Gumenick Properties to build New Development at Patterson & Maybuery
Gumenick Properties has received a zoning variance to build 30 new homes on 6 acres at Patterson Avenue and Maybuery Drive, RichmondBizSense reports:
The new homes will be between 1,300 and 1,900 square feet and be equipped with “green” features such as tankless water heaters and energy efficient windows.
“These are smaller homes, very green homes,” said Ed Crews, spokesman for Gumenick, “We looked at the marketplace, and there is a certain kind of home consumers want and are willing to spend money for with the current recession.”
The zoning was changed from allowing 18 homes. Concerned neighbors gathered at a public meeting this month to demand changes.
As a point of correction, the neighbors in this case never gathered to “demand” changes. The neighbors gathered to raise concerns about the impact of rezoning this land from R2A, zoning which had stood on Henrico County books for around 50 years, to R5AC, zoning which would nearly double the number of homes and place them within 10 feet of our open-air elementary school. We only asked for reasonable accomodations to mitigate the impact of construction, traffic and the impending homes on our school and community.
I say more power to them if they think they can build and sell these homes at present. Personally, it’d be nice if some of the leftover inventory elsewhere in the Richmond area got sold first, but who knows. By the time these things are actually done, the overall regional picture may look different.