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Strategic Growth Areas (SGAs)
Following extensive public input, the City adopted a new growth strategy to accommodate and absorb urban growth.
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Resort District Form-Based Code
What is a Form-Based Code?
Form-based codes strive to create best-use relationships between buildings and public spaces.
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Resort Management Offices
...consist of Special Events and Film Production, Parking, Oceanfront Business and Resort Advisory Commission support.
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The Strategic Growth Area (SGA) Office was created in FY 2009-10 and became a department in FY 2011. It has become a project coordination and implementation resource. With a focus upon planning and infrastructure, the department manages Strategic Growth Areas (SGAs) projects and initiatives.
Reporting to Deputy City Manager Steve Herbert, Barry Frankenfield is the SGA Manager.
The SGA department is poised to implement the following Council goals:
- Create financially sustainable City services
- Invigorate the economy
- Become a competitive, first class resort for residents, businesses, and tourists
- Improve the transportation system
Within certain targeted strategic growth areas (SGAs)
light rail transportation will blend into the transportation plans, parking strategies will be developed and form-based coding will be introduced.
The SGAs were initiated in the 2003 Comprehensive Plan and updated in 2009. Future residential, commercial and light industrial growth will occur within the areas. While creating denser populations, the SGAs are designed to integrate attractively compact mixed land-uses and offer greater use of alternative transportation systems.
The SGA department supports City Council’s economic vitality goals by implementing the Comprehensive Plan.
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The Comprehensive Plan outlines the following goals:
- fostering energy efficient sustainable developments
- encouraging workforce housing
- bolstering public understanding
- creating multiple development area improvements
Moreover SGAs activities enhance adjacent areas and neighborhoods.
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With the inclusion of tourism areas, planning and collaboration documents have been produced from partners such as the Convention and Visitor's Bureau, Public Works and Public Utilities.
As envisioned in the Comprehensive Plan, the SGA supports the Economic Development and Planning Departments. Where applicable, planning will include private developers.
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MISSION STATEMENTS
Strategic Growth Area (SGA) department
The Strategic Growth Area mission, in conjunction with Resort Management, is to ensure Virginia Beach’s sustainable growth through the implementation of strategically located unique centers where people can work, live, and play. Innovative land use planning, design, transportation, parking, marketing, and financial tools will be utilized to achieve this mission. The SGA collaborates with Resort Management on oceanfront and parking projects such as the 19th Street Corridor, Dome Site Entertainment, and Convention Center Headquarter Hotel projects.
Resort Management
The Resort Management Offices support Virginia Beach as a quality community and year round destination through the coordination of special events and film productions, administering franchise agreements, administering oceanfront entertainment contract, facilitating Resort Advisory Commission initiatives, coordinating Capital Improvement Projects (CIP) in the resort and managing assets of all municipal parking facilities.
The Main Office of SGA is located at Town Center. The
Resort Management Office, which includes Parking Management and Special Events, is located at the Oceanfront.
Planning, projects and future infrastructure teams staff are in the SGA Main Office | Town Center Armada Hoffler Building | 222 Central Park Ave. Suite 1050 | Virginia Beach, 23462.
Hours: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.