York Notebook Holiday Closings, Supes Consider New Mini Golf Course

By Sam Thrift Monday, December 19, 2011

With Christmas comes Christmas closings, and York County is no exception. See what will be closed and what the Board of Supervisors will be discussing this week by reading below.

York County holiday closings
County government offices and courts will be closed Dec. 23 through 26 for Christmas and Dec. 30 through Jan. 2 for the New Year holiday.

This includes: county offices, York-Poquoson Circuit Court, General District and Juvenile & Domestic Courts, social services, Virginia Cooperative Extension, York County Libraries and the Waste Management Center Administrative Offices.

Garbage and recycling collections will continue as normally scheduled.

For more information, call the York County Public Information Office at 890-3300.

Board of Supervisors
The Board of Supervisors will be meeting Tuesday at 6 p.m. to discuss two items on their agenda.

The first is a request for a Special Use Permit to authorize a Ripley’s Believe It or Not's miniature golf course at 1799 Richmond Road. The Planning Commission recommended the Board of Supervisors approve the group’s request to build a miniature golf course next to its museum on Richmond Road.

The course would be behind the Bank of America’s rear parking lot, along the railroad tracks. According to proposal, the attraction will have 18 holes, a ticket booth, a water wheel structure, two waterfalls and a water tower.

The second item under discussion is obtaining easements for Phase 2 of the Queens Lake Sewer project. According to the memorandum, the county cannot immediately acquire the land to continue the project, but state law permits the board to enter upon and take the easements needed prior to formal condemnation proceedings being initiated. This would happen after a public hearing, an adoption of an ordinance, and the supervisors approving certificate binds that set the least amount the County has to pay the owners.

To read more about the items being discussed, click here.

Historic Yorktown Design Committee update
The Dec. 21 meeting of the Historic Yorktown Design Committee has been cancelled since no applications have been submitted.

To see the most recent agenda, click here.