The Blacksburg Planning Commission held its regular meeting on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 6:30 PM in the Roger E. Hedgepeth Chambers. Commissioners approved two items unanimously: a conditional use permit for lighting improvements at Toms Creek Athletic Field and an ordinance amending sanitary sewer design standards. The meeting adjourned at 7:05 PM.
Well approval of the Planning Commission minutes. Welcome to the regular meeting of the Blacksburg Planning Commission. Which are held here on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. Roger E. Hedge Math Chambers of the Blacksburg Municipal Building. Citizens may address the planning commission during specified times on the agenda and are required to adhere to the following. Please speak at the podium, 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 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? Here, Mr. Ehrman, Mr. Ford, Ms. Jones, Mr. Cassoff, Mr. Casey. Ms. Reinhardt? Here. Ms. Walker. We have a quorum. Right. Thank you. Our first item is our consent agenda. There's a single item on the consent agenda, which is the approval of the Planning Commission minutes from January 7th. Do we have a motion? I move approval of the consent agenda. Second. All those in favor? We'll move on to our public hearings. Our first public hearing tonight is a conditional use permit request to permit lighting at a public park or field at 2100 Tom's Creek Road. C UP 244 on behalf of the town of Blacksburg. And we have a staff presentation by Carolyn Collins. Good evening, everybody. Excuse me. Tonight we'll be looking at CUP 24-4, lighting at a public park or field. The applicant is Dean Crane on behalf of the property owner, the town of Blacksburg, and the properties located at 2100 Toms Creek Road. The acreage is approximately 9.33 acres, and it's zoned rural residential one. The current height of the light poles are 53 feet with the proposed height being 60 feet. And additionally, there's proposed zero foot candles of illuminance on adjoining residential properties as well as roadways. Some existing conditions of the site, the parcel is elevated above Tom's Creek Road, however, it does sit lower than the surrounding properties. Current operations, uh they do have activities year-round, however, there's a stronger emphasis in the fall, spring, and summer seasons. Events do typically conclude by 10 p.m. with lights shutting off at 10 30 p.m. And the fields also available uh for public as well as private leagues. And you can see here on an aerial image, the subject property outlined in blue.