The Blacksburg Planning Commission met on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at 6:30 pm in the Roger E. Hedgepeth Chambers of the Municipal Building. The meeting was called to order by Chair Andy Kassoff and adjourned at 7:40 pm. The Commission approved two major rezoning requests, a right-of-way vacation, and several consent agenda items, all by unanimous 7-0 votes.
Welcome to the regular meeting of Blacksburg Planning Commission, which are held here in the Roger E. Hedgepath Chambers of the Blacksburg Municipal Building on the first Tuesday of each month. Citizens may address a 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. Please limit speaking time to a maximum of three minutes. And speak only once during a specific hearing or comment period. A wireless microphone is available to anyone requesting the assistance. And please silence all cell phones, show respect for all speakers, and allow all opinions to be expressed in the 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, here, Ms. Jones, Mr. Cassoff, Mr. Casey, Ms. Reinhardt. Here, Ms. Walker. Here. We have a court. Great. Our consent agenda tonight is comprised of four items. The first of which is the approval of the Planning Commission minutes from May 6, 2025. Proposed action is to approve. Second item is CUP 25.1, the Graham Outdoor Recreation Camp Conditional Use Permit Request at 2190 Merrimack Road. The proposed action is to schedule a public hearing for July 1st, 2025. Our third item is rezoning 254 Yellow Selfurce Apartments PRD rezoning request at 3503 Holiday Lane. And the proposed action is to schedule a public hearing for July 1st, 2025. And the final item on our consent agenda is zoning ordinance amendment ZOA 60 ordinance 2001, an amendment to amend the text of the town's zoning ordinance to create a new downtown northwest zoning district for the area bounded by North Main Street, Turner Street, and Prices Fork Road. And the proposed action there is to schedule a public hearing for July 1st, 2025. 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 for tonight, of which we have two. The first of which is rezoning 252, the Clydesview Planned Residential Zoning Request from R5 Transitional Residential to PR Planned Residential at 103 Jefferson Street. And we have a staff presentation by Matthew Sampa. This is a request to rezone 0.655 acres at 103 Jefferson Street from R5 Transitional Residential to PR Plan Residential. The request has been brought by the applicant Bosler and Associates on behalf of the owner of Shaw Development LLC. Following the work session, the applicant revised the application to include two additional proffers reinforcing occupancy standards and committing to solar ready home construction. An update to the waterline and stormwater plans, a request to remove sidewalk requirements alongside the parking lot, and the addition of uh utility easements behind all units. And here's an aerial of the property outlined in blue. The development includes 10 detached single-family homes with 20 bedrooms total, featuring open space, patios, bike racks, and parking for 20 vehicles and six bicycles. And here's an updated area of the proposed development. Rezoning requests are evaluated for the conformity to the comprehensive plan, the relationship of the proposal to the general planning program of the town, and whether or not the change further the purpose of the zoning ordinance and the community, the need and justification for the change, which is the applicant's burden approved, and the effect of the proposed change on the surrounding neighborhood and public facilities, facilities. The site's future land use designation is medium density residential, which allows up to 20 bedrooms per acre. The proposed development sees this with a density of 30.5 bedrooms per acre.