Green Run is a residential
and commercial community covering nearly six square miles in the
center of Virginia
Beach
, Virginia
.
Built between 1968 and 1986, Green Run was the first
Planned Unit Development (PUD)
built in the
South Hampton Roads
region and contains 36
neighborhoods,
including 4200
single-family
homes,
townhouses, three
condominium projects, and three
apartment communities with roughly 900 apartments.
According to 2005
census figures, over 15,000
residents live within Green Run.
Homes Association
Homeowners automatically become members of the Green Run Homes
Association when they purchase. The Association's mission is to
promote the recreation, health, safety and welfare of the residents
through ownership, improvements, operation and maintenance of
common areas and facilities. The Association sponsors over a dozen
youth recreational sports programs in swimming, tackle and flag
football, and basketball as well as a senior citizens group and
numerous scouting type activities. In addition, the Green Run
Athletic Complex has been home, for over 27 years, to Green Run
Little League.
Beginning with a 2005 change to its governing documents, Green Run
Homes Association also assumed responsibility for enforcing
building maintenance codes within the community to ensure that
properties are properly maintained by their owners.
Community leadership
Green Run Homes Association is run by a nine-member governing Board
which serves as its legislative body. Board members are elected to
staggered three-year terms, and three of the nine Board members are
elected each year. The Board then appoints the President who acts
as the Association's
Chief
Executive Officer. The President acts as the Board's liaison to
Association staff to ensures that policies enacted by the Board are
carried out. The President also acts as the Association's
representative to
City Council.
Day-to-day operations of the Association are carried out by the
Executive Director who is appointed by the governing Board and acts
as
Chief Operating Officer.
The Executive Director supervises the Association's 47 employees
and serves as a principal contact for residents.
Facilities and amenities
The Association maintains a community center, four recreation
centers with swimming pools and tennis courts, 14 parks and
playgrounds, an athletic complex, and roughly of common area or
"green belt" including of canals with of shoreline.
Programs and events
Green Run has a wide array of programs and events for residents of
all ages. These include quarterly seniors dinners, youth sports
programs, annual
Easter Egg Hunt,
pool parties. In 2006, the Association partnered with State
Delegate Sal Iaquinto and Attorney General
Bob McDonnell to create "Safe Kids Day", an
annual event that promotes child safety for residents. A Teen
Council was started in 2006 to enable youths to participates in
community volunteer activities, and Green Run has the largest
Neighborhood Watch program in
Virginia Beach.
The annual Fall Cook-Out, begun in 2005, has quickly become a
popular tradition and has an annual attendance of nearly 800
residents. The annual event give residents an opportunity to eat,
listen to great local music, and connect with neighbors from across
the community. Residents are also able to network with Association
leaders and staff along with city, state, and federal officials.
Attendees often include the
Mayor, members of
City Council,
Fire Chief,
Chief of
Police, representatives from city departments, Attorney General
Bob McDonnell, and Congresswoman
Thelma Drake.
To encourage civic involvement, Green Run's Association hold
periodic town hall meetings with city and state officials on topics
of interest to residents, and has begun sponsoring a voter
registration initiative.
Volunteers
Green Run's governing board regularly meets with residents to
determine how to better meet the needs to the community, and it
actively recruit volunteers with diverse points of view, to ensure
that minority opinions are represented. Green Run has a thriving
volunteer community.
In 2007, volunteers planted over 50 trees throughout the community
on
Arbor Day. Green Run has adopted
several streets and parks within the community through the city's
"adopt-a-street" and "adopt-a-spot" programs. Volunteers clean
these areas at least one every month, rather than
once-every-six-months as required by the program. Green Run also
serves as "Partners in Education" with three local elementary
schools and regularly sends volunteers to assist these
schools.
Media coverage
Green Run has received a very positive attention to its many
programs, both from residents and the press. During 2006, WTKR-TV 3
ran a series of stories on Green Run, and during 2007, the
Virginian-Pilot’s "At Home
Section" ran a very positive profile on the neighborhood, although
there is an average of at least 3–5 homicides or suicides
annually.
Schools
The community is served by three elementary schools:
Green Run Elementary School,
Rosemont Elementary
School, and
Parkway
Elementary School; two middle schools:
Landstown Middle School and
Larkspur Middle School; and two high
schools:
Green Run High School
and
Landstown High School, and
Tidewater Community
College.
Elected officials
Green Run's representative to City Council is Glenn Davis who is
elected from the
Rose Hall
District. Green Run's School Board representative is
Brent McKenzie.
Green Run is
represented in the Virginia General Assembly
by Delegate Sal
Iaquinto, Delegate Bobby
Mathieson, and Senator Harry
Blevins. Green Run is represented in the
United States Congress by
Congresswoman
Glenn Nye.
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