City of Fredericksburg

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Special Events Calendar (upcoming public events some of which may impact traffic and/or parking)

 IN THE NEWS:

Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon Fredericksburg plays host to the 5th Annual Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon and Semper Fred 5K on Sunday, May 20.  This colorful event starts and ends at the Fredericksburg Expo Center in Celebrate Virginia South and will run through the City - Historic Half Course - with rolling street closures from 7 to 11 a.m.   A schedule of the street closure times is accessible here - Street Closures.  More than 8,000 runners are expected to participate in the half marathon race and a 5-K race.  For sign up information, click through to http://www.marinecorpshistorichalf.com/Home.htm.

Proposed Water and Sewer Rate Changes

The City of Fredericksburg commissioned a Management and Rate Study of the Water and Sewer Operations in the City.  The study found that the City needs to increase bi-monthly water and sewer fees to both meet ongoing operating costs and to help build reserves for future capital replacements in the system.  The Water and Sewer Funds are self-supporting funds for the City.  For additional information, click HERE.

Reassessments

The City’s real estate assessor has completed the field work and released the preliminary notices of value for the upcoming general reassessment.  Notices were placed in the mail on Monday, April 2, 2012.  The deadline for appealing the assessment to the assessor has now passed, and the assessor is in the process of reviewing the information received during the appeals process.  Please contact the Commissioner of the Revenue’s office at 540-372-1207 if you have any questions.  For additional information, click HERE.

FY 2013 City Manager's Recommended Budget

The City Manager's Recommended Budget is now available.  Please click HERE to see the FY 2013 City Manager's Recommended Budget.  A press release is available HERE.

The Virginia Central Railway Trail Project

The VCR Trail will be an approximately 3.5 mile walking and bicycling trail beginning near Essex Street (the eastern end of the Cobblestone Square development, just off Lafayette Boulevard) and continuing west along Lafayette Boulevard, across the Blue Gray Parkway, then along Alum Springs Road and past Alum Springs Park, across Jefferson Davis Highway, then to a point just east of Interstate 95. A public meeting was held Thursday, April 19, 2012. To see the presentation shown at the meeting and an aerial view of the entire trail pathway click HERE.

Unified Development Ordinance

The City is in the process of updating and reorganizing its land development regulations.

A new Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) will replace the Zoning and Subdivision Ordinances by combining the various sets of standards into a single unified ordinance. The UDO will remove repetition, limit inconsistencies, make the standards easier to understand, and update development regulations.  The current  regulations will be comprehensively revised to ensure consistency with national best practices and the City’s Comprehensive Plan.  Please see the summary brochure HERE which outlines the executive summary of the code assessment.

Throughout the UDO progress, the following link will provide information about interim and final products, public events, answer frequently asked questions, and opportunities to submit comments/questions. For details, please proceed to the following site, http://newudofredericksburg.com.

City Initiated Rezoning Action 

This is a City initiated proposal to amend the zoning map to rezone a portion of a block of Caroline Street between Amelia and Lewis, and the area bounded by Lafayette Boulevard, the Rappahannock River, Frederick Street, Jackson Street and Kenmore Avenue from Commercial Transitional C-T, R-8, Residential and Light Intensity Industrial I-1, to Commercial Downtown C-D.

The subject properties are zoned C-T, R-8, and I-1 and the zoning designation of these properties are proposed to be amended to insure conformity with the goals and policies of the Comprehensive Plan, the Jumpstart Plan, the Arts and Cultural District as well as the Tourism Zone ordinances. The C-D zoning designation is a more appropriate zoning to accomplish these goals and policies, than the current C-T, R-8, and I-1.

For further information, click HERE to review all of  the background information and maps on the proposed rezoning.

City Council Selects Team for Courts Project – Update

City Council selected First Choice Public – Private Partners, LLC, as the design-build team for the new court facility.  The City Council authorized the execution of a comprehensive agreement at the November 8, 2011 meeting.  In addition, the City is releasing the results of the consulting studies performed by Arcadis to assist the City Council in evaluating the various proposals. 

The first Arcadis report assisted the City Council in evaluating the conceptual phase proposals, and is dated in May.  After the conceptual phase, the City invited three firms to submit detailed phase proposals – First Choice, Donley’s, and W.M. Jordan.  The report from Arcadis on the detailed phase proposals, and the City Council presentation prepared by Arcadis to assist in review, are also here.

Fall Hill Avenue Transportation Improvements

The City of Fredericksburg is currently in the early design stage for two roadway improvement projects in the Fall Hill Avenue area, west of Jefferson Davis Highway. These projects are : (1) Replacement of the bridge over the Rappahannock Canal near the Friends of the Rappahannock facility – at the west end of the canal bike path; and (2) Widening, to four lanes, of Fall Hill Avenue from the canal crossing to and across I-95, including replacement of the bridge over I-95. A concurrent project is the extension of Mary Washington Boulevard from its current terminus on the Mary Washington Hospital campus to Fall Hill Avenue, just west of the canal. You may view the presentation that was made at the public information meeting on these projects HERE.  You may see the presentation made at the public hearing on the canal bridge portion of the project HERE.

Economic Development and Tourism E-Newsletter

The Department of Economic Development and Tourism is pleased to publish our quarterly newsletter.  Please click HERE to read the latest quarterly issue and to view prior editions.