A Virginia developer is proposing the construction of a 349-home development on the site of a historic plantation.
The Roanoke Times reports the Montgomery County Planning Commission has scheduled a public hearing for tomorrow that will consider a rezoning request for about 263 acres of the approximately 660-acre historic Fotheringay property. Last year, the Blacksburg-based developer Stateson Homes successfully convinced the commission to update the county’s comprehensive plan and designate about half of the plantation’s land as planned medium-density residential, with the rest left as open space.
The property is currently under agricultural zoning, with a maximum of about 52 homes allowed by right. If the developer’s plans are approved, the proposed project could take between five and eight years to complete, resulting in 197 single-family homes and 152 townhomes. The other approximately two-thirds of the property, including the land nearest the plantation’s historic house, would remain undeveloped.
The commission’s hearing is the first step in the process, to be followed by a review of the rezoning request by the county board of supervisors. A final decision is expected by Oct. 13.
The Fotheringay plantation home was built in the 1790s and has been on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
Photo courtesy of Virginia Department of Historic Resources
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