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Vol. 36, No. 35 | Richmond Suburban News | November 25, 2020
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Supervisors defer action on 2 project applications Hickory Hill and Horseshoe Road put on hold for now By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local HANOVER — Although the deferral of pending projects or applications are not unusual occurrences at Hanover County Board of Supervisors meetings, one request received more attention than usual at last Wednesday’s meeting. The supervisors deferred action on two pending applications, both of which have received a fair amount of input from the public. A mixed use development planned for Hickory Hill and approval of a recreation events venue near Patrick Henry High School were deferred until the board’s January meeting. Both projects are located in the Beaverdam District represented by Aubrey “Bucky” Stanley who opened last week’s meeting by requesting the pair of deferrals. Stanley also serves as the board chair. While supervisors quickly deferred the Hickory Hill request until January, they were less anxious to defer the event venue request. “It might be beneficial to hear this case tonight. It’s been going on for quite some time,” said South Anna District supervisor Sue Dibble, while noting that board members had
received more than 100 pages of documents for review regarding the case. Dibble also said it would be helpful to hear from the applicant as well as the opposition “so that all of us are up to speed on this particular case.” The applicant originally requested a conditional use permit that would allow three barns on the property located near Horseshoe Bridge Road to be used for weddings and other similar DIBBLE events, but amended the application that indicates the venue will be used for company meetings, baby or bridal showers, church meetings or birthday parties, but not weddings. At a community meeting held earlier this year, several issues were raised, including the impact of a business on residential neighbors and their property values. The Hanover County Planning Commission see DEFER, pg. 16
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Hanover County Circuit Clerk Frank D. Hargrove Jr., right, and members of his staff recently completed a lengthy project of digitizing marriage licenses dating back to 1864. Also shown are, from left, Cheryl Harris, Joan Eddleton, Diana Sadler and Jan Major.
Hargrove’s offices goes digital; marriage licenses date to 1864 Contributed Report news@mechlocal.com HANOVER -- Hanover County Circuit Court Clerk Frank D. Hargrove Jr. recently announced the completion of
a multi-year project to digitally scan, index and conserve all of the clerk’s office marriage licenses going back to its oldest license issued in 1864. Since starting work in October 2016, the clerk’s office
has added digital copies of 28,350 licenses issued between 1864 and 2000 to its records management system that the public can access at the clerk’s office. see DIGITAL, pg. 4
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