NICOLE ANDERSON ELLIS On Tuesday, June 9, at 7 p.m. Henrico County’s Board of Supervisors is holding a hearing for public feedback on the latest version of Henrico’s draft 2026 Comprehensive Land Use Plan. They call it the county’s “road map for growth.“ At the same meeting, having supposedly weighed citizen input, the board “will consider adoption of the proposed 2026 comprehensive plan.“

There’s a photograph I took on Osborne Turnpike, southeast of the city. It was early and the low sun gilded the fur of a fox lying dead on the shoulder of the road. Behind the creature spread a 40-acre field that I’ve passed every day for a decade. The land used to spend half the year covered in corn, the other half in flocks of gleaning geese. On the day of the picture it was bare orange clay crisscrossed by backhoe tracks. Today it is crowded with dozens of houses and wide paved roads.