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Volume 63, Number 30 • August 2, 2018
Goochland Chamber will be celebrated at The Diamond Aug. 4. See page 4
Proof of pipe: Zoning board rules in favor of developer
Making beginnings bright
County claimed proffer was violated; land owner argued they had approved the work By Roslyn Ryan Editor
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he Goochland County Lions Club recently donated $500 to the YMCA Bright Beginnings program. Vice President Bernadette Stillwell, Secretary Mike Winn, Treasurer Bob Hammond, and Bob Leach were present when the check was presented to Goochland YMCA Director Kelly Lindquist. “Our Goochland Lions were pleased to aid the local YMCA with this year’s Bright Beginnings program,” said Stillwell. The Bright Beginnings program is designed to help purchase much-needed school supplies for underprivileged children. “Our Goochland Lions were pleased to aid the local YMCA with this year’s program,” said Stillwell. For more on how residents have been helping local students get ready for the new school year, see page 15.
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A Holmesian mystery set in a Goochland subdivison earlier this month made for one of the more interesting Board of Zoning Appeals meetings in recent memory. On July 16, four members of the five-member board met to hear an appeal by a local development group, Courthouse Associates LLC, that had been slapped with a Notice of Violation from the county for failing to deliver on one of the proffered conditions they agreed to in conjunction with a rezoning case nearly 18 years ago. As one condition of that rezoning, which paved the way for the creation of the Mill Forest subdivision in January of 2000, the county insisted that a “minimum of one water impoundment structure” — essentially a
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