A town policy limiting when taxpayer dollars can be put toward private residential and commercial developments – depending on how broadly it’s worded – could affect Smithfield’s 18-year plan to gradually transform the former Pinewood Heights neighborhood behind Smithfield Foods’ meatpacking plant into an industrial park.
A committee of three Smithfield Town Council members tasked with writing a policy governing if or when taxpayer dollars can be put toward sharing in the cost of a private residential or commercial development will hold its first meeting on Sept. 6 at 3:30 p.m. in the Windsor Castle manor house.
The net in-migration of younger adults has been significant enough that the median age has now fallen in 35 Virginia localities, most of them rural, most of them in Southwest and Southside.
Smithfield’s Town Council voted unanimously on Aug. 6 to form a committee tasked with writing a policy governing if or when taxpayer dollars can be put toward sharing in the cost of a private residential or commercial development.
Northern Virginia has seen the highest out-migration rate per capita this decade out of all the state's metro areas, according to a report from UVA's Weldon Cooper Center.