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County Tables Rezoning of Land for Second Phase of Affordable Housing Complex on Reservoir Street |
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![]() The buildings shown above currently under construction on Reservoir Street -- at the previous location of the Albert Long baseball field. These apartments will be called Robinson Park, and will affordable housing -- with income limits for tenants who wish to reside at Robinson Park. ![]() The developer was planning to expand Robinson Park into a second phase on the five acre wooded parcel shown above, adjacent to the current development, but the County tabled the developer's rezoning request. A few snippets from this week's Daily News Record article....
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You can help shape the future of the City of Harrisonburg! |
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![]() You have the opportunity to have an impact on the future of the City of Harrisonburg! The Comprehensive Plan presents a vision of Harrisonburg's future. It identifies steps to move toward that vision by providing information about current conditions, long-term goals and objectives, and recommended implementation strategies. Virginia requires that local Planning Commissions review their comprehensive plans once every five years. The City of Harrisonburg last updated the plan in 2011 -- and last year (2016) the Planning Commission determined that it should be updated again. Find out more about the Comprehensive Plan update process here. Sign up to receive updates on the comprehensive plan process here. Read the 2011 Comprehensive Plan here. | |
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Preston Lake to feature 12 (smaller) apartment buildings instead of 1 (larger) building |
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![]() The Rockingham County Planning Commission will consider a request on Tuesday for a further revision of the Preston Lake master plan. The most recently approved master plan showed one large 168-unit apartment building, and the new master plan will include 12 smaller apartment buildings, presumably with 14 apartments per building. Rockingham County is not required to hold a public hearing to obtain input from nearby residents because the changing the overall density of the community. Here's why.... BEFORE:
AFTER:
This is the affected portion of the master plan before the proposed change.... And here is the same section after the proposed change....
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Status of Projects in Urban Development Area |
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![]() view a larger version of this map as a JPG or PDF This map from Rockingham County of the Urban Development Area is frequently updated, and provides helpful updates on the status of each project currently under development (or nearing development) in this growth area just southeast of the City of Harrisonburg. Current updates include....
Download a larger version of this map as a JPG or PDF. | |
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Ground Breaking for Hotel Madison in Downtown Harrisonburg |
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![]() The forthcoming hotel and conference center being built on the edge of the JMU campus, held its ceremonial groundbreaking yesterday. The project is due to be complete by March 2018. Read more in today's Daily News Record article, or read on for some highlights....
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More High End Apartments To Be Built at The Reserve at Stoneport |
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![]() view a larger image ![]() view a larger image Apparently our area has an unmet need of high end rental properties, as The Reserve at Stoneport will be expanding their community off of Port Republic Road near Sentara RMH Medical Center. Current Community: 168 apartments Planned Expansion: 240 apartments Per the developer, the current inventory of apartments are 98 to 99 percent full, and the first apartments in the new phase will be available in late 2017. Rental rates will range from $985 - $1735 per month, and there were be even more one-bedroom units in the new phase....
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Affordable Housing Apartment Complex Under Construction on Reservoir Street |
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![]() click here for a larger version of this aerial image Just a stone's throw away from this new student housing being built on Reservoir Street, you will find another large patch of bare earth in preparation for a new residential development. This new community is being built on the site of the former Albert Long baseball field off of Reservoir Street (across from Fieldale Place) in Rockingham County. This complex will be called Robinson Park, and will include 88 garden-style apartments. According to the developer, this will include:
A clubhouse / community building will also be constructed. Per this Daily News Record article....
Read more from the Daily News Record.... Affordable Housing In Focus In City, County N.C. Company Eyes Housing On Reservoir | |
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Dirt is moving on Reservoir Street for the construction of the Retreat at Harrisonburg |
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![]() click here for a larger version of this aerial image If you have driven along Reservoir Street lately, you would have noticed the massive area on the hospital side or Reservoir Street where trees have been cleared for a new housing development. This site will soon be home to 700 college students in a new development called "The Retreat at Harrisonburg", being developed by Landmark Properties out of Athens, GA. The developer has acquired 36.81 acres for $5.71 million in August after the land was rezoned in May to allow for this community to be developed. This same developer is (per their website) also currently developing The Retreat at Blacksburg, a student housing community for 829 students. Read more about this purchase and development in this Daily News Record article.... Student Housing Developer Buys County Land August 30, 2016 Here is the intended site plan.... ![]() Per documents submitted to the County, we know the following about this potential student housing community....
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More Student Housing Proposed for Port Republic Road (in Rockingham County) |
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![]() view a larger image ![]() view a larger image The Rockingham County Planning Commission will consider a re-zoning of a 6.1 acre parcel on Port Republic Road this evening. The property, located across the street from Bojangles (but on the same side of Port Republic Road) is currently zoned R-3C and the applicant (KKB, LLC) is requesting that the land be rezoned to be PMF (Planned Multifamily). Per the Planning Commission's packet of information about this rezoning request, this land would be used for a student housing community to include a total of 140 apartments, and 425 bedrooms....
Read more about this proposed development via the recent Daily News Record article or the Planning Commission's information packet. | |
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Construction is booming, and limited building lots remain at Heritage Estates |
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![]() view a larger image Two homes sold this Spring in Heritage Estates -- two homes are under construction (and under contract) and two more deals are being finalized now. All that to say, there are only a limited number of building lots remaining at Heritage Estates, an active adult community on the West side of Harrisonburg. Find out more about Heritage Estates by visiting HeritageEstates.us. | |
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More on Stoneport, the mixed use development on Port Republic Road |
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![]() view larger image ![]() view larger image In addition to Walmart opening at Stoneport, Bellaire at Stoneport is up and running as a new Assisted Living and Memory Care facility. The location of the new(ish) Sentara RMH Medical Center continues to draw plenty of new commercial development to the Port Republic Road and Stone Spring Road corridors. | |
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Walmart Neighborhood Market (on Port Republic Road) set to open June 15, 2016 |
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![]() (larger image) The new Walmart Neighborhood Market on Port Republic Road (in Stoneport) is scheduled to open on June 15, 2016. ![]() (larger image) The front edge of Stoneport is now filled in with Bojangles, Wendy's and now this Walmart Neighborhood Market (and gas station). Also shown above (upper right quadrant) is nearby Sentara RMH Medical Center. | |
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County Board of Supervisors to discuss current and future development in Urban Development Area, southeast of Harrisonburg |
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![]() click here for a larger image There will be a workshop today at 11:30 AM to discuss the County's Urban Development Area, located southeast of the City. The size of this development area was tripled in September 2015. Current developments in the works or under review in this area include:
After the workshop (11:30 AM) the Board of Supervisors will hold their regular meeting at 3:00 PM today. From today's Daily News Record article....
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24 Townhouses (maybe, eventually?) coming to Vine Street |
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![]() Townhouses may be built on Vine Street (across from Longview Oaks and Beacon Hill) at some point in the future. This land was rezoned from agricultural to residential in 2010, and is owned by Virginia State Free Will Baptist Church. Cosner Construction (Broadway, VA) is considering building 24 - 28 townhouses on this site. Read more in the May 12, 2016 Daily News Record article, Planners OK Utilities For Development. | |
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Rezoning request from The Springs at Osceola proposes 166 single family home and duplex lots |
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![]() click here for a larger image Back on 2009, the Board of Supervisors rezoned 282.86 acres of land on Osceola Springs Road and Pleasant Valley Road from A-2 (agricultural) to R-2C (medium density residential with conditions). This made way for The Springs at Osceola, a subdivision with (116) lots ranging in size from 1 - 5 acres. Sales of these lots has apparently been a bit slower than anticipated....
By my count, this would in the currently planned 32 single family home lots being converted into....
View a larger version of the proposed new plat here. You can review the entire rezoning request here. Rockingham County staff is recommending that this re-zoning request be tabled. The Planning Commission will be reviewing this request at their meeting this evening. | |
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New Student Housing Community Proposed in Rockingham County |
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![]() A new student housing community may be built in Rockingham County depending on (among other things) the outcome of the public hearing of the rezoning of the land that will take place tomorrow, April 5th. Below is an illustration of where the community would be located -- just off Reservoir Street, just past the City/County line when headed towards the hospital. ![]() This location is in the vicinity of several other student housing communities, so it is not a surprising location to be proposed for this community. Per documents submitted to the County, we know the following about this potential student housing community....
You can view lots of details about this proposal by downloading the full packet of information from the rezoning request which includes the master plan and illustrations of the front elevations of some of the potential dwellings to be built. Download it here. | |
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Olive Garden, Krispy Kreme MIGHT open in Harrisonburg |
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![]() Olive Garden and Krispy Kreme **MIGHT** open in Harrisonburg. Per today's Daily News Record article....
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Economic Development Announcements |
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![]() A recently completed housing study prepared for the Harrisonburg Housing and Redevelopment Authority had a helpful and informative snapshot of recent economic development announcements.....
Do you know of any additional recent economic development announcement? Are any of those on the list above now inaccurate or out of date? | |
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What is a cash proffer, what do the proposed bills in the General Assembly mean for Rockingham County? |
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![]() According to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development.... A cash proffer is (a)any money voluntarily proffered in a writing signed by the owner of property subject to rezoning, submitted as part of a rezoning application and accepted by a locality pursuant to the authority granted by Va. Code Ann. Section 15.2-2303 or Section 15.2-2298, or (b) any payment of money made pursuant to a development agreement entered into under authority granted by Va. Code Ann. Section 15.2-2303.1.In other words, cash paid by a developer to a locality for the ability to rezone a piece of development land. There are several bills in the General Assembly that would amend Virginia's proffer system by requiring that proffers be limited to impacts directly attributed to a new development. Apparently, some localities in the more densely populated areas of Virginia (Richmond, Northern Virginia) are using cash proffers for projects unrelated to the new developments. As per today's Daily News Record article (County Officials Blast Development Proposal), officials in Rockingham County are not in favor of this bill being passed, because it would require that the County would hire an independent body to examine all proposed proffers in the future, which would be an added cost the County, and thus taxpayers. My read on the matter is that a reform of the proffer system would improve how things work in Richmond and Northern Virginia (making sure that proffers are really only for projects related to the new developments) but would add additional requirements, processes and costs for the rest of the localities throughout Virginia. | |
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Why did the chicken cross the road, in Harrisonburg? |
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![]() Q: Why did the chicken cross the road, in Harrisonburg? A: To get to a 2 acre lot. Back in 2009, City Council approved an ordinance that prohibited property owners from raising chicken in their backyard unless they had a 2 acre lot. There were also quite a few other limitations, all of which can be found in the entire current ordinance here. Now, per today's Daily News Record article.... "City officials are exploring whether the lot-size threshold should be reduced; if there should be a neighbor approval process; whether a certain number of permits should be issued within a trial period; and any other issues, according to the release."Do you have an opinion? You can sound off on the issue at BeHeardHarrisonburg.org. Oh, also -- before you try to get creative and consider another backyard bird, you should know that the ordinance in question also limits your ability to keep all of the following foul in your yard: chickens, roosters, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, emus, rheas, ostriches and pigeons..... ![]() | |
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