The Gloucester County Planning Commission has recommended approval of a proffer amendment for the Coleman’s Crossing development at Hayes.

Applicant Zandler Coleman’s Crossing, LLC, asked to remove the workforce housing proffer because the buyers were still required by a lending institution to qualify for the full purchase price of a housing unit, planning director Anne Ducey-Ortiz said. Six units were identified as workforce housing to be sold at $160,000, or 65 percent of the applicable Virginia Housing Development Authority’s maximum mortgage for first-time homebuyers.

"At the time of our original rezoning request discussions in early 2009, workforce housing was determined to be a needed facet of any rezoning plans within the county that incorporated residential units," said Charles B. Records, a principal of Zandler’s. However, Records said in a letter to Ducey-Ortiz that "we have found through practice, over the last two years, that the original inten...