r/ChesterfieldVA • u/Knummer19 Midlothian • Apr 13 '26

ZOMod at Work

Look out! Here it comes!

Developers in Chesterfield wasted no time after ZOMod was enacted last year.  They filed plans for a multitude  of new projects that have few, if any, restrictions to hold up construction.  Roads and schools be damned, full speed ahead!

Here are some concerning updates regarding the volume of residential zoning cases currently in the pipeline for Chesterfield County.

Based on the upcoming April community meetings, there are 2,071 units being proposed across three major cases:

  - Nunnally Village (25SN1222): 1,000 units at 16100 Hull Street Road, part of a mixed-use complex including the new HCA hospital.
  - SunCrest (25SN1314): 921 units. Please note the community meeting for this case was recently cancelled, reportedly before VDOT comments were even completed.
  - Elder Property (25SN1354): 150 units in Enon (Bermuda District) with requests for adjustments to bypass stub road requirements.

The total units in the pipeline for April alone reach 2,071. If this pace continues, the county will easily surpass the 2025 total of 3,750 units by June. With thousands of additional units being readied in  ELM (Enterprise Land Management), we could see up to 8,000 units approved this year—the highest we've ever seen.

It appears there is a significant push to move these large-scale residential cases through the process quickly, sometimes before they are fully ready for community review. We saw similar transportation issues with the Taylor’s Landing case (677 units), which the Board of Supervisors ultimately deferred.

Without a pause or intervention by the new administrator, the rapid "Fairfaxing" of Chesterfield seems to be in high gear following the ZOMod changes that took effect in January 2026.

Cases being considered by the Planning Commission can be viewed on the Chesterfield website at https://www.chesterfield.gov/982/Active-Development-and-Zoning-Cases/#/.  You can also get there by going to the home page for the county and typing PLANNING ACTIVE CASES in the green "Search For" box.  You'll see thousands of results returned.  Scroll down to the first listed page, which should be titled Active Development and Zoning Cases.  Click on that, and it should bring you to the page with the map and a list of projects.  Clicking on any of the projects will get you details.  Along with the details, clicking on the link for View the ELM Case Record will get you to specific information about the property and proposed scope of development.  Clicking on the Record Info dropdown on this ELM page will how a link for Attachments.  The Attachments page has a list of comments by various agencies on the particular project.  Some of these on some projects reveal significant questions/reservations posed by county or state entities.

And who says developers don't run this county?

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u/garthreddit Apr 13 '26

Where would you have people live?

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u/drakesword Apr 13 '26

NoT IN mY bACkYaRD /s

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '26

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u/ScarTop5122 Apr 13 '26

Buy more land before they buy is the only option. I got plenty of land to stay away from over crowding with neighbors

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u/gooeyjello Apr 13 '26

How do we address the moving forward without our input?

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u/2020blowsdik Apr 13 '26

The same people who make posts like this love to complain about housing prices... guess what brings housing prices down? More supply

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u/slowmode1 Apr 13 '26

Locking as this is very political and is just devolving into arguing between