Mr Williamsburg, Revolutionary ideas on real estate!Hampton Roads Virginia

Riverside officials have proposed building the subdivision in six phases, with work on the intersection of Quarterpath Road and Battery Boulevard as the first step. The next two phases would build a nursing facility, then the medical campus.

Last month, the health care group said it would pursue — for the third time — state permission to build a hospital on the site. In March 2007, the state denied a proposal for a $76 million, 43-bed hospital.

These preliminary plans are to give city staff, planning commissioners, City Council members and the public a chance to comment while the project is still in its early stages.

The city is also expected to discuss environmental issues, given that the majority of the site sits in Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas and will have to meet water quality standards.

Also, no designated bike lanes are proposed for interior streets, but staff has proposed the developers add them on Battery Boulevard and Redoubt Road.

The city’s Site Plan Review Committee supported approval of the preliminary plans during its March 19 meeting. City planning staff has recommended the Planning Commission send the plans to the City Council for approval. But staff has said it wants more information on environmental and traffic impact before any development plans are approved. Pending a request for the Virginia Department of Transportation to transfer land around Quarterpath Road to the city, construction could begin within the next few months at the road’s intersection with Route 199.

For more information on the plans, visit www.ci.williamsburg.va.us/dept/planning/agendas.htm, click on “Agenda – 04/16/08 ” and click on “PCR #08-010.”

The Planning Commission meeting begins at 3:30 p.m. today in the Stryker Building on North Boundary Street.

Quarterpath at Williamsburg by the numbers*

• 95 single-family houses

• 120 beds in nursing home

• 397 senior adult attached homes

• 882 condominium and town house units

• 200,000 square feet of medical offices

• 202,000 square feet of offices

• 400,000 square feet for shopping center