The Harrisonburg Planning Commission held a regular meeting on March 12, 2025, at 6:00 PM in City Council Chambers. Commissioners voted on four public hearing items and one unfinished business item, all related to zoning and land use. All recommendations will go to City Council on April 8, 2025.
Okay. All right. I will call the March twelfth meeting of the Hirschburg Planning Commission's order. Uh roll call determination of quorum. We have five the commissioner's president. Commissioners are present. Um next item of business is approval of minutes. Do we have motions, comments? Anything along those lines. No. Minute standard approved. All right. Next item. First item underneath this is for a public hearing considerable request blue stone of Harrisonburg. For special use permit from more than twelve units at uh Boulder Ridge development. The applicant is requesting for a special use permit to allow more than dwelling units of more than twelve units. Uh the area in red is the 5.5 acre uh multifamily development area in front of it is a commercial uh lot and then South Main. It will be accessed by a new road called Boulder Ridge. So in February 2021, City Council approved requests to amend the land use guide to modify that 5.5 acres from commercial to medium density residential and to rezone it from B2 General Business District to R5C. So looking at this map here, the yellow at the bottom is uh South Main. The blue line is the county and city line. The pink areas are the zoned B2 commercial. The road Boulder Ridge will access the residential areas, and as you see, it's a small area that is part of a greater development in the county. And the original proposal was for six buildings of 12 units each. One of the proppers approved back in 2021 limits the property to a maximum of 72 units. So the number of units does not change. This is the current uh layout of the development. At the bottom is the portion that is in the city. That's the line between the city and the county. And this is a close-up of what it would look like. The three buildings of 24 units each. Staff has no concerns with the request. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. So again, six buildings with 12 units. That was the original plan. The current plan is three units with 24 units per three buildings with 24 units per building. And they would be consistent with the approved multifamily buildings that are being constructed in Rockingham County. And we recommend approval of the special use permit. Questions? Thank you. Yeah, questions of staff. All right then. Um this point we invite the applicant or applicant's representative to speak. Good evening, Seth Roderick, Monte Verde Engineering and Design Studio representing the applicant. Um pretty straightforward request here. When the project was first proposed, we were thinking standard 12-unit, three-story, four per floor, uh garden style apartments. Uh since then, the owners uh opted for a which is essentially two of those units pushed together. There's a firewall in between. Outside of that, everything remains the same. There's two breezeways on a building instead of one singular.