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Fort Lee Joint Land Use Study Study Update & Initial Background Review Schedule/Process April 2013 Nov/Dec Nov - Mar September 2013 May - June June Aug October December 2013 Initiation And Research Phase Project Initiation

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Fort Lee Joint Land Use Study

Study Update & Initial Background Review

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Nov/Dec Nov - Mar April 2013

Schedule/Process

May - June June – Aug September 2013 October – December 2013

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Initiation And Research Phase

  • Project Initiation with CPDC & Fort Lee staff
  • Identify and Collect Existing Documents
  • Policy & Technical Committee Meetings
  • Stakeholder Meetings/Interviews
  • Public Kick-Off Meeting
  • Initial Background Information Review
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Stakeholder Interviews (3 days)

  • Fort Lee Officials & Staff
  • Chesterfield County
  • City of Colonial Heights
  • Dinwiddie County
  • City of Hopewell
  • City of Petersburg
  • Prince George County
  • Crater Planning District

Commission

  • Petersburg National Battlefield
  • Virginia’s Gateway Region
  • Virginia DOT
  • Homebuilders
  • Federal Corrections Complex
  • Hopewell Regional Wastewater
  • Colonial Heights Chamber of

Commerce

  • Hopewell -Prince George Area

Chamber of Commerce

  • Petersburg Chamber of Commerce
  • Office of Congressman J. Randy

Forbes

  • Office of Senator Mark R. Warner
  • Office of the Secretary of Veteran

Affairs & Homeland Security

  • Business leaders, major land
  • wners/developers
  • Friends of the Lower Appomattox

River

  • Economic Development Directors
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First Public Meeting

  • Format & Purpose
  • Potential Date
  • April 24 – 6:30 pm
  • Potential Location
  • Prince George Library
  • Notification Methods
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FortLee-JLUS.com

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Nov/Dec Nov - Feb April 2013 May - June June – Aug September 2013 October – December 2013

Schedule/Process

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Nov/Dec Nov - Feb April 2013 May - June June – Aug September 2013 October – December 2013

Schedule/Process

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LAND USE ANALYSIS

  • Defined Land Use Focus Area
  • Generally 1 mile around Fort Lee,

with some variation.

  • Digitized existing current general

land use pattern from aerial photos, tax data and other sources.

  • Developed land placed in five

categories based on use.

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POPULATION DENSITY

  • Prepared data to use in change analysis

between 2000 – 2010 decennial Census.

  • Utilized block level 100% count data.
  • Density quantified by Census block in

population per acre.

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RANGES / TRAINING AREAS

  • Identified active weapons ranges and

training areas from data provided by Fort Lee:

  • 9 weapons ranges (small arms)
  • 33 training areas
  • Identified surface danger zones (SDZ)

from data provided by Fort Lee.

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SURFACE DANGER ZONES

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NOISE IMPACTS

  • Prepared data for land use / noise

impact analysis.

  • Small arms noise impact data provided

by Fort Lee.

  • Two primary zones:
  • Zone 2 – 87-104 dBP (moderate complaint risk)
  • Zone 3 – 104+ dBP (high complaint risk)
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LAND USE REGULATION OVERVIEW

State Law What’s required, allowed, and prohibited. Existing Plans & Regulations What we have Today. Agreements with the Fort Recent history of formal Coordination.

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THE LANDSCAPE

Dillon’s Rule Powers are limited to those expressly granted or that are necessarily or fairly implied in order to exercise those expressly granted. Not a “Plan as Law” state

  • Plan cannot be a basis for project denial,

without basis in zoning or subdivision ordinance

  • Plan is (only) a factor in legislative zoning

decisions

  • Plan does not trump zoning ordinance (as it can

in “Plan as Law” states)

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REQUIRED

  • Comprehensive Plans
  • That Zoning Ordinances be designed to

give reasonable consideration to:

  • protecting approach slopes and other safety

areas of licensed airports, including United States government and military air facilities …

  • providing reasonable protection against

encroachment upon military bases, military installations, and military airports and their adjacent safety areas

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REQUIRED (cont’d)

  • For localities in, or in the approach slopes of, an

installation, to regulate, by ordinance, the height of structures and natural growth to protect the safety

  • f air navigation
  • That cities, counties, and towns give 10-day,

written notice, to the installation commander, of any parcel within 3,000 feet of the installation subject to:

  • A proposed comprehensive plan or plan amendment
  • A proposed change in zoning map classification
  • A proposed special exception for a change in use
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REQUIRED (cont’d)

Written disclosure by landlords to the tenant if a rental property is located in an accident potential zone, noise zone, or both

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REQUIRED (cont’d)

Pending Changes – SB 1029:

– Increases timeframe for notice to military installations to 30 days – Requires consultation with installations by local planning commissions – Revises intent of code to include consideration of military issues.

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ALLOWED

  • To include in the comprehensive plan the

location of military installations and their adjacent safety areas

  • For localities with installations in them or

adjacent, to impose certain acoustical treatment measures for non-farm residential structures and certain non-residential uses

  • Interlocal agreements by cities, counties,

and towns to exercise otherwise authorized powers jointly

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PROHIBITED

Structures that penetrate … military air facility's clear zone, approach zone, imaginary surface, obstruction clearance surface, obstruction clearance zone, or surface or zone, without a permit from the Virginia Aviation Board

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LOCAL PLANNING

  • Prince George County (2012 update)
  • City of Hopewell (2001)
  • City of Petersburg (2011 Draft Plan)
  • Chesterfield County (2012)
  • City of Colonial Heights
  • Dinwiddie County (2006)
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ZONING ADOPTED

  • Prince George County
  • City of Hopewell
  • City of Petersburg
  • Chesterfield County
  • City of Colonial Heights
  • Dinwiddie County
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UTILITY AGREEMENTS

  • Fort Lee & Hopewell

–Sewer Construction, Treatment, Maintenance –Originally entered in 1971 –Fort’s share of “reasonable operations & maintenance costs” = 18%

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PROGRAMATIC AGREEMENT

  • US Army, Va SHPO, Petersburg

National Battlefield, & Tribal HPO

  • Enacted on July 25, 2007
  • Mitigate On-Post impacts on the Battlefield
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

  • Water quality concerns:

– Due to Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act (CBPA) regulations and Resource Protection Area (RPA) designations – Regulates stormwater runoff and other discharges

  • Wetlands:

– 14% of overall installation property area – Virginia DCR designated 3 wetlands on base as wetland conservation zones – Blackwater Swamp has T&ES (black-banded sunfish)

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS

  • Stormwater runoff:

– Threats to local watershed

  • Contamination of groundwater aquifers
  • Exacerbation of flooding during storms

– New construction on Fort Lee has impacted Bailey Creek watershed resulting in severe erosion and sedimentation. – Low impact development designs have been recommended:

  • Detention ponds, rain gardens, swales,

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