SDCC members,

Please note the following announcement.

David Williams

SDCC Pres.

Lynnhaven Strategic Growth Area Plan

Public meeting for the Lynnhaven SGA Master Plan on Wednesday, December 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the Lynnhaven Elementary School cafeteria.

The Lynnhaven Strategic Growth Area (SGA) is one of 8 SGAs designated in the 2009 Comprehensive Plan (see http://www.ourfuturevb.com). It is comprised of 458 acres centered along Virginia Beach Boulevard and its intersections with the main north-south arterials, Lynnhaven Parkway and Great Neck Road/London Bridge Road. Interstate 264 bisects the SGA from east to west, as does the former Norfolk-Southern railway corridor. The eastern branch of the Lynnhaven River also bisects the SGA from north to south. The SGA is characterized primarily by public/semi-public, retail/commercial, and institutional uses that contrast in type, intensity and quality of land uses. Additional uses include industrial and residential, and a small portion of the SGA is undeveloped. The entire area is a high noise zone and two areas are in accident potential zones.

This gateway to the Great Neck peninsula exhibits an excessive number of nonconforming signs, overhead utilities, roadway access points and building and site designs. Much of this is due to the London Bridge area being one of the oldest commercial areas in the City, and its retrofit with a modern roadway system has improved function more than appearance.

Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has allocated 2009 federal stimulus funding (ARRA) for a project to provide access to and from the west at I-264 and Great Neck/London Bridge Roads.

The 2009 Comprehensive Plan contains the following general land use recommendations for this area:

Consistent with Air Installation Compatibility Use Zones (AICUZ) provisions, property located in the northern vicinity of the Lynnhaven Parkway/I-264 interchange and along Virginia Beach Boulevard are suitable for a higher intensity of compact, mixed uses including offices, institutions and limited additional retail compatible with the Joint Land Use Study. The appropriate planning principles of Transit-Oriented Development to include compatible non-residential uses should be applied to this area.
Due to AICUZ restrictions, residential or hotel uses are not recommended.
Incorporate Transit-Oriented Development around planned transit stations.