Eleven months after recommending rejection of the Tidewater Logistics Center multi-warehouse complex proposed for the outskirts of Windsor, Isle of Wight County’s Planning Commission will take its first look at a revised concept that calls for one less warehouse.
Isle of Wight’s Economic Development Authority remains under contract with Meridian Property Purchaser LLC, a subsidiary of The Meridian Group, to sell an EDA-owned 83-acre parcel fronting the four-lane Route 460 despite county supervisors voting 4-1 in June to uphold the Planning Commission’s recommendation and deny Meridian’s application to rezone 154 acres of farmland and forestry for industrial use. The acreage includes the EDA-owned land and two non-EDA parcels owned by Hollowell Holdings LLC.
Twenty-seven days after the supervisors’ vote, Meridian submitted a revised conceptual plan dated July 10 showing four warehouses instead of the five originally proposed. Isle of Wight Community Development Director Amy Ring, whose department handles rezoning and permit requests, said Meridian formally submitted a new rezoning application the first week of December. According to a public notice set for publication in the Jan. 1 and Jan. 8 print editions of The Smithfield Times, that revised application will go before the Planning Commission for a public hearing on Jan. 28 during the commission’s 6 p.m. meeting.