During its May 9 meeting, the Virginia Beach City Council approved a higher net worth eligibility limit for the city?s real estate tax relief programs for senior citizens and persons with disabilities. The city council raised the limit from $200,000 to $350,000…
More at VBGov.com.

The roughly $1 million CIP placeholder that was already approved in this year’s recent Budget approved Tuesday evening will hopefully be added to this year. [ Corrected, July 19th. The City has not funded any portion of improvements to the infrastructure of Shore Drive in reference to the recommendations of the SDSTF. ]

This is where we need your help… to save lives on Shore Drive.
[SDSTF = Shore Drive Safety Task Force]

Vice Mayor Jones and Councilman Wood have added a budget item to the City Budget that recommends safety improvements for Shore Drive.

In the last few days, work on a new beach walkway on Kendall Street was started.
Thanks to Bobbi for the info!

Virginia Beach Emergency Communications Center new non-emergency public telephone:  385.5000. 

Item #15 on May 10th. The Planning Commission will ‘hear’ Ocean Properties ideas for increasing the zoning from allowing about 7 single family home to 77 units.

Dear Shore Drive Residents,

The Bayfront area, at 9.5 persons per acre, is the most densely populated in the City.  A planned 77 unit condo next to WaWa and a proposed 1100 unit development at Pleasure House Point have the potential to add almost 3000 people and 9000 vehicle trips per day.  Last year was the worst on record for fatalities (5) and injuries (3) caused by vehicles hitting pedestrians.

There were over 35 members of the public, for want of a better description, plus the members of the SDAC, members of the Task Force, City Staff and the press.

The total cost for the station is about $6 million. Construction will start in May or June. It is expected to be completed in summer 2007.
Read entire article at Pilotonline.com.

First, thanks to all the candidates and their spokespersons who participated in the Candidate Forum last evening.

Secondly, thanks to the candidates who took the time to respond to SDCC’s Questionnaire, particularly to those candidates who took the time to study the issues and expand on their responses.

MINUTES: March 27th Minutes

Attendees: 13
Called to order: 7:45pm
Adjourned: Motion to adjourn passed at 9:21pm.

Held at Ocean Park Fire & Rescue Hall.

This month’s program will be “Meet and Greet Candidate Forum”.  Seven candidates have RSVP’d to the forum.  There is another forum being held the same night so other candidates could not attend.  Each candidate will be given 3 minutes to tell us why we should vote for them.  This will be followed by a 3 minute (or longer depending on the turnout) Question and Answer session.

Six seats are up for grabs. Five incumbents are up for re-election, plus there’s one open at-large seat. Remember: All voters in Virginia Beach can vote in all races, regardless of where they live.  Read entire article which includes the Pilot’s questions/answers survey.

Thanks to all who helped this morning, Earth Day, with the Starbucks/SDCC Adopt-A-Highway project.

Another brilliant display of unsafe parking at Croakers.

Nicole Felini lives in the area. “Traffic’s moving too fast. There are not enough pedestrian crosswalks.

Thanks to the SDAC for getting out their community publication, The Shore Drive Breeze [4 page PDF].

No doubt you’ve seen the recent work moving power lines and other construction near 7-11 at Marlin Bay and Shore Drive.

Construction will be starting on building duplexes next to H20 restaurant.
Link to Google Maps location.

On April 14, 2006, a Virginia Beach resident witnessed a raccoon attack a dog on Adam Keeling Road. The Virginia Beach Bureau of Animal Control was called to the scene where they collected the raccoon…