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Focal Area on Area 6 and utilized Areas 4 and 3 as Secondary Areas. Scenario 3 promoted two Focal Areas
– one on Area 3 and one on Area 6, with Secondary Areas on Area 4 and Area 5. This scenario garnered
the most support from Stakeholders and the Community because it best utilizes Dominion Boulevard and
enabled more options as it related to the Regional Employment Center.
Each of the Focal Areas can develop in their own unique way, with specific focus in terms of the types of
employment and commercial uses it provides. Area 3 for instance might be best served with a large mixed
use core, office and retail uses and higher density residential uses that create an urban core and walkable
center for Chesapeake. Area 6 might best be promoted for more light industrial uses, and office research
uses that take advantage of any industrial technology, bio-technology or other technology type of industries
in a campus like format. These ideas are consistent with what the Community and Stakeholders also thought
these Areas should be geared toward.
Figure 29: The preferred scenario, Scenario 3, creates two focal areas
both adjacent to Dominion Boulevard
