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Resident urges council to guard Pocahontas Island plan as industrial activity spreads
Summary
A resident expressed concern that industrial operations and a treatment plant laydown yard could delay a long-awaited VDOT project and erode plans for parks and green space on Pocahontas Island; she said a $300,000 implementation pot is expected later this year.
Marlo Green, speaking during public comment on behalf of neighbors and OCR Community Empowerment Group, urged the council to clarify whether a VDOT project (UPC 01/4714) and associated parking work will be delayed because a laydown yard is occupied by the treatment plant. Green said residents are concerned about industrial encroachment and asked for details on an agreement for the treatment plant’s use of 150 Saponi Street.
Green also described an upcoming Pocahontas Island parks and green spaces master plan. She said the Timmins Group has been engaged for roughly $20,000 to develop the master plan, and that about $300,000 in implementation funding is expected around September; the group will hold a public meeting on April 27 at the public library to solicit neighborhood feedback and provide dinner and a raffle to encourage attendance.
“we're starting to feel a bit surrounded, with industrial encroachment in our neighborhood now,” Green said, urging council clarification about the Roper site and Jones paving activity near previously identified open-space projects funded with $2,500,000 from DCR. Council did not make an immediate decision but was asked to follow up on the laydown-yard agreement and project timing.
