Tri-Cities to Become a Quad?
http://www.progress-index.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18645690&BRD=2271&PAG=461&dept_id=462946&rfi=6
Unlike most other counties in central Virginia, Chesterfield has so many separate municipalities it seems huge as far as counties go. Chester, Enon, Midlothian, Bon Air, Ettrick, Matoaca, Clover Hill, Winterpock, Skinquarter. Residents of these towns have watched their quaint villages balloon over the past 20 years, bird sanctuaries cleared to make senior communities, libraries expanding to look like castles, schools and churches putting out additional campuses. They have come to accept it, but what about talk of a fourth tri-city, connected to Hopewell via Rt. 10 from the west side of the river?
The Progress-Index reports that a superdevelopment which will dwarf Brandermill is being plotted for the middle of Chester, near the intersection of Branders Bridge Rd. and Happy Hill. Branner Station will become the largest development in Chesterfield, necessitating $72 million in road expansion to accommodate it, with the intent of connecting to Colonial Heights (in other words housing for the Fort Lee expansion). Approximately 5,000 residences equals about a third that of Colonial Heights, along with a new high school and retail area about two thirds the size of Southpark Mall.
"Ultimately, the Board of Supervisors will decide if it can be built." Is that the only deciding factor?
"It will give eastern Chesterfield something to equal Brandermill or Woodlake." Equal in what regard, congestion? What does building 5,000 new houses give to the community besides take it over? Should the people of Chester take pride that we have more bodies? Shall we still call it Chester?
A public hearing and decision on this proposal is scheduled for August 21st at the County Administration Building. If you live in Bermuda District, please kick Supervisor Dickie King's butt for trying to ruin my hometown. Or better yet, ask him what does he get out of a simple real estate monopoly? kingd@co.chesterfield.va.us
*http://www.progress-index.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18645690&BRD=2271&PAG=461&dept_id=462946&rfi=6