On May 1st, Keith Cannady, Suffolk’s Comprehensive Planning Manager, gave a presentation to Planning Commission and City Council on the...
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Pause the Plan – Help Spread the Word
Care4Suffolk – April 15, 2024
Care4Suffolk has been following the City's 2045 Comprehensive Plan since November 2022. After a two-year process, the draft has been...
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Pause the Plan
Care4Suffolk – April 11, 2024 – 2 Replies
You wouldn’t build an addition on your house and ask afterwards how much it cost, would you? Of course not...
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Comprehensive Plan Survey
Care4Suffolk – April 1, 2024
If you haven’t done it yet, complete the survey for the 2045 Comprehensive Plan draft before the April 8th deadline....
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The Future of Suffolk as a Dry Port
Care4Suffolk – March 21, 2024 – 1 Reply
The increase in truck traffic and the construction of giant warehouses in Suffolk is about to get a whole lot...
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Sprawl for Suffolk in the 2045 Comprehensive Plan
Care4Suffolk – March 21, 2024
The City of Suffolk has been working on the new Comprehensive Plan for two years and it is expected to...
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Get Ready, More Warehouses are Coming to Suffolk
Care4Suffolk – March 20, 2024
The new 2045 Comprehensive Plan draft drastically increases the Growth Area in Suffolk, by enlarging the existing one by almost...
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Care4Suffolk Meeting
Care4Suffolk – March 15, 2024
Care4Suffolk will be hosting a meeting on Wednesday, March 27 at 6pm. We will be meeting at the Kings Fork...
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Fawcett Says Developers Built Suffolk. Did They Write Our New Comp Plan as Well?
Care4Suffolk – March 12, 2024
The State of Virginia requires cities to have a comprehensive plan, and according to state law: “The comprehensive plan shall...
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Purple Lipstick on a Pig
Care4Suffolk – March 10, 2024
Suffolk’s city managers and planners want to start calling warehouse and industrial areas ‘Employment Centers’. You can find them as...
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Sacrificing Suffolk’s Natural Resources
Care4Suffolk – March 1, 2024
Suffolk’s city managers seem eager to sacrifice the city's natural water resources in the name of development. For decades, previous...
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The Loss of Farmlands: A Loss for All of Us
Care4Suffolk – February 21, 2024 – 1 Reply
We recently wrote about the City of Suffolk’s plan to increase its Growth Area by 24%. Now we want to...
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Neglected Plans
Care4Suffolk – February 20, 2024 – 1 Reply
Many people in Suffolk have probably heard of the Downtown Master Plan, especially if they have been following the 2045...
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Is the City of Suffolk listening to its Citizens?
Care4Suffolk – February 16, 2024 – 1 Reply
As required by Virginia State Law, the City of Suffolk is in the process of reviewing the current Comprehensive Plan...
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Port or People: What is the City’s Focus?
Care4Suffolk – February 6, 2024 – 1 Reply
The Comprehensive Plan provides the framework that guides the development of the City of Suffolk for the next several years....
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The State of Agriculture in Suffolk
Care4Suffolk – January 26, 2024
The Agricultural Advisory Committee Chair, David Bosselman, spoke before the City Council at the Work Session on December 20, 2023...
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Snack Attack Food Drive
Care4Suffolk – December 12, 2023
Care4Suffolk is holding a food drive for the Salvation Army's afterschool program. On December 14th from 6-8pm, Liberty Lane Farms, in...
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Toothless Text Amendment
Care4Suffolk – November 9, 2023
In September, we wrote about the City of Suffolk’s plan to add warehouse regulations to the UDO (Unified Development Ordinance). We applauded...
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Road Safety in Suffolk
Care4Suffolk – November 2, 2023
Most people in Suffolk have probably heard about the school bus that overturned on Cypress Chapel Road on October 16th...
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A Planning Commission Do-Over?
Care4Suffolk – October 26, 2023
There was a full agenda for the October 17th City of Suffolk Planning Commission meeting that included two rezonings and...
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