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FXBG Advance
- July 11, 2024
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OP-ED: Will the City of Fredericksburg Hear Its Residents?

The city is asking residents to get involved in updating its comprehensive plan. Some believe the city’s reaction to concerns over Mary’s Landing raises concerns over how closely the city will listen. By Matt Kelly The city of Fredericksburg has embarked on planning its future development through the updating of its Comprehensive Plan. Branded “FXBG […]

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FXBG Advance
- June 29, 2024
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Clay Jones: One Plat Map’s as Good as Another

Editor’s Note: Growth is a problem that communities want, but that it’s a desirable problem doesn’t mitigate the difficulties of dealing with needs like housing. The Mary’s Landing project has drawn considerable attention in Fredericksburg, and in the pages of the Advance (See here, here, here, here, and most recently, here.) Clay Jones brings his […]

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FXBG Advance
- June 21, 2024
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More than 100 Discuss Mary’s Landing

City planning staff contend the development can proceed by-right and only requires staff approval; attorney representing Canal Quarter Neighborhood Association residents argues otherwise. City planning staff reiterated on Thursday the position that the owners of Mary’s Landing have the right to build 63 houses on the property without going through a special use permit process. […]

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FXBG Advance
- June 17, 2024
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Attorney Contesting By Right Status of Proposed Mary’s Landing Development

Emails have been exchanged with City Attorney. An attorney hired by a group of Fredericksburg residents is asking the City’s planning department to deny approval of the site plan for the proposed Mary’s Landing development in the Canal Quarter neighborhood. “My clients respectfully demand that the City deny the requested approval of the Mary’s Landing […]

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FXBG Advance
- May 31, 2024
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Mary’s Landing Developer Submits Revised Site Plans

The developer is no longer requesting open space credits for preserving the 1964 Medical Arts Building. The developer of Mary’s Landing—a 63-townhome project proposed on several largely-vacant parking lots in the Canal Quarter neighborhood—has submitted a second site plan for City staff to review. Staff disapproved the first site plan in February, based on “a […]

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FXBG Advance
- April 30, 2024
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Why Mary Isn’t Sticking the Landing

Bear with me, but I have a terrible knot in the back of my right shoulder that neither heat nor medicine nor water can seem to unlock. Political differences can seem that way as well. Sometimes no matter how hard you try, the problem just seems intractable — sometimes because the players want to make […]

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FXBG Advance
- April 29, 2024
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Why Mary Isn’t Sticking the Landing

When you have an LLC within an LLC moving within weeks and not months on a prime piece of property? There ought to be questions. Bear with me, but I have a terrible knot in the back of my right shoulder that neither heat nor medicine nor water can seem to unlock. Political differences can […]

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FXBG Advance
- April 3, 2024
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Why Doesn’t Mary’s Landing Project in Fredericksburg Require Council Approval?

Plat from 1975, showing underlying lots on a portion of the property where Mary's Landing is proposed.

by Adele UphausMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT The Mary’s Landing project, which proposes to build 63 townhouses on existing unused parking lots across Fall Hill Avenue from the old Mary Washington Hospital building, does not require review by the Planning Commission or approval by City Council because it likely does not qualify as a major or […]

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FXBG Advance
- March 26, 2024
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Mary’s Landing Project Seeks Open Space Credits for Preserving one “Character Structure,” but Would Demolish Other Buildings from Same Period

J.J. Ballentine's drawings for the Fredericksburg Public Health Center, located at 435 Hunter Street and slated for demolition under plans for Mary's Landing, which is under review by Fredericksburg City staff. Photo courtesy HFFI.

By ADELE UPHAUSMANAGING EDITOR AND CORRESPONDENT Plans for the Mary’s Landing townhouse project, which would be located across Fall Hill Avenue from the old Mary Washington Hospital, seek “open space credits” for preserving one mid-20th-century structure while calling for the demolition of two other early-to-mid-20th-century structures. The building that would be preserved is also not […]

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