The Henrico County, Virginia Board of Supervisors,
The Henrico County, Virginia Planning Commission:
Please help us stop Virginia from vanishing, let's start at home, here in Henrico County! Virginia is known for historic-tourism, and received over 60 million per-person tourist trips in 2007.
As a result of tourism last year, over 650 million dollars was spent in Henrico County alone, and yet the Henrico Administration continues to allow development to take place without any effective Historic Preservation planning in place.
In the past thirty years, sites and structures Henrico has recognized as Historic Resources have continued to disappear at an alarming rate.
Please review the statistics of loss of over 88% of Henrico's historic resources initially listed by the county in 1976, submitted by this petition's sponsor to the Henrico County Supervisors in 2008 as: "Henrico Historic Resources Lost"
...or watch the "Henrico Matters" video, made for The National Trust's "This Place Matters" campaign, at http://youtu.be/MPwF77RxpMk
The Henrico County Comprehensive Plan at this time reflects no actions to curb this pattern of loss. We the undersigned petition for the inclusion of historic preservation planning in Henrico County's 2026 Comprehensive Plan and future planning, to arrest the continuing loss of the county's historic resources by:
1. The creation of strong but simple ordinances and guidelines to address the encroachment of development adjacent to historic resources via the requirement of expanded setbacks, designed to preserve each site’s character.
2. The creation of the strong buffering requirements necessary to preserve the county's remaining historic view sheds. These initial tools could be created through a review of planning methods employed across Virginia and other states rich in similar historic assets.
3. And by conducting a complete view-shed analysis and formal survey of historic resources for adoption to the 2026 Comprehensive Plan.
What we have to lose in Henrico isn't just locally valuable;
these are historic resources of national importance.
Please do not continue to plan our county's future, even for the next eighteen years, without serious review and action to amend of this major oversight.
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...Although this petition was created in 2008, ongoing historic preservation efforts continue and this petition will be re-submitted to Henrico County officials.
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Updates
August 9, 2009
The momentum behind this petition highlights a collective commitment to protecting the architectural integrity of Henrico County. This interest demonstrates that our community values its heritage and expects better planning from local officials.
Reached 100 supporters
August 9, 2009
6 Comments
Enough with the cookie cutter strip malls. My kids wont have anything left to look at if this keeps up.
The board of supervisors just ignores us every single time. need to vote them out if they wont listen to reason.
Henrico needs to stop acting like history is an obstacle. It is the only thing that gives this place character.
Used to love driving around here but now it all looks the same. Really disappointing how much has been bulldozed.
SO TIRED of watching them tear down perfectly good old houses just to build more apartments we dont need. fix the planning already.
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The Henrico County, Virginia Board of Supervisors,
The Henrico County, Virginia Planning Commission:
Please help us stop Virginia from vanishing, let's start at home, here in Henrico County! Virginia is known for historic-tourism, and received over 60 million per-person tourist trips in 2007.
As a result of tourism last year, over 650 million dollars was spent in Henrico County alone, and yet the Henrico Administration continues to allow development to take place without any effective Historic Preservation planning in place.
In the past thirty years, sites and structures Henrico has recognized as Historic Resources have continued to disappear at an alarming rate.
Please review the statistics of loss of over 88% of Henrico's historic resources initially listed by the county in 1976, submitted by this petition's sponsor to the Henrico County Supervisors in 2008 as: "Henrico Historic Resources Lost"
...or watch the "Henrico Matters" video, made for The National Trust's "This Place Matters" campaign, at http://youtu.be/MPwF77RxpMk
The Henrico County Comprehensive Plan at this time reflects no actions to curb this pattern of loss. We the undersigned petition for the inclusion of historic preservation planning in Henrico County's 2026 Comprehensive Plan and future planning, to arrest the continuing loss of the county's historic resources by:
1. The creation of strong but simple ordinances and guidelines to address the encroachment of development adjacent to historic resources via the requirement of expanded setbacks, designed to preserve each site’s character.
2. The creation of the strong buffering requirements necessary to preserve the county's remaining historic view sheds. These initial tools could be created through a review of planning methods employed across Virginia and other states rich in similar historic assets.
3. And by conducting a complete view-shed analysis and formal survey of historic resources for adoption to the 2026 Comprehensive Plan.
What we have to lose in Henrico isn't just locally valuable;
these are historic resources of national importance.
Please do not continue to plan our county's future, even for the next eighteen years, without serious review and action to amend of this major oversight.
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
...Although this petition was created in 2008, ongoing historic preservation efforts continue and this petition will be re-submitted to Henrico County officials.
To those who choose to support the need: We will NOT share your email address in any way other than in submitting this petition to the county, but without your name and contact information, signing this petition does our shared cause no good.
You may choose to check the box below to have your signature shown online, otherwise your signature will automatically be 'anonymized,' securely preventing your name and comments from being viewed publicly by all those but the Henrico Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission when this petition is formally delivered.
If your spouse or any household members over 18 also wish to sign, please have them each use their individual email address as all duplicate emails will be deleted.
Please help aid this cause by sharing this link with those whom you believe will add their names in support. After you've clicked the "Sign now" button, your signature will be logged automatically.
Please ignore the resulting donation pop-up window, this petition's sponsors have made a donation to iPetitions, so NO DONATION is necessary. Thank you!!
Updates
August 9, 2009
The momentum behind this petition highlights a collective commitment to protecting the architectural integrity of Henrico County. This interest demonstrates that our community values its heritage and expects better planning from local officials.
Reached 100 supporters
August 9, 2009
6 Comments
Ten years since this was petition was posted and Henrico County continues to lose historic resources. Individuals have protested individual projects but without a major showing of (voter) interest county officials have no incentive to change policy.
Enough with the cookie cutter strip malls. My kids wont have anything left to look at if this keeps up.
The board of supervisors just ignores us every single time. need to vote them out if they wont listen to reason.
Henrico needs to stop acting like history is an obstacle. It is the only thing that gives this place character.
Used to love driving around here but now it all looks the same. Really disappointing how much has been bulldozed.
SO TIRED of watching them tear down perfectly good old houses just to build more apartments we dont need. fix the planning already.
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