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Latest sale date for Town Center Jan. 26
Though it may seem laughable, there is yet another expected deadline for the sale of the Haymarket Town Center.
For at least the fourth time since 2006, the proposal by commercial developer Gerry Kennedy to turn the current town center property into a series of retail shops and office spaces has another deadline.
The town council could finally vote to sell the property Jan 26. Site plan issues with the Virginia Department of Transportation have caused the most recent delays.
To put this in prospective, the town council was supposed to have permanently moved out of Town Hall last summer after it approved of the plan the first time.
That has yet to happen.
Haymarket town manager Gene Swearingen is cautiously-optimistic – again – that it will be met.
“So again, assuming all these things happen and they get approvals, we'll have a final public hearing on the site plan on the 26th,” he said Monday night at Town Hall.
But others are not so sure. Council members Bob Weir (who is against the plan) and Ozzie Vasquez (who supports it) both said they would not be surprised if it was delayed for any given reason following a public work session scheduled for this Thursday, Jan. 8.
If all goes without a glitch – which would be a first since Kennedy first pulled the plan after a dispute with the Haymarket planning commission – then the planning commission can vote on it Monday night.
After the planning commission votes to recommend that the town council either approve or reject the proposal, a public hearing will take place Jan. 26.
Local community members would then have a chance to speak out about it one last time before the council votes on it that same night.
Normally, the town council votes on something one regularly-scheduled meeting after the public hearing, not on the same night.
But the Kennedy project is different.
“It has been reviewed and re-reviewed and I think there's been many discussions. So I think we're at a point where the residents would like to see us finalize this,” said mayor Pamela Stutz.
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