Monday March 20th at 2pm.
Building #2, 3rd Floor Conf. Room at the Municipal Center

Please join Lynnhaven River 2007 at our quarterly Public Meeting, this Thursday, March 2, 2006, 8:00 a.m. ? 9:00 a.m. at the Dockside Inn, 3311 Shore Drive. 

On Wednesday, February 22, 2006, at approximately 10:35 a.m., a 1994 green Ford Ranger pickup truck went through radar doing 70 in a 55 mph zone in the 3800 block of Shore Drive.

[Emphasis added to illustrate error.]

Recent background of project to fine tune new construction guidelines on the many lots zoned R5R in the North End and Bayfront areas.

Watch the video at WTKR.com, click on McMansions link on the page.

An article in the Pilot today describing the speeding/crash incident that was posted yesterday.

Unfortunately there’s an error in the article.

From the Shore Drive Advisory Committee page at VBGov.com is a section:

Shore Drive Safety Information
The Shore Drive Community Coalition, a citizen group, is offering ideas for improving safety along Shore Drive on its Web site. For more information, click here.

According to WAVY.com:

The truck did pull over, but then took off. The truck passed over the Lesner Bridge going east. The officer noticed items being thrown out of the truck.

Senator George Allen (our Senator to US Congress) will be the speaker for Saturday Breakfast (Feb 25th) at Virginia Beach Resort & Conference Center at 2800 Shore Drive. 

Open to the public and there will be questions taken from the audience.

Public Voices on Redevelopment is an open process to obtain community-wide views and questions on the creation of a redevelopment strategy for the city. The citizen-based Leadership Team has guided the process to locate diverse views and gather information from a wide variety of citizens.  A reader, entitled Redeveloping Virginia Beach [PDF] ? Who Decides, illustrates key issues and choices and will be used to guide community deliberations.

Shore Drive Community Coalition (SDCC)- General Meeting Monday February 27, 2006, 7: 30pm to 9:00pm at Ocean Park Fire & Rescue Hall.
 
There are no planned presentations for this month.  We will use the first 30 minutes for an open discussion on the following suggested topics:

You’ve no doubt by know heard of the controversial proposal to build 80+ units next to WaWa.
More background filed under Conditional Use/Zoning Issues.

Legislative Initiative to Revise R5R Zoning for Structures Constructed on Non-Conforming Lots.

This is the proposal put together by the North Virginia Beach Civic League in 2005.

Ironically, on the day the Shore Drive Safety Task Force took it’s Field Trip, there was a multi-vehicle accident in the westbound lanes, at the light at the west end of the Lesner Bridge around 2:30pm.

Then… around 6:30pm, a car caught fire in the turn lane in the same place.

Can’t beat the title of the article in the Pilot today.

Despite a two-month effort to get drivers to slow down on parts of Shore Drive… read the entire article.

Thanks to Daphne for letting us know about the City’s new Capital Improvement Program – Project Status Reporting System located here.

SDCC GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING JANUARY 30, 2006

    Minutes:

      1. President Todd Solomon called the meeting to order at 7:30 pm.  Forty-seven members and guests were present.

      2. Tom Retnauer of Retnauer Associates made a presentation on his proposed 80-unit condo development on the west side of the WaWa store on Shore Drive.  Sandra Baynes, Public Relations, Ed Mason, Project Manager, and Jason Howe, Architect assisted him.

SHORE DRIVE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Thursday, February 16, 2006
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Bayside Community Recreation Center
Meeting Rooms 4 & 5

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

The Adopt-A-Highway signs are finally up, eastbound at base of Lesner Bridge and westbound at West Great Neck.

SDCC & Starbucks are partners.

The House votes Tuesday on the ‘Stop for Pedestrians Bill’ according to Elizabeth L. Jones, an Aide to Councilman Rob Krupicka of the City of Alexandria who has been keeping us up to date on this bill has it has moved thru the Senate & the House.

The Senate has already passed the Bill.

House Transportation Committee has passed it, so the full House will vote on the Bill on Tuesday.

I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of my family and all the victims of Katrina. Because of your e-mail, the Beacon is doing an article on the Fund Raiser. With your help and that of other “Guardian Angels”, I believe we will sell out! Again, thank you!

Sincerely,
Cherie V.