The full Senate passed the amended Pedestrian Bill, SB233. 

This morning, the House Transportation Committee passed, on a 12 to 6 vote, the original bill, HB1211.

The House Transportation Committee will be considering HB 1211 (the House version, which as yet is unchanged), on Thursday morning.

The Virginia Beach Police Department, Cox Communications, the Oxygen Network, and the VA Bch Parks and Recreation have partnered together to provide two free Fight Like a Girl workshops for participants ages 12 and up.

The hearing for the proposed 80+ unit project next to Wawa’s was deferred until after the Shore Drive Safety Task Force’s recommendations.

Dear Shore Drive Residents,

On Wednesday Feb 8th, the Planning Commission will review the following request for rezoning and multifamily dwelling project along Shore Drive.  This proposed development may seem like your typical run of the mill high density development along Shore Drive, but it’s not. 

Faced with a dwindling supply of land, aging neighborhoods and vacant big-box stores, city leaders have concluded that redeveloping what?s already built is key to the Beach?s future.

Read entire article at Pilotonline.com.

Mike Shahsiah, P.E.,  Senior Traffic Engineer, provided us with some recent safety improvements that’ve been completed on Shore Drive east of the Lesner Bridge.

Remember the speed study requested for Shore Drive between the CBBT overpass and First Landing State Park?

“Read more” for the results.

Because it is the major artery, Shore Drive gets a lot more green signal time than Pleasure House. That means that, in the morning, Young, Sessler and scores of others turn right on red to get onto Shore Drive.
Read entire article at Pilotonline.com.

[Not sure how I missed this article from Jan 29th!]

Elizabeth L. Jones, an Aide to Councilman Rob Krupicka of the City of Alexandria, has been keeping us informed of pending legislation to change Virginia’s existing Pedestrian Safety Law.

The House Bill is here.
The Senate Bill is here.

This section of the city is being totally overlooked regarding improvements.

Todd received the following email from Stephen Van Essendelft, P.E. who is in the Office of Beach Mangement in reference to the process of getting sand for the beaches east of the Lesner Bridge.

An excerpt:
If the property owners agree with the final documents, we are on to recordation.  We have been in contact with Lynnhaven Beach and hope to meet with them in the near future.

[Sorry for the delay, this was actually posted on Feb 3. I used the ‘posted date’ when I received Dorinda’s email.]

These are the notes from Dorinda from the first New Lesner Bridge Committee meeting held on January 19th.

An excerpt:
…harnessing the incredible energy of our Shore Drive community to work with the architect, engineers and Public Works to design this connective tissue of our community.

[This was posted ‘late!’ on February 5th. Sorry.]
Shore Drive Community Coalition (SDCC)- General Meeting

Monday January 30, 2006

7: 30pm to 9:00pm

Ocean Park Fire & Rescue Hall

 
Two presentations are scheduled for this month.  They will cover two projects planned for Shore Drive. 

Mike Shahsiah, a Beach traffic engineer, said the city will investigate the intersection and determine if more traffic controls are needed.

Shahsiah said to expect the vegetation at the northeast corner will be trimmed to improve visibility.

Read entire article. [scroll down for part about W. Great Neck]

Chincoteague is now accepting applications for a public works director.

One applicant is from Virginia Beach. More at The Daily Times.

The next meeting of the Shore Drive Advisory Committee will be held at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 19, at the Bayside Community Recreation Center.

The meeting will be open to the public, and there will be an opportunity for the public to provide comment.

The Planning Commission voted 10-1 today to defer the proposed development by Ocean Properties, L.L.C.

Mark Walker, AIA, emailed Planner, Faith Christie in reference to the proposed development next to WaWa originally posted at SDCC.info here and also discussed in Todd’s email to Faith posted here.

An excerpt:
“> Bruce Johnson and I have reviewed and discussed the Ocean Properties, L.L.C.
> proposal to change the current R-10 Single Family zoning to B-4 Conditional
> Use Multi-family with the intent of increasing from an existing density of
> 15 houses to 86 condos units.”

Just a quick reminder for those of you who celebrate the holidays with live Christmas Trees.

The City of Virginia Beach is scheduled to pick up trees this week on our normal trash day.

Just set them out next to you black cans curbside and they will dispose of them.