Our New Building
County Approves Church Building
A great deal of progress has been made in the Grace and Glory church building program, along several fronts.
On March 24, the Fluvanna County Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve our congregation's site development plan request to construct a 7,243 square foot church sanctuary, with adjoining parking spaces, on the 10-acre site we own on Route 53. Approval is contingent on our final site plan adhering to county parking, landscaping, tree protection and outdoor lighting requirements, as well as our meeting specific Health Department and Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) requirements.
Grace and Glory was represented at the meeting by W. Michael Woolwine, civil/site development specialist with Hughes Associates, our architectural firm, and by Lou Cooper, Keith Cuda and Walter Lindenmann, members of the Church Building Steering Committee.
In addition, Grace and Glory has received approval from the Fluvanna County Department of Public Works to connect to and use the new sewer pipeline, currently under construction on Route 53. As soon as a contract has been reviewed and approved by all of those involved, Shelbeck Excavating of Scottsville, the firm laying the pipeline, will hook the county's pipe to a manhole on church property and extend the sewer pipe to the site of the proposed new church structure. Keith Cuda played a key role in seeing to it that the hook-up to the sewer pipeline was accomplished.
Progress also is being made regarding the selection of a firm to provide preconstruction contract services to the congregation. In cooperation with Hughes Associates, interviews with selected general contractors have been scheduled and a decision will be made shortly to retain the services of one firm to work with Hughes and with members of the Building Steering Committee to come up with more definitive and precise costs pertaining to the new church facility.