The October 2, 2018 regular meeting of the Blacksburg Planning Commission was called to order at 7:30 p.m. with Chair Don Langrehr presiding. The meeting was brief, as all public hearings scheduled for the evening were postponed to a later date. The consent agenda was approved unanimously, and the commission received reports from the Historic Design Review Board and the Montgomery County Planning Commission. The meeting adjourned at 7:39 p.m.
Action: Motion to approve consent agenda passed 6-0 (Colley, Davis, Jones (Mr.), Jones (Ms.), Langrehr, Moneyhun in favor; none opposed).
Good evening. This is the uh October 2nd, 2018 regular meeting of the Blacksburg Planning Commission. We meet every uh the first Tuesday of every month here at Blacksburg Town Hall. And uh we'll start the meeting off with a roll call. Mr. Davis, Mr. Collie, Mr. Langrier Present. Ms. Money Hun here. Uh Mr. Jones? Here. Mr. Catholic and Mr. Sutton are absent. I'm Mel Jones. I'm here we have quorum. Okay, to start off with every uh item that was originally on our public hearing list for this evening has been postponed until November. So those will be heard on November 6th. So I'm going to run through our consent agenda, which includes those um public hearings that were previously listed for this evening. First on the consent agenda is an approval of planning commission minutes from September 4th, 2018. The second item on the agenda is a rezoning request 18-0006, a request to reson three acres of vacant land from RM48 medium density residential to planned residential at 1435 Tom's Creek Road for the development of a multifamily student housing development. And that'll be heard on November 6th. It's also a rezoning, a request to reson 3.818 acres from planned residential with conditions in RM27 low density multi-unit residential zoning to planned residential with amended conditions in the 500 block of Warren Street and the 600 block of Green Street. This is land that's right behind the football stadium. That'll be also uh that'll be heard on November 6th also. It's postponed from this week. The fourth item on the consent agenda is a request to vacate approximately 0.327 acres of the town owned Warren Street right-of-way. This has to do with the uh project previously mentioned that's behind the football stadium. The fifth item is a rezoning number 18-0008, a request to resonate 4.215 acres from R5 Transitional Residential Zoning to planned residential zoning at 1222 Patrick Henry Drive. And that'll be heard on November 6th. The next item is a is rezoning number 18-0007, a request to rezone approximately 1.49 acres from the R5 Transitional Residential Zoning District to the downtown commercial rezoning district at the 500 block of South Main Street. That'll be heard at a later date. We've canceled that public hearing. Okay, so that stacks up for a very busy meeting on November 2nd uh November 6th. Can I get a motion on the consent agenda? I'll move approval. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion about our very heavy consent agenda. None. Okay. All those in favor? All right, opposed, zero. All right, those are on the list to go. As I mentioned before, we had several public hearings scheduled for this evening, but they've all been canceled and rescheduled for November 6th. With that, we'll then move on to citizen comment. If anyone in the audience would like to address the planning commission on any town-related issues regarding, particularly regarding planning, you could approach us and uh state your name and address and let us know what you're interested in. All right.