Chesapeake, Suffolk brief council on plan to formalize long-standing boundary

Deputy City Manager Bridal Solis told Chesapeake City Council on June 17 that the city and the City of Suffolk are preparing to formalize a long-standing “working boundary” along the northwestern Pewsville area and described a schedule of surveys, public outreach and legal steps. Solis said the draft line formalizes assessor practice that has, over decades, treated adjacent parcels as belonging to one city or the other.

Solis said the line shown on the jointly prepared map is largely a stair-step boundary reflecting assessor agreements and that about a dozen small, undeveloped, wooded parcels fronting platted but unbuilt “paper streets” would move from Chesapeake to Suffolk for assessment purposes; he said there are no residents, businesses, students or registered voters on those parcels. “So those are streets that are platted but are not, developed as roadways yet,” Solis said.

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