Goochland reviews sports park plan with skeet range on Old Fredericksburg Road
The proposed skeet range on Old Fredericksburg Road is still pending, after residents raised noise, traffic and property-value concerns and the applicant asked for another deferral.
Goochland County’s latest look at a sports park plan on Old Fredericksburg Road centered on what the project would put on the ground: a skeet shooting range, similar ranges or courses, and an indoor recreation facility across 353.9 acres north of Interstate 64. The conditional use permit application, CU-2025-00012, came before the Planning Commission on June 18 at 6 p.m. in Board Room 250 of the County Administration Building, but the applicant asked to push the public hearing to the Aug. 20 Planning Commission meeting.
The county’s own meeting materials show how much land-use review still sits between the proposal and any final vote. The site is identified on Tax Map No. 6-1-0-55-A and part of 6-1-0-57-T, and it is zoned Agricultural, General and Business, General. Goochland County Planning & Zoning tied the request to County Zoning Ordinance Sec. 15-102 and Sec. 15-242, while the county’s Planning Commission says its role is advisory to the Board of Supervisors.
The project has already moved through several rounds of review. A March 19 commission meeting deferred the hearing to June 18 at the applicant’s request, and earlier January 15 materials described CU-2025-00012 as an approximately 85-acre portion of 372.967 acres on Walton Road about 0.4 miles north of Three Chopt Road. Those January materials said the county’s Comprehensive Plan designates that area as Rural Enhancement Area.
Local reporting has said the proposed facility would include 14 to 16 clay shooting stations, one skeet station, one wobble-stand and one 5-stand, along with indoor and outdoor archery areas. The project has also been described as youth-oriented. According to that reporting, Luck Stone would lease the land to the nonprofit behind the plan, Virginia Sports Park and Training Center at Goochland, which says it was formed in 2022 by Goochland County residents.
The public reaction has turned on how a shooting and archery complex would fit beside nearby homes and rural land uses. Residents have raised concerns about noise, traffic, lead mitigation, wetlands, environmental impacts, security and property values, and some asked for a formal live-fire sound study and stronger safeguards before the application advances. Tom Winfree, a Goochland supervisor involved with the project, has said he would abstain when it reaches the Board of Supervisors.
The county invited public comment by email and phone, signaling that the decision is still open and still politically charged. Whether the plan moves ahead in August will depend on how the commission weighs the applicant’s recreational case against the practical impact on nearby residents and the county’s rural land-use standards.
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