rural – Care4Suffolk https://care4suffolk.org Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:19:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://care4suffolk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-Care4Suffolk-32x32.png rural – Care4Suffolk https://care4suffolk.org 32 32 Keep Suffolk’s Downtown and Rural Areas Connected https://care4suffolk.org/2023/07/05/keep-suffolks-downtown-and-rural-areas-connected/ https://care4suffolk.org/2023/07/05/keep-suffolks-downtown-and-rural-areas-connected/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:10:54 +0000 https://care4suffolk.org/?p=2706 Read More »Keep Suffolk’s Downtown and Rural Areas Connected]]>

CARE4Suffolk member, Ann Harris wrote a letter to the editor at Suffolk News-Herald, entitled Keep Suffolk’s Downtown and Rural Areas Connected. You can read her letter here. 

It’s about the interconnectedness between the downtown area and rural agricultural areas of Suffolk and how important it is to keep these areas accessible to one another. She emphasizes the importance of keeping this vision in the 2045 Comprehensive Plan that the City of Suffolk is currently working on and how important it is to keep this in mind for future growth.

]]> https://care4suffolk.org/2023/07/05/keep-suffolks-downtown-and-rural-areas-connected/feed/ 0 Update Lake Kilby Road Rezoning Request https://care4suffolk.org/2023/03/03/update-lake-kilby-road-rezoning-request/ https://care4suffolk.org/2023/03/03/update-lake-kilby-road-rezoning-request/#respond Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:43:10 +0000 https://care4suffolk.org/?p=2188 Read More »Update Lake Kilby Road Rezoning Request]]>
The blue rezoning signs should be popping up any day now on Lake Kilby Road.  The Planning Commission public hearing for the Lake Kilby/Lake Cohoon Road rezoning effort (RZN2021-0018) is only a few weeks away (March 21st, 2pm at City Hall). We need as many people as possible to attend this meeting (wear a blue shirt!). They will vote to recommend approval or denial and City Council will take this into consideration when they make the final vote on it in April. 
 
We still have an online petition that will get printed out and shared with the city. Please check out the link, sign it and pass it along! We appreciate comments on the petition, too!
Sign Petition to Stop Rezoning on Lake Kilby
 

A developer is requesting to rezone 87 acres on Lake Kilby and Lake Cohoon Roads from Rural Estate to Residential Medium Density to allow for 204 cluster style homes.  Rural Estate allows for 1 house for every 3 acres.  Residential Medium zoning allows for 4 houses per acre.

Local residents oppose this rezoning because our narrow, rural roads are already crowded and dangerous. According to VDOT, our impacted roads see about 1,200 vehicle trips per day. This proposed development would bring more than 2,000 additional daily vehicle trips. That number does not include delivery trucks and other service-related vehicles.

The public schools for this area are overcrowded. Elephant’s Fork Elementary is already at 110% capacity.  It is listed as a school with most needs and has a poor facility condition per the Joint School Board Presentation. Kings Fork High School is at 104% capacity. 

City Council has already approved more than 7,400 housing units across Suffolk that have not yet been built.  We don’t need anymore new residential units in Suffolk.

This rezoning effort will go before Planning Commission for consideration 21 March 2023 at 2 PM.

Please help stop this rezoning by attending on March 21st and by signing this petition!

Thank you!

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Email the City Planning Department direct – planningemail@suffolkva.us

Email City Council direct – council@suffolkva.us

Call City Planning – 757-514-4060

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