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Stafford supervisors voted 4–3 on Tuesday to rezone a 6-acre parcel at the corner of U.S. 1 and Courthouse Road to become Fountain Park—a new development of apartments and retail stores that will serve as a gateway to what county officials are calling Downtown Stafford. “We’re excited with the opportunity,” said Jeh Hicks, director of community relations for Jarrell Properties of Fredericksburg, which owns the land. “It’s going to be a gathering place where Stafford County residents can meet with their neighbors, their friends, to be able to show off where S...

Fourteen months ago, Stafford supervisors envisioned a vibrant and futuristic downtown area near the county courthouse where families and friends could meet, eat, shop and socialize. They called the potential development Downtown Stafford. John Holden, the county’s economic development director, had previously told supervisors the county-owned, 28-acre site, which lies parallel to the southern edge of Courthouse Road near the U.S. 1 interchange, would be built with fewer brick-and-mortar retail outlets. Holden said broadband and smart energy, lighting, water and temperature controls woul...

An arial view of the new diverging diamond interchange in Stafford. [Photo: VDOT] The Stafford Board of Supervisors’ recent decision to allow a massive DHL Distribution Center will add over 1,360new vehicle trips daily to our brand-new, curvy Courthouse Road Divergent Diamond interchange. A significant amount of this traffic will be heavy trucks. And worse, our Board has awarded big tax incentives (aka your tax dollars) to DHL to make it happen. A decade ago, a bipartisan Board of Supervisors went on record explicitly stating they did not want more semi-truck traffic and industrial...