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Virginia Beach planners present final draft of comprehensive plan and recommend zoning rewrite
Summary
Staff presented a final-draft comprehensive plan that prioritizes directing growth into centers, resilience, multimodal corridors and a zoning ordinance update; commissioners raised questions about centers, population projections, ADU changes and timing with the master transportation plan.
City planning staff presented the final draft of Virginia Beach's comprehensive plan during the Jan. 14 informal session, describing the document as a citywide framework to guide growth, resilience and redevelopment.
Staff said the public engagement process included three surveys (about 9,000 responses), 10 focus groups, 12 public meetings with roughly 1,500 participants, and 612 written comments. "We had 9,000 responses to those surveys,"…
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