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Town Council Approves Design Changes to New Public Bathrooms

October 23, 2022 by Wayne Creed 6 Comments

At Thursday’s Regular Meeting, the Cape Charles Town Council approved design changes to the new public bathroom. The changes will incorporate a small visitor’s center as part of the structure. The additional cost for the design is $350,000. The total estimated cost of the visitor center/bathroom is over $500k.

The idea to incorporate the visitor’s center came from the architecht that was working with Cape Charles Main Street (CCMS)to renovate one of the old train cars to serve as the Town’s visitor center. While developing the project, the architect asked if the town wanted to consider the idea of expanding the restroom building to incorporate the visitor’s center function. It was argued that the cost of renovating the train, and maintaining it over time would be cost prohibitive. Combining the visitor center into the bathroom designed seemed to make more sense.

The new design is said to invoke a notion of Cape Charles’ historic railroad history. The construction should cooincide the complete removal of the last remaining train tracks from the historic rail line.

The CCMS Board approved the concept, as long as this did not slow down the development of the restroom.

Cost is still an unknown. The $350k is only an estimate, based on the architectural rendering. The Town is also not clear on where the actual funds will come from. With the the very expensive municipal center on the horizon (with an unrealistic estimate of over $5 million), Council members Grossman and Buchholz expressed concerns about the cost timing of expanding the project. The cost of hooking the structure up to town utilities is also an unknown.

Note: During discussion, Grossman did mention that selling the water and wastewater utilities could help fund some of this.

Town Council approved the changes with a 5 to 1 vote. Grossman voted against.

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Comments

  1. Vacruiser says

    October 23, 2022 at 5:27 pm

    How charming, 🤑
    Certainly it will be reverse parking to match the “historic beauty” of the toilets.😷

    Reply
  2. Jenny Simpson says

    October 24, 2022 at 2:56 am

    A visitor center and restroom? Are you kidding? What a ridiculous idea-

    Reply
  3. Julie says

    October 25, 2022 at 12:17 am

    Not sure if this is the best place for a visitor center, where you need parking. That might be better if it is at the museum. However, thinking about the train station design idea for the restrooms: aren’t there still some REAL train stations on the Shore, that could be moved to this site and used for restrooms? Thinking about a cute red one, just off Rt. 13, near the truck stop/gas station. Pretty sure there are others that could be relocated and repurposed. Authentic!

    Reply
  4. Boy says

    October 26, 2022 at 4:10 pm

    The total estimated cost of the visitor center/bathroom is over $500k.
    This is why I enjoy going to Cape Charles but I live in Cheriton. Big lots, well water, low priced houses and low taxes.

    Reply
  5. Doug Luther says

    October 27, 2022 at 2:14 am

    Can someone please help me understand this. Where the hell, is all this money coming from?

    Reply
    • Lee Pruitt says

      October 27, 2022 at 6:24 pm

      The Ukraine…lol!

      Reply

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