The bureaucratic snag that kept developer Wendell Wood’s preliminary site plan for a 15-acre office and housing project adjacent to the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) has let loose its grasp. This time around, the project sailed through with approval from the Albemarle County Planning Commission on November 13.
 The Planning Commission had no problem approving a site plan for office buildings and an apartment complex next to NGIC that "the government" will lease. |
That’s in sharp contrast to the last two times it came before the Commission. When Wood appeared in July to rezone the property to allow for 180,000 square feet of office space and 120 apartment units, he got into a shouting match with the Commission, which recommended denial. The Board of Supervisors passed the rezoning anyway, but Wood had to appear before the Commission again in October for a site plan approval, in large measure because of technical issues involving a stormwater pond.
But those issues were all resolved by the November 13 meeting. "I’m just glad they got it worked out," said William "Petey" Craddock.
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