June 26th General Meeting
Called to order: at 7:35pm.
Attendees: 28.

GENERAL DISCUSSION

Indigo Dunes – Officers met with Sandler/some of project team. They’ve also held meetings with Baylake Pines & Ocean Park.

Shore Drive Community Coalition (SDCC)- General Meeting, Monday July 31, 2006, 7:30pm to 9:00pm, Ocean Park Fire & Rescue Hall.

This month we will have a brief presentation made by representatives from the Virginia Beach Resort Conference Center regarding their upcoming conditional use permit (CUP) to have outdoor entertainment on their deck.  The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session.

The next meeting of the Shore Drive Advisory Committee, which was tentatively scheduled as the Committee?s annual workshop to be held on Thursday, August 24, has been cancelled.  The annual workshop meeting has been rescheduled for Thursday, September 7, at Baylake United Methodist Church, beginning at 11:30 a.m.

More details at VBGov.com.
SDAC [Shore Drive Advisory Committee] at VBGov.com.

My bayfront vision is simple: SAND DUNES.

I had asked some questions about the Indigo Dunes project for Pleasure House Point.

Thanks to Christine Pasterczyk of L.M.Sandler & Sons who answered them today.

The community is invited to attend a legislative briefing and discussion Thursday, July 27, 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Virginia Beach Convention Center.

Want to affect what the City lobby’s the State for? Then this is for you!

You can race, or just stroll along in your kayak. There’s prizes and other stuff going on with the event too. It’s a fundraiser for the Ches Bay Foundation to help the Bay.

Check it out at CBF.org.

Help the Lynnhaven River by seeding your own Oyster Garden!

More info at CBF.org.

Joel Rubin, of Rubin Communications Group, Sandler’s PR firm has sent us a Press Release announcing the August 17th evening presentation at Cox High School.

You may have heard suggestions about a way to fund various capital improvements in the Bayfront area. One idea was to create a TIF.

A TIF explained at VBGov.com.

Weekly nonstop flights between Norfolk International Airport and Kent County, England, will begin next spring in time for the Jamestown 2007 observance.

Read article at Pilotonline.com.
Norfolk International Airport

On August 17th at 6:30 PM, Sandler is hosting a public information fair on Indigo Dunes.

The event will be held at Cox High School and will give citizens the opportunity to speak directly with members of the planning teams for the proposed development.

CBN’s planned development which needs a new interchange on 64, as mentioned yesterday, had the interchange approved by VDOT.

Read the article at Pilotonline.com.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation needs several volunteers (age 16 and over) to help with an oyster restoration project in Virginia Beach…

Observations/Notes from SDAC meeting on 7/13/06

SDAC held brief general meeting prior to 2 presentations.  Items to note during general meeting:

  * Clay Bernick mentioned that there is still no approved funding for the Safety Task Force reccommended improvements.
  * City Staff asked for $1 million but no dedicated funding stream has been identified.

According to the article, a “community development authority” would need to be created to take out about $85M in bonds to pay for necessary public improvements.

Virginia Beach was named Number Six among the Best Big Cities and Arlington topped the Best Educated Cities.

See the scoop at CNNMoney.com.
More at WTKR.com.

We need folks to sign an online petition at this website:
Link to petition.

Here’s the deal:  All of the Va Beach wildlife rehabbers have to get a STATE PERMIT allowing them to rehabilitate injured and orphaned wildlife.  But, if a neighbor gripes, the person then applies for a CITY PERMIT that allows them to have a wildlife refuge on their property.

An excellent article in the City’s City Page promotes being safer on Shore Drive.

Read the 1-page PDF.

An article at WTKR.com quotes Barry Knight, chairman of the Virginia Beach Planning Commission. Knight said, from what he’s seen of the plan, it looks like one of the best projects at the beach.