Planning Office

The Planning Office will host a public meeting on the Thoroughfare Historic Overlay District Initiative on Monday, September 29, 2025, at 6pm at the Haymarket-Gainesville Library located at 14870 Lightner Rd, Haymarket, VA 20169. Planning Office Staff will provide a status update for the National Register of Historic Places Nomination and discuss steps for the creation of the Historic Overlay District.

The Prince William County Board of County Supervisors initiated an update to the County’s Comprehensive Plan that included the creation of small area plans to provide greater emphasis on detailed planning, visioning, economic development, and design guidelines in order to develop plans that represent each small area plan with its own character, vision, and implementation strategy county-wide.

Shorter Topics Podcast: Episode 5 - Planning for PWC's Future

Prince William County Executive Christopher Shorter recently interviewed Planning Director Tanya Washington for his Shorter Topics podcast. Director Washington talks about her journey into the land use planning field and highlights important Planning Office initiatives such as the recently adopted Affordable Dwelling Unit Ordinance and the soon-to-launch Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance Update.

The Sudley Road Corridor in Prince William County has been chosen for the regional Technical Assistance Panel, or TAP, program during Fiscal Year 2025 by the Urban Land Institute Washington and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The 2.87-mile corridor, near Interstate 66, is bordered by the Manassas Battlefield Park, Godwin Drive, Ashton Avenue and a section of Williamson Boulevard.

As Yorkshire’s main roadway, Virginia Route 28 plays a vital role as a county gateway and is a major transportation route through the center of the community. In 2023, Prince William County was awarded a planning study to evaluate and recommend cost-effective improvement alternatives for multimodal travel in the Yorkshire Activity Center.

In July 2021, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors initiated amendments to the zoning text and county code to create an Affordable Housing Dwelling Unit Ordinance that would help people with incomes at or below the area median income live in the county while maintaining a basic lifestyle and meeting basic living needs. For more information go to the AfDU web page.

Get the latest information on pending and completed rezoning requests, special use permits, comprehensive plan amendments and more.

Planning Office and Department of Transportation staff attended the 2025 American Planning Association Virginia Chapter Conference in July. Staff presentations topics covered affordable housing, noise ordinances, and other topics.