DOMINION BOULEVARD CORRIDOR STUDY | Chesapeake, Virginia
4 | Summary
8. Protect water quality and the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge Area.
9. Encourage environmentally responsible development practices by minimizing vehicle
traffic while providing for a mixture of land uses, walkability, connectivity and compact
community form.
10. Provide neighborhoods with a variety of housing types, densities and price points to
serve the needs of a diverse population.
11. Promote the greater health benefits of a pedestrian-oriented environment.
12. Provide for orderly growth and development of suitable neighborhoods with adequate
transportation networks, drainage and utilities and appropriate building sites.
13. Save unnecessary expenditures of funds by requiring the proper initial construction of
transportation networks, sidewalks, drainage facilities and utilities.
14. Promote development patterns that support safe, effective and multi-modal
transportation options, including auto, pedestrian, bicycle and transit.
15. The Master Land Use Plan, Area Plan Maps, Infrastructure Strategy Exhibits, and other
related maps contained in this strategic plan are not parcel-specific and are intended
to be used as flexible policy guidance during the City’s development review process to
ensure that, as much as is practicable, development of an individual parcel or group of
parcels achieves the overall plan vision.
Critical Success Factors
• Achieve consensus (especially key land owners and the City Council) on land uses and
development patterns that will position the Study Area for the type of growth that will
contribute economic potential and fiscal responsibility to the City.
• Enhance Chesapeake’s regional competitive advantage, image, marketability, and
sense of place.
• .Recognize the Study Area’s adjacency to the Chesapeake Regional Airport and Route
17 and explore opportunities for regional employment centers.
• Promote development patterns that lead toward energy efficiency, quality of life and
environmental protection.
• .Anticipate future infrastructure and transportation and technology needs and enhance
multimodal connections through the Study Area.
• .Keep the magnitude of development tied to the practical availability of regional water
supply, sewer capacity and infrastructure.
• .Position the Study Area effectively from an economic development and fiscal impact
perspective.
• .Effectively plan for parks, plazas, civic gathering places and open space connections.
• .Develop a plan that conforms to all existing or pending local, state, and federal
regulations.
• .Create an implementation plan for public improvements that tie to city budgets and
provides for the greatest return on investment.
