Board of Supervisors meets tomorrow at 3; internet grant

The Board of Supervisors meets at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, August 28. Among the items on the afternoon portion of the agenda are a request for adoption of a resolution in support of a Virginia Telecommunications Initiative Grant Application. Comcast Cable plans to seek a grant to provide funding for expanded internet coverage in the Old Church area. The application is due September 3. Other items on the afternoon agenda include an update on Reynolds Community college and a prestigious triple-accreditation for the Department of Emergency Communications.

Board public hearings include Glen Allen VFW Post; South Anna proposed development

Beginning at 7 p.m. tomorrow night, the Board of Supervisors will hold several planning public hearings. Among those public hearings, Glen Allen Post VFW #10657 is asking to amend their conditional use permit to add a garage to house vintage war vehicles. Also, Marchetti Properties III is asking to rezone 324 acres located on the east side of Mountain Road (Rt. 33) at the Henrico line for a mixed use development. This proposed development includes the creation of 1,787 residential units as well as 313,140 square feet of retail and office space and 88 acres for future commercial and light industrial development. The residential units include 970 multi-family units and 817 townhouses. Board meetings can be watched live online with the archived version up on Thursday afternoon.

Statement from Board Chairman Peterson about KKK flyers left on doorsteps

Canova Peterson, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, has released the following statement on the flyers left by the Ku Klux Klan on some Hanover and Henrico County doorsteps during the night Saturday:

“Along with our Henrico neighbors to the south, some Hanover County residents in Bruce Estates found a flyer from the Ku Klux Klan on their doorsteps on Sunday morning.

It is telling that those individuals who deliver these flyers choose to scurry around in the middle of the night. They know that in the light of day, they would be utterly rejected by the good people of Hanover County.

Hanover County condemns the hateful messages espoused by the Ku Klux Klan. We do not want their flyers. We do not want their visits. We do not want to hear what they have to say. The decades they have spent espousing and practicing racial hate and violence speak for them.

The residents of our county will not be intimidated or manipulated by the Ku Klux Klan or any other group that espouses violence as a means of achieving their aims.”