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Work group sets April briefing for economic development, extends housing timeline

Powhatan County Citizen Work Group · March 5, 2025

Summary

The committee decided to present the economic development work to the board in April while requesting more time and data for housing recommendations; staff will compile permit, MLS and fiscal data to inform the housing discussion.

As the meeting closed members agreed to present the economic development (ED) recommendations to the board in April and to request an extension on housing work until more data are collected. Staff committed to compiling single-family permit starts, MLS transaction and median-new-sale data for regional comparison and to run a fiscal cost-of-service analysis for residential units and ADUs.

The group tentatively scheduled further committee work and discussed forming subcommittees for housing or conservation-subdivision feedback; staff emphasized the Habitat study and market-value analysis grants are in progress and that some datasets will not be available until later in the year.

What happens next: staff will return with revised ED language, updated GIS EP layers, provider-supplied broadband coverage maps (if obtained), comparative permit/MLS data, and a residential fiscal-impact model for the committee’s next meeting.

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