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Volume 56, Number 50 • December 16, 2010
Supervisors move forward on UDA plan By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
Photo by Ken Odor
Kelly Hitt tells Santa what he wants for Christmas at last Friday’s Community Tree Lighting at the Goochland YMCA. The event was a collaboration of the YMCA and the Goochland Parks and Recreation Department.
First Holiday Tree Lighting to become annual event Sirens blaring, he made his entrance in a Company 5fire truck. A line of youngsters He wasn’t riding in a sleigh soon formed to tell Santa just pulled by reindeer but Santa what they’d like to see in their showed up Friday night in stocking Christmas morning. Goochland anyway. By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
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Santa’s arrival was the high And although it was pretty point of the first Community cold, warm holiday spirits preTree Lighting, a joint effort vailed as more than 100 area by Goochland Parks and residents turned out for the Recreation and the Goochland YMCA. see Tree > page 4
SPORTS Fall Sports Banquet recognizes efforts
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Goochland moved ahead with the Urban Development Area process last week, hearing a report from the county’s consultant on the matter. Frank Cox, president of The Cox Company, spoke to the board during their 2 p.m. work session. Cox told the board that the county’s village concept in the current Comprehensive Plan “in essence currently establishes the general framework for the Urban Development Areas as they are defined by the state.” “Essentially you already have them,” said Cox. “What we need to do now is to fine tune the verbiage.” Village areas in the Goochland Courthouse area and Centreville are the areas designated by the Comprehensive Plan for higher density, the goal of the UDA legislation. Cox said that the state has for the first time has required that the county recognize in the Comprehensive Plan certain development densi-
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ties. “That’s never been done before,” said Cox. Those densities are four units per acre for single family dwellings, six units for townhouses and 12 units for multifamily buildings. Cox said that the land needed to accommodate projected population and commercial growth could range from 470 to 1055 acres, less than the area encompassed by the two villages. Next steps would be to decide how to allocate the acreage between the village areas, or whether to include additional areas in the county’s UDA plan. That idea found favor with District 4 supervisor Malvern R.”Rudy” Butler, who said the Tuckahoe Creek Service District should be considered for inclusion in the UDA plan. The board voted to direct staff to go forward with seeking public input for the two village areas as well as possible inclusion of TCSD in the county’s UDA plan. During the subsequent see Board > page 11
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