Chesterfield growth steering committee meets for first time
Chesterfield County's comprehensive plan steering committee met tonight for the first time to develop a long-range guideline for growth.
It will be the first detailed approach at shaping countywide development and infrastructure in the history of what is now Virginia's fourth largest locality, replacing the county's current 21 individual area plans.
Earlier this year, the Board of Supervisors approved an $869,920 contract with Florida-based Renaissance Planning Group to mold the plan with the help of the 32 steering committee members and the public at large.
Find out how some of the steering committee members want to deal with growth in tomorrow's Richmond Times-Dispatch.
-- Wesley P. Hester
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Reader Reactions
You got that right. Chesterfield has been trashed, and worse than that: trashed with vinyl-sided sprawl that doesn’t begin to pay for itself.
The republican supervisors who made it all happen thought they could ensure their own lifetime sinecures by rewarding their housing-developer buddies and attracting 250,000 lower-middle-class redneck residents but—just like nationally—they had no plan for when the chicken came home to roost.
Now who’s gonna clean up this mess, and how will the roads, schools, and utilities be financed? No one knows.
Ha: These buffoons are about 20 years too late! What have the county’s planners been doing in recent years—nothing but approving a bunch of pell-mell subdivisions and strings of strip malls that add up to more crappy suburban sprawl. Not exactly an enlightened group of people out there…
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