Welcome to what might be the shortest meeting in the history of regular meetings of the Blacksburg Planning Commission.

Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month here at the H at 7:30 at the Hedge Path Chambers of the Blacksburg Municipal Building.

Citizens can address the Planning Commission during specified times on the agenda and are requested to adhere to the following.

Please speak at the podium, state your name and address, direct comments only to the commission, and please limit your speaking time to a maximum of three minutes.

And please speak only once during a specified hearing or comment period.

And with that, we'll call the meeting to order.

Can we have a roll call, please?

Mr.

Davis?

Here.

Mr.

Cashall?

Here.

Mr.

Langrier.

Present.

Ms.

Jones?

Yeah.

Mr.

Jones?

Yeah.

Mr.

Collie?

Yep.

Rick Money Hunt.

I'm here.

Mr.

Stephen?

Here.

We have forum.

Great.

Well, our first order of business is the consent agenda, which would include the approval of the Blacksburg Planning Commission minutes from January 3rd, 2019.

Also on the consent agenda is a zoning ordinance amendment number 41, ordinance number 1888, an ordinance to allow for the keeping of urban chickens in a certain residential uh certain residential areas.

And that's a pilot program in the Bennett Hill Progress Street neighborhood.

Also on the consent agenda is rezoning request 17006, a request to rezone 23 or 21.13 acres of vacant land from the R4 logo density residential zoning district to 10.59 acres rezoned to the downtown commercial zoning district and 10.54 acres to be rezoned as planned residential zoning district for the land that comprises the old Blacksburg Middle School property at 501 South Main Street.

And with that, do we have a motion?

Move approved.

Second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Tonight we have no public hearings, and that leaves us at the moment in our agenda where we have citizen comment.

During this period, uh anyone from the public can address the planning commission on any issue that they so choose.

Yes, please.

State your name and address.

Yes, sir.

My name is James Arderbright, and my family has lived here since before the town existed.

We actually can safely say our families always talked about being there when the Indians attack the English up here.

Tonight I'm bringing a little piece of history to your attention that really needs to be protected, and that is the Reynolds House out on Patrick Henry Drive.

The old farmhouse that sits there beside the rescue squad.

I know that the rentals partially date back before this town was even created.

At one point, they pretty much owned everything out there on the 460 end of town.

Our other families around here that held significant land were the greens, Mr.

Black, the McCoys, and the Stangers.

So I just feel that instead of that we need to protect that little house because that goes way back into the 1800s.

I would say if y'all start looking into it, you'll find that things in multiple pieces where one generation added on to it and then another generation added and then another.

I know that right now they have not been approved for the apartment complex that they have posted or have offered the ideal, but I was saying maybe if the town could repropose townhouses or something to go in behind it, fix up the old house, make it look real nice, and maybe even set it up as a handicap accessible structure for college students or townspeople that need that kind of feature.

And that way also preserve our history a little bit.

Thank you.

Thanks.