DOMINION BOULEVARD CORRIDOR STUDY | Chesapeake, Virginia
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• Maintain a small local development team to support prospect needs and maintain the
confidentiality of the prospect’s interest.
• Make sure the community attitude is attractive to industry. A good business climate will
retain existing businesses and attract new ones.
Summary of Action Items:
Several items will need to be acted upon to capitalize on the vision articulated in the Master
Plan and to foster an exciting future for Chesapeake that includes the ability to attract
new employers and to support existing employers. These include items associated with
economic development, land use planning, design and engineering:
1. Obtain full acceptance of the Master Plan and its contents by all city leaders and
agencies so that it can be acted upon toward a shared vision.
2. Seek regional partnerships that can contribute to expanding and elevating infrastructure
and transportation services to the Study Area.
3. Pursue efforts to attract LRT/BRT transit service to the Study Area; expand the Airport
so that it can ship and receive freight; and reclassify Route 17 as an Interstate Highway.
4. Conduct workshops with city leaders and agencies to promote the opportunities, areas
of change and actions needed that the Master Plan proposes. Create alignment for
the proposed arrangement and types of land uses; the design concepts and locations
for roadway and utility infrastructure; the requirements of “Aspirational Zoning” and the
proposed development standards.
5. Conduct workshop(s) with institutional and business partners to promote the Master
Plan and to find areas of shared interest that lead to coordinated efforts to execute the
vision.
6. Work with the Tidewater Community College and other regional educational institutions
to align educational programs and resources with the requirements of businesses or
business clusters targeted for the Study Area.
7. Create a synergistic partnership with the Great Dismal Swamp National WIldlife Refuge
Area to promote tourism opportunities, environmental and recreational linkages.
8. Conduct a workshop with builders and developers to describe the contents of the
Master Plan and the changes that will result to current requirements. Make these new
requirements part of the discussions with new developers that are currently or proposing
to invest in the Study Area. Property owners and/or developers should be made aware
of the benefits of assembling adequate land with a view to pursuing Planned Unit
Developments (PUDs) as a preferred development pattern in focal areas of the study’s
Master Plan.
9. Create the additional codes, ordinances and guidelines required to execute the
principles and vision of the Master Plan. Ideally these would be created for each Area
of the Master Plan so that they respond to each’s particular vision and nuance. Making
them as specific and detailed as possible will help ensure a successful outcome. Such
review and consideration for changes to the City’s codes, ordinances and guidelines
should include the feasibility of establishing special zoning designations and/or overlay
districts for the study area.
10. Create and codify measurable goals or metrics for items such as water usage, energy usage, storm
water management, jobs/housing balance, provision for parks, etc. to support the execution of the
“Aspirational Zoning” principles and development standards of the Master Plan. The City’s fiscal
impact analysis model should be used as appropriate on a periodic basis to help determine if the
aspirational development standards of the Master Plan are being achieved through actual ongoing
development. Additionally, a checklist should be developed as a tool for review of applicants’
implementation of the Plan.
11. Enact TDR and PDR policies so that execution of the Master Plan is potentially more equitable to
land owners affected by the master plan and so that agricultural preservation is ensured.
12. Update the City’s HRSD Sewer Service Expansion Policy to replace the one-mile service area
provisions with provisions that sewer service be provided only to those areas so identified for
service by City Council.
13. Extend or have plans to extend adequate utility infrastructure to Areas 3,4,5 and 6 and other areas
that are to be developed using municipal infrastructure.
14. Redesign all street cross sections and transportation standards and requirements (speeds,
intersections, intersection spacing, access management, allowance for street trees, sidewalks, bike
lanes, etc.) to enable “Complete Streets” as described in the Master Plan. Revise the 2050 Master
Transportation Plan to conform to the location of the major streets described in the Master Plan.
15. Expand upon the City’s existing storm water management plan to include the naturalized capture
and transmission sites shown on the Master Plan as well as to include provisions for onsite
naturalized storm water management that may be required above and beyond the community
facilities shown on the Master Plan.
16. Update current parks, open space and public services requirements to align with the vision and
requirements of the Master Plan.
17. Obtain land for parks and open spaces and/or adjust parks and open space requirements of new
development to conform to the requirements of the Master Plan.
18. Obtain land for the right of way for new roadways, greenways, storm water management facilities
and utility infrastructure.
19. Create the organization and funding needed to support the maintenance and management of parks,
open spaces, storm water management facilities, streetscapes, and greenways.
20. Create new or supporting branding for the Study Area that promotes its vision.
21. Create designs and a master plan for signage and wayfinding for the Study Area (which is part of
branding).
22. The City’s Planning and Land Use (Level of Service) Policy will be used to evaluate the adequacy
of public schools, roads, and public utilities to serve proposed development within the Corridor.
The City Manager will conduct an annual review of Chesapeake Public Schools capacity levels in
conjunction with the Capital Improvement Plan to determine if there is an efficient distribution of
students throughout the City.
In addition to the general implementation strategies outlined above, a more complete discussion of land
use and zoning implementation strategies specific to the development of the Study Area is contained
in the Aspirational Development Section of this chapter and the Planning Frameworks and Area Plans
chapters.
