The first draft of the new design for Mathews Main Street renovations was presented to the Mathews County Board of Supervisors during its June 25 meeting.

Main Street Committee Chair Bette Dillehay, Mathews Planning and Zoning Director Thomas Jenkins, and landscape architect Ricky Wiatt of the design firm Vanasse Hangen Brustlin each spoke about the design, which continues the new downtown streetscape from in front of the Food Lion north to Hyco Corner, but with some differences.

Jenkins said that the application for grant funding for the project is due on Oct. 1, and it requires a resolution of support from the supervisors.

“The process to get that support begins today,” he said.

In response to residents’ concerns, the plan calls for 13-foot-wide lanes, or 26 feet from curb to curb, rather than the 12-foot lanes that were built from in front of Food Lion south to the former Christie Motor Company, said Jenkins. As a point of comparison, he said that lanes on I-64...