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Board of Supervisors Chair Dorothy Jaeckle thanks Children's Dental Health Month volunteers at the board's Feb. 6 meeting.

  • Supervisor Jaeckle will hold Bermuda District community meetings to discuss the county’s proposed FY2014 budget on Monday, March 18, 1:30 p.m., at the Bensley Community Center; Monday, March 18, 7 p.m., at the Thomas Dale 9th grade campus; and Tuesday, March 19, 10:30 a.m., at the Chester United Methodist Church.
  • The county’s proposed capital improvement program for needed investments in facilities and infrastructure for fiscal 2014-18 will be considered by the Board of Supervisors, along with the county’s operating budget, at the budget public hearing on March 20. The county has a policy of keeping its debt payments to 10 percent or less of the operating budget. In recent years, the actual payments have amounted to around 7 percent. A vote on the plan and the budget is scheduled for April 10. The capital plan’s proposed spending over the next five years includes:
    • $201.3 million on general county government projects, including roads, libraries and public safety. One of the biggest expenditures would be to replace the public-safety radio system.
    • $347.7 million on the school system. That total would include more than $250 million for replacement or major renovation of school buildings, as recommended in the comprehensive plan.
    • $279.4 million on county utilities, mainly water and wastewater systems. New federal mandates for wastewater quality will cost the county $37.4 million over the next five years.
     
  • Work continues on the county’s new countywide comprehensive plan. In February, the Planning Commission began to look at how the new plan applies land-use and infrastructure plans, among others, generically across the entire county. This effort is intended to blend some of the older area and community plans into the new comprehensive plan, and address revitalization and other issues. The Planning Commission began to look at the amendments during their Feb. 19 meeting. These amendments define geographical boundaries on the zoning maps of former special area plans that were superseded when the new plan was adopted. The amendments define these geographies on the zoning maps since these particular special area plans no longer exist. The special plan geographies affected include Ettrick, Upper Swift Creek, (Northern) Route 288, Consolidated Eastern Area, (Eastern) Midlothian Turnpike, (Western) Route 360, Matoaca, and Southern and Western. The amendments also clarify that certain standards apply to all subareas of specific geographies, including Chester, Midlothian and Bon Air Village.
  • When Seattle-based online retailer Amazon.com announced a year ago that it had selected central Virginia for two massive fulfillment centers to ship products to its customers, it was one of Virginia’s largest economic development announcements in years. Construction on each of the 1 million-square-foot centers in Chesterfield and Dinwiddie counties proceeded at a fast pace. In just 10 months, Chesterfield County had a million-square-foot, fully functioning fulfillment center in the Meadowville Technology Park. In early October, the distribution centers shipped their first products. By the time the holiday shopping season came around, the two centers employed a combined total of more than 1,000 full-time and seasonal workers.
  • The Economic Development Authority is ready to launch an international marketing/branding campaign for 1,300-acre Meadowville Technology Park, where Amazon and Northrop Grumman Corp. are located. The campaign revolves around a new logo and a sharpened focus, where “in tomorrow’s world of commerce, success will be fueled by global connectivity,” which are intended to make the park attractive to cutting-edge companies looking for state-of-the-art, ready-to-build locations. The plan will emphasize Meadowville’s connectedness to infrastructure, transportation and technology, and aims to build the park’s brand so that the name Meadowville will be recognized by tech industry insiders, corporate planners and site-selection experts. The plan will divide the business park into sections targeting different industry segments such as logistics and data centers. One section will be dedicated to hospitality and plans include construction of a conference center. Integral to the plan is an adjoining parcel owned by local developer who plans a center with retail, restaurants and multifamily residential. A Capital One Financial Corp. data center also is planned for the park.
  • Backers of a proposed high-speed rail line from Richmond to Raleigh, N.C., which would run through Chesterfield County, will hold an open house on Tuesday, Feb. 26 to brief residents on changes to their plans. Officials from the Southeast High Speed Rail project will present information and maps relating to proposed bridges and underpasses, rail crossing closures and other roadwork proposed for the county. The revised plans include modifications at Station Road, Chester Road, Hopkins Road, Centralia Road, Curtis Street, West Street, Woods Edge Road, Walthall Industrial Parkway and Pine Forest Drive. The meeting will be held at the Chesterfield County Public Safety Training Center, 6610 Public Safety Road in the County Government Complex, from 5 to 8 p.m. Maps presenting the preferred alternative route for the rail line and revised roadwork for Chesterfield County are on the project’s website www.sehsr.org.  
  • The Chesterfield County School Board has approved a resolution to name the Thomas Dale baseball field after Matthew Gwaltney, a victim of the Virginia Tech mass shooting in 2007 and a baseball and basketball player at the school. Gwaltney received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and was working on a master’s degree when he, along with 31 other students and faculty members were killed during the attack. There will be a plaque placed at the Thomas Dale baseball facility and a ceremony to dedicate the field. Chesterfield County Public Schools will invite the public to participate in the dedication.
  • Chesterfield County’s Sustain Our Community Committee, SOCC, will present their second Empowering Neighborhoods Forum on Saturday, March 9, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at the Eanes-Pittman Public Safety Training Center, 6610 Public Safety Way, Chesterfield. Attendees will gain a wealth of knowledge that will prove beneficial to their neighborhoods, including information about valuable tools, including property maintenance, code enforcement and crime prevention that will help kick off the revitalization of their communities. There also will be the unveiling and presentation of Chesterfield’s new Home Modernization Guide. The event is free and open to the public. Register at http://chesterfieldrevitalization.com/forum/ by March 7. For more information, contact Latisha Jenkins at 804-748-1065 or JenkinsL@chesterfield.gov.
  • Park Improvements:  Renovations at five of the county’s Civil War parks, including parking, fencing, trails and interpretive signs are expected begin construction this spring. At Henricus Historical Park, the next project will be the 17th century church. Construction will begin this spring and the site is expected to open next fall. At Dodd Park, preliminary work has been completed for a project that will provide renovations and a new trail system and a recreational trail grant has received preliminary approval. The Falling Creek historic site has received several VDOT Enhancement grants for a parking area, a trails system, a special events area and extensive interpretive signage. Planning is almost complete and the construction will begin in the spring. A grant that will enable the county to purchase the historic Point of Rocks property has been received and the park will be open for private guided tours next fall. Other Sesquicentennial events are being planned for this location in November. The Henricus Foundation is completing its 20 year master plan, which will guide improvements at the site that will increase tourism and school visitation. At the Lowe’s Sports Complex, construction will begin this spring to pave the entrance drive, providing improved access to the facility.
  • Road Projects: Construction this spring on a project to widen the pavement and add shoulders to Branders Bridge Road. The project should be completed in about three months. Revenue Sharing and Congestion Mitigation Air Quality funds will be used to upgrade pedestrian signals, handicapped ramps and crosswalk on Route 10 through Chester. Preliminary engineering began in February and construction should begin this summer. The county was successful in obtaining Bike and Pedestrian Safety funds for improvements along southbound Route 1 between Bermuda Run apartments and the shopping center at Happy Hill Road. The project includes replacing the guardrail on the pedestrian pathway and installing a sidewalk. Fifteen million dollars in state and federal funds, along with $11 million in county bond funds are being used to widen Route 10 from I-95 to Ware Bottom Spring Road. The project involves improvements to Route 10/Old Stage Road intersection and the bridges over the CSX railroad tracks.  Construction began in September 2010 and work should be completed by this June.  The county was successful in securing federal funds to address congestion on the 288 northbound exit ramps to Chester Road. VDOT plans to construct turn lanes on the ramp and signals at the intersection on Chester Road this fall. Revenue Sharing and Federal Regional Surface Transportation Program funds will be used to widen Route 10 between Route 1 and I-95.  The county is administering the project for VDOT and preliminary engineering will begin this spring. Design has begun on a project to widen Route e10 from Bermuda Triangle to Rivers Bend Boulevard. The county is administering this VDOT-funded project, which is estimated to cost $30 million.
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