The Hampton Planning Commission met on July 17, 2025, to approve minutes from the June 2025 meeting, consider three public hearing items (a zoning ordinance amendment and two use permits), receive a youth planner report, and welcome a new commissioner. All votes were unanimous.
The meeting adjourned with thanks to the clerk, Miss Cahoon.
The City of Hampton's planning commission meeting for the month of July 2025 will now come to order. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll? Commissioner Griffith. Present. Vice Chair Rogers. Present. Commissioner Brooks. Present. Commissioner Coleman. Commissioner Muggler. Present. Commissioner DeProfio. Present. Chair Harris. Present. Do I hear a motion for approval of minutes from the June 2025 Planning Commission meeting? So moved. Second. We have a motion on the floor for approval of minutes from the June 2025 Planning Commission meeting. Madam Clerk, can you call the roll, please? Commissioner Griffith. Vice Chair Rogers. Aye. Commissioner Brooks? Aye. Commissioner Coleman. Commissioner Muggler. Aye. Commissioner De Profio. Aye. Chair Harris. Now we have public hearing items. All right, thank you. First, I will read the public hearing protocol. The Planning Commission of the City of Hampton takes pride in being fair and courteous to all parties in attendance. It is important that all involved understand how the commission conducts its hearings and how all persons before the commission should conduct themselves. Individuals other than the applicant or their representative who have signed up to comment on a case will have three minutes to present their comments. Speakers must remain at the podium or microphone while addressing the commission, and speakers who have signed up may not donate their time to other speakers. Chapter 14 entitled Reviews by the Planning Commission and City Council. And that has become an issue since 2021 when we had an ordinance amendment to require almost all multifamily uses to require use permit, including all multifamily construction outside of downtown and Phoebus. And this means that there's a lot more use permits that are new construction as opposed to some other use permit types that would be reusing existing buildings or just amending existing uses. And so that because those are new construction, they take more time, and especially some of the multifamily developments are pretty large. But right now we have no ability to amend the use permit time frames for to account for those larger times of or yeah, like construction times. And so this proposal would allow us the flexibility to do that by amending conditions. So this proposed ordinance will maintain the current expiration conditions listed as a default, but it would give us the opportunity to modify the um time frame in appropriate cases. And in addition, it will omit unnecessary language from subsection three of the existing ordinance. So this is how the new ordinance will read. Um, which is the expiration of a use permit, and we will strike the word chapter in the first uh clause of that um and replace it with the word ordinance and then add or in the conditions of the use permit. And this is where we this would give us the opportunity to in the use permit conditions make some of the changes that um as needed. And then in subsection three, you can see that the last sentence of that uh we striked because we thought it we didn't need to have an exhaustive list of every way that the zoning um or like zoning staff would determine uh whether or not the property was occupied.