The Blacksburg Town Council held a regular meeting on October 14, 2025, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The agenda included a police life saving awards ceremony, approval of a consent agenda with several items, public hearings on a rezoning and right-of-way vacation at Holiday Lane, and adoption of three ordinances to modernize subdivision and zoning regulations. Council also heard citizen comments regarding a police incident. All votes were unanimous.
The consent agenda was approved unanimously on a roll‑call vote (Anderson, Colliver, Ford, Hager‑Smith, Mattingly, Sutphin, Watson all yes).
Will council please come to order and will the clerk please call the roll. Anderson. Present. Oliver? Here. Here. Heger Smith. Here. Mattingley? Here. Set Finn? Here. Watson. Present. Will the Vice Mayor please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? Pledge of allegiance. To the flag. And to public. One nation. Under God. Indivisible. We're going to begin our activities this evening with a presentation. So I'd like to call Chief Claire up. And this is for the Virginia Association of Chiefs. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor and Council, for having us uh this evening. If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to just read one of these uh citations and then and then present it to our officers. And uh this is especially an honor for me being the president of the Chiefs Association this year to come back and be able to present these. So these citations say that on September the twenty-fifth, twenty twenty four, members of the Blacksburg Police Department SWAT team were participating in training in Radford, Virginia. While transitioning between training sites, officers observed a person in mental health crisis leap from the memorial bridge in Radford into the new river. Officers immediately stopped and observed this the lifeless subject in the water, communicated with the communications center, and called for local resources, but our officers immediately responded into the water, swimming towards the unconscious individual, while other SWAT members were gathering supplies for the rescue. This person was more than halfway across the river floating downstream. These officers are jumping in with all their equipment on. We're going to introduce that this evening, and the public hearing will be on November 12th. Ordinance 2097, authorizing the lease of space on the North Main Street water tank to New River Valley Unwired Ventures LLC, a new singular wire wireless PCS LLC. Again, our action tonight will be to introduce that and schedule the public hearing for November 12th. We have an ordinance 2098 to amend town council section 1113 to increase the bad check fee. We'll talk about that on November 12th at greater length during a public hearing. Ordinance 2099, an ordinance to amend town code of section 11-200 regarding business license requirements. We're introducing that and scheduling the public hearing for November 12th. We have an ordinance 2101 to amend town code sections 6-200 and 6-203 to reflect recent building code regulation changes and to establish civil penalties for property maintenance code violations. The public hearing is scheduled for November 12th. We have a CUP 25-2, an automobile dealership and general commercial that'll also be heard on November 12th. And we have a CUP 25-3, dance hall use in the downtown downtown commercial district. So if you want to get real bang for your buck, come back on November 12th. I just thought of this, I hate to interrupt, but you don't want to tell the audience that November 12th is a Wednesday night. Oh, because November 11th was holidays. Yes. Thank you.