECK WAS MENTIONED ALREADY BY MS. MOORE.

AND, UM, WE WOULD THEN LOOK AT, UH, DESIGNING TO BOTH IMPROVE SAFETY AND CAPACITY.

NOW THAT WOULD ENTAIL OBTAINING PRIVATE PROPERTY BECAUSE AS AS NOTED, THERE IS A PINCH POINT THERE AND THERE IS A NEED FOR SOME ADDITIONAL TURN LANES AND, AND SOME, UH, OTHER IMPROVEMENTS TO HELP WITH THROUGHPUT.

SO IT WOULD FOLLOW ANY OTHER, JUST AS ANY OTHER PROJECT WE DO IN THE COUNTY, SAME PROCESS.

WE DO A STUDY, WE DO THE DESIGN, WE DETERMINE WHAT ADDITIONAL PROPERTY MAY BE NEEDED, AND THEN WE'D NEGOTIATE WITH THOSE OWNERS.

IS IT MORE THAN JUST THAT ONE PROPERTY AT WHIT CORNER? UM, WELL, WE WOULD, UH, NO, THERE'S PROPERTY TO, UH, BETWEEN KNUCKLES AND I 2 95 THAT WOULD ALSO BE, UH, NECESSARY, UM, YOU KNOW, NORTH OF THE, UH, INTERCHANGE BEFORE YOU GET TO, UH, HICKORY PARK.

SO WE HAVE TO ADDRESS BOTH AREAS THERE.

UM, SO YES, WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT ALL OF THAT AND IT'S, IT'S NOT A SITUATION WHERE WE COULD FORCE A, A PROPERTY OWNER TO SELL THAT RIGHT AWAY OR THAT THAT ACCESS TO THAT LAND.

THIS IS NOT, I KNOW SOMETIMES WE GO THROUGH THE CONDEMNATION PROCESS OR WHAT HAVE YOU.

UM, I'M JUST TRYING TO, TO WEIGH OUT WHAT, WHAT OBSTACLES OR, OR IF IT WOULD BE UNLIKELY THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO REMEDY THIS ISSUE SHORT OF THE, I GUESS THE PRIVATE MARKET BEING ABLE TO FREELY NEGOTIATE OR WHAT HAVE YOU PERHAPS OFFER MORE THAN WHAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO OFFER.

CAN YOU SHED SOME, SHED SOME LIGHT ON THAT FOR ME? CERTAINLY.

WE, WE CER WE HAVE SOME FLEXIBILITY WITH REGARD TO PROPERTY ACQUISITION FOR ROAD PROJECTS AND WE, UH, WE TRY AND MEET THE, UH, LANDOWNER, UM, LANDOWNER'S NEEDS, AND WE'VE DONE MANY THINGS TO ADDRESS THAT.

AND TALKING ABOUT FENCES, LANDSCAPING, UM, WE'VE, UH, PAID A LITTLE MORE THAN, UH, THAN PERHAPS THE, UH, UH, THE APPRAISED VALUE AT THE TIME, JUST SO THAT WE COULD SECURE THAT RIGHT OF WAY AND, AND MAKE EVERYBODY HAPPY AND AGAIN, MAKE A NEEDED SAFETY IMPROVEMENT.

IS NOT QUITE AS RADICAL WITH, WITH THE THIRD LANE.

SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE TRAFFIC, UM, ONE IS OBVIOUSLY THIS THIRD LANE IS DESIGNED TO REMEDY TRAFFIC COMING OFF OF THE INTERSTATE AND AND MERGING ON, UM, THE THEORY BEING THAT IT NOT ONLY WOULD ALLEVIATE THIS RIGHT HAND, BUT ALSO YOU'VE GOT A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC TURNING LEFT INTO TWIN HICKORY AND AND WHATNOT.

UM, IS IT MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE THOUGHT IS THAT THE THIRD LANE WOULD ALLEVIATE THAT LEFT HAND, THOSE LEFT HAND LANES ALSO? IT, IT DOES PROVIDE IMPROVEMENTS BECAUSE THE WEAVE IS,

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SO PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING OFF THE INTERSTATE IN PARTICULAR DON'T NEED TO IMMEDIATELY JUMP TO GET OUT OF, OUT OF THE ONE LANE INTO THE, INTO THE THROUGH LANES MM-HMM .

SO IT DOES HELP WITH THAT.

UM, IT ALSO ADDRESSES SOME OF THE, UH, BACKUP THAT EXTENDS ONTO THE, UH, HIGHWAY ON RAMP.

MM-HMM .

IT'S A RELATIVELY SHORT DISTANCE, I GUESS, AS PART OF THE PROBLEM IF YOU'RE TURNING RIGHT THERE ONTO THAT FIRST HICKORY PARK DRIVE.

THAT'S CORRECT.

UM, SO THAT WAS ONE JUST KIND OF THE, THE TRAFFIC GOING, UM, OFF OF THE INTERSTATE STRAIGHT, BUT THEN WE ALSO HAVE LEFT HAND TURNS FROM LEAVING FORD'S COUNTRY LANE FROM DUMP TRAFFIC USUALLY, BUT POTENTIALLY, UM, RESIDENTIAL TRAFFIC HERE, BUT ALSO LEFT HAND TRAFFIC TURNING OFF OF TWIN HICKORY LAKE DRIVE.

SO TALK TO ME ABOUT HOW THAT IS BEING REMEDIED OR IS PROPOSED TO BE REMEDIED IN, IN, IN THE DEVELOPER'S CASE OR IN OUR CASE IN THE DEVELOPER'S CASE.

UM, WELL, AGAIN, EXCUSE ME, BY PROVIDING THAT THIRD LANE IT DOES, IT DOES JUST EASE THAT CONGESTION.

SO YOU DON'T HAVE THAT BACKUP WHERE CARS ARE STOPPED AND OTHER CARS ARE TRYING TO, TO, UH, GET OVER OR GET IN THE CORRECT LANE.

SO IT'S, AS IT FLOWS MORE, MORE READILY, MORE QUICKLY, YOU HAVE MORE CAPACITY.

IT ALLOWS FOR CARS TO MANEUVER THROUGH THE INTERSECTION BETTER, UM, BUT IT ADDS ANOTHER LANE OF TRAFFIC.

SO IF SOMEBODY IS TRYING TO BEAT BEAT TRAFFIC, THEY NOW HAVE TO TRAVERSE OVER FOUR LANES TO MAKE THAT LEFT HAND LANE AS THEY'RE LEAVING THE DUMP OR WHAT HAVE YOU.

THEY, THEY DO.

AND, AND THE MODELING WOULD SUGGEST THAT GIVEN THAT YOU AGAIN HAVE MORE CAPACITY, LESS STOP TRAFFIC, LESS BACKUP, THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE BETTER ABLE TO NEGOTIATE THAT QUEUE AND THAT WEAVE BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE GAPS WHEN YOU HAVE CARS STOPPED AND THERE'S NO GAPS, THEN THAT CAUSES, UH, A MORE OF A PROBLEM.

WHAT, WHAT'S THE NATURE OF VEHICLES? UM, IS THERE, ARE THERE TRACTOR TRAILERS THAT ARE LEAVING FORDS COUNTRY LANE AND MAKING THAT LEFT HAND TURN? THERE ARE INDEED.

UM, THE, UH, THE LANDFILL ITSELF DOESN'T OPERATE AS A LANDFILL ANYMORE.

IT, IT OPERATES AS A, UH, SOLID WASTE TRANSFER STATIONS.

SO ALL OF THE REFUGE THAT OUR RESIDENTS AND, AND SOME OF OUR TRASH TRUCKS TAKE THERE, SOME OF OUR SMALL COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES DEPOSIT THERE, GO OUT VIA A, UH, TRACTOR TRAILER.

AND YES, THAT DOES HAVE TO NEGOTIATE THE, UH, FORDS COUNTRY LANE AND KNUCKLES ROAD INTERCHANGE INTERSECTION.

UM, IT'S, IT'S A DIFFICULT TURNING MANEUVER, ESPECIALLY DURING THE, UH, BUSY TIMES OF THE DAY.

UM, AND WHAT IS, WHAT'S THE NUMBER, AND I KNOW PROBABLY THE DEVELOPER WILL SAY THIS, BUT I'M SURE YOU ALSO KNOW IT, THE PROPOSED REDUCTION IN CAR BACKUP? UM, IT, IT WOULD GO FROM, UH, APPROXIMATELY 2,800 DOWN TO AROUND A LITTLE LESS THAN 500 FEET OF BACKUP.

SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE BACKING UP, UH, ALL THE WAY, UM, EITHER PAST THE, UH, THE EXIT OR ONTO THE EXIT, UM, IN SOME CASES LONGER THAN THAT ON THE EXIT.

UH, SO BY UH, REDUCING THAT ALMOST, UH, REALLY ALMOST, UH, 80%, 75, 80%, UM, IT WOULDN'T BACK UP ONTO THE INTERSTATE AS IT DOES NOW, WHAT'S THE EQUIVALENT IN CARS? UM, THE EQUIVALENT IN CARS IS, UH, 19 CARS AND IN THE POST DEVELOPMENT STAGE IN PRIOR TO THAT, ABOUT A HUNDRED PLUS CARS.

DO YOU HAVE THAT REVERSED? THE CURRENT IS, THE CURRENT IS AROUND A HUNDRED CAR, UM, BACKUP.

AND, AND THE DEVELOPER'S POSITION IS THAT, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT HENRICO TR THAT HENRICO AGREES WITH TRAFFIC AGREES IS GONNA REDUCE IT TO 19 AND YES.

YES.

THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT, UH, WE USE THE SAME MODELING TOOL, UH, THE SYNCHRO MODELING TOOL THAT THEY USE.

SO WE HAVE COMING ONLINE, UM, A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF, UM, APARTMENTS IN INNSBROOK THAT'S CORRECT, SEVEN, SIX OR 700 UNITS, I THINK.

AND THAT ANALYSIS IS INCLUDED INTO THAT 19 CARS ALSO? YES, THAT'S ALL, UH, IN THE EXPANSION OF THE, THE PROJECT WOULD, UH, WOOD MODEL TRAFFIC IN THE 2031 CONDITION.

SO YES, IT'S NOT, NOT JUST TODAY, BUT IT'S MODELING FOR THE FUTURE.

THANK YOU MR. YAB.

YES, MA'AM.

UM, I'M GONNA MOVE TO SCHOOLS.

JEAN, SHE'S RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

OH YEAH, SORRY, SORRY.

SO I GUESS WHAT IS SCHOOLS, SCHOOLS HAS READ THE SUMMARY AND THE STAFF REPORT, I GUESS, CONTRIBUTED TO IT AS WELL.

UM, AND THE STUDENT CAPACITY INCREASE IS ESTIMATED AT, I THINK, WAS IT 70? IT'S ESTIMATED TO BE 70 ELEMENTARY STUDENTS, 40 MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS, AND ABOUT 44 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

SO I SPOKE WITH THE, THE PRINCIPAL AT RIVER'S EDGE AND GOT A LITTLE BIT OF UNDERSTANDING ABOUT HOW, HOW THESE NUMBERS SOMETIMES PLAY OUT.

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AND I KNOW THAT MY COLLEAGUE PROBABLY WILL HAVE SOME, SOME INPUT IN THIS AS WELL.

SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT AT ANY GIVEN POINT IN, IN THIS PARTICULAR SCHOOL, PERHAPS OTHER SCHOOLS IN THREE CHOPPED, UM, DISTRICT, THERE MAY BE SOME FLUCTUATION BECAUSE PARENTS, UM, IN THIS ZONE HAVE A HIGHER TENDENCY TO PERHAPS WITHDRAW THEIR CHILDREN FOR A MONTH OR TWO AT A TIME TO TRAVEL INTERNATIONALLY.

IS THAT FAIR? SO THIS, THE NUMBERS THAT WE'RE USING AS FAR AS 2025 MEMBERSHIP, IS THAT AVERAGED OUT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR OR HOW IS THAT OBTAINED? THAT IS OUR, UH, COUNT THAT WE TAKE AT SEPTEMBER 30TH EVERY YEAR.

THOSE ARE OUR NUMBERS THAT WE SUBMIT TO VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

WE USE THOSE AS A STATIC NUMBER THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, BUT WE DO MONITOR AVERAGE DAILY MEMBERSHIP THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

WE GET A REPORT ONCE A MONTH, SO WE ARE MONITORING THAT ON OUR END.

HOWEVER, FOR CONSISTENCY SAKE ACROSS ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS, WE USE THE SEPTEMBER 30TH COUNT, SINCE THAT'S WHAT THE STATE HAS FOR US.

AND WHEN PREDICTING THE STUDENT YIELD, IS THAT A, IS THAT A CONSISTENT FORMULA THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY? YES, SO I, I PULLED THE DATA ON, UM, I, I ASKED THE PRINCIPAL TO PROVIDE ME THE BREAKDOWN OF STUDENT ENROLLMENT AT RIVERS EDGE ELEMENTARY BY NEIGHBORHOOD AND CROSS REFERENCED THAT WITH, UM, INFORMATION THAT IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ON HENRICO COUNTY'S WEBSITE, WHICH IS, UM, PUBLISHED EVERY YEAR.

AND IT'S A LISTING OF MULTI-FAMILY UNITS, UM, PER DISTRICT.

AND WHAT WHAT IT SEEMED TO, TO ME IS THAT THE PRESUMPTION ABOUT STUDENT ENROLLMENT AND IN IN PARTICULAR THE PRESUMPTION THAT TRADITIONALLY TOWN HOMES DON'T YIELD THAT MANY STUDENTS DOESN'T SEEM TO TO PLAY OUT THE, IN, IN THIS DISTRICT AS IT DOES IN OTHER DISTRICTS.

SO FOR EXAMPLE, UM, DUNCAN PARK AT SADLER WALK HAS 64 UNITS, TOWN HOME UNITS, BUT A YIELD OF 32 ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT RIVERS EDGE, THAT'S 50%.

AND AND I DID THIS FOR EVERY COMPLEX THAT FEEDS INTO RIVERS EDGE, EVERY, EVERY MULTI-FAMILY COMPLEX THAT FEEDS INTO RIVER'S EDGE, THE LOWEST PERCENTAGE THAT I COULD ASCERTAIN WAS ABOUT 26.

IN OTHER WORDS, AT SADLER CROSSING, 70 TOWN HOMES YIELDED 18 STUDENTS, WHICH I, I THINK IS STILL HIGHER THAN THE PRESUMPTIONS THAT SEEM TO BE USED MATHEMATICALLY COUNTYWIDE.

YES, MA'AM.

I DO WANNA LET YOU KNOW THAT OUR STUDENT YIELDS ARE CALCULATED IN JANUARY OF EACH YEAR.

SO THE YIELDS WE ARE CURRENTLY USING ARE BASED OFF OF SCHOOL YEAR 2024 FIGURES.

SO WHILE THEY WOULD BE HIGHER THIS YEAR, AND WE ARE EXPECTING THEM TO BE HIGHER CURRENTLY BECAUSE OUR CALCULATIONS OCCUR AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CALENDAR YEAR, WE DON'T HAVE OUR CURRENT YEAR STUDENT YIELD INFORMATION QUITE YET.

UM, WE ARE EXPECTING, ESPECIALLY IN THREE CHOP, WE'RE EXPECTING THAT TOWNHOUSE NUMBER TO RISE.

WE ARE BEGINNING THE YIELD CALCULATION PROCESS, BUT WE HAVE NOT FINISHED IT.

WE'RE EXPECTING IN THREE CHOP THE TOWN HOME YIELDS TO RISE.

WE'RE EXPECTING IN TUCKAHOE THE SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT NUMBERS TO RISE, UH, JUST OF HOW OUR STUDENTS HAVE MOVED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM, UM, RESIDENTIALLY I SHOULD SAY.

SO WE ARE EXPECTING THOSE NUMBERS TO RISE.

HOWEVER, I'M NOT SURE IT WILL RISE TO 50% OF THE UNITS FOR THIS CASE.

SCHOOLS NOTES THAT TRAILERS REDISTRICTING AND OR OTHER RELIEF OPTIONS WOULD BE NEEDED.

AND, AND, AND THAT'S NOT, IN FAIRNESS, THAT'S NOT THE TRUTH FOR, OR THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT IT, EVEN IF I USE THE SMALLEST PERCENTAGE OF 0.26, THAT GIVES ME 80 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IF I'M ONLY COUNTING THE TOWN HOMES.

AND THAT'S 309 BY MY COUNT AS FAR AS THE TOWN HOMES, NOT INCLUDING THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, WHICH I, I THINK IS, IS STILL AT 36.

SO THE, THE NUMBER OF 70 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS ALONE, UM, EVEN GIVEN WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT THE, THE NUMBERS NOT BEING A HUNDRED PERCENT UP TO DATE, WELL, LET ME, LET ME DO THIS.

THERE WAS A 2020 SEPTEMBER, 2024 CASE THAT WE APPROVED, AND I'M SORRY, I DON'T MEAN TO PLEASE, IT'S NOT DIRECTED TOWARDS YOU, I'M JUST TRYING TO GET THIS INFORMATION OUT.

THERE WAS A A 2024 CASE THAT WE APPROVED AND IT WAS ONLY A FIVE HOMES, UM, IN THREE CHOP DISTRICT IN THE SAME AREA.

AND THE STAFF REPORT NOTED WHILE THE NUMBER OF POTENTIAL STUDENTS FROM THIS SMALL DEVELOPMENT ARE MINIMAL, AND AGAIN THIS WAS FIVE HOMES AND HENRICO COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS HAS INDICATED THE FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY OF RIVERS EDGE ELEMENTARY AND GLEN ALLEN HIGH SCHOOLS WOULD BE EXCEEDED WITH THIS.

AND OTHER DEVELOPMENTS OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS CAPACITY FOR BOTH RIVERS EDGE ELEMENTARY AND GLEN ALLEN HIGH SCHOOL ARE EXPECTED TO EXCEED 100%

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SO THIS WAS ESSENTIALLY LANGUAGE IN A STAFF REPORT OVER A SMALL CASE KIND OF GIVING THE FOREWARNING THAT HEY, BIGGER CASES ARE, ARE GONNA PUSH US OVER THE EDGE.

UM, SO I'M TRYING TO RECONCILE THAT WITH, NOW IN THIS CASE THAT ALARM BELL DOESN'T SEEM TO BE RINGING.

IT DEFINITELY IS.

UM, BUT ON THE BACKEND WE ARE EXPECTING A DECREASE.

OUR, UH, LIFE BIRTH RATES ARE DOWN ACROSS THE NATION AND ESPECIALLY IN HENRICO CURRENTLY WE'RE LOOKING AT RIVERS SUCH AS COHORTS.

THERE IS A SHARP DECREASE BETWEEN OUR CURRENT YEAR THIRD GRADERS AND OUR CURRENT YEAR SECOND GRADERS.

AND THAT GOES DOWN THE FURTHER YOU GO.

WE'RE EXPECTING, AS THESE COHORTS MATRICULATE OUT, THOSE ENROLLMENT NUMBERS WILL BE GOING DOWN UNTIL OUR BIRTH RATES GO BACK UP TO PRE COVID NUMBERS.

UM, VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DID RELEASE THE REPORT OF OUR, UH, LIVE BIRTHS FOR 2024 ARE STARTING TO CLIMB AGAIN.

SO WE WILL BE EXPECTING IN ABOUT FIVE YEARS THAT OUR ENROLLMENT NUMBERS WILL BE BACK UP TO PRE COVID NUMBERS.

BUT FOR THESE NEXT FEW YEARS, WE ARE EXPECTING A DECREASE IN ENROLLMENT AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL SPECIFICALLY.

BUT THIS PHASED OUT THIS, THIS DEVELOPMENT IS NOT JUST A FEW YEARS, IT'S GONNA BE, WHAT, SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS I THINK? YES.

SO BY THE TIME IT'S AT CAPACITY, THOSE NUMBERS ARE, THOSE ENROLLMENT NUMBERS ARE GONNA BE BACK UP.

THEY COULD BE.

UH, THE OTHER PART OF THAT IS WE DO HAVE A NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COMING ONLINE IN SCHOOL YEAR 2029.

IT IS LOCATED IN THE FAIRFIELD DISTRICT, BUT WE ARE ANTICIPATING THAT THE BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS THAT WILL BE NECESSARY AS A NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS BROUGHT ONLINE WILL RIPPLE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.

WE ARE EXPECTING TO BE ABLE TO USE THE BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS FOR THAT AREA TO RIPPLE INTO THE WEST END TO ADDRESS SOME OF THESE ISSUES CURRENTLY.

UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE ARE, THERE ARE PE CLASSES AT RIVERS EDGE THAT HAD HAVE OVER 50 STUDENTS IN THEM.

IS THAT YOUR UNDERSTANDING ALSO? RIGHT NOW I HAVE NOT BEEN TOLD THAT, BUT I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT IS FALSE.

I JUST AM UNAWARE AT THIS MOMENT.

AND HOW MANY TRAILERS ARE IN USE RIGHT NOW AT RIVERS EDGE? THEY CURRENTLY HAVE FOUR TRAILERS, HOWEVER, ONLY ONE OF THEM IS BEING USED FOR ACADEMIC USES.

WE HAVE SCHOOL COUNSELING IN TWO OF THEM.

UH, AND I BELIEVE ONE IS A NON ZONED SPECIAL EDUCATION PULLOUT ZONE, UH, THAT IS JUST EXTRA CLASSROOM SPACE FOR ANY TESTING OR ANY REASON THAT YOU MAY NEED TO PULL A STUDENT OUT FOR.

SO I, I DID INQUIRE ABOUT THAT.

MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT ONE IS USED FULL-TIME FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSES AND IT'S, IT'S USED PRETTY MUCH MOST OF THE DAY FOR, FOR PULLOUTS.

ONE IS USED FOR GIFTED EDUCATION AGAIN, FOR KIDS BEING PULLED OUTTA CLASS.

I THINK ONE IS COUNSELING AND UM, MAYBE ONE IS ART OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

BUT I, I DIDN'T, I I GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT THIS WAS A PRETTY CONSISTENT USE THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

LIKE THE TRAILERS WERE USED, THEY WERE, THEY HAD STUDENTS EVERY DAY.

THE DISTINCTION BEING THAT THERE'S NOT, LIKE MS. JONES'S CLASS ISN'T ASSIGNED TO A TRAILER YET, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT EVERY CLASSROOM IN RIVERS EDGE IS CURRENTLY FULL.

THERE, THERE IS NO ROOM.

THEY ARE CURRENTLY USING EVERY ROOM IN THEIR BUILDING.

YES.

AND THAT'S JUST THE, THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT I KIND OF DID THAT DEEP DIVE IN, BUT WE'RE ALREADY OVER AT DEEP RUN.

YES MA'AM.

AND NO CERTAINTY AS TO IF AND WHEN A WEST END HIGH SCHOOL WILL BE BILLED AT THIS TIME.

THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

I APPRECIATE THAT.

OH, I'M SORRY.

I THINK MR. ROGE HAVE, CAN I JUST FOLLOW UP ON ONE QUESTION ON THE DEEP RUN, UM, AND I LEARNED THIS THROUGH THE OTHER REZONINGS.

DO YOU KNOW THE DAY ONE, DAY TWO NUMBERS FOR I DO DEEP RUN BECAUSE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DEEP RUN BEING OVER CAPACITY, UM, WE SEE 101%, BUT THE REALITY IS AT LEAST I KNOW AT FREEMAN, A NUMBER OF THOSE KIDS LEAVE EACH DAY GOING TO THE ACE CENTER.

SO THE TRUE CAPACITY, AND I'M JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE FOR EVERYBODY'S INFORMATION BECAUSE IT IS, IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE DO LEAVE THOSE SCHOOLS.

SO YES, FOR DAY ONE DEEP RUN IS AT 99.1% AND ON DAY TWO THEY'RE AT 99% FLAT.

WE HAVE ABOUT 44.4% OF DEEP RUN'S CURRENT ENROLLMENT PARTICIPATING IN THE ACE CENTER AND WE ARE EXPECTING THAT TO INCREASE AS MORE CENTER SEATS COME ONLINE IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS AS WE ARE, UH, PROJECTING THAT YOU WILL HAVE MORE SEATS COME ONLINE.

THAT'S ALL MY QUESTIONS FOR NOW, MR. CHAIR.

THEY HAVE, UM, HAVE SO REGISTERED.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME? OF MY COLLEAGUES? ALRIGHT, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING.

UH, SO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO ARE HERE IN THE ROOM WHO WISH TO SPEAK TO THIS CASE AND THOSE UPON, UH, WEBEX, UH, NOW IS YOUR TIME.

I'M GONNA, TO BE FAIR, I'M GONNA GO, UM, IN THE ORDER OF THOSE, SOME HAVE ALREADY, UH, PRE-REGISTERED TO SPEAK TO THIS CASE.

SO WE'LL GO IN THE TIME ORDER THAT

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IS MS. DICKERSON IS JACQUELINE HOLLOWAY DICKERSON IN THE ROOM IS MS. DICKERSON ON WEBEX? SHE IS, SIR.

I'LL NOW MUTE MS. JACKIE.

GOES, IF THEY CAN GET THE PROPERTY AND IF IT GOES ALL THE WAY TO TWIN HICKORY, THAT'S STILL A TURN LANE.

YOU CAN SPEAK MS. DICKERSON, YOU CAN NOW SPEAK AND WE CAN COME BACK TO HER IF YOU'D LIKE.

VICTORIA, IF THAT'S EASIEST.

GOOD EVENING TO THE BOARD AND VISITORS.

MY NAME IS JACQUELINE HOLLOWAY DICKERSON AND I LIVE ON A PEGA LANE.

MY FAMILY'S ONE OF THE ORIGINAL FAMILIES IN OF THIS IMMEDIATE AREA AND HAVE OBSERVED MANY CHANGES.

SOME ARE VERY POSITIVE AND SOME NOT SO POSITIVE.

FIRST OF ALL, LET ME BE CLEAR, I DO NOT OPPOSE REZONING AND PROGRESS WHEN PROPER INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY MEASURES ARE PART OF THE REZONING PROCESS.

WITHOUT REGARD TO THESE MEASURES, ADDING 346 HOMES, TOWNHOUSES, AND BUSINESS TO THE CONGESTED OVERUTILIZED AND UNSAFE KNUCKLES ROAD IS TOTALLY UNREALISTIC AND NOT IN KEEPING WITH HENRICO SAFETY PROTOCOLS.

SAFETY ISSUES, DRIVERS HAVE NO REGARD FOR SPEED AND RED LIGHTS ENTERING INTO KNUCKLES ROAD FROM HICKORY PARK AT THE PRESENT TIME OR HICKORY.

TWIN HICKORY LANE IS A DEATH TRAP.

ADDITIONALLY, VEHICULAR TRAFFIC COMES TO A STANDSTILL ON THE INTERSTATE DURING NORMAL RUSH HOUR, UH, COMMUTE TIMES, ULTIMATELY LEAVING KNUCKLES ROAD MOST TIMES WITH NO ENTRANCE FROM HICKORY PARK AND BACKUPS DOWN OPAQUE LANE.

ALSO, I WANNA INVITE THE DEVELOPERS.

THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN ADDRESSED TO FOLLOW ANY SCHOOL BUS STOPPING AT ANY OF THE NUMEROUS TOWNHOUSES AND DEVELOPMENTS AND OBSERVE THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN THAT DO LIVE IN TOWNHOUSES AND RESIDENCE.

IT WILL SURPRISE YOU.

IN CONCLUSION, THE PROPOSAL TO PARTIALLY WIDEN KNUCKLES ROAD IN TWO OR THREE LANE ROAD WILL NOT ADDRESS THE TRAFFIC TO ACCOMMODATE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT UNTIL FURTHER STUDY IS CONDUCTED BY HENRICO TRAFFIC ENGINEERS AND VDOT TO ADDRESS AND CORRECT THE KNUCKLES ROAD CORRIDOR AND CORRECT THE EXISTING TRAFFIC ISSUES.

I REMAIN OPPOSED TO ANY FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS ON KNUCKLES ROAD.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

HEY, THANK YOU MA'AM.

THE NEXT PERSON WHO REGISTERED IS UH, KIM EDWARDS.

IS MS. EDWARDS IS KIM EDWARDS IN THE ROOM IS KIM EDWARDS ON WEBEX? YES SIR, SHE IS.

MS. EDWARDS, YOU CAN NOW SPEAK.

HELLO? HELLO? HI, MY NAME IS KIM EDWARDS AND I LIVE AT 49 15.

UM, I DON'T KNOW MY ADDRESS RIGHT NOW.

RIVER PLACE, UH, TERRACE.

AND I'M IN WYNDHAM FOREST.

AND UM, I LIVE IN THE DEVELOPMENT THAT WOULD BE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THIS PARTICULAR NEW DEVELOPMENT.

AND ALONG WITH WHAT MS. HOLLOWAY SAID AND UM, WITH SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT MS. ROUNDTREE WAS ASKING REGARDING THE SCHOOLS, WHAT I HEAR FROM, UM, MY NEIGHBORS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE SEE AND THAT IS FAMILIES MOVE INTO THIS AREA BECAUSE OF THE SCHOOLS, NOT BECAUSE OF THE HOMES.

UM, A LOT OF THE FOLKS THAT LIVE IN THE TOWN HOMES LIVE THERE BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SINGLE FAMILY HOME TO PURCHASE.

IT'S NOT LIKE THEY'RE IN LOVE WITH THEIR HOUSE AND THEY'RE GONNA BE THERE.

UM, I UNDERSTAND THE DEVELOPER IS LOOKING AT ELIMINATING THE TRAFFIC COMING OFF OF 2 95 NORTH, BUT NO ONE HAS A ADDRESS COMING OFF THE INTERSTATE AT 2 95 SOUTH.

UM, I MAKE THAT COMMUTE EVERY DAY AND THERE ARE TIMES WHEN WE'RE STOPPED ON 2 95 TO MAKE THAT LOOP AROUND TO EVEN GET ON KNUCKLES ROAD BECAUSE OF THE INNSBROOK TRAFFIC AS WELL.

GOING STRAIGHT ONTO KNUCKLES, THAT THIRD LANE THAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.

UM, WELL IF IT

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IT'S NOT A, THAT'S NOT A THROUGH THIRD LANE ON KNUCKLES ROAD.

SO AT SOME POINT WE'RE STILL BOTTLENECKING THERE.

AND THE LAST THING IS, UM, AND MR. YAB AND MS. ROUNDTREE AND OTHERS, UM, KNOW WHAT A SPEEDING PROBLEM WE HAVE ON, UM, HOMELAND RIDGE ROAD.

A LOT OF OUR HOMEOWNERS DRIVE THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL BECAUSE THE SCHOOL BUSES HAVE THREE KIDS PER SEAT.

SO THE HOMEOWNERS DECIDE TO DRIVE THEIR KIDS TO RIVERS EDGE AND SPEEDING IS A HUGE, HUGE ISSUE.

UM, AND THE COUNTY HAS DONE ALL KINDS OF THINGS TO TRY TO GET FOLKS TO SLOW DOWN AND IT'S STILL AN ISSUE.

SO OF THE WHATEVER PERCENTAGE OF THE KIDS, AND I BELIEVE IT WILL BE CLOSER TO 50% OF THE HOMEOWNERS THAT WILL BE IN, UM, THE NEW DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE KIDS IN THE SCHOOLS.

LIKELY THOSE PEOPLE WILL BE DRIVING THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL AND THEY'LL BE DRIVING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND ON, UM, HOLMAN RIDGE ROAD IN HOLLOWAY, THEY'RE FRONT FACING HOMES.

SO THOSE HOMES FACE THE ROAD AND THOSE KIDS WHO ARE WALKING TO SCHOOL OR WHATEVER CAN BE VERY HAZARDOUS.

ALSO DURING REALLY, UM, DAILY COMMUTING TIMES, TAKING A LEFT OFF OF HICKORY PARK TO EVEN GET ON THE INTERSTATE IN THE MORNING, IT'S NOT UN UNUSUAL FOR ME TO SIT TWO LIGHT CYCLES TO MAY BE ABLE TO TAKE THAT LEFT.

UM, SO THAT'LL BE EVEN WORSE WITH, UM, 345 TIMES TO POTENTIAL CARS TRYING TO, UM, NAVIGATE THAT INTERSECTION.

AND WE ALREADY KNOW THAT THE LIGHT AT TWIN HICKORY AND, UM, KNUCKLES MAKING A LEFT, THERE IS ALWAYS AT LEAST A TWO CYCLE LIGHT.

SO IIII HOPE YOU GUYS DO NOT GO FORWARD WITH THIS, UM, PROPOSAL.

AND I WILL JUST SAY TOO, I KNOW HENRICO COUNTY DOES HAVE A HOUSING CRISIS AND WHAT WE WERE TOLD BY THE DEVELOPERS, 'CAUSE I WENT TO TWO OUTTA THE THREE MEETINGS THAT THEY HAD WITH THE COMMUNITY, THE HOME PRICES WILL BE COMPARABLE TO THE HOME PRICES ALREADY IN THE WINDHAM FOREST AREA.

AND I DON'T KNOW THAT THE, OUR PRI OUR PRICE HOMES ARE WHAT THE COUNTY NEEDS.

AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

HEY, THANK YOU MA'AM.

THE NEXT PERSON WHO PRE-REGISTERED IS MATTHEW GLOVER.

IS MATTHEW THE RIGHT BACK THERE SIR? SIR, SIR, IT'S THAT RIGHT BEHIND YOU.

CHAIRMAN SCHMIDT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

UH, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TONIGHT.

MY NAME IS MATTHEW GLOVER.

I LIVE AT 9 3 2 2 OVER HILL ROAD, UH, IN THE THREE CHOP DISTRICT AND I'M HERE TO EXPRESS MY STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE WESTFORD GLEN REZONING PROPOSAL.

IN ADDITION TO SPEAKING AS A RESIDENT, I ALSO SERVE AS THE HEAD OF THE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE'S YOUNG LEADERS GROUP FOR THE CENTRAL VIRGINIA REGION.

IN THIS ROLE, I WORK CLOSELY WITH EMERGING PROFESSIONALS, UH, ACROSS THE REAL ESTATE PLANNING AND PUBLIC POLICY SECTORS.

OUR MEMBERS CONSISTENTLY RAISE ONE ISSUE ABOVE ALL OTHERS, THE INCREASING DIFFICULTY YOUNG PROFESSIONALS FACE IN FINDING ATTAINABLE HIGH QUALITY HOUSING IN HENRICO AND THE BROADER REGION.

THIS EXPERIENCE GIVES ME A FIRSTHAND PERSPECTIVE ON HOW TODAY'S HOUSING SHORTAGES ARE NOT ABSTRACT POLICY PROBLEMS. THEY'RE REAL BARRIERS PREVENTING THE NEXT GENERATION FROM PUTTING DOWN ROOTS.

HERE ENRICO COUNTY IS FACING A CLEAR AND URGENT HOUSING IMBALANCE.

IN THE FIRST THREE QUARTERS OF 2025, THE COUNTY REZONED LAND FOR JUST 125 HOMES.

YET DURING THAT SAME PERIOD, IT ISSUED 905 PERMITS FOR NEW HOMES.

THIS MEANS WE ARE CONSUMING OUR RESIDENTIAL LOT INVENTORY FAR FASTER THAN WE ARE REPLENISHING IT.

THIS TREND IS NOT SUSTAINABLE AND IS CONTRIBUTING TO THE GROWING CHALLENGE OF HOUSING AT OBTAINABILITY AND ACCESS WESTFORD GLEN PRE UH, PRESENTS A REASONABLE, TIMELY AND WELL-PLANNED SOLUTION.

THE PROJECT WOULD DELIVER NEEDED HOUSING OPTIONS IN AN AREA WHERE DEMANDS SIGNIFICANTLY OUTPACES SUPPLY.

THESE HOMES REPRESENT NOT JUST UNITS ON A MAP, BUT REAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR FAMILIES AND FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS WHO WANT TO PLANT ROOTS IN HENRICO, SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO OUR SCHOOLS AND CONTRIBUTE TO OUR COMMUNITY.

THE PROPOSAL ALSO OFFERS INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS ALONG KNUCKLES ROAD AT THE COST OF THE DEVELOPER, WHICH REPRESENTS SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS TO TAXPAYERS IN OUR COUNTY.

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FURTHERMORE, THIS PROJECT ALLOWS THOSE UPGRADES TO HAPPEN NOW, NOT YEARS OR DECADES DOWN THE ROAD.

THIS REZONING IS NOT JUST ABOUT GROWTH, IT'S ABOUT SMART PLANNING, ECONOMIC STABILITY, AND MEETING THE REAL HOUSING NEEDS OF CURRENT AND FUTURE RESIDENTS.

HENRICO COUNTY MUST TAKE MEANINGFUL STEPS TO RESUPPLY RESIDENTIAL LOT INVENTORY AND WESTFORD GLEN IS A STRONG REASONABLE STEP IN THAT DIRECTION.

I RESPECTFULLY URGE YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS CASE.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION.

THE NEXT PERSON THAT HAS PRE-REGISTERED IS MS. JAMISON.

IS TRACY JAMISON IN THE ROOM? HELLO MA'AM.

HOW ARE YOU? UH, GOOD EVENING.

CHAIRMAN SCHMIDT AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

MY NAME IS TRACY JAMISON AND I RESIDE AT 36 0 9 WHISPERING WOOD PORT IN THE WELLESLEY SUBDIVISION.

I'M A MOTHER HOMEOWNER AND HAVE BEEN A PROUD RESIDENT OF HENRICO COUNTY FOR THE PAST 17 YEARS.

MY CHILDREN ATTEND OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND LIKE MANY FAMILIES HERE, WE CHOSE THIS COMMUNITY BECAUSE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES IT PROVIDES.

SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS, STRONG SCHOOLS, AND A SENSE THAT HENRICO WELCOMES FAMILIES WHO WANT TO BUILD A FUTURE.

I'M GRATEFUL THAT I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE AND WORK IN OUR COMMUNITY.

I'M HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE I STRONGLY SUPPORT THE WESTFORD GLEN REZONING.

AS A PARENT, I SEE FIRSTHAND HOW MANY FAMILIES WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS COUNTY BUT SIMPLY CANNOT FIND A, A HOME THEY CAN AFFORD.

IN WESTERN HENRICO, THERE IS LIMITED RESALE SUPPLY AS FAMILIES TEND TO REMAIN IN THE AREA AND EVEN FURTHER LIMITED SUPPLY OF NEW HOMES.

WESTFORD GLEN WOULD HELP CHANGE THAT BY PROVIDING HOUSING OPTIONS FOR FAMILIES WHO WANT TO JOIN OUR COMMUNITY, ENROLL THEIR CHILDREN IN OUR SCHOOLS, AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE LIFE OF OUR COUNTY.

I BELIEVE WE SHOULD BE OPENING THE DOOR FOR THEM NOT CLOSING IT.

THIS PROJECT ALSO PROVIDES IMPORTANT INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS ALONG KNUCKLES ROAD THAT THE COUNTY ACKNOWLEDGES ARE NEEDED, BUT CANNOT FUND AT THIS TIME.

AS A PARENT WHO DRIVES THESE ROADS EVERY DAY, I APPRECIATE THE APPLICANT'S WILLINGNESS AND, AND COOPERATION ON A MUCH NEEDED IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.

WESTFORD GLEN WILL ALSO CREATE AND SUPPORT HUNDREDS OF JOBS IN RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION JOBS THAT KEEP OUR LOCAL ECONOMY STRONG AND HELP THE WORKERS AND SMALL BUSINESSES WHO SERVE FAMILIES LIKE MINE.

AS A MOTHER, I WANT MY CHILDREN TO GROW UP IN A COMMUNITY THAT PLANS AHEAD WELCOMES OTHERS AND CONTINUES TO INVEST IN ITS FUTURE.

APPROVING THIS REZONING IS A RESPONSIBLE WAY TO ENSURE THAT HENRICO REMAINS A PLACE WHERE FAMILIES CAN FIND A HOME, PUT DOWN ROOTS, AND BENEFIT FROM THE INCREDIBLE SCHOOLS AND OPPORTUNITIES WE ARE SO FORTUNATE TO HAVE.

I RESPECTFULLY URGE YOU TO SUPPORT WESTFORD GLEN AND TO KEEP HENRICO A COMMUNITY THAT OPENS ITS DOORS TO FAMILIES WHO WANT TO CALL WESTERN HENRICO THEIR HOME.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

IS THERE ANYONE ELSE THAT, THAT, UH, COMPLETES THE PRE-REGISTERED ONE? IS THERE ANYONE IN THE ROOM THAT WISHES TO SPEAK TO THIS CASE? UH, IF YOU'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO THIS CASE, IF YOU COULD HEAD BACK TO THE, UH, LOBBY IN THE BACK AND JUST TAKE TURNS UP TO THE MIC.

AND REMEMBER, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, YOUR ADDRESS, UM, THEN BEGIN.

IS, IS RIGHT ABOVE THE KNUCKLES.

HI, MY NAME IS DENNIS BERMAN.

I LIVE OFF OF KNUCKLES ROAD NEAR THIS PROJECT AND UH, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE BARRY WHITE IMPERSONATION.

I'M GETTING OVER A COLD HERE.

UH, MR. CHAIR, MR. MANAGER, BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND TEAM, I THANK YOU.

I BROUGHT SOME SLIDES.

I PROMISE YOU THERE'S ONLY EIGHT OF THEM.

I'M GONNA SKIP OVER A LOT OF 'EM BECAUSE YOU ALL HAVE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB COVERING A LOT OF THESE.

AND, UH, IF YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

SO, AGAIN, I'M GONNA GO FAST ON THESE BECAUSE IT'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT.

THE TWO DEVELOPERS ARE PUTTING UP 250, UH, 245 HOMES.

MOST OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE TOWN HOMES, SOME SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, AND A, UM, COFFEE SHOP WITH A DRIVE THROUGH AND A MEDICAL OFFICE AS WELL.

UH, WHEN I WAS HERE A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT ORIGINALLY RECOMMENDED AGAINST DOING THESE REZONINGS AND, UM, SUBSEQUENTLY THOSE WOULD MENTION TONIGHT THE PLANNING COMMISSION THEN VOTED TO PUT IT FORWARD AS AN APPROVAL FOR THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

UH, IF THIS IS APPROVED, IT'LL TAKE FIVE YEARS.

IF EVERYTHING GOES ON SCHEDULE, I THINK IT'LL TAKE LONGER.

BUT THEY SAID 30 30, UH, 2031.

AND, UM, WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT TRAFFIC, WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT SCHOOL OVERCROWDING, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, WHICH I'LL GO INTO QUICKLY ON THE NEXT SLIDES.

SO IN GENERAL, WE ARE RECOMMENDING AGAINST THIS.

SO AGAIN, HERE'S BEEN POINTED OUT THAT, UM, PINK AREA OR WHATEVER COLOR THAT

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UM, CLOVER LEAF.

NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

THIS IS THE MOST RECENT CONCEPT DRAWING.

YOU COULD SEE THE MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDING UP IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER.

IT'S NOT A BIG PERCENTAGE OF IT.

THE REST ARE TOWN HOMES AND SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

A FEW OF THOSE.

UH, NEXT PLEASE.

THIS IS THE AREA THAT, UM, IS BEING STUDIED, ALL THESE DIFFERENT INTERSECTIONS AND THAT'S KNUCKLES GOING, UM, SOUTH TO NORTH THERE.

AND A COUPLE OTHER CROSSOVER STREETS THAT HAVE BEEN TALKED ABOUT TONIGHT.

NEXT, PLEASE, UH, WAS ALSO TALKED ABOUT TONIGHT WAS THE HICKORY PARK DRIVE, UH, BUILDING.

IT'S THAT BUILDING RIGHT THERE THAT I LOVE GOING BY.

UH, AND IF THEY HAVE TO EXPAND THAT INTERSECTION RIGHT THERE, THAT BUILDING MAY BE, UM, KNOCKED DOWN, BUT THAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN.

I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'VE SECURED THAT BUILDING YET OR NOT.

THE DEVELOPERS NEXT, PLEASE.

UH, FIRST I'M GONNA MAKE A CORRECTION.

MR. YAB, UH, REMINDED ME IS DENNIS, THERE AREN'T METAL, UH, CANISTERS WITH NUCLEAR WASTE IN 'EM UNDERNEATH THE SPRINGFIELD LANDFILL.

SO UNFORTUNATE, UH, SELECTION OF CLIP ART THERE, .

UM, BUT THERE IS STUFF THAT, THAT YOU AND I BRING TO THE DUMP AND IT CAN SEEP.

WE ALL KNOW THAT AND IT CAN SMELL.

UM, AND ALSO LAST TIME I WAS HERE I POINTED OUT A 30 FOOT BUFFER REALLY ISN'T MUCH.

IT'S FROM THIS SEAT ON THIS ROW TO THAT SEAT ON THAT ROAD.

THAT'S 30 FEET APPROXIMATELY.

NEXT, PLEASE.

WE'VE ALREADY ADDRESSED, UM, OVERCROWDING IN THE SCHOOLS AND POSSIBLY PUSHING US INTO TRAILERS.

UM, THANK YOU SUPERVISOR ROUNDTREE FOR REACHING OUT TO, UH, RIVER'S EDGE AND DOING THE HOMEWORK.

NEXT, PLEASE.

THE MAIN CONCERN WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT IS TRAFFIC.

UM, YES, THE DEVELOPER HAS OFFERED TO PAY FOR THAT FAR RIGHT LANE.

UM, AND UH, BUT THE STUDY WILL SHOW, AND I READ THE STUDY FOUR TIMES.

THE TRAFFIC STUDY IS 175 PAGES LONG.

REALLY DOESN'T REACH A LOT OF CONCLUSIONS, BUT I TRIED TO USE ALL THE DATA FROM IT TO DO MY OWN.

AND, UM, I'LL HAVE SOME STATS ON THAT ON THE NEXT SLIDE.

THE QUESTION, NO, UH, PLEASE GO BACK.

THE QUESTION I HAVE IS IF THE TRAFFIC STUDY IS WRONG, IF HENRICO IS CONVINCED THAT IT'S RIGHT, BUT IT ENDS UP BEING WRONG AND WE JUST HAVE A TOTAL CLUSTER UP ON KNUCKLES ROAD, WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR THAT? WILL THE DEVELOPERS BE SO SURE THAT THEY'RE RIGHT ABOUT THESE CORRECTIONS THAT THEY'RE GONNA PAY FOR, WHICH WE APPRECIATE? WILL THEY BE WILLING TO PUT, UM, A FEW MILLION INTO AN ESCROW ACCOUNT AND UM, HAVE SOME SORT OF METRIC THAT WE WILL NOT BE OVERBURDENED AND WE'LL HAVE IMPROVEMENTS, SIZABLE IMPROVEMENTS? I DON'T KNOW.

I HAVE TO ASK THEM.

UM, ALSO, AND A PRIOR SPEAKER BROUGHT THIS UP, THERE'S NO PLANS FOR SOUTHBOUND AND HOW MANY OF Y'ALL HAVE BEEN STUCK IN THE SOUTHBOUND LANE GOING TO THE EXITS ON KNUCKLES ROAD? THAT'S PROBABLY A WORSE PROBLEM THAN NORTHBOUND.

UM, NO, NOTHING IS ADDRESSING THAT EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE OF LEFT LANES ON IT THAT ARE GONNA FEED IT.

AND IF YOU'RE IN THAT NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GONNA TURN LEFT AND GO SOUTHBOUND ON KNUCKLES AND ADD TO THE PROBLEM.

YOU KNOW, YOU ARE ALL 4, 355, UH, 45 HOMES.

AND THEN, UM, WE ALREADY ADDRESSED THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

DOESN'T EVEN INDICATE THAT THIS SHOULD BE USED FOR HOMES.

IT'S ENVIRONMENTAL SECTION EIGHT, UH, AREAS.

AND FOR, UM, OFFICE SPACE.

NEXT PLEASE.

SO THIS ONE I'M NOT GONNA LET YOUR EYES GLAZE OVER.

UH, I AM AN ENGINEERING NERD, UH, AND I RAN MY OWN NUMBERS THAT ARE AVAILABLE ON THE HENRICO WEBSITE AND VERY, VERY, VERY CONSERVATIVE.

I CAME UP WITH BETWEEN 10 AND 18% IMPROVEMENT BY ADDING THE RIGHT TURN LANE.

AND I'M NOT A TRAFFIC ENGINEER, I AM AN ENGINEER OF SORTS, BUT NOT A TRAFFIC ENGINEER.

I'D BE GLAD TO SIT DOWN WITH THE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND RUN THROUGH THEIR MODEL AND RUN THROUGH THAT 175 PAGE REPORT A POSSIBLE BETWEEN 10 AND 18%, DROP PRE-CONSTRUCTION AND NOW ADD THE CONSTRUCTION, WHICH SLOWS TRAFFIC DOWN FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS OR MORE, AND THEN ADD 345 HOMES AND TRIPS GOING TO AND FROM THAT.

AND IT'LL BE WORSE IF YOU BREAK EVEN.

AND IT'S STILL AS CROWD AS IT IS NOW.

THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE.

SO, UM, UH, I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

UH, ONE COMMENT TO THE PRIOR TWO SPEAKERS.

I REALLY APPRECIATE AND RESPECT THEIR OPINIONS AND, UM, I'VE ACTUALLY WORKED WITH MR. ROUNDTREE, UH, SUPERVISOR ROUNDTREE AND OTHERS ON THE BOARD ON AFFORDABILITY.

I'M VERY MUCH FOR AFFORDABILITY.

I DON'T THINK THESE HOUSES ARE GONNA BE AFFORDABLE.

AND SOMEBODY ELSE MENTIONED THAT THEY'RE LIKE $400,000 OR MORE.

UM, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN AFFORD TO GO OUT AND BUY THAT.

UH, AND UH, A PRIOR HENRICO STAFF PERSON SAID THAT, UM, IT'S ONLY A VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE THAT ARE BEING FLAGGED AND IT'S NOT ENFORCEABLE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

SO THAT'S MAYBE A PIPE DREAM THAT PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE ABLE TO MOVE IN HERE AND THEY DESERVE TO POLICE AND FIRE AND LOW INCOME PEOPLE DESERVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.

THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO DO IT.

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

HELLO, I'M RICHARD HOCHER.

I LIVE AT 1 1 1 5 2 AKKA LANE, FIRST HOUSE AFTER THE INTERSECTION OF AKKA AND HICKORY PARK.

UH, MY BIGGEST CONCERN, AND I'VE SEEN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PROPOSALS FOR THIS LAND, BY THE WAY, AND PERSONALLY I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY THE BEST USAGE OF THIS LAND, MUCH BETTER THAN A WAWA OR A MULTI-STORY RETIREMENT HOME, HIGH DENSITY, HIGH DENSITY VIEWS.

SO I THINK IT'S A GOOD USE OF THE, OF THE PROPERTY.

MY CONCERN IS TRAFFIC, ESPECIALLY THE SECTION BETWEEN WHERE I AM ON, ON ALPACA AND KNUCKLES ROAD, THAT BEND OF HICKORY CREEK ROAD AND THE INTERSECTION WITH KNUCKLES, THERE'S GONNA BE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC AT THAT INTERSECTION BECAUSE IN ALL REALITY, ANYBODY GOING TO AND COMING FROM THE LANDFILL IS NOT GONNA WANT TO NAVIGATE AN INTERSECTION AT FORD'S COUNTRY LANE AND KNUCKLES ROAD THAT HAS NO LIGHT.

THEY'RE ALL GONNA GO UP TO THE LIGHT AND ENTER AND EXIT THE DUMP VIA THAT METHOD.

YOU CAN PUT THE OTHER SLIDE UP THAT SHOWS THE, UM, LAYOUT OF THE DEVELOPMENT.

SO ALL THE TRAFFIC WOULD BE COMING AROUND FROM THE TOP AND DOWN TO GO TO GET FORD COUNTRY LANE, FORD COUNTRY ROAD TO GET TO THE LANDFILL.

AND DEFINITELY COMING OUT BECAUSE I WOULDN'T LEAVE THE LANDFILL WITHOUT GOING TO A TRAFFIC LIGHT IF I, IF I COULD AVOID IT.

SO MY CONCERN IS THAT INTERSECTION.

AND I'M CURIOUS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE, THE PROFFERS INCLUDE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND THE INTERSECTION AT KNUCKLES AND HICKORY, HICKORY PARK.

DO WE HAVE AN ANSWER TO THAT? UM, I'LL LET THE APPLICANT SPEAK TO IT, BUT WITH THE REVISED PROFFERS, THEY DON'T SPEAK SPECIFICALLY TO THE LIGHT, UH, IMPROVEMENTS.

WELL, MY UNDERSTANDING WAS ALL THE PREVIOUS DEVELOPMENTS ALL REQUIRED THAT, AND THAT TURNED A NUMBER OF POTENTIAL DEVELOPERS AWAY BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT COST OF MAKING THAT INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT.

SO WHO'S GONNA BEAR THE COST OF IMPROVING THAT INTERSECTION BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK NOW AND WHEN YOU ADD MOST OF THE TRAFFIC FROM THESE 346 HOMES PLUS ALL THE TRAFFIC FROM THE LANDFILL, IT'S GONNA BACK UP SO FAR.

I WON'T EVEN BE ABLE TO GET ON IT FROM MY STREET.

SO THAT'S MY CONCERN AND THAT'S, WE CAN ADDRESS THAT I THINK WE HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF IT BEING A GOOD PROJECT.

IN TERMS OF THE KNUCKLES ROAD THIRD LANE, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.

I COME HOME AT RUSH HOUR.

UH, GETTING ONTO KNUCKLES ROAD IS A CHALLENGE, BUT IN ALL HONESTY, MOST OF THE DRIVERS ARE VERY REASONABLE AND LET YOU IN.

UH, I THINK HAVING A THIRD LANE THAT GOES ALL THE WAY THROUGH WITH THE OPTION OF TURNING RIGHT WILL HELP.

DON'T WANNA MAKE IT JUST A RIGHT TURN LANE, SO IT NEEDS TO GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH TILL YOU GET TO TWIN HICKORY, AND I THINK THAT WILL ALLEVIATE SOME OF THAT TRAFFIC.

SO I WOULD EXPECT THAT THAT PART OF IT WOULD WORK.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE, IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.

CITY AND I'M HAVING A TOUGH TIME FINDING TENANTS WHO CAN PAY $2,000.

YES, MA'AM.

GOOD EVENING.

UM, MY NAME IS RU PENE.

I LIVE ON 1 1 7 0 5 ALDER RICH TERRACE, UM, GLEN ALLEN, VIRGINIA.

I AM IN, I LIVE IN WYNDAM FOREST AND ACTUALLY I AM ON THE WYNDAM FOREST, HOA BOARD AS WELL.

SO A LOT OF OUR RESIDENTS SHARE THE CONCERNS THAT I'M VOICING.

I WISH TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING CHANCE TO SPEAK, AND MY MAIN CONCERN, WHICH HAS ALREADY BEEN ADDRESSED BY, UM, MR. MS ROUNDTREE, IS ABOUT THE SCHOOLS AND THE TRAFFIC, AND ALSO, AS SOMEBODY ELSE BROUGHT UP ABOUT THE PUBLIC FACILITIES LIKE FIRE AND LEASE.

WE NEED TO DO MORE STUDY ON THAT.

AND IF, IF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS DOES FEEL THE NEED THAT THIS PROJECT IS GOOD, I WOULD ADVISE, REQUEST YOU TO AT LEAST REDUCE THE DENSITY OF IT INSTEAD OF TOWN HOMES.

MAKE IT SINGLE FAMILY.

BECAUSE I'M A REAL ESTATE AS WELL, UH, I'M A REAL ESTATE AGENT AS WELL, AND THE TOWNS AT HOLLOWAY IN RESALE ARE GOING FOR ABOUT CLOSE TO 550,000 RIGHT NOW.

AND THESE TOWN HOMES ARE GONNA BE SIMILAR TO THAT.

SO I DON'T THINK THIS IS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ANY, ANYTHING, BECAUSE I OWN A RENTAL IN THE

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SO EVEN IF YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IT, THE MATH DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.

SO I DON'T THINK THIS IS AFFORDABLE IN ANY WAY.

AND, UM, I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME A CHANCE TO SPEAK.

UM, HELLO.

UM, MY NAME IS RAFFI JOFFREY.

I LIVE IN 5,200, UH, LIMO DRIVE.

UM, WITHIN FIVE MINUTES WALKING DISTANCE OF THIS, UH, PROJECT, UH, RU'S NEIGHBOR.

UM, HEY, I'M A, I REQUEST YOU TO DENY THE REQUEST, UH, TOONE, UH, THIS PROPERTY BECAUSE OF TWO CONCERNS AND, UM, AS SUPERVISOR ROUNDTREE BROUGHT IT OUT, UH, IN DETAIL.

UH, FIRST IS, UH, OR THE, UH, OVERCROWDING RELATED TO THE, UH, RIVERS EDGE SCHOOL.

UH, MY OLDER SON, UM, WENT TO RIVERS EDGE AND DURING HIS, UH, FIFTH GRADE, UH, HE SPENT THE WHOLE YEAR, UH, IN THE TRAILER.

UH, MY YOUNGER ONE, UH, IS GOING TO RIVERS EDGE RIGHT NOW.

AND, UH, APPARENTLY THE, THE CAPACITY UTILIZATION OR THE ENROLLMENT UTILIZATION AT RIVERS EDGE IS 94%.

BUT AS THE QUESTION BROUGHT OUT, ALL THE TRAILERS ARE BEING CONSISTENTLY USED.

IF THERE ARE MORE OPEN, UM, IF THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH STUDENTS IN THAT SCHOOL, WHY IS IT THAT WE HAVE TRAILERS THAT ARE BEING USED? WHY ARE THOSE TRAILERS NOT BEING REMOVED? AND ALL THE KIDS BROUGHT IN, UH, DURING THE WINTER MONTHS, MY OLDER SON HAD TO WEAR HIS, UH, JACKET, UM, IN THE CLASSROOM ALL THROUGH THE DAY, UH, ALL THROUGH THE WINTER.

UH, DURING, UH, WHEN WE RAISED THE COMPLAINTS WITH THE PRINCIPAL AT THAT TIME, MS. JAMES, WE WERE TOLD, UH, THAT THERE IS GOING TO BE A REDISTRICTING DONE, UH, IN A COUPLE OF YEARS.

UM, THE RE REDISTRICTING PROCESS IS GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW, AND WE ALL KNOW THE RESULTS.

UM, NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN.

UH, AND APPARENTLY TODAY THERE WAS AN ARTICLE, UM, AND SOMEONE SAID, WHAT'S THE POINT OF DOING THIS ANYWAYS? SO IF REDISTRICTING IS GOING TO ALLEVIATE THE PRESSURE ON THE SCHOOLS, UH, THAT'S JUST A PIPE DREAM.

UH, THE SECOND CONCERN IS ABOUT THE TRAFFIC.

UH, CURRENTLY, UH, IT'S, IT'S, AS EVERYBODY HAS BROUGHT OUT, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT, UH, TO, UH, GET OFF, UH, THOSE LIGHTS, UH, IN A TIMELY MANNER AND, UM, APPROVING A WHOLE SUBDIVISION JUST BECAUSE COUNTY IS GETTING A FREE TURN LANE OUT OF THAT IS KIND OF, UM, ABDICATION OF A RESPONSIBILITY THAT THE COUNTY SUPERVISORS HAVE.

UH, IF THERE'S A BELIEF THAT THE TURN LANE IS GOING TO ALLEVIATE THE TRAFFIC, UH, SITUATION, UH, WHY DOESN'T THE COUNTY SPEND THE MONEY, UM, AND BUILD A TRAFFIC, UH, TURN LANE AND SEE IF IT ACTUALLY DOES, UH, ALLEVIATE THE SITUATION THERE AND THEN APPROVE THE SUBDIVISION.

UM, ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPOKEN, UH, AGAINST THE PROJECT, UH, ACTUALLY LIVE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, AND WOULD BE IMPACTED DIRECTLY, UM, BY THE APPROVAL OF THE SUBDIVISION.

SO I REQUEST THAT YOU ALL DENY, UH, THE REZONING REQUEST.

KNUCKLES ROAD HEARD MR. YAB TALK ABOUT A A HUNDRED CARS, ALMOST 3000 FEET.

THANK YOU SIR.

ANYONE ELSE IN THE ROOM WISH TO SPEAK TO THE CASE? IS THERE ANYONE ON WEBEX TO SPEAK TO THIS CASE? MA'AM, THERE'S NO ONE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH MS. ROUNDTREE, HEAR FROM THE APPLICANT.

GOOD EVENING, MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, MY NAME IS JEFF GEIGER HERE ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT.

UM, I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH A PRESENTATION THAT I THINK ARE GONNA TOP, UM, TOUCH ON, UM, MANY OF THE TOPICS THAT WERE JUST RAISED.

FIRST ONE I THINK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE WE NEED TO FIX KNUCKLES ROAD.

WE'VE HEARD ABOUT THE BACKUP AND I WANNA LET YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT IN PLACE FOR ACQUIRING THE RIGHT OF WAY.

WE ARE, WE HAVE COMMITTED TO YOU IN THE PROFFER SUBMITTED THAT NOT ONE HOUSE WILL BE BUILT UNTIL WE BUILD THE THIRD LANE.

WHEN WE DO THAT, THIS WHOLE AREA WILL SEE A DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT IN HOW VEHICLES TRAVEL.

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THAT IS THE ORANGE LINE LABELED AS EXISTING CONDITION.

AND I THINK SOME, WE'VE HEARD FROM SOME OF OUR ATTENDEES TODAY THAT IT CAN GO BACK EVEN FURTHER WITH THE THIRD LANE QUEUING.

THE, THE DELAY AT THE LIGHT MOVES TO THE RED LINE WELL PAST BOARDS COUNTRY.

AND IF YOU ARE SITTING THERE, WE'LL GET THROUGH IN ONE CYCLE OF LIGHT.

THAT THIRD LANE IS INSTRUMENTAL TO ADDING THE CAPACITY THAT IS ABSOLUTELY NEEDED AND WE WILL FIX IT FIRST.

WE WILL ALSO MAKE OTHER IMPROVEMENTS AS WAS MENTIONED.

WE'LL MAKE A RIGHT TURN LANE ONTO HICKORY PARK DRIVE.

WE'LL MAKE A NEW RIGHT TURN LANE, UH, ONTO FORD'S COUNTRY LANE.

IF VDOT APPROVES, VDOT OWNS THE LAND, WE NEED THEIR APPROVAL.

AND THEN WE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF DISCUSSION WITH MR. YAB ABOUT THE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE INTERSECTION OF FORD'S COUNTRY LANE AND KNUCKLES ROAD.

WE'VE GIVEN TWO OPTIONS 'CAUSE WE'RE GETTING MIXED SIGNALS.

WHAT DOES THE COUNTY WANT THERE? SO WE'VE SUBMITTED TO YOU, YOU TELL US WE'LL DO IT.

WE WILL ALSO BE EXTENDING HICKORY PARK DRIVE WESTBOUND.

LEFT TURN HEARD FROM ONE OF THE SPEAKERS ONLINE ABOUT MAKING SURE HICKORY PARK SAFE.

WE HEARD, I BELIEVE FROM ANOTHER SPEAKER ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT HICKORY PARK CAN HANDLE THE ADDITIONAL VEHICLES.

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEER HAVE CONFIRMED THAT WITH THIS WE CAN MAKE HICKORY PARK DRIVE WORK BETTER, NOT JUST BETTER WITH THE THIRD LANE.

WITH THESE IMPROVEMENTS, THIS INTERSECTION GAINS 50% ADDITIONAL CAPACITY.

50.

WE WILL DO IT FIRST WHEN WE BUILD THE HOMES.

WE WILL THEN ONLY USE 6% OF THAT CAPACITY, LEAVING A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF CAPACITY LEFT IN THE INTERSECTION TO ADDRESS THE SAFETY CONCERNS THAT HAD BEEN RAISED AND THE ABILITY OF THE NETWORK IN THE AREA TO HANDLE NEW COMMUNITY.

THIS WILL BE DONE AT OUR EXPENSE SO THAT THE COUNTY, MR. YAB INDICATED NOT HAVE TO ACQUIRE THE ADDITIONAL LAND FROM THE LANDOWNERS, BOTH THE LANDOWNER TO THE NORTH AND THE LAND TODAY THAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, YES, IT WAS PREVIOUSLY REZONED, BUT THERE IS NO OBLIGATION IN THE CURRENT ZONING TO GIVE THE LAND TO THE COUNTY FOR FREE.

I'D ALSO LIKE TO TALK ABOUT HOW OUR PROPOSAL IS SHAPED BY THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS.

I MAY GO BACK FOR A MINUTE.

YOU WILL NOTICE ACROSS THE STREET, ACROSS KNUCKLES, TOWNHOUSES, WE HAVE BROUGHT TOWNHOUSES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF KNUCKLES.

THE INTERSECTION OF HICKORY IS A COMMERCIAL UNIT, IS A COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT.

WE'RE PROPOSING A COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT ACROSS TOWNHOUSES ARE IN HOLLOWAY, CONTINUED THE TOWNHOUSE PATTERN INTO THE COMMUNITY FROM HOLLOWAY.

AND WE WERE VERY CAREFUL TO ALIGN OUR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WITH THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES IN HOLLOWAY.

I WOULD SUBMIT TO YOU, A GENTLEMAN TALKED ABOUT THE DUMP LANDFILL, THEIR EXISTING HOMES BETWEEN THIS ONE IN OUR PROPOSAL AND THE DUMP LANDFILL HE WAS REFERENCING.

AN IMPORTANT PART OF THIS REQUEST THAT WAS BEFORE YOU IS THE OUTREACH AND LISTENING TO THE COMMUNITY.

THE APPLICANTS LIVE IN THE AREA, THEY KNOW ABOUT THE EXISTING

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ROAD CONDITION.

SO THE FIRST PLACE WE WENT IS TO TALK TO YOUR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.

WE THEN HELD IN A FORMAL COMMUNITY AND FORMAL COMMUNITY AS MS. MOORE INDICATED.

AND THEN WE ALSO HAD A MEETING WITH THE HOLLOWAY, HOA AND THE HOLLOWAY COMMUNITY.

ALL OF THAT COMMUNITY INPUT SHAPED THE, THE REQUEST THAT WAS BROUGHT BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED APPROVAL, BUT WE ALSO MADE CHANGES FURTHER BASED ON CONTINUED FEEDBACK.

AS MS. MOORE INDICATED, WE HAVE REDUCED THE DENSITY FURTHER, WE HAVE ENHANCED THE AMENITY.

PROFFER ADDED AN OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE A SIDEWALK ALONG HICKORY IN FRONT OF THE COMMERCIAL.

AND WE HAVE ADDED A COMMITMENT TO MAKE AN APPLICATION TO THE AFFORDABLE TRUST FUND.

THAT WAS A COMMITMENT WE MADE AT THE PODIUM TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION.

WE PUT IT IN WRITING.

AS YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO MAKE AN APPLICATION AND BE SELECTED.

WE ARE HOPEFUL.

WE BELIEVE WE WILL BE SELECTED AND WE ARE, UM, LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS PROJECT, PARTICIPATING WITH THE TRUST FUND HEARD FROM SPEAKERS THIS EVENING.

WE'VE ALSO RECEIVED COMMUNICATIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE REQUEST.

AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION THIS EVENING HAS ALSO BEEN ABOUT SCHOOLS.

I WOULD ASK THAT WE CONSIDER THAT A LOT OF THE VIEWPOINTS AND PERSPECTIVES OFFERED TONIGHT ARE ABOUT TODAY'S EXPERIENCE TODAY.

AS WE KNOW, THIS PROJECT WILL NOT SHOW UP TOMORROW.

NEW STUDENTS WILL NOT SHOW UP TOMORROW.

AS WAS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, WE HEARD AT PLANNING COMMISSION THE DEEP RUN HIGH SCHOOL CAPACITY IS AT 99%.

BUT SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PUBLISHED BY THE WELDON COOPER CENTER THAT YOU'LL EXPERIENCE A THREE TO 6% DECLINE IN STUDENT ENROLLMENT BETWEEN NOW OR BETWEEN 2023 AND 2028 SUPPORTS SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT WAS PRESENTED BY THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

AS I MENTIONED, THIS PROJECT DOES NOT SHOW UP TOMORROW.

IT DOESN'T SHOW UP IN 2026, DOESN'T SHOW UP IN 2027.

WE ANTICIPATE STARTING SALES IN 2028.

THOSE SALES WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 2032.

IT IS IN 2032 AFTER EXPERIENCING A DECLINE IN POPULATION, THAT YOU WILL START TO SEE THE FULL IMPACT OF THE PROJECT.

AS THE POPULATION DECLINES, WE WILL THEN BE FILLING THE SEATS THAT WILL EITHER BE VACATED BY THE DECLINING POPULATION OR WE WILL BE A PART OF THE BIRTH RATE THAT MAYBE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL SEE YEARS TO COME BIRTH RATE THAT THEY'RE ALREADY PROJECTING FOR OR PLANNING FOR.

EVEN THOUGH WELDON COOPER SAYS YOU'RE GOING DOWN, THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IS PLANNING FOR ALMOST 2% INCREASE.

WE ARE BUILT INTO THAT PLANNING BY 2029.

WE WILL JUST BE ONE 10TH OF A PERCENT OF THE ALMOST 2% GROWTH.

IF YOU FOLLOW THE CONSERVATIVE PROJECTION BY THE SCHOOL SYSTEM BY 2032, WE ARE JUST THREE TENTHS.

I WOULD SUBMIT TO YOU THAT TODAY'S EXPERIENCE WILL NOT BE TOMORROW'S.

THAT YOU AS THE STEWARDS OF THE COUNTY, THE SCHOOL BOARD AS THE STEWARDS OF THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO PRACTICE THE HENRICO WAY OF WELL-PLANNED, WELL-MANAGED GOVERNMENT AND A WELL-MANAGED SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT WILL UNDERSTAND AND PLAN FOR THE STUDENTS THAT WILL BE MOVING INTO

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THIS NEW COMMUNITY.

WE THINK A LOT OF THESE FOLKS WILL BE MOVE UPPERS.

THEY MAY BE LIVING IN THE APARTMENTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY PLANNED OR EXISTING WITHIN THE THREE CHOP DISTRICT.

WE HOPE THAT THEY WILL BRING THEIR HOUSEHOLD, HOUSEHOLD WITH CHILDREN COME BUYERS IN WESTFORD GLEN.

THOSE SAME STUDENTS THAT ARE ATTENDING THE SCHOOLS WILL THEN BE IN PART OF OUR SCHOOLS.

AFFORDABILITY WAS BROUGHT UP, WE BELIEVE AND WE ARE PLANNING TO HAVE, UM, IN TODAY'S DOLLARS, UH, OUR LOWEST HOUSING COSTS AT ABOUT, UH, THE FOUR HUNDREDS WE WILL HAVE HOUSING THAT DOES COST MORE.

WE BELIEVE BY PROVIDING A VARIETY OF HOUSING PRICE POINTS, WE CAN OFFER A HIGH QUALITY COMMUNITY TO A WIDE VARIETY OF PEOPLE.

WITH THAT, I BELIEVE I HAVE COVERED ALL OF THE POINTS I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE GENTLEMAN WHO IS CONCERNED ABOUT INFAMOUS BUILDING THE NORTHEAST CORNER, HICKORY PARK AND KNUCKLES.

YOUR PART OF THE AGREEMENT IS WE ARE PROTECTING THAT HOUSE.

IT IS NOT COMING DOWN GO.

I WOULD ASK THE BOARD ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT TO PROVE THE REZONING REQUEST BEFORE YOU AHEAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE AT THIS TIME.

THANK YOU, SIR, GO AHEAD.

DO YOU HAVE QUESTIONS? I HAVE ONE MORE FOR STAFF IF THAT'S OKAY.

MR. CHAIR, SIR.

UM, JUST A LITTLE BIT.

IS THE ENTIRE PROPERTY CURRENTLY A ONE OR THE NORTH SIDE IS CURRENTLY B TWO, IS THAT RIGHT? CORRECT.

AND I CAN PULL THAT UP IF I CAN BECAUSE OF A REZONING CASE IN 2020, RIGHT? ABOUT 16 ACRES IS, IS ABOUT EIGHT ACRES IS B TWO AND THE REST IS FOR THE LIFE CARE FACILITY.

SO THE QUESTION I HAVE IS ON THE REMAINING ACREAGE, 50 60 ACRES OF A ONE, SOME OF THAT'S EPA, SOME OF THAT CANNOT BE BUILT ON.

IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT, IS THERE A ROUGH NUMBER OF HOMES THAT THEY COULD ALREADY BUILD BY RIGHT ON AN A ONE IN THIS LOCATION? WELL, WE'D HAVE TO FIGURE OUT, BUT IT'S ONE ACRE PER LOT.

SO IT ONE ACRE PER LOT, 60 LOTS PER GROSS.

SO POTENTIALLY THIS APPLICANT WITHOUT A REZONING, IT COULD BE 56 I, I DON'T KNOW.

I'M JUST ASKING ON THE A ONE PORTION.

YES, THE A ONE PORTION AND THEY'RE ENTITLED WITH THE LIFE CARE FACILITY AND THE R SIX C, THE REST OF THAT SINGLE FAMILY.

OKAY, THAT WAS MY ONLY QUESTION.

I HAVE, I'VE OWNED HOMES IN THE PAST, BUT I DIDN'T OWN FOR MANY, MANY YEARS BY CHOICE.

SO THANK YOU FOR, UM, THE PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU FOR EVERYBODY THAT HAS, HAS SPOKEN HERE.

UM, IT'S NOT OBVIOUS.

I HAVE THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT THIS PROJECT AND ACTUALLY I LOOK BACK AT MY CALENDAR, UM, MR. BURNS AND YOU WERE THE FIRST, UM, FORMAL INTERVIEW I HAD AFTER GETTING ELECTED AT DECEMBER.

WE MET AT BRICK ROAD COFFEE HOUSE, UM, BEFORE EVEN SWEARING IN, I THINK.

AND IT WAS BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO LET ME KNOW ABOUT THIS POTENTIAL PROJECT AND, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST, JUST CHAT IT UP.

AND IT WAS AN ENJOYABLE CONVERSATION.

WE TALKED ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND I THINK I, YOU KNOW, STATED FROM THERE MY, YOU KNOW, MY GRANDIOSE NOTIONS OF WHY I GOT ELECTED AND WHAT PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE AND, YOU KNOW, SMART DEVELOPMENT AND AFFORDABILITY AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

AND, AND I KIND OF CRINGE WHEN I THINK ABOUT THAT CONVERSATION AND HOW NAIVE IT MAY HAVE SOUNDED BACK THEN TO, TO YOU BEING IN, YOU KNOW, THIS INDUSTRY FOR SO LONG.

UM, AND A LOT OF WORK HAS BEEN PUT INTO THIS PROJECT AND OTHERS THAT, THAT YOU AND, AND YOUR FOLKS HAVE DONE ALONG THE WAY.

UM, I I SAID BEFORE AT A PREVIOUS MEETING, YOU KNOW, THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY ARE NOT EVIL PEOPLE.

THEY'RE NOT VULTURES.

UM, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO, TO DO GOOD THINGS AND, AND GET PEOPLE IN HOMES AND ALSO EARN A LIVING.

AND I GET THAT.

AND, AND I CAN SAY THAT I KNOW THAT YOU ALL HAVE REALLY WORKED THIS PROJECT.

I MEAN, TREMENDOUS WORK ON THIS PROJECT.

UM, I HERE AND THANK THE SPEAKERS WHO DO NOT LIVE IN THIS CORRIDOR FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR ADDRESSING WHAT IS CERTAINLY A, A HOUSING CRISIS.

UM, I KNOW IT INTIMATELY.

I I RENT IN THREE CHOPPED, RIGHT? AND I PAY AN EXORBITANT AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE RENTAL HOME THAT, UH, MY FAMILY AND I LIVE IN.

AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE IN THE MARKET TO, TO BUY IN THREE CHOPPED.

AND IT TERRIFIES ME ABOUT HOW MUCH WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT PAYING IF WE'RE ABLE TO DO SO TO OWN IN THE DISTRICT THAT I REPRESENT.

AND, UM,

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UM, FOR PART OF IT, SOME OF IT WASN'T BY CHOICE, BUT BY PART OF IT BY CHOICE BECAUSE OF SCHOOL CHOICE.

AND SO THE COMMENT MADE BY MS. EDWARDS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, FOLKS MOVING BECAUSE OF A SCHOOL MORE SO THAN THEY DO FOR A HOME IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE.

I WANTED TO HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY OF BEING ABLE TO MOVE IN ACCORD WITH WHAT WAS GOOD FOR, UM, WHAT I FELT WAS GOOD FOR MY, MY CHILDREN'S EDUCATION.

AND SO I ABSOLUTELY THINK THAT FOLKS WILL, BECAUSE OF THE PERCEPTION, AND, AND THIS IS SOMETHING I'VE ADDRESSED WITH MY COLLEAGUES BEFORE, LIKE AT SOME POINT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG I'LL BE ON THIS BOARD, BUT IT WOULD BE NOTHING MORE, YOU KNOW, MY FONDEST DESIRE THAT WE HAVE EQUITY AND EQUALITY THROUGHOUT HENRICO COUNTY SO THAT FOLKS DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE TO LIVE IN ONE SECTION OF THE COUNTY IN ORDER TO HAVE A REALLY HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION.

UM, BUT THAT IS THE PERCEPTION RIGHT NOW AND, AND, UH, FRANKLY THE REALITY TO SOME DEGREE.

BUT, SO RIGHT NOW THAT IS THE PERCEPTION THAT FOLKS HAVE TO MOVE HERE AND THEY WILL, I THINK, SCRIMP AND SAVE.

AND IF IT MEANS THEY HAVE TO COME UP WITH $450,000 TO LIVE IN A TOWN HOME THAT THEY DON'T PARTICULARLY LIKE, THEY WILL DO.

SO TO GET TO RIVER'S EDGE, TO WHAT? TO, TO THEN BE IN A, A PE CLASS WITH 50 PLUS STUDENTS OR TO HAVE THEIR KIDS IN TRAILERS.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK ABOUT THOSE FAMILIES THAT ARE SACRIFICING OR WOULD SACRIFICE SO MUCH TO LIVE AND BUY A HOME IN THE PURSUIT OF A QUALITY EDUCATION THAT I FEAR WILL DECLINE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT REALISTICALLY ADDRESSING THE CRISIS OF SCHOOL OVERCROWDING IN THIS DISTRICT.

UM, THE AFFORDABILITY ASPECT, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, I I APPLAUD YOU.

IT'S JUST THE REALITY OF THE, THE COST OF DIRT AND THREE CHOPPED, RIGHT? SO WHY WE DON'T HAVE A, A PROJECT RIGHT NOW THAT IS AN IN THE, UH, AFFORDABLE, UM, HOUSING TRUST FUND RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE'RE STRUGGLING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE THAT WORK IN THREE CHOPPED.

AND SO I, I APPLAUD THE, THE EFFORT AND THE PROFFER AND UNENFORCEABLE AS IT, UH, MAY BE AS AS I'VE BEEN TOLD.

BUT I I, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU GUYS HAVE REALLY TRIED TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS AND THE CONCERNS AND OPERATED AND ACTED IN GOOD FAITH.

MR. GEIGER, YOU SAID YOU MADE A COMMENT, UM, THAT THIS PROJECT WILL NOT SHOW UP TOMORROW.

AND THAT IS VERY TRUE.

BUT HERE'S, HERE'S THE PROBLEM.

WHAT I AM DEALING WITH AS I SIT IN THIS SEAT NOW IN 2025, ARE THE REPERCUSSIONS OF PROJECTS MY PREDECESSOR PASSED UNDER THE, THAT SAME LOGIC OF THIS PROJECT WILL NOT BE HERE TOMORROW.

WELL, TODAY IS THE, TOMORROW OF EIGHT YEARS AGO WHEN ALL KINDS OF PROJECTS WERE PASSED IN THREE CHOPPED.

AND, AND WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHEN I WAS, YOU KNOW, KNOCKING ON DOORS AND, AND WHATNOT, THAT WAS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST CONCERN THAT I HAD ABOUT PEOPLE IN THREE CHO UH, UH, VOTERS IN THREE CHOPPED WAS WE FEEL LIKE DEVELOPMENT HAS GONE ON UNCHECKED.

IT HASN'T BEEN SMART.

OUR SCHOOLS ARE GETTING OVERCROWDED, OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IS BEING OVERTAXED, AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE WILLING TO GAMBLE ON SOMEBODY WE KNOW LITERALLY NOTHING ABOUT AND HAS NO MONEY IN THEIR CAMPAIGN ACCOUNT BECAUSE WE WANT SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

AND SO THAT HAS BEEN WHAT I HAVE WRESTLED WITH IN ACKNOWLEDGING, YOU KNOW, ALMOST THIS IN MY MIND, SORT OF A MANDATE TO SLOW DOWN DEVELOPMENT THAT IS TAXING THE INFRASTRUCTURE.

AND I DON'T WANT TO, I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL BE SITTING IN THE SEAT IN EIGHT YEARS WHEN THIS FULL BUILD OUT IS, BUT I WOULDN'T WANNA LEAVE IT TO SOMEBODY ELSE TO DEAL WITH WHEN ALL OF THESE KIDS ARE COMING ONLINE.

YOUR, YOUR GRAPHIC ACTUALLY, UM, MATCHED MY MATH, MY MATH AS FAR AS THE 150 STUDENTS ULTIMATELY POTENTIALLY ADDED, ALTHOUGH I GUESS MINE WAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ONLY AND YOURS WAS PROBABLY TOTAL.

BUT THAT IS, THAT IS A LOT OF KIDS.

AND, AND AGAIN, I, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE JUST ANTI, UM, MIXED, UH, MULTIFAMILY.

THERE ARE SOME THAT WILL TELL ME, DON'T APPROVE ANY MORE TOWN HOMES.

WE ONLY WANT SINGLE FAMILY.

'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT THREE CHOPPED IS.

THAT IS NOT TO BE CLEAR, THAT IS NOT WHAT I AM SAYING.

I'VE LIVED IN APARTMENTS AND TOWN HOMES IN, IN THE WHOLE NINE, UM, AND, AND FOLKS OF VARYING PLACES IN THEIR LIVES ALL ADD VIBRANCY AND DIVERSITY TO A COMMUNITY.

AND WE NEED ALL OF THAT.

SO THIS IS NOT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT ME SAYING WE ONLY NEED TO HAVE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES APPROVED IN THREE CHOPPED, UM, BECAUSE OF THE TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, INCOME LEVELS WE WANT IN THE COMMUNITY.

I FULLY, UH, BELIEVE IN DIVERSITY OF INCOME AND BACKGROUND AND ALL OF THAT.

THIS WOULD BE A, A GREAT WELL THOUGHT PUT TOGETHER PROJECT, BUT FOR WHERE IT IS LOCATED AND, BUT FOR THE CURRENT REALITY OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM, WE DO HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE FUNDING FOR AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

WE DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO PUT IT.

SO I, I CAN'T SAY WITH ANY CERTAINTY BY ANY, YOU KNOW, YEAR WHERE THAT WE WOULD HAVE A, A WEST END ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THAT WOULD ALLEVIATE SOME OF THIS BURDEN.

WE'VE GOT ROOM AT CLEY, BUT TRYING TO BUS KIDS, YOU KNOW, OVER THERE AND REDISTRICTING AND GOD ONLY KNOWS WHAT THAT, YOU KNOW, CAN OF WORMS WOULD, WOULD LOOK LIKE IF THIS PROJECT GETS APPROVED.

AND THEN ESSENTIALLY THIS PROJECT WOULD ABSOLUTELY REQUIRE REDISTRICTING TO HAPPEN.

I I DON'T SEE ANY

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WAY AROUND IT.

UM, SO THE TRAFFIC, I, I DON'T, I DON'T LOVE, I'M NOT AN ENGINEER AT ALL, YOU KNOW, SO I HAVE TO TAKE SOMEWHAT AT FACE VALUE WHEN MY FOLKS THAT I TRUST VERY MUCH SAY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME, THERE'S SOME VALIDITY TO WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE TRAFFIC.

I DEAL WITH IT EVERY SINGLE DAY.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, I'M A I'M A BIT JADED IN THAT REGARD, BUT I COULD PROBABLY GET OVER THE TRAFFIC AND, AND, YOU KNOW, LIVE WITH IT.

BUT I DO NOT SEE A REMEDY TO THE SCHOOL SITUATION BASED ON THE NUMBERS THAT I'M LOOKING AT BASED AT WHAT I KNOW THAT OUR, OUR TEACHERS ARE DEALING WITH IN THESE SCHOOL SYSTEMS. PARENTS WHO HAVE TO HEAR THEIR KIDS TALK ABOUT BEING IN TRAILERS ALL DAY.

UM, IT'S JUST NOT, IT'S NOT FAIR.

IT'S NOT FAIR.

AND IT'S ALSO NOT FAIR FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE HOMES THAT THEY CAN BUY AND LIVE IN THE DISTRICT.

AND THIS, THIS IS NO DISRESPECT IF IF YOU'RE NOT LIVING IN THIS AREA DIRECTLY AND AND DEALING WITH WHAT HAS BEEN DEALING, YOU KNOW, WITH THESE, WHAT FOLKS IN THAT AREA DEAL WITH.

UM, IT DOES, IT DOES.

WAIT, IT GOES TO WEIGHT A LITTLE BIT.

SO WE, YES, AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS GOOD.

BUILDING MORE HOUSING TO MAKE THINGS MORE AFFORDABLE, GOOD ADDING CONSTRUCTIONS JOBS GOOD.

BUT IT HAS TO BE THE RIGHT PROJECT IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.

THIS IS A GREAT PROJECT.

YOU GUYS HAVE DONE REALLY, REALLY WELL AND WORKED REALLY HARD AT THIS PROJECT, BUT I CANNOT SAY THAT IT'S THE RIGHT LOCATION OR THE RIGHT TIME.

AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT, UM, I CANNOT APPROVE, I CANNOT APPROVE THIS PROJECT.

MR. CHAIR.

WITH THAT, I MOVE THAT REZ 2025 DASH 1 0 1 1 26 MAIN STREET HOMES OF VIRGINIA, INC.

AND SHELL BROTHERS BE DENIED.

A MOTION MADE BY MS. ROUNDTREE.

IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.

SECONDED BY MR. NELSON.

FOR PROVISIONAL USE PERMIT UNDER CHAPTER 24 OF THE COUNTY CODE TO ALLOW MINOR UTILITY AND SOLAR GENERATION FACILITY ON CERTAIN PARCELS LOCATED AT THE SOUTHEAST INTERSECTION OF MILLBURN AVENUE AND VOER ROAD ADJACENT TO THE WEST LINE OF INTERSTATE 64.

ANY POST MOTION CARRIES MR. MADDEN.

NEXT, MR. CHAIR, 2 93 DASH 25 OUT OF THE, UH, VERONA DISTRICT IS DOMINION ENERGY WITH A REQUEST

[7c. 293-25 PUP-2025-102122 Varina Dominion Energy: Request for a Provisional Use Permit under Sections 24-2306, 24-4205 and 24-4314 of Chapter 24 of the County Code to allow a minor utility and solar generation facility on Parcels 803-722-7419 and 804-721-4491 located at the southeast intersection of Milburn Avenue and Voegier Road, adjacent to the west line of Interstate 64. The existing zoning is M-2 General Industrial District and B-1 Business District. The 2026 Comprehensive Plan recommends Government and Environmental Protection Area. The Planning Commission voted to recommend the Board of Supervisors grant the request. PUBLIC HEARINGS - OTHER ITEMS ]

THANK YOU MR. MANAGER AND THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AT THE REQUEST OF DOMINION POWER.

THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT CONDUCTED A STUDY TO DETERMINE WHETHER A PROPOSED SITE FOR A SOLAR POWERED ELECTRICITY GENERATION FACILITY IS SUBSTANTIALLY IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE COUNTY'S 2026 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

THE SITE IS THE OLD NINE-MILE LAND LANDFILL, WHICH WAS, UM, IN OPERATION TILL 1978, LOCATED AT THE SOUTHEAST INTERSECTION OF MELBOURNE AND VOYA ROAD.

THE SITE IS 57.7 ACRES WITH A SMALL PORTION, UM, IN A ZONE M TWO WITH THE SMALL PORTION ZONE B ONE.

THE PROPOSED, UH, SOLAR UTILITY WOULD BE CONTAINED WITHIN 16 ACRES OF THE OVERALL SITE.

THE SURROUNDING USES TO THE NORTH AND EAST ACROSS INTERSTATE 64 INDUSTRIAL OAKWOOD AND EAST END CEMETERIES LIE TO THE WEST AND SOUTH.

A VERY SMALL SUBDIVISION IS ALSO LOCATED ALONG TUXEDO AVENUE IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND.

THE CONFERENCE OF PLAN RECOMMENDS GOVERNMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AREA, WHICH IS REFLECTIVE OF THE SITE'S FORMER USE AND THE, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURE PRESENT HERE AS PART OF STO RUN CREEK.

THE GOVERNMENT LAND USE DESIGNATION REPRESENTS A VARIETY OF PUBLIC USES, UM, AND FACILITIES INCLUDING UTILITIES.

THE PROPOSED SOLAR ARRAYS, UM, WOULD BE CONSISTENT WITH THIS DESIGNATION AS IT WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO ELECTRICITY FOR THE PUBLIC USE THROUGH A POWER GRID AND WOULD HAVE LITTLE IMPACT ON THE EXISTING NATURE OF THE SITE.

THE STUDY AND THE ATTACHED RESOLUTION DEEMED THE PROPOSED USE TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY IN ACCORD WITH THE HENRICO COUNTY'S 26 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

IN ADDITION TO THE SIA, UM, THE APPLICANT HAS ALSO SUBMITTED A APPLICATION FOR A PROVISIONAL USE PERMIT, WHICH IS PUP 20 25 1 0 2 1 2 2 TO ALLOW THE SOLAR ARRAYS AND INTERCONNECTION POINT WHERE THE SOLAR ARRAYS IS JOINED TO THE POWER GRID UP HERE.

THIS CONCEPTUAL PLAN ILLUSTRATES THE ANTICIPATED LAYOUT FOR THE FACILITY ALONG WITH SEVERAL STORMWATER PONDS.

TWO POINTS OF ACCESS WOULD BE PROVIDED, UM, FROM TUXEDO AND AREAS AROUND THE PERIMETER WOULD BE PRESERVED OR PLANTED TO WITH LANDSCAPE BUFFERS FOR VISUAL SCREENING.

THE UTILITY AND FACILITY WOULD BE BUILT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE ZONING ORDINANCE, WHICH FURTHER REGULATES MAXIMUM LAND COVERAGE FOR SUCH USES HEIGHT AND SETBACKS.

STAFF HAS ALSO

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AND I WILL SAY THAT I'M KIND OF GOING INTO THE NEXT AGENDA, UH, MR. MANAGER WITH THE PUMP, IF THAT'S OKAY.

I WAS PRESENTING THESE TOGETHER.

UM, BUT BOARD IS, UM, HELP ME, JEAN, IT IS FURTHER IN THE AGENDA.

IT IS 2 99 DASH 25 WITHIN THE GENERAL AGENDA.

SO IF YOU WOULD COVER THAT, PLEASE.

CORRECT.

SO WHAT WE PULLED UP WAS THE SIA, WHICH YOU, UM, ADDRESS AND THEN LEADING INTO PUP 20 25 1 0 2 1 2 2, WHICH IS THE PROVISIONAL USE PERMIT AND THE ASPECTS WHICH I'M GOING OVER NOW, DO YOU SEE THAT? SO WE ARE RECOMMENDING 13 CONDITIONS TO FURTHER REGULATE THE SITE, INCLUDING THE SUBMISSION AND APPROVAL OF A PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT AND DECOMMISSIONING PLAN.

IN SUMMARY, THE REQUEST IS CONSISTENT WITH THE PROPERTY'S GOVERNMENT DESIGNATION AND POLICIES OUTLINED IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND WOULD PROVIDE A PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR THESE REASONS.

STAFF IS SUPPORTIVE OF, UM, THE REQUEST FOR THE PROVISIONAL USE PERMIT, AND I'LL NOTE THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF BOTH THE SUBSTANTIALLY IN ACCORD, WHICH IS ABOVE, UM, BEFORE YOU AS WELL AS THE PUP.

UM, AFTER NOVEMBER 13TH, 2025 PUBLIC HEARING.

AND THEN WHILE PRESENTED TOGETHER, TWO MOTIONS ARE, UM, REQUIRED.

THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.

I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. MOORE? YEAH, QUICK, UM, O LANDFILL, CORRECT? YES, SIR.

CLOSED FOR HOW LONG? UM, SINCE 1978.

UM, THIS AND SO THIS TREND IS HAPPENING ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, I GUESS REPURPOSING AND REUSING? CORRECT.

AS YOU RECALL, UM, IN THE BROOKLYN THREE CHOP BORDER, WE HAVE THE SPRINGFIELD THAT HAD THE SAME, UM, SIMILAR REQUESTS.

AND WHAT'S THE, UH, PARALLEL? RUNWAY WITH THE CITY.

SO DOES THE CITY HAVE TO DO ANYTHING LIKE WE ARE VOTING TONIGHT TO DO SOMETHING? DOES THE CITY HAVE TO, AS FAR AS I KNOW, THIS IS ALL CONTAINED IN THE COUNTY.

ALL RIGHT.

IT MAY SERVE SOME CITY HOMES THOUGH.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MS. MOORE? MR. CHAIR? YES, SIR.

UH, JUST TO BE CLEAR, THE THIRD ITEM ON THE GENERAL AGENDA, 2 99 DASH 25 IS, IS SUBSTANTIAL IN ACCORD.

SO WHAT'S BEING ASKED OF THE BOARD IS THAT YOU VOTE ON 2 99 DASH 25 AHEAD OF THE VOTE OF

[9c. 299-25 Resolution - SIA-2025-102411 - Dominion Energy - Solar Power Electricity Generation Facility - Substantially in Accord with Comprehensive Plan - Varina District. ]

ON THE PUBLIC HEARING.

AND, UH, MR. MANAGER, MR. NEWBIE, DOES IT MATTER IF THE PUBLIC HEARING IS HELD BEFORE THAT OR AS LONG AS THAT VOTE IS FIRST, IT'S FINE.

UH, MY RECOMMENDATION MR. CHAIR, WOULD BE TO VOTE ON THE SIA FIRST AND THEN OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE POP.

ALRIGHT, WE SHALL DO THAT.

SO, UH, COLLEAGUES, MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE, UH, THE ACCOMPANYING, UH, CASE, THE GENERAL AGENDA ITEM IS 2 99 DASH 25 RESOLUTION TO ACCEPT THE S SA SIA IF THERE'S A MOTION ON THAT, I'LL ACCEPT, UH, MOTION.

PUT A MOTION TO ACCEPT SECOND RESOLUTION.

SECONDED BY MR. ROES.

ANY OPPOSED? ALRIGHT, THAT MOTION CARRIES.

WE ARE BACK INTO THE PUBLIC HEARING CASE.

WE'VE HEARD THE PRESENTATION.

IF THERE ARE NO MORE QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME FOR MS. MOORE, WE'LL OPEN IT UP.

UH, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, SO IS THERE ANYONE IN THE ROOM THAT WISHES TO SPEAK TO THIS CASE? IS THERE ANYONE ON WEBEX THAT WISHES TO SPEAK TO THIS CASE? THERE'S NO ONE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MA'AM.

MR. CHAIR, MOVE THAT WE FOLLOW THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND APPROVE PUP 2 0 2 5 DASH 1 0 2 22 DOMINION ENERGY WITH THE RECOMMENDED CONDITIONS LISTED IN THE STAFF REPORT.

SECOND.

THERE HAS BEEN A MOTION MADE BY MR. NELSON, SECONDED BY MR. COOPER.

RESERVE TO THE CODE OF THE COUNTY OF HENRICO TO ESTABLISH A LOCAL ANIMAL CRUELTY REGISTRY.

A ANY POST, UH, MOTION CARRIES MR. MAYOR.

NEXT, MR. CHAIR MEMBERS OF BOARD, YOU MOVE INTO PUBLIC HEARING OTHER ITEMS. THE FIRST ITEM ON YOUR AGENDA, 2 94 DASH 25 IS AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AND RE ORDAIN.

SECTION FIVE DASH FIVE TITLED,

[7d. 294a-25 Ordinance - To Amend and Reordain Section 5-5 titled “Reserved” of the Code of the County of Henrico to Establish a Local Animal Cruelty Registry. ]

UH, CHIEF ENGLISH, I BELIEVE YOU ARE PRESENTING THIS PAPER, THE SEAT .

GOOD EVENING BOARD CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD COUNTY MANAGER.

THIS BOARD PAPER WOULD UPDATE THE COUNTY CODE TO INCLUDE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A LOCAL ANIMAL CRUELTY REGISTRY AS AUTHORIZED UNDER STATE LAW THAT TOOK EFFECT ON JULY 1ST, 2024.

STATE LAW ALLOWS THE ESTABLISHMENT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A REGISTRY THAT INCLUDES THE NAMES AND RELEVANT INFORMATION OF PEOPLE CONVICTED OF CERTAIN FELONY OFFENSES OF ANIMAL CRUELTY.

I RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE BOARD PAPER AND THE COUNTY MANAGER CONCURS.

ANY QUESTIONS?

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THANK YOU CHIEF.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR CHIEF? ALRIGHT, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING.

WE'RE GONNA GO WITH THE PRE-REGISTERED AGAIN OR DO WE NEED TO, IS THAT IS THE RIGHT ORDER, MR. NEWBY? YOU'RE CORRECT.

MR. CHAIR, YOU CAN CALL FOR PUBLIC HEARING AT THIS TIME.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU SIR.

UH, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, UH, THE PRE-REGISTERED, UH, FOLKS, UH, IS THERE A RUTH GO IN THE ROOM? IS RUTH IN THE ROOM? IS MS. RUTH GO ON WEBEX? SHE IS NOT SIR.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MA'AM.

IS THERE, UH, MS. TAYLOR'S IN THE ROOM? HOW ARE YOU? MA'AM, YOU'RE UP.

THANK YOU FOR PRE-REGISTERING.

GOOD EVENING, MR. CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND MR. COUNTY MANAGER.

UH, I AM SHANNON TAYLOR.

I AM THE, UH, COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY AND I'M HERE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN THE PRESENTATION OF THIS, UH, OF THIS ORDINANCE PROPOSAL.

UM, AND SPEAKING WITH THE COUNTY ATTORNEY, I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A DISCUSSION REGARDING THE LANGUAGE THAT'S BEING OFFERED AND I'M CERTAINLY HERE, UH, TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT THE BOARD MAY HAVE AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME IF THAT'S NECESSARY.

IS THERE ANYONE ELSE IN THE ROOM THAT WISHES TO SPEAK TO THIS CASE? IS THERE ANYONE ELSE ON WEBEX THAT WISHES TO SPEAK TO THIS CASE? THERE'S NO ONE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

UH, COLLEAGUES, MR. MANAGER, GO, GO AHEAD, MR. CHAIR.

BASED ON, UM, EXTENSIVE CONVERSATION AND WORK SESSION, THERE IS AN ITEM, UM, FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, TWO SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCES THAT MR. NEWBIE, UH, WOULD REVIEW FOR THE BOARD.

ANDREW, IF YOU WOULD.

MR. CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, SO THERE ARE TWO SUBSTITUTES, ONE LABELED 2 94 A DASH 25, AND 1 2 94 B DASH 25.

SO SUBSTITUTE A WOULD, IN ADDITION TO WHAT'S CURRENTLY ON THE AGENDA, REQUIRE NOTICE TO INDIVIDUALS BEFORE THEY'RE INCLUDED ON THE REGISTRY AND INCLUDE CONVICTIONS ON OR AFTER JULY 1ST, 2024 ON THE REGISTRY AND SUBSTITUTE A WOULD ALSO, AND THIS IS THE CRITICAL DISTINCTION, REMOVE BOOKING PHOTOS FROM THE REGISTRY.

SUBSTITUTE B WOULD HAVE THE FIRST TWO COMPONENTS OF SUBSTITUTE A WOULD REQUIRE NOTICE TO AN INDIVIDUAL BEFORE THEY'RE INCLUDED ON THE REGISTRY, AND ALSO INCLUDE CONVICTIONS ON OR AFTER JULY 1ST, 2024.

HOWEVER, SUBSTITUTE B AGAIN CRITICALLY WOULD INCLUDE BOOKING PHOTOS, AND WE'VE CLARIFIED THAT THOSE ARE THE SAME PHOTOS THAT ARE AVAILABLE UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.

THOSE WOULD BE PART OF THE REGISTRY.

SO, UH, SHORTHAND SUBSTITUTE A, NO BOOKING PHOTOS, SUBSTITUTE B HAS BOOKING PHOTOS.

MR. CHAIR, THAT COMPLETES MY SUMMARY.

SO AT THIS TIME WE HAVE, UM, SATISFIED THE PUBLIC HEARING REQUIREMENT AND WE HAVE, UM, AT OUR DESKS, THE ORIGINAL ORDINANCE AND TWO POSSIBLE SUBSTITUTES.

SO AT THIS TIME, I WOULD IMAGINE MR. NEWBIE, THIS ITEM WOULD BE OPEN FOR DISCUSSION.

CHAIR MAY CALL FOR A DISCUSSION.

QUESTION MR. KELLY'S, THE FLOOR IS YOURS.

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR MR. NEWBY.

UM, SO THERE IS NOTHING THAT WE COULD REPLACE WITH BOOKING PHOTOGRAPHS, MEANING WE COULDN'T USE TO DIFFERENTIATE TOM SMITH A AND TOM SMITH B, OTHER THAN PHOTOGRAPHS, WE COULDN'T USE BIRTH DATE, WE COULDN'T USE BIRTH MONTH AND BIRTH DATE OR REDACTED SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS WITH THE LAST FOUR BEING USED, ET CETERA.

SIR, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, I COULD NOT GIVE A QUOTE UNQUOTE, LEGAL CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH ON USING THOSE KINDS OF DATA POINTS AS PART OF THE REGISTRY AT THIS TIME.

UH, I FEEL FAIRLY CONFIDENT IN THE CONCLUSION THAT BOOKING PHOTOS THAT ARE ALREADY PUBLICLY AVAILABLE UNDER FOIA COULD BE INCLUDED AS THE DISTINGUISHING FEATURE, SIR.

BECAUSE OF ADHERENCE TO DYLAN'S RULE, WHICH GIVES A VERY SPECIFIC GRANT OF EXPRESS AUTHORITY ONLY.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR DISCUSSION FROM MY COLLEAGUES? YES, UH, MR. CHAIR.

SO MY, UM, POSITION ON THE BOOKING PHOTO AND, AND I'M APPRECIATIVE OF THE, I THINK, CONSENSUS THAT WE WERE AT TO INCLUDE THE NOTICE PROVISIONS.

I WANTED TO START THERE.

I THINK THAT THAT'S AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT, UM, ESPECIALLY GOING BACKWARDS TO JULY 1ST, 2024.

AND, AND BY WAY OF BACKGROUND, THAT IS WHEN THE, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, UM, AUTHORIZED LOCAL LOCALITIES TO ESTABLISH ANIMAL LOCAL ANIMAL CRUELTY REGISTRIES.

SO, UM, I'M APPRECIATIVE OF THE WORK THAT WE MADE ON THAT.

THE, THE BOOKING PHOTO.

UM, MY OPPOSITION TO THAT IS THE, THE LANGUAGE IN THE STATUTE AS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY EXPLICITLY LISTS WHAT MAY BE INCLUDED IN THIS REGISTRY.

AND IT IS THE NAME OF THE, UH, THE PERSON, THE OFFENSE FOR WHICH THEY WERE CONVICTED, THEIR ADDRESS AT THE TIME OF ARREST AT OF ARREST, AND THE DATE AND PLACE OF CONVICTION.

AND, UM, IT OMITS BOOKING PHOTOS.

SO I, UM, OBJECT TO THAT BEING INCLUDED, PARTICULAR

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AND I BELIEVE THAT, UM, ARBITRARILY INCLUDING A BOOKING PHOTO WOULD EXCEED OUR SCOPE OF AUTHORITY UNDER DYLAN'S RULE.

I ALSO, UH, DO NOT BELIEVE THAT IT MEETS THE GOAL OR IS NECESSARY, I SHOULD SAY, BECAUSE DYLAN'S RULE DOES USE NECESSARY LANGUAGE.

IT IS NOT INDISPENSABLE TO THE, TO THE ENDS OF THIS REGISTRY AS FAR AS PROPERLY IDENTIFYING, UM, FOLKS WHO MAY BE TRYING TO ADOPT A PET.

UM, BECAUSE PHOTOS ARE PROVEN NOT NECESSARILY EFFECTIVE AT IDENTIFYING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY HAVE SOME AGE ON 'EM.

UM, AS COMPREHENSIVE AS THE PROCESS IS TO ADOPT A PET, THERE ARE SO MANY, SO MANY WAYS, AND I SAY THIS IS SOMEBODY WHO HAS GONE THROUGH THAT PROCESS WITH HENRICO HUMANE SOCIETY, UM, VERY EXTENSIVE INTERVIEWS AND BACKGROUND CHECKS AND CALLING OF VETS AND ALL OF THE OTHER THINGS.

SO IF THERE IS ANY CONCERN OF AN INITIAL FLAG, JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY HAS A SIMILAR NAME, I AM CONFIDENT THAT THERE ARE WAY MORE RELIABLE WAYS TO ASCERTAIN, UM, WHETHER THAT IS IN FACT THE PERSON ON THE REGISTRY AS OPPOSED TO USING, UM, A MUGSHOT.

SO, UM, THAT WOULD BE MY POSITION ON THE BOOKING PHOTO.

MR. ROGE.

SO, AND JUST TO FOLLOW UP, UM, JUST FOR THOSE THAT MAY NOT KNOW, ONE OF THE REASONS WE'RE DOING THIS OR MAYBE ONE OF THE PRIMARY REASONS WE'RE DOING THIS IS FOR, UM, ADOPTION FACILITIES, ET CETERA, TO HAVE A, A WAY TO, UM, BETTER AND, AND MAKE IT EASIER TO KNOW WHO IS NOT TO BE, UM, AN ADOPTION, UM, CANDIDATE FOR, FOR A SAID ANIMAL.

SO HAVING SOMETHING ELSE OUT THERE, I LIKE THE BOOKING PHOTO, BUT I, WHAT I'M HEARING IS RACE, SEX, AGE, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE IDENTIFIED.

I I, I DO HAVE CONCERNS WITH JUST THE JOHN SMITH OUT THERE, SEVERAL JOHN SMITHS, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S JUST OUR LOCALITY AND NOT EVERYONE ELSE.

SO I GUESS, UM, AND, AND I THINK MR. NEWBIE, YOU'RE SAYING LEGALLY YOU ARE, I'LL MAKE SURE I'M OKAY TOO, BUT THE, THE BOOKING PHOTOS ARE OKAY FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE, UM, TO BE PUT ON THE WEBSITE.

THAT IS MY OPINION.

UH, THE EXPRESS AUTHORITY I'M RELYING ON FOR DYLAN RULE IS, UH, FOIA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT ALLOWS THE RELEASE OF THOSE PHOTOS.

THAT'S ALL.

YOU GOOD, SIR? YES, SIR.

MR. COOPER.

MR. NELSON, YOU ALL SET? YEAH, I JUST WANT TO GO ON RECORD AND SAY THAT I'M PROBABLY NOT GOING TO SUPPORT THE BOOKING PHOTO, UM, BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, IT'S NOT, WE DON'T HAVE TO DO IT.

AND SECOND OF ALL, UM, BOOKING PHOTOS HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN USED TO BE BIASED TOOLS AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR.

AND, UM, I FEEL LIKE THERE ARE OTHER WAYS THAT WE CAN SEPARATE JOHN SMITH'S OTHER THAN, UM, UH, BOOKING PHOTOS.

BUT I SUPPORT, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I'M ON RECORD OF SAYING THAT I DO NOT WANT PETS IN THE WRONG HANDS OF MISS GAD PEOPLE.

AND SO I AM A THOUSAND BEHIND.

UM, ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO, UH, TO PROTECT, UM, OUR, OUR FRIENDS, OUR, UM, PETS AND ANIMALS.

YEAH, OUR FAM, OUR FAMILY FROM, UM, FROM BEING, UH, UH, TREATED, UM, IN THE WRONG WAY.

OBTAIN AN ANIMAL WHO, WHO, WHO THEREBY SHOULD NOT BE.

UM, I'LL BE HAPPY TO SHARE MY THOUGHTS ON IT.

UH, ONE, UM, I'M NOT AMBIVALENT.

I'M NOT, I I DON'T EXIST IN, IN, IN THE MIDDLE AT ALL.

MY, MY VIEWS FROM THIS ISSUE HAVE BEEN VERY CLEAR FROM THE BEGINNING ON ALL THREE ITEMS. ONE, I'D LIKE TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES AND THE COUNTY AND THE COUNTY'S ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR INCLUDING IN THE BOTH AMENDMENTS, THE DATE CHANGE, NUMBER ONE, THAT'S IMPORTANT.

THOSE FOLKS WHO ARE CONSIDERED WITHIN THAT DATE RANGE, ALL FIVE OF THEM, UM, FOUR FOR SURE, UM, HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED OF THIS.

IT WAS PART OF THEIR PLEA BARGAIN AGREEMENT.

THEY'RE VERY WELL AWARE THAT IF AND WHEN THIS REGISTRY WAS EVER CREATED, THAT THEY'D BE ON IT.

SO I'M THANKFUL TO SEE THAT DAY CHANGE IN BOTH OF THE AMENDMENTS.

I'M ALSO THANKFUL TO SEE CHANGE THREE MADE.

IT REQUIRES THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE INCLUDED ON THE REGISTRY BE NOTIFIED BY EITHER A COURT ORDER WRITTEN PLEA AGREEMENT, OTHER WRITTEN DOCUMENT ENDORSED BY THE INDIVIDUAL.

I BELIEVE WE DO THAT FOR A SEX REGISTRY, UM, CONVICTION.

SO I, I'M SUPPORTIVE OF THAT, UH, INCLUSION AS WELL.

I DIFFER IN MY OPINION ON MY, FROM MY COLLEAGUES ON THE BOOKING PHOTO.

I DO BELIEVE IT WOULD HELP, UH, TO IDENTIFY THE INDIVIDUAL MOST QUICKLY AND EASILY FOR THE PERSON WHO IS, UM, CONDUCTING THE, THE ADOPTION AT ANY SITE.

I DO WANT DON'T WANT AN A, A BIT OF, OF, OF AMBIGUITY WITH REGARD TO THAT.

I WOULDN'T WANT AN INNOCENT PERSON TO HAVE A BIT OF AMBIGUITY AND BE CHALLENGED ABOUT IT.

AND I WOULDN'T WANT A GUILTY PERSON TO BE ABLE TO

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SO I AM OF THE OPINION OF ALL THREE OF THOSE BEING VIABLE.

UM, OPTIONS TO INCLUDE, UM, PHOTOS ARE A RELIABLE WAY TO IDENTIFY PEOPLE.

DRIVER'S LICENSE PASSPORTS.

HECK, OUR COUNTY ID BADGE HAS MY PHOTO ON IT FROM EIGHT YEARS AGO.

SO, UM, PHOTOS ARE, UH, YET ANOTHER WAY TO DO IT.

AND NO, WE DON'T HAVE TO DO IT, BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO PASS THIS ORDINANCE EITHER, AND THAT HAS NEVER BEEN AWAY AND IN RIKO TO AVOID DOING SOMETHING.

SO MY OPINION HAS ALWAYS BEEN, AND ALWAYS WILL BE EVERY POSSIBLE TOOL TO, UM, PROHIBIT, UH, AN ANIMAL FROM BEING PLACED IN THE HANDS OF AN INDIVIDUAL REGARDLESS OF AGE, GENDER, SEX, CREATE.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU ARE.

IF, IF YOU ARE TO, UM, TO BE PROHIBITED FROM HONING AN ANIMAL DUE TO YOUR PRIOR AND PAST CONVICTIONS, THEN ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO AS A COUNTY TO MAKE THAT, UM, MORE CLEAR, I WOULD ALWAYS SUPPORT.

SO, WHILE I'M THANKFUL OF THE DATE CHANGE ABOUT THE JULY, AND I'M THANKFUL FOR THE INCLUSION OF THE NOTICE, I BELIEVE EVERYBODY SHOULD BE NOTICED ON THAT.

UH, I AM OF THE OPINION THAT THE BOOKING PHOTO IS A VIABLE, UM, ITEM TO BE ADDED.

UH, I UNDERSTAND THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE DIFFERING OPINIONS ON THAT, BUT I, I'D LIKE TO BE VERY CLEAR ON THE FACT THAT IF IT IS POSSIBLE, AND I BELIEVE OUR LEGAL COUNSEL THAT IT IS, I DON'T KNOW FOR THE LIFE OF ME WHY IT WOULD NOT BE UTILIZED.

AND I WOULD ADVOCATE FOR THAT ON ANY LEVEL, FOR ANY IDENTIFIER TO BE ADDED TO MAKE IT EASY FOR THE PERSON BEHIND THE COUNTER.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM BY MY COLLEAGUES, UH, BEFORE WE TAKE US INTO A MOTION FOR A SUBSTITUTE? WELL, AGAIN, I, I AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUES.

ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO, USE FOR TOOLS TO, UM, MAKE SURE THAT PERSONS WHO SHOULD NOT BE OWNING, UM, PETS DON'T OWN PETS.

AND SO I'M, AGAIN, I THINK WE'RE ALL UNEQUIVOCALLY AGREEMENT OVER THAT.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM? LAST COMMENT THAT I'LL MAKE IS THAT I DO BELIEVE THAT MAYBE THE STATE LEGISLATURE MIGHT NEED TO DO A LITTLE WORK ON THIS LAW.

UM, AND, AND IT'S POSSIBLE THAT THIS WILL GO NOT JUST TO A LOCALITY, BUT POTENTIALLY WOULD GO EVEN STATEWIDE.

SO, UM, AS IT GOES STATEWIDE, MORE JOHN SMITHS, UM, MAY GET ON THERE.

SO, UM, LAST POINT ON THAT NOTE, MR. ISH, I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THAT UP.

MR. COOPER, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.

UM, IF AND WHEN STATE OFFICIALS, IF YOU'RE LISTENING, UM, IF AND WHEN YOU GET TO THAT, I WOULD ALSO ADVOCATE THAT WE SAW THAT OUR, OUR, OUR FRIENDS IN THE CITY OF RICHMOND PUT THEIRS OUT AND THEY DID NOT USE A JULY 1ST, 2024 INDICATOR.

I BELIEVE IF YOU ARE CONVICTED OF THAT CRIME, UM, AND WE CAN GO BACK AND NOTIFY TO MS. RAUNER'S POINT, NOTIFY THE INDIVIDUALS OF THE REGISTRY EXISTING.

I'D LIKE TO GO BACK, I'LL SAY IT AGAIN.

MY COLLEAGUES WILL ROLL THEIR EYES, BUT I'LL SAY IT.

I'D LIKE TO GO BACK TO THE DAYS OF MOSES AND IF YOU INJURED AN ANIMAL OR IF YOU ACCRUAL TO AN ANIMAL AND YOU RECEIVE A CONVICTION OF IT, YOU DESERVE TO BE PLACED UPON THAT LIST.

ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS ABOUT MY COLLEAGUES SEEING NONE, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO SUBSTITUTE EITHER 2 94 A OR 2 94 B IN PLACE OF 2 94 DASH 25.

MR. CHAIR, I, I MOVE.

WE SUBSTITUTE ITEM 2 94 B 25 FOR ITEM 2 94 DASH 25.

ALL RIGHT, THERE HAS BEEN A MOTION, UH, TO SUBSTITUTE ITEM 2 94 B 25 FOR ITEM 2 94 DASH 25.

IS THERE A SECOND? I WILL SECOND IT.

I THINK THAT'S LEGAL FOR ME TO SECOND THAT.

SO IT'S BEEN PROP PROPERLY MOVED BY MR. ROGE, SECONDED BY MYSELF.

ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THAT? ALRIGHT, UM, THOSE IN FAVOR OF SUBSTITUTING 2 94 DASH B 25 FOR ITEM 2 94 DASH 25.

ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

ALL OPPOSED ON THAT SUBSTITUTION.

THAT MOTION DOES NOT PASS.

THE CHAIR WILL NOW ENTERTAIN ANOTHER MOTION OF SUBSTITUTION ON THE ITEM.

MR. CHAIR.

I MOVE.

WE APPROVE RESOLUTION 2 94 A DASH 25.

IT'S BEEN A MOTION MADE BY MR. ROUNDTREE, SECONDED BY MR. NELSON TO SUBSTITUTE ITEM 2 9 4 A 25 FOR 2 9 4 DASH 25.

UH, THOSE IN FAVOR OF SUBSTITUTING THAT MOTION, SAY AYE.

ANY POST MOTION CARRIES.

THAT MOTION IS NOW ON THE TABLE.

IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM 2 94 A DASH 25.

SO MOVED.

MOTION MADE BY MS. ROUNDTREE SECOND AND A SECOND MAY BY MR. ROAS.

ANIMALS DUE TO THEIR COURT SENTENCING.

ANY OPPOSED? AYES HAVE IT.

WE NOW, UM, THANKFULLY HAVE AN ANIMAL CRUELTY REGISTRY.

I, BUT THANK EVERYONE.

UH, I CERTAINLY WON'T SPEAK ON BEHALF OF MY COLLEAGUES.

I'LL ALLOW YOU TO DO SO.

PLEASE.

UM, I THANK EVERYONE WHO WORKED ON THIS.

THERE'S STILL HAING NEW GROUND AND WE'RE STILL MAKING IT, UM, HARDER FOR FOLKS WHO REALLY SHOULD NOT BE ABDO ADOPTING ADDITIONAL

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SIR, ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THAT FROM MY COLLEAGUES? JACKSON'S HAPPY.

ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

CHIEF, UH, MR. CHAIR, UM, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AGENDA ITEM 2 95 DASH 25 IS A RESOLUTION FOR SIGNATORY

[7e. 295-25 Resolution - Signatory Authority - Exchange of Real Property - 7705 Impala Drive and 7200 Galaxie Road - Brookland District. ]

AUTHORITY.

THIS WOULD INVOLVE THE EXCHANGE OF REAL PROPERTY 77 0 5 IMPALA DRIVE, AND 7,200 GALAXY ROAD.

THIS, UH, EXCHANGE WOULD OCCUR IN THE BROOKLYN MAGISTERIAL DISTRICT.

HOWEVER, AS WE, UH, AS WE WORK THIS EXCHANGE MORE, THERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL STIPULATIONS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO BE PLACED ON THE EXCHANGE.

SO, MR. CHAIR, WITH YOUR CONCURRENCE, THIS ITEM, STAFF WOULD LIKE TO WITHDRAW AND BRING BACK TO THE BOARD? YES, SIR.

I CERTAINLY CONCUR ON THIS ITEM, PARTICULARLY AS IT IS IN THE BROOKLYN DISTRICT.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS ITEM FROM MY COLLEAGUES ON BASEBALL ON THE WITHDRAWAL? YEAH, I WOULD CONCUR.

AND MR. NEWBY, I BELIEVE THAT'S NO ACTION NECESSARY.

NO VOTE NECESSARY FOR THE WITHDRAWAL? THAT'S CORRECT, MR. CHAIR.

NO PUBLIC HEARING EITHER.

MR. MATTER NEXT, MR. CHAIR, UH, 2 68 DASH 25 IS AN ORDINANCE FOR VACATIONAL BUILDING LINE.

THIS IS FOR THE COLLEGE HILL SUBDIVISION,

[7f. 268-25 Ordinance - Vacation of Building Line - College Hills Subdivision - 504 Ridge Top Road - Tuckahoe District.[Deferred from the October 28, 2025, meeting.] ]

UH, 5 0 4 RIDGETOP ROAD.

THIS IS IN THE TUCKAHOE DISTRICT.

THANK YOU MR. CHAIR.

HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

UH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON.

UH, THANKS CHRIS.

THIS ORDINANCE, UH, WOULD VACATE THE 50 FOOT BUILDING LINE AT A PROPERTY LOCATED AT 5 0 4 RIDGETOP ROAD.

THE OWNERS HAVE REQUESTED THIS ACTION TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO THEIR FRONT PORCH.

THE REAL PROPERTY DIVISION PROCESSES REQUEST THIS VACATION REQUEST THROUGH THE DEPARTMENTS OF PLANNING PUBLIC WORKS AND PUBLIC UTILITIES.

WITHOUT OBJECTION, DIRECTOR OF REAL PROPERTY RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE BOARD, PAPER COUNTY MANAGER CONCURS, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS.

ANY QUESTIONS, UH, ABOUT MY COLLEAGUES ON THIS ITEM? ALRIGHT, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING.

IS ANYONE IN THE ROOM THAT WISHES TO SPEAK TO THIS ORDINANCE? IS THERE ANYONE ON WEBEX THAT WISHES TO SPEAK TO THIS ORDINANCE? THERE'S NO ONE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR. ROGE.

SO MOVE THE ORDINANCE MOTION MADE BY MR. RO IS SECONDED BY MR. NELSON.

OF A PORTION OF A RIGHT OF WAY.

ANY POST? A MOTION CARRIES MR. MEASURE.

NEXT, MR. CHAIR, 2 96 DASH 25 IS ALSO AN ORDINANCE.

THIS IS FOR A VACATION

[7g. 296-25 Ordinance - Vacation of Portion of Right-of-Way - York Manor Subdivision - Varina District. ]

UH, YORK MANOR SUBDIVISION, WHICH IS IN THE DISTRICT.

MR. ANTHONY, THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN, MR. MANAGER.

MR. CHAIR, HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

UH, THIS ACTION WOULD VACATE A 10 FOOT PORTION OF AN UNIMPROVED RIGHT OF WAY IN THE YORK MANOR SUBDIVISION.

THE VACATION IS REQUESTED BY 4 0 1 SOUTH LLC, THE OWNER OF A NEARBY PROPERTY.

THE RIGHT OF WAY IS NOT NECESSARY FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT.

UH, THE BOARD VACATING, THE BOARD VACATED AN A BUDDING 40 FOOT STRIP OF FORMER RIGHT OF WAY ON OCTOBER 8TH, 2024.

THE REAL PROPERTY DIVISION HAS PROCESSED THIS REQUEST, THIS VACATION REQUEST THE DEPARTMENTS OF PLANNING PUBLIC WORK, PUBLIC UTILITIES, WITHOUT OBJECTION, THE DIRECTOR OF REAL PROPERTY RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE BOARD.

PAPER COUNTY MANAGER CONCURS, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? UH, THIS IS ALSO A PUBLIC HEARING.

ANYONE IN THE ROOM WISH TO SPEAK TO THIS ORDINANCE? IS THERE ANYONE ON WEBEX FOR THIS ORDINANCE? THERE'S NO ONE TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR. NELSON.

SO MOVED.

SECOND MOTION MADE BY MR. NELSON.

SECOND BY MR. COOPER.

ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES.

ARE YOU ON WEBEX, SIR? HE IS NOT SIR.

NEXT, MR. CHAIR MEMBERS THE BOARD, YOU GO INTO PUBLIC HEARING OR PUBLIC COMMENTS.

DO YOU HAVE ONE INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK? I DON'T SEE HIM.

HERE IS MR. CHANNING PERKINS HERE.

[8. PUBLIC COMMENTS ]

ALRIGHT, IS THERE ANYONE ON WEBEX THAT WISHES TO ADDRESS THE BOARD THIS EVENING? THERE'S NO ONE TO SPEAK ON WEBEX.

ALRIGHT, IS THERE ANYONE IN PERSON THAT WISHES TO ADDRESS THE BOARD? ALRIGHT, UH, MR. CHAIR, WITH YOUR CONCURRENCE, WE'D MOVE INTO THE GENERAL AGENDA AND WITH YOUR CONCURRENCE IN THE BOARD'S CONCURRENCE, I'M GONNA ASK FOR PERMISSION TO MOVE AGENDA ITEM 3 0 4 DASH 25, UM, FORWARD.

THIS IS A RESOLUTION FOR DONATION OF SURPLUS VEHICLES.

WE DO

[9h. 304-25 Resolution - Donation of Surplus Vehicles to Joint Clients of the Department of Social Services and ReEstablish Richmond. ]

HAVE SOME FOLKS, UH, HERE FROM REESTABLISH RICHMOND, DONATION OF SURPLUS VEHICLES TO JOINT CLIENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES AND REESTABLISH RICHMOND.

UM, MR. CHAIR, THIS IS ACTUALLY OUR DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL SERVICES.

THIS IS HER FIRST PRESENTATION.

NO WAY IN FRONT OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT IS.

I KNOW.

LIKE, WHY ARE WE EXPEDITING HER FROM THE, UH, MR. MANAGER? DOES, DOES SHE NOT ADDRESS US? DOES SHE NOT ADDRESS US? MA'AM, MA'AM, THE FLOOR IS YOURS.

I CERTAINLY HOPE SO.

THANK YOU, MR. MANAGER.

UH, MR. CHAIR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THIS BOARD PAPER AUTHORIZES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROGRAM TO DONATE SURPLUS COUNTY VEHICLES TO JOINT CLIENTS OF REESTABLISHED RICHMOND'S TRANSPORTATION INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM AND THE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES VIEW EMPLOYMENT

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SERVICES PROGRAM, NO MORE THAN 12 VEHICLES WILL BE DONATED IN A 12 MONTH PERIOD AND THE PROGRAM WILL EXPIRE ON OCTOBER 31ST, 2028.

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH REESTABLISHED RICHMOND, THE COUNTY WILL ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES AND THE AUTOMOTIVE FLEET MANAGER OF CENTRAL AUTOMOTIVE MAINTENANCE, THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL SERVICES PROUDLY RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE BOARD PAPER, THE COUNTY MANAGER CONCURS.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE BEFORE I ANSWER, OFFER TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, JEFF EDWARDS, WHO IS OUR, UH, EMPLOYMENT SERVICES SUPERVISOR OF YOU SUPERVISOR, AND KATE AYERS, WHO'S THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF REESTABLISHED RICHMOND.

AND WE'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE.

THANKS GRETCHEN.

LIKE A SEASONED PROFESSIONAL OVER THE LET'S GO.

ABSOLUTELY.

NON INDICATIVE OF BEING YOUR FIRST TIME DOING THAT.

SO THANK YOU.

SO IT WAS GREAT TO SEE YOU.

ANY QUESTIONS, UH, BY MY COLLEAGUES ON THE SHOW.

CAN YOU SHARE BRIEFLY WHY WE SHOULD BE DOING THIS AND, AND WHAT IT'S GONNA DO FOR US AND OUR AND OUR PEOPLE? ABSOLUTELY.

THE MOST, IM THE MOST IMPORTANT REASON THAT IS THAT WE'RE GONNA CREATE OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR CLIENTS TO ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION.

OUR MUTUAL CLIENTS HAVE ACCESS TO TRANSPORTATION TO GET TO AND FROM EMPLOYMENT, UH, CHILDCARE AND OTHER NORMAL ACTIVITIES LIKE GROCERY SHOPPING AND DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS AND MOVIE THEATERS AND SPORTING EVENTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

UM, CURRENTLY WE ARE SPENDING UPWARDS OF $2 MILLION A YEAR ON TRANSPORTATION COSTS, UH, FOR VAN SERVICES THAT TRANSPORT CLIENTS ONLY TO AND FROM WORK IN CHILDCARE.

AND THIS PROGRAM, THESE VEHICLES, THE THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT IS VERY SUBSTANTIAL TO GET OUR CLIENTS, UH, TO SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN A MUCH QUICKER WAY.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MS. BROWN? MS. BROWN, UM, WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG TO COME UP WITH THIS IDEA? ? UH, I HAD THE IDEA A WHILE AGO.

IT'S REALLY HARD TO GET IN FRONT OF THE BOARD .

JUST KIDDING.

AND ACTUALLY, I, IT JUST, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HIT ME ONE DAY, BUT IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE THAT WE WERE SPENDING THAT MUCH MONEY ON VAN SERVICES.

UM, AND I WAS WATCHING OUR VEHICLES GO INTO SURPLUS.

THEY WERE STILL DRIVABLE EVEN THOUGH THEY WEREN'T SUPER RELIABLE FOR THE DISTANCE THAT WE OFTEN HAVE TO TRAVEL.

AND IT JUST SEEMED TO MAKE SENSE AND THE MANAGER SUPPORTED THE IDEA.

WELL, WELL THANK YOU FOR, UM, THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX AND HAVING THE, YOU KNOW, THE THOUGHT TO BRING IT TO, TO THE MANAGER AND TO US.

AND, AND AS I SAID, WHEN YOU FIRST, UM, BROUGHT THIS UP, I LOOK FORWARD TO EXPLORING OTHER WAYS THAT WE CAN SIMILARLY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, UM, SURPLUS VEHICLES TO BE A BENEFIT TO, TO THE COMMUNITY.

ABSOLUTE.

ABSOLUTELY.

AND THANK YOU ALL AT REAL ESTABLISHED RICHMOND, RICHMOND BECAUSE I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE DOING THE, THE HEAVY LIFTING OF FIGURING OUT THE BEST WAY TO USE THESE VEHICLES AND GET THEM TO THEIR BEST AND HIGHEST USE.

SO THANK YOU FOR PARTNERING WITH THE COUNTY.

YEAH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I'LL JUST SAY OUR WORK IS, YOU KNOW, IS , SO LOOK ON THE MIC, THE MIC, MIC.

WHEN PEOPLE WORK TOGETHER, A A GOOD THING CAN HAPPEN AND OUR WORK IS REALLY FOCUSED ON NOT ONLY MAKING PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO GET TO PLACES THEY NEED, BUT MAKE THEM SAFE DRIVERS ON THE ROAD IN THE MEANTIME.

AND SO I BELIEVE THAT THE PARTNERSHIP IS MAKING RICHMOND, UH, HENRICO SPECIFICALLY SAFER AND PEOPLE ABLE TO, UM, MAKE IT ON THEIR OWN FASTER.

THANK YOU, KATE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

UH, SO, UM, SO MOVED.

I WAS GONNA SAY, I'LL TAKE A MOTION.

IT'S BEEN MOVED BY MR. COOPER, A SECOND BY MR. NELSON.

THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.

THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR DECEMBER 16TH AND WOULD, UH, AUTHORIZE THE ADVERTISEMENT OF THESE A AMENDMENTS.

ANY POST RESOLUTION CARRIES MR. MAYOR.

NEXT, MR. CHAIR, WE GO TO 2 97 DASH 25, INTRODUCTION OF RESOLUTION, RECEIPT OF REQUEST FOR AMENDMENT TO THE FISCAL YEAR 26 ANNUAL FISCAL PLAN FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER.

JUSTIN, THANK YOU MR. MANAGER.

AND GOOD EVENING MR. CHAIR.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, UH, AS THE MANAGER NOTED, THIS IS AN INTRODUCTION OF THE, UH, REGULAR DECEMBER AMENDMENTS.

UH, IF APPROVED, IT WOULD SET

[9a. 297-25 Introduction of Resolution - Receipt of Requests for Amendments to FY 2025-26 Annual Fiscal Plan - December 2025. ]

UM, THE TOTAL PROPOSED AMENDMENTS IS $14.2 MILLION.

UH, $7.6 MILLION IS WITHIN, UH, UH, THE OPERATING SIDE OF THE BUDGET.

UH, HIGHLIGHTS HERE, $3.4 MILLION FOR, UH, VARIOUS SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAMS. AND THEN, UH, $1.3 MILLION, UH, OVER, UH, SEVERAL PUBLIC SAFETY, UH, AGENCIES FOR, UH, ENHANCEMENTS TO SERVICES INCLUDING, UH, UH, EXPANSION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES, UH, FIREHOUSE NONE.

AND SO A COUPLE, UH, UH, ENHANCEMENT EFFORTS WITH OUR EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS OPERATIONS.

UH, ON THE CAPITAL SIDE, UH, THE TOTAL HERE IS 6.6 MILLION TWO, UH, PROJECTS.

OF NOTE, UH, THERE'S THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS TOTAL FOR ADDITIONAL COSTS RELATED TO, UH, THE GLOVER PARK PHASE TWO PROJECT.

UH, AND THEN $3.1 MILLION, UH,

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REQUESTED, UH, TO APPROPRIATE AN EPA GRANT FOR 10 ELECTRIC BUSES.

I'D ALSO NOTE ON THE LAST PAGE, UH, OF THE LIST OF AMENDMENTS, THERE IS, UH, THE REQUEST FOR PROJECT BY PROJECT APPROVAL OF MEALS TAX FUNDING TO BE TRANS TRANSFERRED, UH, FOR A NUMBER OF PROJECTS, UH, $5.3 MILLION TOTAL THERE.

UH, WITH THAT AS AN OVERVIEW, MR. CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

THIS IS AN INTRODUCTION OF A RESOLUTION, JUSTIN, RIGHT? THIS WILL COME BACK IN A COUPLE WEEKS.

YES SIR.

THANK YOU SIR.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR JUSTIN? ALRIGHT.

SEEING NONE.

IS THERE A MOTION? A MOTION? MOTION.

MOTION MADE BY MR. ROUNDTREE, SECONDED BY MR. RUGERS TO ACCEPT THE INTRODUCTION OF THE RESOLUTION.

ANY POST MOTION CARRIES MR. MANAGER.

NEXT, MR. CHAIR.

UH, AGENDA ITEM 2 98 DASH 25 IS THE RESOLUTION FOR AWARD OF CONTRACT.

THIS IS FOR THE A AND E SERVICES

[9b. 298-25 Resolution - Award of Contract - Architectural and Engineering Services for Meadowood Firehouse 1, the Multipurpose Training Building, and the Tactical Training Facility - Fairfield District. ]

FOR, UH, FIREHOUSE ONE.

CHIEF MR. CHAIR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, MR. MANAGER.

SO MOVED.

SECOND.

SOUNDS GOOD.

, I'M ALL IN.

THERE'S YOUR DISTRICT.

SIR.

THERE'S BEEN A MOTION AND A SECOND.

THAT'S NOT A MUST, BUT BEFORE, BEFORE WE CAN LET THE CHIEF GET AWAY, WE DO HAVE TO GIVE HIM HIS PLATFORM THAT HE'S CLEARLY LOOKING FOR BECAUSE THAT THING COULD HAVE BEEN REMOVED TWO DAYS AGO.

IT'S DECEMBER 2ND.

IS IT NOT CHIEF? YES, SIR.

BUT YOU KNOW THE STILL THERE.

WHY? THE, THE FUNDRAISING EFFORTS, UH, FOR M 4K HENRICO HEROES FOR HENRICO CASA IS IMPORTANT.

OUR PARTNERS IN POLICE, EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS, EMERGENCY, UH, MANAGEMENT, WORKPLACE SAFETY.

WE'LL HAVE A LITTLE FRIENDLY COMPETITION, UH, FOR THIS FUNDRAISING EFFORTS TO SEE WHO CAN RAISE THE MOST FUNDS FOR HENRICO CASA ORGANIZATION HELPS KIDS, UH, WHEN THEY SOMETIMES NEED IT THE MOST IN OUR SHERIFF'S OFFICE.

UH, MONTE ALWAYS HAS SOMETHING NICE, SO HE'S ALREADY GOOD TO GO.

THERE'S YOUR, THERE'S YOUR PLATFORM.

SO YOU'RE TAKING THIS GAME TO OVERTIME AND GONNA YES, SIR.

FUNDRAISING EFFORTS END ON FRIDAY.

ARBS ALLOWED YOU TO EXTRA COUPLE DAYS.

UH, RE YEAH, I THINK SHE REGRETS IT.

YEAH, I'M SURE SHE DOES.

ALRIGHT.

THERE'S BEEN A MOTION MADE BY MR. COOPER, PROPERLY SECONDED BY MR. NELSON.

ANY POST? THANKS, CHIEF.

THE FAIRFIELD DISTRICT FOR DRAINAGE AND FLOOD MITIGATION.

MR. NEXT CHAIR, UH, 300 DASH 25 IS A RESOLUTION FOR SIGNATORY AUTHORITY.

THIS IS FOR ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY NUMBER OF PROPERTIES ON HAWTHORNE AVENUE IN

[9d. 300-25 Resolution - Signatory Authority - Acquisition of Real Property - Drainage and Flood Mitigation - 5400 Hawthorne Avenue, 5410 Hawthorne Avenue, 5314 Edgewood Avenue, and 5402 Edgewood Avenue - Fairfield District. ]

MR. ANTHONY, THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN.

MR. MANAGER, MR. CHAIR, HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.

UH, THIS BOARD PAPER WOULD AUTHORIZE THE ACQUISITION ACQUISITION OF 5,400 HAWTHORNE AVENUE, 54 10 HAWTHORNE AVENUE, 53 14 EDGEWOOD AVENUE, AND 54 0 2 EDGEWOOD AVENUE FOR $4,400 TOTAL FOR DRAINAGE AND FLOOD MITIGATION.

THE DIRECTORS OF PUBLIC WORKS AND, UH, ROAD PROPERTY RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THE BOARD.

PAPER COUNTY MANAGER CONCURS ARE IDENTIFIED IN THE RED SHADED AREAS.

I'D BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? YES, Y'ALL DO.

Y DO I.

Y'ALL REALIZE IT'S IN , RIGHT? SEEING NONE.

HE DID.

HE DID, HE DID.

WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT MOTION MADE BY MR. NELSON FROM THE VERINA DISTRICT.

IS THERE A SECOND? IS THERE A SECOND? YOU SECOND IT.

SO SECOND.

ALRIGHT.

IT'S BEEN SECONDED BY MS. ROUNTREE FROM THE THREE CHOP DISTRICT.

IT'S FAIRFIELD ITEM.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

THAT'S, I JUST WANTED TO GO ON THE RECORD.

HE SAID THAT.

SORRY, MR. CHAIR JUST, OH, NO, NO.

IT'S NEEDS TO BE SAID.

IT NEEDS TO BE DOCUMENTED.

ON THE RECORD.