Comprehensive Plan & Economic Development Strategic Plan

Economic development interviews and focus groups will meet between October 2023 and February 2024 with representatives from a diverse group of large and small businesses, agricultural and industrial sectors, and partner organizations.

We invite you to participate in the online survey designed to help us better understand the vision, lived-experience, and hopes citizens have for Augusta County and the future.

Our community input meetings gave opportunities to learn more about the process for developing the Comprehensive Plan and provide feedback and ideas on important topics. Designed as a drop-in format, topic-driven stations offered materials for review and consultants were on-hand to answer questions and record ideas on important topics such as public utilities, transportation, housing, and youth.

• 11/1/2023 - Clymore Elementary School, 5 - 7pm, 184 Fort Defiance Rd, Fort Defiance, VA
• 11/9/2023 - Riverheads Elementary School, 5 - 7pm, 239 Don Hanger Cir, Staunton, VA
• 11/15/2023 - Stuarts Draft Elementary School, 5 - 7pm, 63 School Blvd, Stuarts Draft, VA
• 11/16/2023 - Churchville Elementary School, 6 - 7:30pm, 3710 Churchville Ave, Churchville, VA
• 11/27/2023 - Wilson Elementary School, 5 - 7pm, 127 Woodrow Wilson Ave, Fishersville, VA
• 11/29/2023 - Virtual Meetings, 12-1pm and 7-8pm, via Zoom

Focus Groups will meet beginning in February 2024 and include subject matter experts, major stakeholders, and community leaders and cover topics such as transportation, cultural and historic resources, community facilities and services, energy, housing, outdoor recreation/natural resources/tourism, and land use.

The first draft of Guiding Augusta: Pathways to 2045 is available for public review.

Augusta County Invites Public to Review Comprehensive Plan Draft, Share Feedback at Community Meetings
Community meetings to review the draft of the Comprehensive Plan and share feedback will be held at various locations across the county. Community members are encouraged to attend one of the meetings.
Meeting Schedule (meetings held from 5 to 7 pm):

• Monday, July 28, 2025 – Riverheads Middle School (240 Don Hanger Circle) - Click to view the presentation from the RHMS meeting.
• Wednesday, July 30 – Wilson Middle School (232 Hornet Road) - Click to view the presentation from the WMS meeting.
• Thursday, July 31 – Stuarts Draft Middle School (1088 Augusta Farms Rd) - Click to view the presentation from the SDMS meeting.
• Tuesday, August 5 – Blue Ridge Community College, Plecker Auditorium (Bldg P) - Click to view the presentation from the BRCC meeting.
• Thursday, August 14 – Buffalo Gap Middle School (1770 Buffalo Gap Hwy) - Click to view the presentation from the BGMS meeting.

You can view the plan's priorities and goals handout which were available at the meetings.

For those who cannot attend in person or prefer to provide feedback at their convenience, the feedback survey is available online at: www.AugustaCountyVA.gov/compplan

See the full release.

Review Draft III of the Comprehensive Plan.

The Augusta County Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission convened for a worksession to discuss Draft III of the Comprehensive Plan.

Draft IV of the Comprehensive Plan released.

Draft IV of the Comprehensive Plan was adopted with three (3) amendments by the Augusta County Board of Supervisors on October 22, 2025. A final, designed copy of the adopted Plan with the following amendments is to follow:

1. Remove the transportation recommendation of the construction of a roadway parallel to US-250 from Staunton to Waynesboro in Fishersville (also remove the proposed roadway from Map 8 – Fishersville Subarea Recommendations) within the Mobility Plan (Appendix E).
2. On the Future Land Use Map, keep the following Tax Map Parcel numbers as Medium Density Residential instead of amending to Community Mixed Use:
   a. 066D (2) 1; 066D (2) 2; and 066D (2) 2D
3. On the Planning Policy Area Map, keep the following Tax Map Parcel numbers in a Rural Conservation Area instead of amending into a Community Development Area:
   a. 083 63; 083B1 (1) 3; 083B1 (1) 3A; 083B1 (1) 3C; 083B1 (1) 4; 083B1 (1) 4A; 083B1 (1) 4B; 083B1 (2) B; 083B1 (2) C; 083B1 (2) D; 083B1 (2) E; 083B1 (3) A; 083B1 (4) 1; 083B1 (4) 2; 083B1 (4) 3; 083B1 (4) 4; 083B1 (4) 5; 083B1 (4) 6; 083B1 (4) 7; 083B1 (4) 7A; 083B1 (4) 7B; 083C (1) 2; 083C (1) 2A; 083C (1) 2B; 083C (1) 2C; 083C (1) 2D; 083C (1) 3; 083C (1) 4; 083C (2) 1; 083C (3) A; 083C (3) B; 083C (3) C; and 083C (3) D