Keep Virginia Beach Above Water

06/09/2026

Know of illegal development? New development causing flooding? Nonconforming use in the AICUZ? Wetlands/waters filled without permits? Stormwater violations?

You know, all of the laws the Virginia Beach City Government stopped enforcing that is in violation of state and/or federal law - post the address here or email [email protected]. We are mapping all of the city's dirty-deeds and naming the individuals responsible.

06/08/2026

Virginia Beach Planning Commission this Wednesday has a McLeskey du jour on the menu. Municipalities that value their residents take land away from reckless builders and put it in public land trusts. Virginia Beach takes public land and hands it to developers so they can negligently overdevelop the property, and then make residents pay for the consequences. Vote them all out!

Do you have thoughts about the Marlin Bay development? With only 2 days left, it’s time to make your voice heard.

✍️ Write to the VB Planning Commission
🎤 Sign up to speak at the June 10th meeting

City representatives aren’t always scrolling social media — we encourage all neighbors to share their thoughts by bringing it to them directly.

➡️ Whether for it, against it, or have questions, NOW is the time to speak up. Write to the Planning Commission ([email protected]) and/or speak at the June 10 meeting (details at OPCL.org).

🚨 Don’t let decisions get made without your input.

06/08/2026

Virginia Beach City Council Agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday, June 9, 2026. More closed-door meetings about public property it must be more 'sponsorships.'

06/06/2026

Edit- "Project Athena" - yes, another 'project' they will claim is 'not a data center.' And Amazon's "Project Door/Project Beach" - apparently, there's a data center there too.

- The District (Taylor Farm) 250 acre data center on a 786 acre site.
- Date posted to Timmons' website - May 23, 2025
- Extending Corporate Landing Parkway across Dam Neck Road, between Corporate Landing Middle and Elementary Schools.
- Venture Realty Group - so Atlantic Park & co inland

06/05/2026

If you think Virginia Beach City Council has stopped data centers because they 'said' they would -- you are wrong.

It is, yet again, a distraction to win your favor -- then immediately turn against the public to assist developers in harming residents.

Take the Flood Bond Referendum for example -- 73% of voters agreed to have their taxes increased for flood protection projects. What did we ask for in return -- **"Stop developers from causing flooding!"**
Easy enough right -- it's the law.

Even so, these laws 'don't apply' to pet-builders in Virginia Beach. So on September 7, 2021, council unanimously agreed to add this provision to their commitments should us peasants fund flood protection projects which couldn't possibly be to assist their developers in more negligent development, because council agreed to stop developers from causing flooding...right...?

Would you believe 'some' council went back on this vote -- Mayor Bobby Dyer, Rosemary Wilson for Virginia Beach City Council, and Councilman Michael Berlucchi. Of course you would. And for the reason everyone already knows -- because developers told them to.

So if you think council's resolution against data centers will stand -- all it takes is a letter from a developer and it will be undone tomorrow.

**Ann Crenshaw is the attorney who representated Argos Properties and sued the city because they weren't allowed to develop flood-prone swampland and the courts ruled against her client.

06/03/2026

"We must rezone agricultural land to industrial we are running out of land."
Virginia Beach Mayor Bobby Dyer
Most Destructive Mayor in History

06/03/2026

**PUBLIC COMMENTS due June 5**
Regarding the Interfacility Traffic Area and Vicinity Master Plan update - NO INDUSTRIAL ZONING!
Email: [email protected]

This is PUBLIC LAND the VBDA is attempting to convert to PRIVATE industrial use at a discount.
* Disestablished the VBDA Virginia Beach Economic Development - 'manufacturing' is not now nor has it ever been an 'economic driver' in Virginia Beach
* Take back our public spaces
** REMOVE Mayor Bobby Builder-bro Destruction Dyer - it's the only way to stop the industrialization of Virginia Beach

06/03/2026

Virginia Beach City Council 👀
Scheduled for approval next Tuesday. It's when residents aren't watching very closely we wake up to 44 acres of a manufacturer of data center equipment in public agricultural land.