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After extensive discussion, the Goochland Board of Supervisors has voted against pre-zoning property in the Oilville interchange area.

Consideration of the creation of a new service district to provide water and sewer for the same area was also pushed into the future at the October 6 meeting.

Both measures were conceived as inducements to draw commercial development into the area.

“We’ve been waiting for something to happen for 35 years,” said Dover Associates representative Joe Kellam, speaking before the board in the workshop session.

“The question for the board is, do you want commercial development,” he said.

Under consideration are 223 acres near the intersection of I-64 and Oilville Road, currently zoned B-1 or A-2.

District 4 Supervisor Rudy Butler said he thought the creation of a service district for the area had already been approved, as did Kellam.

A recess was called so that Interim County Attorney Barbara Rose could check and see what supervisors actually had already approved last year.

She returned with minutes from the October 14, 2008 meeting, when the board unanimously asked staff to examine the creation of a service district with a maximum county contribution of $826,000 which would have involved VDOT participation and rezoning by the landowners involved.

However, no ordinance was ever proposed, nor was a public hearing ever held.

Once the circumstances were cleared up, the board unanimously approved a motion by Butler to charge staff with creating an ordinance, a financial plan and notice for a public hearing for the board to consider at its November 3 meeting.

Butler then offered a motion to approve pre-zoning the 223 acres to B-3.

But Board Chairman Andrew Pryor, District 1, demurred.

“I think we need to get the district in place before we start the rezoning,” said Pryor.

That motion was defeated 2-3, with only Butler and District 3 Supervisor Ned Creasy voting in favor.

In other business the county heard a grim report from VDOT representative Jorg Huckabee-Mayfield, who told the board that funding for secondary roads had been cut from $4.6 million to about $700,000 in the 2010-2015 secondary road plan.

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