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Vol. 36, No. 41 | Richmond Suburban News | March 4, 2020
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Supervisors OK $75,000 to pay lawsuit legal fees and 14th Amendment violations by retaining the names of Confederate-themed schools HANOVER -- Legal fees and mascots, were covered by regarding a cona standard insurtinuing lawsuit filed ance policy that by the Hanover reimbursed the NAACP Chapter county for legal continue to mount. fees up to $100,000. Last Wednesday, Apparently, those members of the funds have been Hanover County exhausted by the Board of Supervisors school board’s approved a $75,000 outside attortransfer from the neys, Harman PETERSON county’s contingency Claytor Corrigan & fund to continue the Wellman. Hanover County While MechanSchool Board’s effort to defend icsville District supervisor the case. Canova Peterson described Initial costs associated with the transfer as an effort by the case ,filed last year accussee NAACP, pg. 12 ing the School board citing 1st
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Superintendent updates Chamber
By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local
Photos courtesy of Brian Capaldo, HCPS
Dr. Michael Gill, center in the photo at right, superintendent of Hanover County Public Schools, addressed last Wednesday’s Breakfast Seminar of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce at the Richmond Times-Dispatch plant at 8460 Times-Dispatch Blvd. in Mechanicsville. With his 2020-2021 budget recently being presented to the Hanover County School Board and Hanover County Board of Supervisors, he discussed projects and goals at the Chamber event. Among those attending were County Administrator Rhu Harris, above; Mechanicsville District supervisor Canova Peterson; and Bob Lindgren, president of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland.
Rural Cluster ordinance change heads back to committee By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local HANOVER -- A proposed ordinance change to the county’s Rural Cluster (RC) policy has apparently exposed more concerns than it sought to solve, resulting in some Hanover Board of Supervisors members taking a position to re-examine the entire policy. After 18 months of consideration and three Planning Commission hearings, the supervisors
failed to resolve the matter at last Wednesday’s meeting. After deadlocking in a 3-3 vote, the board referred the matter back to the community development board where it originated more than a year ago. The RC district is comprised of two components: one containing clustered lots in the residential section and a conservation area of common open space that includes a preserva-
tion lot that allows the owner to build a home. The ordinance change would allow that preservation lot to be divided into two lots, each with a minimum area of 10 acres. Only one dwelling would be allowed. RC density would not be affected. The change was originally endorsed by the Planning Department, but that position changed when concerns were raised at the Planning Commission were noted and altered
their recommendation to deny, mirroring the commission’s action. “Why are we changing this?” Mechanicsville supervisor Canova Peterson asked. Vice chair and Henry District supervisor Sean Davis said the matter was introduced through the Community Development Committee. “The reason I brought it forward is because see RURAL, pg. 12
