MissSouthNorfolk

Why do you want everything to go in Greenbrier? You seem to keep saying that about every project? Greenbrier is the Mall Area, not a town center. With all the hotels, stores, resturaunts surronding the mall, there is nothing else there to make it the town center. I'm curious to know why you are pushing the issue of Greenbrier to become the town center?

I think the people who were upset of the sprawl and not wanting to look like VB are those people who have lived here long enough to see the exploding growth in Chesapeake. Many of the residents are people who moved here from VB and came for a shader place with less noise. That has changed since I moved here to chesapeake 9 years ago. Greenbrier area had many patches of trees that made the area more appealing. On battlefield blvd. you could see many areas that were wooded and every year we loose more of it. I like the growth but at the same time the city needs to leave some areas alone. Stop replanting little wannabe trees. Unforetunately the area was already zoned in the early 60's and we can't say no to growth. I still don't understand why it can't be ammended. I'm not clear on all the laws here and learn more at every Planning Commision meeting I attend. When it comes to revitalization, Chesapeake doesn't have a clue and really needs to partner with Norfolk to learn how to go about it. South Norfolk residents, neighborhood services and police station have already brought new laws, codes, and rules to this area after studing what Norfolk does. It has helped a great deal to clean up this area. Too bad the citizens have to bring it to city council and be proactive. As much as I want southern chesapeake not to place anymore commercial or retail areas to preserve some the land there, I also don't want the southern chesapeake residents driving in the northern section to do there shopping because of all the conjestion it causes. We're only going to be able to build roads so wide to create more lanes. Then what? We'll be like a miniture LA taking two hours to drive to the next neighborhood. Maybe our engineers can explain how we go about it. I certainly am willing to listen. hahhah. I used to be able to get to the beach in 20 minutes 4 1/2 years ago when I had my son at a preschool there. Hardly any traffic during the day. You just avoided the area after 4:30pm for rush hour. Now you can't tell when rush hour in the morning stops and the afternoon starts. It's always conjested. 10 years ago I could go to Busch Gardens through the tunnel and be there in less than 35 minutes. Now you have to leave early in the morning to avoid all traffic. When is 64 going to become at least 6 lanes instead the the auto packed 4 lanes? Soon we'll need 8 lanes. After 264 was redone a few years ago, it was already outdated. When do we plan ahead? The cities want more people to move here but they can't handle the growth, traffic or services expected.

I guess I should finally introduce myself. I'm probably one of the few women on this site. hahhah! I'm surely not as smart as you all but I'll try and keep up. I'm 36 and moved here with my husband almost 10 years ago. We lived in Virginia Beach and a year later bought a house in South Norfolk borough of Chesapeake. We looked in Virginia Beach, Norfolk and then settled on this house. I was born and raised in Maine. The harsh winters and lack of good paying jobs brought my husband and I to this area. I attended Southern Maine Tech but just short of my associate's degree in Office Management when we moved here. My husband is a Structual Steel Draftsman and IT guy along with some project management. I'm the political one and volunteer with my Civic League and Woman's Club. Last year I started being a sub at my son's elementry to which I just love. I believe to make life better, you have to get involved. My father used to watch city council meetings on tv and yell at the screen. I decided I wanted to have my opinion heard and do something about it. Not just yell. Hahhah. When I moved here I thought that Norfolk was a large city until I started spending time there. The airport is still small and I find myself traveling to richmond or raleigh for better deals. Jet Blue would be nice here. Some day perhaps this area will definately blossom.

The Pilot is not unbiased like it's suppose to be. It's very one sided. I really don't even understand who's side they are on. Why they don't fact check and continue to write what they want. That's a rag mag not a newspaper. You can not believe everything you read in the Pilot. Isn't that just awful.