Chesterfield County is searching for to rezone about 2,400 acres in the western aspect of the county to set the phase for a technologies park to the west of the proposed extension of Powhite Parkway and residential progress to the east. (Courtesy of Chesterfield County)

A 12 months right after Chesterfield County scooped up about 2,000 acres in close proximity to Moseley, county officers are now weighing a official rezoning system to information advancement of that house and encompassing land.

Chesterfield intends to rezone the so-termed Upper Magnolia Green assets, where by a westward extension of Powhite Parkway is also planned, to make way for a 1,700-acre technological know-how park and a 700-acre location for solitary-loved ones homes and public amenities.

“There’s an economic advancement curiosity to develop an location that could be a supply of work-creating utilizes in that section of the county, which doesn’t at present exist. A different essential component of this is to make fantastic on public makes use of,” Assistant Arranging Director Stephen Donohoe claimed in an interview final week.

Donohoe likened the county’s vision for the tech park to Meadowville Know-how Park in Chester, letting producing, investigate and enhancement, and light-weight industrial ventures to acquire root.

“We’re planning this in a way so that there is enhancement choices and flexibility in the long term, but we know the kind of development we want to accommodate,” he reported.

As for the residential component of the internet site, the county’s rezoning proposal would make it possible for for up to 600 single-spouse and children detached homes in a 500-acre space, leaving 200 acres for community properties.

The county properties could include things like at the very least a few schools and a library, County Administrator Joe Casey said for the duration of his Point out of the County deal with very last week.

The game strategy for the undeveloped acreage represents a important change from a 1990s zoning of the same space that will allow far more than 1,000 residential units, Donohoe claimed.

“This adjustments the class for enhancement in that portion of the county. It’s no extended going to be substantial residential. Household is truly secondary in this proposal we have set collectively,” he claimed.

The challenge area is composed of about 1,900 acres that the…