Can you help finish interactive art at PHP ?

From Irene Bowers, reporter for Virginian-Pilot:

Benjamin Heller is a visiting artist from NY on a grant from VBeach Office of Cultural Affairs. He is creating a sculpture—Terrapin Basin—near the Brock Environmental Center. His assistant had to leave, and he is finishing alone.

Here are two ways to help:

1. Interested adults can help polish the rock surfaces. Benjamin will show you how to use the polishers.
2. He could use 600 feet, yup that much, of three pronged or grounded electric cord. He already has one set of 600’ and hopes to borrow enough to run several polishers for any volunteers. He will tag and return the cord to owners upon completion.

You can find him out there early morning to night.
Contact him at: benjaminhellerart@gmail.com
You can read about Terrapin Basin here.

OPCL BOD forwarded our requests to BAC Outreach Forum 2018

View the BAC ’18 Requests Page at OPCL.org.

Lynnhaven Municipal Wharf and it’s proposed uses is one of the new items we’ve added:

Request the City of Virginia Beach eliminate the proposed Dredge Material Transfer Station and expand the Lynnhaven Boat Ramp & Beach Facility (LBRBF) with additional lanes of boat and trailer parking. This would also include repairing the shoreline of the former sand storage area to assist in reducing the number of times Crab Creek has to be dredged.

    -Request a public hearing about the Lesner Municipal Wharf with The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.
    -Request a public hearing about the Lesner Municipal Wharf with Army Corp of Engineers.
    -Request the City of Virginia Beach Maintain an open dialogue with the Ocean Park Civic League of all actions, discussions and document disclosures as related to the potential uses for the Lesner Municipal Wharf.

In our opinion, a dredge material transfer station is not needed.

    • History has shown that it is less expensive for neighborhoods to create haul routes from within their own property as opposed to barging material to Lynnhaven Boat Ramp.
    • The transfer station causes potentially dangerous conflicts with the boating, fishing and recreational beach users in this area.
    • The planned overlook and “The Canoes” sculpture for the new eastbound Lesner Bridge would have an unsightly backdrop of a transfer station.
    • The Lynnhaven Boat Ramp is heavily used for recreational fishing boats and pleasure craft.

    . . .

View the BAC ’18 Requests Page at OPCL.org.

Short Term Rentals discussed at recent City Council informal session and Virginian-Pilot coverage

View article at Pilotonline.com:

But leaders are making some progress on where to allow the practice, which has been popular for decades in Sandbridge and has recently become more common all over the city through websites like Airbnb.

This week, staff presented five areas in the city where homes could continue to be rented out for less than 30 days – as long as they follow regulations that leaders are still crafting.

Note: Did you know Ocean Park is older than Sandbridge and that short term rentals have been part of the culture here too?

Lesner Municipal Wharf documents from our FOIA request

Lesner Municipal Wharf FOIA Details from May2018. (30 page PDF)

Documents include:

ACTION ITEMS
1. The COE and DEQ will discuss internally and advise on the appropriate permit process for the modification and extension request.
2. The City/Consultant will reconnect w/COE and DEQ the week of April 9th for direction and clarity on the process.
3. The City/Consultant will expand efforts on the permit modification/extension and incorporate COE/DEQ input, as appropriate, for the next submission.
UPDATE
Scharlene Floyd of the COE issued a permit extension on March 30, 2018 to extend the permit effective through May 13, 2022.

Proposed bubble around “Crab Creek” illustrating which neighborhoods’ dredge spoils might come from.

Route 35 HRT Bus Finder app & HRT flyer

Route 35 is a trolley that runs every 30 minutes from Shore Drive to Rudee Inlet.

Click to visit HRT Route 35 Finder
Click to view Route 35 flyer.

It connects at Rudee Inlet to:

    Route 31, Aquarium and Campground Trolley
    Ride the VB Wave trolley south to campgrounds and tennis courts, fun parks, and to the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center. Catch the Atlantic Avenue trolley (Route 30) for points north. Aquarium and Ocean Breeze serviced during operating hours only.

    May 20 – Labor Day, 9:30 a.m. until 11:10 p.m.
    Daily about every 20 minutes.

3600 block of Shore Drive near the intersection of Dinwiddie Road has been reduced to one lane for emergency water main repairs.

Emergency Water Main Repair Affecting Shore Drive
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
​VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (April 25, 2018) — The eastbound 3600 block of Shore Drive near the intersection of Dinwiddie Roadbca has been reduced to one lane for emergency water main repairs. Warning signs are posted advising motorists of the utility work. Motorists are strongly encouraged to seek alternative routes.

Water service has been interrupted for some customers in the immediate service area. For additional information, please contact Robert Wheeler with Virginia Beach Public Utilities at 757-621-6072.

It went out about 1255am.

Wonder what other infrastructure Phase 4 will fix under Shore Drive once started.

“The next round of improvements Virginia Beach plans to pursue along Shore Drive includes the stretch from Marlin Bay Drive to the west end of the Lesner Bridge.”

Photo Credit: Stephen M. Katz | The Virginian-Pilot

Check out Pilotonline.com article:

Further west, on the other side of the Lesner Bridge, the few sidewalks are narrow and end abruptly.

And:

The newest phase the city wants to fund is still a ways off from construction – it’s scheduled to start in 2023.

Hopefully, it can be done sooner, said Vice Mayor Louis Jones, who represents that part of the city.

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