Henrico supervisors approve Lakeside subdivision, adopt new guidelines designed to spur affordable housing
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During its Feb. 11 meeting, the Henrico Board of Supervisors approved design guidelines and related zoning ordinance changes meant to encourage more affordable small lot single family developments in the county.
These changes also aim to encourage creative design solutions, more access to open spaces, and allow development to fill in spaces between adjacent communities.
Builders now can construct detached homes on lots as small as 3,000 square feet (up from the previous limit of 5,625 square feet), allowing as many as 10 units per acre. The design guidelines can be found here on the Department of Planning's website, while the zoning amendments can be found here.
Also at the meeting, the board approved an 18-home subdivision on Hillard Road in Fairfield, near where it meets Club Road and next to the Belmont Golf Course.
Portions of the property sit on a 100-year floodplain and will be rezoned as a conservation district. Additionally, a strip of land bordering the Belmont Golf Course to the north either will be transferred to those owners or maintained as open space.
Fairfield Supervisor Roscoe Cooper, III amplified a request from residents of Club Road to keep their view unobstructed, and Henrico Planning Director Joe Emerson and County Manager John Vithoulkas both promised that the county could work with the developer and the operator of the Belmont course on appropriate landscaping.
Emerson also suggested that this would help dampen additional road noise on Hillard Road, which was raised as a concern by an area resident.
The board also approved a combined Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins on the south side of Quioccasin Road near its intersection with Pemberton Road.
And, it approved contracts totaling about $2.6 million:
• $1.8 million was awarded to RDS Utilities LC to build the pipes allowing water and sewer service to be extended to homes along Evergreen Road and Taylor Road currently using wells and septic systems;
• $665,147 was awarded to KBS Earthworks Inc. to restore 710 feet of a tributary of Upham Brook that runs along Wilder Middle School.
