PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — For the second time this month, the Board of Zoning Appeals has continued a case involving a group home in the Pinehurst community in Churchland.
Investigation: Portsmouth neighbors concerned about Nansemond Indian group home
Fishing Point, the healthcare affiliate of the Nansemond Indian Nation, purchased the home last September at 4533 Wake Forest Road. Fishing Point intends to operate the 3,600-square-foot Cape Cod as a group home, but opponents in Pinehurst, along with adjoining Green Acres and Sterling Point, say it will be a business and will harm property values.
Diana Williams of the neighborhood association was ready to address the board until it granted attorney Bryan Plumlee’s request for a continuance until June 25. She said the entire process has been anything but transparent.
“We were shocked because we thought that if this was going to be the use of our private property in a private neighborhood, a civilian neighborhood, that we should be informed and at least given advance notice, and none of that was done,” Williams said in an interview outside the meeting…