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Citizen working group moves 109-acre Page Road parcel into 'economic opportunity', rejects immediate inclusion of three adjacent A-10 parcels
Summary
Powhatan County's citizen working group voted to designate 109 acres near Page Road as an 'economic opportunity' area to allow mixed uses and housing options, and decided not to include three adjacent A-10 parcels pending further study of service-district and sewer/water capacity.
The Powhatan County Citizen Working Group voted to recommend that the county designate a 109-acre parcel east of Page Road as an 'economic opportunity' site, a change members said would allow more mixed-use and housing options than the current gateway-business designation. Speaker 3, presenting the subcommittee's findings, said the parcel lies inside the existing utility service boundary and "opens that 108 [sic] acres to housing," while noting the designation would not require a specific development plan at the time of the recommendation.
The vote followed intense discussion about whether to also add…
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