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2020: The Year in Solar
As we predicted back in 2019, the year 2020 saw a rising tide of utility-scale solar projects proposed in the...
Alliance Urges Caution as Warren County Considers Gas Station in Agricultural Zoning District
Developers in Warren County are proposing the construction of a Sheetz gas station at Exit 13 on I-66. The project,...
Rockingham County Planner Diana Stultz Retires After 39 Years
Recognizing there will always be another project to finish, Diana Stultz, Rockingham County’s zoning administrator for the past 39 years, has decided it is time to go.
Ask Legislators to Prioritize Outdoor Space
The below is an article originally published in the Waynesboro The News Virginian (found here) by the Alliance’s Augusta County...
Page County Considers Solar Ordinance
Localities throughout the Shenandoah Valley are considering solar installations as a step toward renewable energy. Solar installations fall into two...
Superheroes Need Good Sidekicks
Meet the comp plan—the superhero of the planning world. And, just as superheroes have to have their sidekicks, the comp plan alone can’t get the job done. Communities need several tools in their planning “toolbox” to carry out the plan’s vision.
Transportation in our rural landscapes
Now bikes and buggies can travel in a designated lane all the way to Garbers Church Road. Though it may appear so, these lanes didn’t just happen.
Achieving a Community’s Vision
Before the zoning update (left), the county could have seen a loss of more than a quarter of prime farmland to housing and the addition of up to 40,000 new lots in the next 40 years.
A New Planning Resource
This new tool stands to help localities understand how current trends and pressures in land-use will affect communities and natural resources now and in the future.