Rezoning

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Informational meeting with Conner Center
Businesses November 26, 2007
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City of Manassas Park Emphasis - A City in
Transition

• City prides itself in being business friendly
• Expedited permit and planning process
• Personal support by staff and Governing Body
• Transition city businesses from sustainment of
  1970s face to competitive in 21st Century
• Environmental sensitivity
• Retail/commercial mix with light industrial
• Tools to assist with business transition EDA,
  market development
• Park Center from virtual concept to under
  construction
• Park Center standard is vision for economic
  expansion and redevelopment of Manassas Park

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Comprehensive PlanAdopted February 2006

• Virginia State Code 15.2-2223. Comprehensive
  plan to be prepared and adopted scope and
  purpose.
• The local planning commission shall prepare and
  recommend a comprehensive plan for the physical
  development of the territory within its
  jurisdiction and every governing body shall adopt
  a comprehensive plan for the territory under its
  jurisdiction.
• In the preparation of a comprehensive plan, the
  commission shall make careful and comprehensive
  surveys and studies of the existing conditions
  and trends of growth, and of the probable future
  requirements of its territory and inhabitants.
  The comprehensive plan shall be made with the
  purpose of guiding and accomplishing a
  coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development
  of the territory which will, in accordance with
  present and probable future needs and resources,
  best promote the health, safety, morals, order,
  convenience, prosperity and general welfare of
  the inhabitants, including the elderly and
  persons with disabilities.

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Comprehensive PlanAdopted February 2006

• The comprehensive plan shall be general in
  nature, in that it shall designate the general or
  approximate location, character, and extent of
  each feature, including any road improvement and
  any transportation improvement, shown on the plan
  and shall indicate where existing lands or
  facilities are proposed to be extended, widened,
  removed, relocated, vacated, narrowed, abandoned,
  or changed in use as the case may be.

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Comprehensive Plan

• Supported by Strategic Plan
• Family friendly, hometown atmosphere
• Balanced commercial and residential tax base
• Town Center concept introduced with the 1990
  Comprehensive Plan.
• City-sponsored charette in 1999 - explored
  options for a new mixed-use development (town
  center/downtown).
• The Park Center Advisory Committee was formed in
  2002 to develop standards and guidelines for Park
  Center and future economic development of
  Manassas Park.

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Comprehensive Plan Goals

• Park Center Phase One agreement signed 2006
  construction underway, with completion in late
  Fall 2008
• City an active partner in the Park Center project
  -- ensures development is first class and that it
  becomes a true downtown
• Review of existing employer base in the city --
  identify the types of businesses that are missing
  or are underrepresented target specific,
  desirable fields for recruiting purposes
• City participate in or lead regional economic
  forums to become better informed of regional
  business climate and take advantage of
  opportunities for improving the citys economy as
  they arise

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Comprehensive Plan Action Strategies

• Examine ways for making Manassas Park more
  competitive in the regional market for attracting
  new businesses.
• Promote redevelopment of key parcels that are
  currently underutilized -- Manassas Park Shopping
  Center, parcels adjacent to Park Center within
  the area planned for the town center, and within
  Conner Business Center.

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Town Center aka (Park Center)
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Town Center aka (Park Center)__________________
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Whats Next

• Completion of Park Center project
• Blooms Grove Station
• www.bloomsgrovestation.com
• Down the road

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What We Need from Business Owners

• Provide input on how the business owners can
  participate, and help shape the future.

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What the City Can do to Help City Businesses

• What kind of help the City can provide whats
  in it for the business owners.
• Role of EDA redevelopment
• Flory Center Conferences 3 by the end of 2009
  what topics would they like discussed?

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Manassas Park City Staff

• Who to call when
• Mercury Payton, City Manager - 703-335-8813
• Vanessa Watson, Planning Zoning Administrator
• 703-335-8820
• Will Armstrong, Director of Building Code
  Enforcement
• 703-335-8815
• Ron Winder, Deputy Director of Building Code
  Enforcement
• 703-335-8866
• Kathy Gammell, Director of Public Works
• 703-335-8840

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Manassas Park Governing Body Members

• Mayor Frank Jones 703 856-5019
• Vice-Mayor Bryan Polk 703 368-5348
• Mike Bunner 571 332-6587
• Cynde Gardner 703 335-7414
• Fran Kassinger 703 839-0110
• Keith Miller 703 408-1704
• Bill Treuting 571 330-9307