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…

Come Join Starbucks & the SDCC for the Adopt-A-Highway Shore Drive Clean-Up on Saturday morning April 22nd!

A boat was stolen from a dock on Bay Island on Long Creek – across the water from Maple St.
Sat. night (Apr 15). It is a 2001 J16 Carolina Skiff. Like new condition.

You might have read the article and press release that happened to show up in the automated news feeds on SDCC.info’s home page.

Check out the press release and exchange of emails as to why it was recently lowered.

…less trash…

Sorry. I couldn’t resist posting this story. We’ve all been close to being there. Trying to cross a wide ‘speedway’ with a pedestrian signal that seems way too short for various reasons.

Story at MSNBC.com.
362 links of the story at Google News.