Dear Coalition friends and supporters,
Don’t settle for the status quo.
Tired of looking at the blighted areas in your community, while watching important natural resources turn into housing sprawl that harms our sustainability goals and increases pressure to build out costly infrastructure?
In 2022 Prince William County adopted the Arts Ag and Overlay District. Let’s amplify our unique rural landscape as we work to identify areas that can be re-imagined.
The purpose of the Agritourism and Arts Overlay District (AAOD) is to facilitate investment involving improvements to land and structures within the AAOD while encouraging agricultural and small business, artistic (including music and performing arts) uses. The AAOD overlay properties are already zoned A-1, Agricultural. The objective is to offer more flexibility in small business uses allowed and the development standards related to those uses in the AAOD as incentives for investment in agritourism and arts-related businesses. An intended result of the AAOD is to help establish an area with agritourism and art-related businesses integrated together in a manner that maintains the rural character of the Rural Area. The AAOD uses an innovative approach allowing artists and owners and operators of support businesses to occupy joint living and commercial space within the same structure that would otherwise not be allowed.
A healthy community requires strategic planning; and not falling prey to Developer talking points. We are experiencing business-as-usual like never before, where developers dictate to our county how and where we grow.
Find out how we turn the page. Learn about positive opportunities that already exist. Sunday, May 18 – Register here.
The question is: How do we make these opportunities happen.
