The Blacksburg Planning Commission held a work session from 5:00–6:20 pm and a regular meeting from 6:30–6:40 pm on May 7, 2024. The work session featured a presentation on the Toms Creek Basin Planning Study. The regular meeting approved a seven-item consent agenda, including scheduling public hearings for June 4, 2024, and canceling several hearings. One citizen spoke during the citizen comment period.
Welcome to the uh regular plan uh regular meeting of the planning commission here at the uh Hedge Path Chambers of the Blacksburg Municipal Building at 300 South Main Street. Meetings are held the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Citizens may address the planning commission during specified times on the agenda and are requested to adhere to the following. Please speak at the podium, please state your name and address, direct comments only to the commission, please limit speaking time to a maximum of three minutes, and speak only once during a specific hearing or comment period. Please silence all cell phones, show respect for all speakers, and allow all opinions to be expressed in a tolerant atmosphere. With that, we'll call the meeting to order. May we have a roll call, please? Mr. Britt. Mr. Ehrman? Mr. Ford. Mr. Herbine, here, Ms. Jones, Mr. Cassoff. President. Ms. Reinhardt. Here. Ms. Walker. Here. And here we have a quorum. Thank you. Tonight's consent agenda is rather lengthy. We have seven items. I will read through them. The first item is the approval of the planning commission minutes from April 2nd. The action is to approve. The second is rezoning 2401 ordinance 2051, which is a request for an amendment to previous rezoning on three point on 33.87 acres at the former old Blacksburg High School site, which is on Patrick Henry Drive. And it's being brought forward by Bolzer Associates for HS Development, HS Development LLC, in the town of Blacksburg, who are the property owners. And the action is to schedule a public hearing for June 4th. Second item is C UP 241, conditional use permit request for a drive-in restaurant in the GC General Commercial Zoning District on 1.02 acres at 1421 South Main Street. And the action there is to schedule a public hearing for June 4th. Fourth item is right-of-way or ROW 2401 ordinance 2055, which is a request to vacate approximately 11,464 square feet of unbuilt right-of-way at the end of Progress Street by James Taylor of Balzer Associates, the applicant, on behalf of SNS Construction, LLC, and CC and B development. And the action is to schedule a public hearing for June 4th. Fifth item is zoning ordinance amendment ZOA61, an amendment to the Town of Blacksburg zoning ordinance to create a new small lot development option in the R4 low residential, low density residential zoning district to allow for smaller lot sizes. The sixth item is AFD 271 ordinance 2052, which is a request to withdraw 3.036 acres from the agricultural and forestal district at 701 Bishop Road. And the action there is to cancel the May 7th public hearing. Do we have a motion? I move Planning Commission approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. All those in favor? Moving on to our public hearings. The public hearings tonight are simply the three that were identified in the consent agenda that had their public hearings canceled for tonight, which are zoning ordinance 0161, also AFD 24 ordinance 2052, and CUP 234, the conditional use permit request for multifamily residential on the ground floor of general commercial. Would anyone like to address the commission on any of those public hearings? Hearing none. Moving on.