Ford’s Colony Driving Range
James City County
Acreage:
9.6 acres
Date Recorded/Protected:
12/20/06
Property Facts
Some may wonder why the Conservancy holds an easement on a golf course driving range. The reason for accepting the easement was simple. This particular driving range possesses significant scenic and open-space values. Moreover, in the Ford’s Colony master plan the land was zoned R-4 commercial use. The idea of developing the land for resort units (commercial rentals, condo hotel units) that would not be sold but owned by the country club, was being considered. The yield on the land could have been 144 units.
In 2006, Dick Ford, owner of the Ford’s Colony Country Club, chose to permanently protect the land that remains as a driving range today, and place his development in another location in accordance with the community’s master plan.
Ford’s Colony has a history of being a conservation-minded community and long before the Chesapeake Bay Act requirements were law, buffers, open space and protection of sensitive lands were all part of the master plan.
Protection of the driving range will keep it green and out of any future potential development.
- Protected Land
- Protected Properties
- Alston Easement
- Autumn West
- Black Creek Property
- Black Family Farm
- Boothe Property
- Brewers, LLC
- Briggs Farm
- Brown Easement
- Carr’s Hill
- Cedar Hill
- Chelsea Plantation
- Chenault/Central Crossing
- Church on the Main
- Claxton Creek Property
- Cornell Property
- Cowels / Norman Easement
- Crittenden
- Curtis Farm
- Diggs (Winter Harbor)
- Douglas Properties
- Edgewood Farm and
Custis Pond - Fitzgerald
- Ford’s Colony Driving Range
- Gayles Farm
- Greenlevel Farm
- Greensprings Trail
- Greenswamp Farm
- Hankins Property
- Hill Farm
- Hankins Property – Trust #2
- Hayfield Farm
- Hotwater Cole Tract
- Hudgins Easement
- Hughes Farm
- Johnson Farm
- Kime Property
- Level Green Farm
- Little Oakland Farm
- Locust Grove
- Longhill Swamp
- Mainland Farm
- Marl Springs Farm
- Mundy Property
- Netick Property
- North End Plantation
- Ober Brooks Easement
- Piping Tree Farm
- Poplar Springs Farm
- Powhatan Secondary
- Prince Farm
- Rappahannock Tribe
- Revercomb
- Riverwatch
- River’s Bend at Uncle’s Neck
- Rock Springs
- Route 5 Buffer
- Route 132
- Rurak
- Scott Trust Parcel
- Shady Banks
- Shiloh Property
- The Retreat
- The Williamsburg Winery
- Toddsbury
- Unser Farm
- Van Clief (Winter Harbor)
- Vineyard/Conservancy
- Virginia Capital Trail
- Williamsburg Christian Academy
- Woodward
- Yew Grove
- York River Preserve
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