A nonprofit wanted to bring veteran horse-therapy to Virginia Beach. A decades-old rule halted their plans.

Trails of Purpose’s planned expansion to Virginia Beach is at a standstill after the city planning department found language in a decades-old land preservation program that bars the nonprofit from providing mental health services for military members at a Pungo farm. Trails of Purpose began leasing parts of One Red Maple Farm in early May with plans to expand its services to a new location, ...

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