Reimagined Short Pump Town Center caps off Henrico zoning code update
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Planners envision filling the mall’s surface parking with mixed-use buildings, parking garages, civic areas and park space. (
Images courtesy of Henrico County)
Parking garages with buildings wrapped around them. Infill development in place of surface parking. More access points and transportation options. Civic and recreational areas and greenspace additions.
Those were among the ideas floated for the future of Short Pump Town Center in a weeklong charrette that concluded in late February.
More than 85 people took part in the daily series of planning sessions, which served to bookend a years-long effort to update Henrico County’s code to include form-based zoning, an optional but heavily incentivized approach to encouraging development and redevelopment in certain areas of the county.
Henrico spotlights Short Pump Town Center with virtual planning sessions
Courtesy of Henrico County)
As two of Henrico’s older shopping malls undergo redevelopment transformations, the county’s newest mall is getting its own second look as part of a larger zoning code update that’s nearing the finish line.
The public is invited to weigh in on what the future could hold for Short Pump Town Center in a weeklong charrette that kicks off tonight. The series of intensive planning workshops will be held virtually at henricoconnects.com.
The charrette is the last of five that the county has held as part of a years-long effort to update its code to include what’s known as form-based zoning, aimed at allowing more flexibility in development, redevelopment and infill projects in certain areas than the county’s existing, decades-old zoning code.