This is a great resource for the community – thanks for doing this! I want to make people aware of a high-density housing project planned for 3949 Three Notch Road (tax map parcel 67-2-D) in Louisa County. The County only informed adjoining landowners even though this project will affect everyone in Louisa County. Habitat plans to build 70 to 120 homes and townhouses on 60-foot-wide lots, with 5 to 10 feet between homes. Habitat plans to fill in wetlands that drain into Venable Creek. They will ask for up to three-quarter million Louisa County taxpayer dollars to pay for the project. Habitat’s traffic study indicates each home will make up to 10 car trips a day, totaling between 700 and 1,200 trips daily. The significant traffic increase will affect Rt. 250, Mallory Rd., Courthouse Rd., and the surrounding area. No studies were performed to determine how increased noise will affect the neighborhood. Habitat’s representative states he is not aware of how many children will live in the neighborhood. This is important information since according to the Virginia Department of Education the average cost in local taxes per child is $11,560. Landowners can likely expect higher real estate taxes due to this project. Regular use of pesticides on 70 to 120 closely packed manicured lawns will contaminate ground water in nearby wells and will pollute Venable Creek. We are asking community members to voice their opposition to their local Board of Supervisors member. For Patrick Henry District contact Fitzgerald A. Barnes, Board of Supervisors, phone: 434-996-7900, email: LCBS_PHD@louisa.org; for other districts please refer to https://www.louisacounty.com/462/Board-of-Supervisors. Please also contact your Planning Commission member – for Patrick Henry District it is C. Ellis Quarles, phone: 804-539-7900, email: EQuarles@louisa.org; for other districts please refer to https://www.louisacounty.com/Directory.aspx?did=58. We also understand that Abigail Spanberger has helped to obtain Federal funding for this project. You can voice opposition to her office at 202-225-2815. Since this affects the whole community more people should have been informed. At the very least Habitat should not be destroying wetlands. Although we support affordable housing, we object to the location (destruction of wetlands) and high-density of this project. According to public records Louisa currently owns at least 108 properties in the county totaling 2,009.59 acres of land. Of those at least 85 properties appear to be undeveloped/vacant, totaling 1,484.56 acres of land. If the project is to go through we recommend a lower density project on another property that does not destruction of wetlands and pollution of nearby creeks. Louisa County has postponed the next public meeting regarding this project. They stated that if Habitat decides to move forward with the project that they can proceed without any public meeting but the adjacent landowner would be notified. If there is a public meeting it will be advertised in the Central Virginian newspaper.
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This is a great resource for the community – thanks for doing this! I want to make people aware of a high-density housing project planned for 3949 Three Notch Road (tax map parcel 67-2-D) in Louisa County. The County only informed adjoining landowners even though this project will affect everyone in Louisa County. Habitat plans to build 70 to 120 homes and townhouses on 60-foot-wide lots, with 5 to 10 feet between homes. Habitat plans to fill in wetlands that drain into Venable Creek. They will ask for up to three-quarter million Louisa County taxpayer dollars to pay for the project. Habitat’s traffic study indicates each home will make up to 10 car trips a day, totaling between 700 and 1,200 trips daily. The significant traffic increase will affect Rt. 250, Mallory Rd., Courthouse Rd., and the surrounding area. No studies were performed to determine how increased noise will affect the neighborhood. Habitat’s representative states he is not aware of how many children will live in the neighborhood. This is important information since according to the Virginia Department of Education the average cost in local taxes per child is $11,560. Landowners can likely expect higher real estate taxes due to this project. Regular use of pesticides on 70 to 120 closely packed manicured lawns will contaminate ground water in nearby wells and will pollute Venable Creek. We are asking community members to voice their opposition to their local Board of Supervisors member. For Patrick Henry District contact Fitzgerald A. Barnes, Board of Supervisors, phone: 434-996-7900, email: LCBS_PHD@louisa.org; for other districts please refer to https://www.louisacounty.com/462/Board-of-Supervisors. Please also contact your Planning Commission member – for Patrick Henry District it is C. Ellis Quarles, phone: 804-539-7900, email: EQuarles@louisa.org; for other districts please refer to https://www.louisacounty.com/Directory.aspx?did=58. We also understand that Abigail Spanberger has helped to obtain Federal funding for this project. You can voice opposition to her office at 202-225-2815. Since this affects the whole community more people should have been informed. At the very least Habitat should not be destroying wetlands. Although we support affordable housing, we object to the location (destruction of wetlands) and high-density of this project. According to public records Louisa currently owns at least 108 properties in the county totaling 2,009.59 acres of land. Of those at least 85 properties appear to be undeveloped/vacant, totaling 1,484.56 acres of land. If the project is to go through we recommend a lower density project on another property that does not destruction of wetlands and pollution of nearby creeks. Louisa County has postponed the next public meeting regarding this project. They stated that if Habitat decides to move forward with the project that they can proceed without any public meeting but the adjacent landowner would be notified. If there is a public meeting it will be advertised in the Central Virginian newspaper.