Board of Supervisors Initiatives

The Board of Supervisors establishes priorities and initiatives for Hanover County's government for each fiscal year. These initiatives cover the period July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012.

Following is a status update for the following Board of Supervisors Fiscal Year 2012 Initiatives, adopted by the Board on April 27, 2011:

• Support the High Speed Internet Committee and review recommendations to determine local government’s role in enabling high speed internet providers to better provide services in underserved areas: In 2011 The Board of Supervisors appointed a High-Speed Internet Committee which met monthly to review the various issues associated with this initiative. The committee held two public meetings to gather input from citizens in October 2011 and is expected to make a final report to the Board in early 2012.
• Conduct the 2011 Citizens Survey: The County contracted with the National Research Center, Inc. for a survey that was mailed to randomly-selected households in the summer of 2011. Answers to standard questions asked on previous surveys allowed the County to benchmark against past performance as well as to comparable localities in the U.S. and in other Southern states. The survey also asked three unique questions. An analysis of the findings was reported to the Board of Supervisors in November 2011. The reports can be read on the County’s home page at www.co.hanover.va.us.
  
• Initiate the process of updating the Comprehensive Plan in 2012: This will include establishing the timeline and identifying the scope and key issues to be addressed in the planned 2012 update. The Comprehensive Plan is updated every five years with the last update occurring in 2007. The Board of Supervisors is expected to consider this issue in early 2012.
• Revise the Business District Ordinance: This will be the first comprehensive review and update of uses in all of the business districts. Goals include simplifying use descriptions and where possible adding uses that did not exist when these districts were created; creating a mechanism and providing the criteria for non-listed uses; clarifying terms and removing repetitive or inconsistent use descriptions that may have developed over time; and adding definitions to clarify existing uses and for new uses that are being created. Workshops have been held by the Planning Commission and the first public hearing is expected in early 2012.
• Enhance the County’s economic development potential in support of the Comprehensive Plan by extending water and wastewater service to the Rt. 33/I-295 corridor: The 2007 update to the Comprehensive Plan designated this corridor as being appropriate for business park development. Notice to proceed was issued in April 2011 and construction of the associated water line, sewer force main, gravity sanitary sewer and wastewater pump station projects is so far on time and under budget with substantial completion expected in the winter of 2012-13.
• Complete the revision of the Subdivision Ordinance: Policies were revised and updated as appropriate to comply with State law and complement changes in the zoning ordinance.
• Develop the model for an overall County Strategic Plan: This will include reviewing the current vision and mission statements and defining mission focus areas and the process by which other strategic plans models would be developed, monitored and updated.

To read the Board’s FY11 Initiatives, click here: