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The 1993 update of the Comprehensive Plan saw Jeffersonton quietly retired from the village center list to become something new, a “cultural center.”
Clevenger’s Comer was upgraded to a village center because of development planned or underway around the intersection, and the everincreasing traffic at the intersection of U.S. 211 and Route 229. It remained a village center with the 1999 update of the Culpeper County Comprehensive Plan.
Development plan
During the summer of 2001, though, all hell broke loose. The cause? The Culpeper County Planning Department had finally drawn a boundary line around the Clevenger’s Comer “village center.”
The village center was to contain 1,483 homes and 4,138 new residents, with 197 acres devoted to commercial development, all on 1,863 acres around the four comers of Clevenger’s Comer.
But the real bombshell was Centex Homes and Ken Thompson, the developer of South Wales, proposing a massive development in just the southeast comer of the village center. It contained 2,700 homes, 1.5 million square feet
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