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Stafford splits 5–2 on Stafford One industrial site, extends Potomac Creek clock

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Stafford One Industrial site outlined in red at Interstate 95, Centreport Parkway and Richmond Highway. Stafford County Planning Commission memorandum, June 24, 2026, in the Sept. 15 Board packet.Aerial view of Stafford One Industrial site outlined in red at Interstate 95, Centreport Parkway and Richmond Highway.
Stafford One Industrial site outlined in red at Interstate 95, Centreport Parkway and Richmond Highway. Stafford County Planning Commission memorandum, June 24, 2026, in the Sept. 15 Board packet.

The Stafford County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday rezoned about 38.6 acres at Stafford One Industrial to heavy industrial on a 5–2 vote, unanimously approved a small Telegraph Road office rezoning, extended the Potomac Creek Campus application clock to Dec. 4, and cleared temporary construction access for a Hartwood Elementary School replacement.

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Fredericksburg

City ED seeks EDA feedback on $100k strategic plan update

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Josh Summits, director of Economic Development and Tourism. Photo: City of Fredericksburg / file
Josh Summits, director of Economic Development and Tourism. Photo: City of Fredericksburg / file

Fredericksburg’s economic development director asked the city Economic Development Authority on Sept. 14 for a fast read on a new department strategic plan, funded at about $100,000 this year, that would replace the 10-point plan City Council adopted in 2023.

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Stafford

No schedule shake-up in ’27–28: Board punts after 90-minute pile-on

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Yellow Stafford County Public Schools bus parked at a school curb with the door open as a student walks on the sidewalk
A Stafford County Public Schools bus. The School Board on Sept. 8 deferred any high school schedule change for 2027–28 after nearly 90 minutes of public comment focused on electives.

After nearly 90 minutes of public comment on a proposed shift from an eight-course to a seven-course high school schedule, Chair Dr. Elizabeth Warner said at the Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026, business meeting that the Stafford County School Board has deferred any schedule change.

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Stafford Planning Commission sends 2026–2046 comp plan to supervisors 6-1

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Color land-use map of Stafford County Virginia showing yellow and orange Targeted Development Areas along Interstate 95, Quantico Marine Corps Base to the north, and the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers
Stafford County’s comprehensive plan land-use map, showing Targeted Development Areas along the I-95 and Route 1 corridor. The Planning Commission recommended the 2026–2046 update to the Board of Supervisors on Sept. 9. Stafford County map. Photo: Stafford County

A Cool Springs dining-and-retail district, a second look at the closed Cannon Ridge golf course, and a fight over dashed lines on a road map all rode the same 6–1 vote Wednesday night.

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A new name for VRE? Board hears marketing plan, 71% on-time rate and a $13 million budget gap

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A Virginia Railway Express train pulls into the Fredericksburg train station. [Photo: Uriah Kiser/PLN]

Virginia Railway Express Operations Board members will spend Friday morning on the message as much as the trains.

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Stafford County Animal Shelter Closes Dog Adoption Floor After Confirmed Parvo Case

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Fredericksburg

Fredericksburg moves factory-built houses onto regular lots, with data-center and parking rules in the same vote

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Factory-built manufactured homes in a residential court. Fredericksburg City Council on Sept. 8, 2026, advanced on first read a zoning change that would treat certain HUD-code manufactured homes like site-built houses on individual lots in single-family districts. The historic district is not included. The city has no manufactured-home parks; this photo is a stock illustration, not a Fredericksburg site. Photo by Roger Starnes Sr. / Unsplash

Fredericksburg took a first step Tuesday toward letting factory-built manufactured homes sit on ordinary house lots, the same way a house framed on the site can.

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Chris Allen says sold-out Charles Street dinner funds Fredericksburg downtown year

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Uriah Kiser, left, talks with Fredericksburg Main Street executive director Chris Allen about A Downtown Affair, the sold-out $250-a-plate dinner on the 900 block of Charles Street. Potomac Local News Podcast graphic.

Fredericksburg Main Street’s signature fundraiser is sold out, and executive director Chris Allen says that one night on Charles Street is how the rest of the downtown year gets paid for.

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63,000 cars a day, no way across — FAMPO eyes a Spotsylvania Mall Court cut-through

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The Fredericksburg Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is running a small microsimulation study to test whether punching a half-road through near Mall Court — the short commercial stub on the south side of Route 3 that lines up with Carl D. Silver Parkway — can improve access around Central Park and Spotsylvania Towne Centre without fouling I-95 off-ramps or nearby Route 3 intersections.

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They’re debating without him: UMW slates Ollivant, Ahrar and Lopez — no Vindman

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Democrat Eugene Vindman, left, and Republican Doug Ollivant. Photo: Campaign files

The University of Mary Washington will host a public debate for Virginia’s 7th Congressional District on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 7 p.m. in Dodd Auditorium.

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